“I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls…I want to live, Marge! Won’t you let me live?” – Homer Simpson

Likes: pink, rain, caramel, vicks inhalers, reading, humour, johnny depp, funny movies, long car rides, travelling, cheese and white sauce, history, chocolate, blue whales, nachos, blue jeans, music, writing.

Dislikes: mushrooms, blonde-ness, Exorcist-type movies, hypocrisy, Gandhi-bashing, Chinese food.

Music: pink floyd, the beatles, oasis, led zeppelin, the doors, savage garden, queen, nirvana, santana, INXS, red hot chilli peppers, foo fighters, jimi hendrix, pearl jam, u2, aerosmith, deep forest.

Books: a suitable boy, roots, one hundred years of solitude, lord of the rings, my name is red, the agony and the ecstasy, fountainhead, brave new world, never let me go, love in the time of cholera, my family and other animals, lust for life, shogun, the handmaid’s tale, asterix, terry prachett.

Movies: all the president’s men, schindler’s list, hairspray, across the universe, robin hood: men in tights, LOTR, the BBC version of pride and prejudice, the prestige, crash, lions for lambs, dodgeball, juno, zoolander, catch me if you can.

TV Shows: frasier and detective school q! and teleshopping!