The facts:
Codenames: Krizu, Krzstus The Magnificient, Auntie SnowGrouse etc etc etc...
Distinguishing features: a deep, loud voice, height of 152cm (5 ft), maniacal grin, diabolical laughter, red hair down to arse. Constantly talking. Opinionated. Loves to discuss *anything*, even touchy subjects like sex, in great detail. Often thought somehow vulgar because of this... *innocent grin*
Location:
It's always somewhere in Southern Finland or Southern Britain. I'm perfectly at home in both countries, and have been called an honourary Brit by some of my friends there. I do feel miserable when I don't get to stay in both countries for equal amounts of time, especially when the Finnish winters are so damn dark and cold and long.
Profession: Have studied Photoshop on my own for nearly ten years now, and studied Graphic Design for a year in Southampton. Like most artists, always looking for work. Last employed during the Finnish presidential elections in early '06, drawing caricatures of the candidates. Always fiddling with Photoshop and/or a pen and paper for fun if not profit. Obsessions: The Internet, of course.
Others? *Bitter laughter* too many to mention. I might get around to making separate pages for some of them when I have the time/can be arsed. Mostly, devouring information on all sorts of subjects between heaven and earth. And did I mention Photoshop? Best TV shows
ever: Robin of
Sherwood. You just *can't* get better than that. Close behind are Monty Python's Flying Circus (for the madness and the breaking of barriers), Blake's 7 (for its dark, intellectual drama and general sexiness), Doctor Who (for the camp and the nostalgia--and now its magic spiffiness in every way), The Prisoner (the whole concept of the individual vs. the establishment), and others that would take the next 5 kilometers of HTML to list out.
Hobbies: Drawing, writing, Photoshop, Yoga (the Ancient And Venerable Lazy-Arse Path), computer fiddlage, cult tv and movie geekery, bibliophilia, cultural history, sciences, religions, philosophy, linguistics, nature, scritching the cat...
Philosophies I can relate to: Ecological awereness, equal rights, the right to hate the Right for wanting to take away our Rights.
Favourite food:
Hunter-gatherer food. Basically anything that's been killed (preferably
with respect, though). Low-carbohydrate food is the only sort that keeps me alive and sane (but I'd never give up chocolate). Pork fillets in Dijon mustard sauce made by Mum (the only food she can actually cook). Chicken korma in a really good Indian restaurant. And the Lahti restaurant Santa Fé's tex-mex fried chicken and delectable cheese/jalapeno fingers. Beverages I'd need on an IV
Drip 24h/day: At least 2 litres of water each day. Pepsi Max. Musical taste: Rather omnivorous. Almost everything, *except* the stuff in the charts. Alternative rock, 70's glam, 80's goth/electro (Siouxsie is Goddess!), not much metal nowadays, but everyone has a past;). My all-time favourite Finnish band has got to be CMX. THEY ARE GODS. And A. W. Yrjänä most definitely IS Väinämöinen, come back to weave his spells on us. Also Celtic stuff like Loreena McKennitt and modern Scandinavian ethno--Hedningarna and Gjallarhorn. My favorite group of all time must be Dead Can Dance, partly because of the diversity of their music: it cannot be pigeonholed into any category.