Colin McEwan
A direct descendant of Robert Burns and
relation-by-marriage-of-some-second-uncle-or-other of Rob Roy MacGregor,
Colin has a very unhealthy obsession with obscurity: his favourite band is
Stereolab (although he also quite likes China Drum, Bis, Spare Snare and
Urusei Yatsura), of whom noone in the RealWorld™ have ever heard; his
favourite music format is the 10" single (of which even he owns only two);
he owns an Acorn A3000 ('nuff said...); his dream girl isn't a movie star or
a supermodel, but the supporting actress in a dying (actually dead, but
they're re-running it on Channel 4) LA sitcom.
Among the sadder things he owns are a copy of The Lab Report, a
genuine handmade "I Like Fist of Fun" badge (as well as a mass-produced fake
that Rich was hoping to fob Off the general public with), the aforementioned
computer, a kazoo, and the videos of A Grand Day Out and
The Wrong Trousers. He also intends to buy a Stereolab T-shirt
sometime in the near future.
But anyway, to the chase:
- Age
- (Today's date) - (21st October 1977)
- Height
- About... 5'10"ish
- Weight
- mg
- Occupation
- Student, of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, at Glasgow University.
- Passtimes
- Programming, writing, listening to music (can't do anything without music), reading, watching TV & movies: nothing out of the ordinary (or, indeed, vaguely interesting). No devil-worship or anything like that. Just the standard while-ings-away of a sad, lonely life :-)
- Programming
- Recreational odds and sods, in C, C++, BBC Basic, ARM code, Pascal
(mainly for uni, I try and steer clear of it most other times), and a couple
of other languages. Don't tend to do so much of it these days...
- Writing
- Oh, mostly letters, some poetry, occasionally something vaguely funny.
None of it worth reading.
- Music
- Anything vaguely 'alternative', eg. indie, trip-hop, ambient, etc. Although indie has gone mainstream now :-( Par example
Stereolab;
China Drum;
Pearl Jam (p. Vitalogy);
Therapy?;
Kula Shaker;
Tricky;
Portishead;
Echobelly;
Whale;
Massive Attack;
Teenage Fanclub, stuff like that.
- Books
- Douglas Adams, William Gibson, Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh, Martin Amis,
Ben Elton... the usual clichés.
- TV
- Anything vaguely weird or funny, specifically: Blossom, Northern Exposure, The X-Files; Freinds; Due South; Married With Children; Have I Got News for You?; Drop The Dead Donkey; Father Ted; Rory Bremner, etc.
- Movies
- Anything vaguely weird or vaguely funny, or vaguely anything. Favourite films? Heathers, and of course Biil+Ted... (sad? ME???)
- Politics
- In theory: Nihilist/Socialist/Marxist.
In practice: too depressed to think about it.