Liam
- Age: 25
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Aries
- Zodiac Year: Rat
- Industry: Science
- Occupation: Synthetic organic chemist
- Location: Prescot, near Liverpool : Merseyside : United Kingdom
About Me
With my time as a Chemistry undergraduate well and truly behind me (and with my 5 month break coming to a close), I'm preparing to embark on a life as a synthetic organic chemist (i.e. making funny little hyrdocarbon molecules in a poorly aerated lab.) The job I'm doing now is a stop-gap prior to doing a PhD (also in synthetic organic chemistry) in September/October 2008 (so I'll probably be booking a fair bit of time off to visit departments around Christmas/New Year.) As well as being a geeky scientist, I'm also a keen follower of Liverpool FC (and, indeed, football in general) and I'm also into music in quite a big way; I play the piano and sing a bit (often a bit more when I'm plied with sufficient alcohol), and am thinking about learning the bass (just to try something new and different, you know!) I also enjoy a good film, as well as being a bit of a foody person (good food and drink surely count among the most important things in life.)
Interests
- I'm into football (LFC especially)
- music
- film
- food and drink etc.
- as well as being a keen linguist (I speak Spanish fairly well and
- in the future
- would like to make a proper stab at learning French and Italian).
Favorite Movies
- I enjoy films that require you to think a little bit or are quite witty in some way. Among my favourite films are the likes of The Godfather films
- Dr Strangelove
- Donnie Darko
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs (are you sensing the theme here?) and
- more recently
- the likes of Sideways and Lost in Translation. I also enjoy foreign language cinema; I'm a BIG fan of Pedro Almodóvar
- and have also enjoyed the likes of The Edukators and Zidane: A 21st century icon recently.
Favorite Music
- Most of the music I'm into at the moment is indie and electronic stuff
- though I do like quite a bit of soul
- jazz
- blues
- Latin stuff (getting into late 60's Brazilian stuff right now); most stuff except bubblegum pop shite
- most hip hop and R&B (though I do like Dizzee Rascal and Plan B) and the type of dance that gets played in most places you go to in town. Among the bands/artists that I'm enjoying right now include Arcade Fire
- Arctic Monkeys
- Air
- The Coral
- Ladytron
- Jim Noir
- Franz Ferdinand
- Interpol
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- The Go! Team
- ¡Forward
- Russia!
- We are Scientists
- Tom Vek
- The Long Blondes
- Kings of Leon
- Daft Punk
- The White Stripes
- Super Furry Animals
- Radiohead
- Chemical Brothers
- Royksopp
- early Streets stuff (1st album)
- Bloc Party
- Belle and Sebastian
- Basement Jaxx
- Hayseed Dixie
- Giant Drag
- Sigur Ros
- Sufjan Stevens
- The Decemberists
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- The Knife
- The Young Knives
- CSS
- The Pipettes
- Animal Collective (and Panda Bear solo stuff)
- Battles
- Richard Hawley
- Digitalism
- Justice
- The Hold Steady
- LCD Soundsystem
- M.I.A.
- Maps
- Peter Bjorn and John
- The Rapture
- Squarepusher
- !!!
- as well as bits of things like the Pixies
- BRMC
- The Pogues
- PJ Harvey
- Elvis Costello while among the fine acts of yesteryear
- I enjoy The Smiths (best band ever
- for me)
- The Stone Roses
- The La's
- My Bloody Valentine
- The Beach Boys
- Blondie
- Talkingheads
- David Bowie
- Joy Division/New Order
- Bob Dylan
- Suede
- Depeche Mode
- Kraftwerk
- Aretha Franklin
- Otis Redding
- Portishead
- Pulp
- REM (OK
- I know that
- technically
- they're still going
- but they haven't done anything to compare with Automatic since) and The Libertines.
Favorite Books
- Given how much crap TV I watch
- I probably should read a lot more extensively than I do now. I'm afraid that I don't really read that many books outside of technical Chemistry textbooks
- although I've been given a couple of biogs (John Peel and the Pythons) recently as presents for Christmas and birthdays. I tend to read more newspapers and magazines
- if truth be told.
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