About the webmistress
Once upon a time, during the hottest summer and biggest drought England has known since records began, a man with an impossible moustache and a woman who had a penchant for wearing faux Native American squaw outfits conceived a child on a narrow boat on the river Great Ouse, outside the Old Ferryboat Inn in Holywell, Cambridgeshire. Allegedly...
9 months later, a child was born during one of the most active paranormal times in recent history, with UFO, ghost and Nessie sightings at an all time high. Coincidence? Maybe, but the fact remains the child lived to tell the tale, and take over a small corner of the internet, and use stupidly long sentences to do so. Suck it up, my friends.
Vitals
Name: Sam; Sammy; Pious; Annis; Blacky; blackannis; that crazy bitch with the long nails; some hilarious joke name about arses (I've heard it already, OK? Don't make me roll my eyes at you.)
Birthsign: Taurus. I fit the profile a little too well.
Birthplace: Bury St. Edmunds, UK. No, that's not a suggestion.
Currently residing: Cambridge, UK. Nice place if you've got shedloads of money and/or work for the University. Which I do. Ha! Well the second one anyway...
Modifications since birth: 6 piercings, one top left ear cartilage, two left ear lobes, 3 right ear lobes. 2 tattoos. Eye design on upper left arm, kanji 'ki' (energy, spirit, life force) on inner right ankle. Various fingernail piercings, depending on length at the time. Yes, they're real, and no, it doesn't hurt to pierce them. No fillings, no broken bones, no children, unless you count my other half. Heheheh.
Mugshot:
Current photographic equipment: Konica-Minolta Dynax 5D digital SLR; Orbit 360F 35mm; Actionsampler 35mm; Praktica BC1 35mm SLR; Splitcam 35mm, Sony Ericsson w200i cameraphone (low quality FTW!)
Hobbies/Interests: Making music and art; photography; computers and the internet; REC; playing video games; the weather; the paranormal and the occult; learning Japanese; listening to music; visiting historic places; abandoned buildings and urban decay; real ale; food and cooking it; noodles; watching films; accumulating junk; sitting in my garden catching the rays.
Selected favourite Albums:
DJ Shadow – Entroducing / Pre-emptive Strike; DJ Krush – Meiso
/ Ki-Oku / Zen / Jaku; DJ Cam - Underground Vibes / The Beat Assassinated
/ Substances; Puressence – Puressence / Only Forever / Planet Hopeless;
Portishead – Portishead; The Killers – Hot Fuss; Franz Ferdinand
– Franz Ferdinand; Kasabian - Kasabian; Supergrass – I Should Coco; Rjd2 - Deadringer;
Blockhead – Music by Cavelight; U.N.K.L.E. - Psyence Fiction / Never,
Never Land; Rob Dougan – Furious Angels; The Beloved – Happiness;
The Divine Comedy – Liberation / Promenade / Casanova; Thomas Dolby
– The Golden Age of Wireless / The Flat Earth / Astronauts and Heretics;
Pole – 1 / 2; R.E.M. – Life’s Rich Pageant / Green /
Out of Time; Oasis – Definitely Maybe / (What’s the Story)
Morning Glory; Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish / Parklife; Mansun
– Attack of the Grey Lantern; A-ha – Hunting High and Low
/ Scoundrel Days; Talk Talk - The Party is Over / It's My Life / The Colour
of Spring; The Darkness: Permission to Land; The Scissor Sisters - Scissor
Sisters; Zoot Woman - Zoot Woman; Les Rythmes Digitales - Darkdancer;
Boards of Canada - Geodaddi; The Ordinary Boys - Brassbound; Yellow Magic
Orchestra - Solid State Survivor; Boston - Boston / Don't Look Back.
Selected favourite Soundtracks / Scores:
Riven / Myst III - Robyn Miller; Final Fantasy VIII - Nobuo Uematsu; Vagrant
Story OST - Hitoshi Sakimoto; Silent Hill 1 / 2 / 3 / 4: The Room –
Akira Yamaoka; Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Michiru Yamane; Half-Life 2 OST - Kelly Bailey; Legacy of Kain series OSTs - Kurt Harland; Bladerunner OST –
Vangelis; Plunkett & Macleane OST – Craig Armstrong; Alien /
Aliens / Alien3 OST – Jerry Goldsmith / James Horner / Elliot Goldenthal
; The X-Files Series OST – Mark Snow; Gothic OST – Thomas
Dolby; Twin Peaks Series OST – Angelo Badalamenti; Interview with
the Vampire OST – Elliot Goldenthal.
Selected Favourite
Films / TV:
Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi; Raiders of the
Lost Ark / Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial;
Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Flight of the Navigator; Gremlins
/ Gremlins 2; Starman; Cloverfield; Electric Dreams; Poltergeist; Ghostbusters; War
Games; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Interview With the Vampire; Gothic;
Leon: The Professional; Plunkett & Macleane; Shaun of the Dead; Velvet
Goldmine; The Truman Show; Withnail & I; Perfect Blue; Videodrome;
THX 1138; Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Ringu / Ringu 2; The Blair Witch
Project; Don't Look Now; Blood: The Last Vampire; Ghost in the Shell;
Dog Soldiers; 28 Days Later; American Werewolf in London; Jacob's Ladder;
The Shining; The Matrix; Dune; Blue Velvet; Saw; Dark Water; Ju On; The
Eye; Twin Peaks; The X-Files; Supernatural; Lost.
Selected Favourite
Games:
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night; Vagrant Story; Final Fantasy VIII;
Resident Evil 1 / 2 / 3: Nemesis / Code Veronica X; Silent Hill 1 / 2 / 3 / 4: The Room;
Legacy of Kain series; Onimusha Series; Metal Gear Solid series; Tomb
Raider Series; Disgaea: Hour of Darkness; Tekken series; Syphon Filter
series; Assassin's Creed; Half-Life 2 / Episode 1 / Episode 2 / Deathmatch / Portal; F.E.A.R; Neverwinter Nights; Diablo II; The Elder Scrolls VI: Oblivion; Riven / Myst
III; The Sims / The Sims 2; Final Fantasy Tactics Advance; Legend of Zelda:
A Link to the Past / The Minish Cap; Shining Force; Ecco the Dolphin;
Flashback; Toe Jam and Earl; Sonic 1 / 2 / 3; Super Mario Kart; Super Mario World; Donkey
Kong Country; Tetris; Jet Set Willy; Driller.
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