25 things about me.

1. I cried at the end of Beauty and the Beast, but I thought Schindler's List was manipulative bullshit.
2. I once auditioned for the part of a young Gerard Durrell in this:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166450/ but I didn't get it. Someone called Darren did. I've hated the name ever since.
3. I have been on TV three times. Each time it was to talk about point number 4.
4. I left school aged 9 and was educated by my mother. I have no qualifications.
5. When I was 15, I lived on a sofa in Haringey and shared it for a short while with a homeless chap. He was very nice, but had been screwed over by his wife.
6. I was circumcised for medical reasons when I was 12, but it hasn't done me any harm.
7. My granddad helped bomb Dresden.
8. My favourite sweets are (or were) 2p shrimps.
9. I enjoy dressing up in drag.
10. I once killed a pigeon with a 12-bore shotgun. It looked like it was snowing.
11. I strongly believe that the European Union is killing the cultural diversity of its member countries.
12. I have watched the Blues Brothers and Blade Runner over 100 times.
13. I can recite practically every line of script from series one & two of Bottom. Series three is shit though.
14. I'm a closet tech geek. I do a very good job of keeping it under wraps.
15. I read books at talking pace. It took me over a year to read the Lord of the Rings.
16. I regularly consider giving up my job and travelling for the rest of my life.
17. I once stumbled across a heart attack victim on the way home from the pub. I tried to resuscitate him but I wasn't successful. A few months later I received a call from his bereaved wife (who had asked for my number from the police), she thanked me for my efforts to save her late husband despite the fact that I didn't succeed. It was the most moving moment of my life and had a profound effect on me.
18. I was born 20 days late, and have been ever since.
19. I don't know where to draw the line when it comes to sarcasm.
20. I once knocked out a landlord in his own pub with two punches, and got away with it. (He deserved it)
21. All my socks are black, because I have a pathological hatred of odd ones.
22. I got to the quarter-finals of the national BMX championships when I was 8. It's been down hill ever since.
23. My work will never be me life, nor will it be more important.
24. I'd be gay if I didn't fancy women so much.
25. I want to grow old with my family and the same friends I have now.