Quirkie emerged out of blog-retirement, and has promptly tagged me with a "meme". As far as I can tell, this involves writing 20 things about myself that you might not know. Seeing as this isn't a particularly personal blog, that's probably just about everything. So, this shouldn't be hard, eh?

1. I am not a beach person. This is partly because I don't enjoy parading around shirtless in front of large groups of people.

2. For this same reason, I don't particularly like gay bars.

3. I haven't bought a new piece of clothing in about six months.

4. About 15 minutes ago I suffered the most embarrassing experience of my life. I was attempting to climb onto a pool seat, fully clothed, and clutching a paperback novel. Of course, I overbalanced and tipped into the pool, while a builder next door (who was conveniently up a ladder at the time) stifled a laugh. Oh, and to add an extra degree of embarrassment, the book was "The Da Vinci Code".

5. My spelling now is worse than it was when I was 12.

6. I often wish I had been born into a rich English family in the mid 19th century.

7. The band I am in has released two albums and played a bunch of shows around Sydney.

8. I've been playing the bass guitar for seven years.

9. Despite 7 & 8, I still don't understand music scales.

10. I desperately want a keytar. Unfortunately they haven't been made since the 80's, so I am reduced to trawling through ebay looking for one.

11. While I am being all consumer-ish, I may as well point out that I really want a nokia n91 mobile phone. This is unusual as I rarely get excited about phones, or gadgets in general.

12. I don't care what you say, I can tell the difference between CD quality and mp3. This is why I refuse to buy an ipod. Well... that, and I can't afford one.

13. Every time I see someone wearing a pair of converse all-star sneakers, I cringe involuntarily. The same goes for when I see somebody wearing a ramones t-shirt, denim shorts or a cheap polo shirt with the collar flicked up.

14. I HATE emo kids, however in the recent past I have been accused of having emo-hair. I prefer to think of my hair as more new-wave, ala the singer from Franz Ferdinand.

15. That reminds me. I was watching Australian Idol the other night, and noticed that the token punk/ emo kid totally looks like a lesbian. I then realised that he looks scarily like one lesbian in particular. Behold!



16. My two most recent celebrity crushes have been Sonny Bill Williams and Fiona Apple.

17. The other day I nagged my friend until she agreed to organise a date with her cute friend Toby. The date is tonight.

18. Trying to teach yourself a language is difficult, I have discovered.

19. I had huge plans for the holidays - but I've been finished with uni for two days now and have done approximately sweet fanny all.

20. If I ever become a concert promoter or a saxaphone player in a jazz band, it will just be so I can have an excuse to grow a seedy male ponytail.