A teenage guy with a mental age considered to hover around 51. I'm cynical because of my eternally positive outlook, and I like to speak needlessly eloquently. I also have an annoying British accent, despite having never been there.

My interests include primarily music, video games, literature and movies. My musical tastes are wide-ranging and outdated, deeply enjoying jazz, blues, soul and classic rock, though there are some contemporary artists I enjoy. Among my favourite artists are Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, Genesis, Toto, Steely Dan and Pink Floyd. I also do my best to play keyboards.

My literary tastes are also varying. My favourite book is Neil Gaiman's American Gods, which I consider to be the pinnacle of modern literature. Ironically enough a more comprehensive list of my literary tastes can never do justice in written form.

I suppose I'm partial to stories about side characters. The game, movie, book, whatever, is the main character's story. On the whole I'm interested more in side stories, the untold stories. Pre/sequels can be interesting, as can retellings of the main story. Occasionally. But again, on the whole I do prefer side character stories. My Fable 2 ego project is an exception.

I enjoy writing, but I usually take on projects that I can't be bothered to finish. If you like the way I write and are interested in video games, you can check out my blog via this link

Right. Never mind.

For the heck of it, I'm including here an awesome passage from Steven Erikson, one of my favourite fantasy writers. It's from the book Toll the Hounds, a part of the Malazan book series.

"He hurried on, grimacing at the ache in his chest, still feeling the parting kiss of his wife on his lips, the careless hugs of his children round his waist.

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony.

Imagine a world without such souls.

Yes, it should have been harder to do."