Read between the lines

Isabelle tagged me in a thing. I’m not one to do these questionnaires on here in general, but as Iso is my lord and master, here goes. It’s hard to think of seven things you won’t know about me, given my tendency to live my life almost entirely online, but I’ve had a think and have come up with the following shocking revelations;

1) When I’m home alone, I like nothing more than getting a few beers in and sitting watching fucking awful videos on V+, sometimes crying. Not so unusual? Well, maybe, but my last lot included a bit of the Counting Crows. I don’t even like Counting Crows. It’s really bad shit that I listen to. Not bad like ‘lol, I’m listening to Girls Aloud!!’ but more, ‘if anyone I know could see me now, I’d probably kill myself.’ I am as ashamed of myself as I should be, but I always have a great time doing it.

2) On a similar subject, I am verging on obsessed with I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas. It started as a bit of a joke, as all the award ceremonies I went to with work last year entailed people accepting their respective prizes to the strains of, ‘Oooooh ooooooh….’ – you know the rest. Seriously, ten separate shows for totally different things – all of them featured the pesky BEP. My love started as a joke, as I say… but then we went to Vegas and in a piano bar two guys played it as a kind of jazz deuce… and it was amazing. Now it’s just all out love. I know it’s shit, it’s OK. Part of is down to the Twin-times-related lyrics of; ‘Fill up my cup, Mozel Tov; L’Chaim!’

3) I use a Macbook with a weird backwards, half American, half European keyboard. I can only type without looking, because no keys are in the ‘right’ place. It’s improved my touch typing by about 500% but it does make typing intricate passwords tricky.

4) Me and Twin once had a wee with Faye from Steps, and borrowed £20 off her. I say borrowed, she never got it back. I am aware that Claire is up front in the pic above, but there we go.

5) In a weird premonition of me and Iso’s future friendship; I once won a national drawing competition with the theme, ‘My Hero’ for sketching an illustration of Anne Frank.

6) My love of the 1920s is well documented, but I don’t think I can make it clear enough that I would legit give up everything – Internet included (well, maybe) – to go back in time and be part of the Fitzgerald set.

7) I am a reverend, licensed to perform weddings.
THIS IS TRUE