Bio

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule" - Friedrich Nietzsche 

Writing a bio seems a little bit too much like writing a CV for my liking, so I'm going to try to steer clear of the positive attributes and focus on the negative ones because really, I'm a very negative person most of the time. I think most things are shit. Because, well, they are. Public transport for example. Or the weather. Or neighbours. Or cinema prices. Politically I am on the socialist/green side of the spectrum; being a vegan with the opinion that rich people are self-obsessed tossers and capitalism is bollocks. Religiously I am on the far... let's say atheism is on the left, being of the opinion that religion is a disease and, more importantly, complete bullshit. Personally I am on whatever side is the alternative one, being of the opinion that clothes should fit your own personality, not Anna Wintour's. 


At the moment my life consists of the following: 

1. Nothing much. I sit in my apartment doing this very  energetic activity most days, for most of the day. It's all very tiring.
2. Job-hunting. Most frustrating thing in the world. Apparently all that talk about getting a degree so you can get a good job was a load of bollocks. But if I'm honest, I don't even want a job, because it would mean an end to my fortnightly Job Centre meetings, which are the absolute highlight of my life.
3. Writing shit online. Be it on Blogger, Facebook or various reviewing sights, I do feel the need to spread my opinion around one way or another.
4. Reading. The Guardian and all the classics mainly, and any obscure spiels about not much of anything. Go figure.
5. Walking. When I do actually find the strength in me to take a break from my strenuous daily Nothing Much, I walk around, doing... well, nothing much, only outside.
6. Alcohol-fueled stupidity. As I get older and realise that my body has none of the resilience it used to, this happens less often nowadays, but I will still jump at the chance to get drunk whenever possible.

My life summed up in six concise statements. I know, I know, it's incredibly glamourous, but let's get past that and comment on some of my inspirations for writing. I hate things, quite often, and quite regularly, and for some reason I feel like documenting it. But I also love things, less regularly, and feel like documenting them too. People generally irritate me and  cause a disturbance in my life, making me do things like spend money or queue, which I really don't enjoy. So they are almost always the object of criticism in some way or another. As is America. Sorry, but it really is a stupid country (reasons given in various blog posts). 

More about my life? I'm from a council estate in York, which would probably explain my inherent cynicism and pessimism to some extent. I got incredibly bored, I moved to Birmingham to study, I wrote some essays and got incredibly drunk. I moved to London (because despite all the negativity London is one of the few things I genuinely do like) and am now incredibly aimless. Uninteresting? Probably...