User:Urbane Legend

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I was born in September 1979 and grew up in Plymouth, England. I moved to London, the city of my dreams, in 1998, to study English Literature at Goldsmiths College.

Contents 1 Some things I love: 2 Some things I hate: 3 Wikipedia stuff: 3.1 Pages created by me: 3.2 Userboxes

[edit] Some things I love:

• Musical theatre - especially the work of composer Stephen Sondheim and the songwriters Kander and Ebb and choreographer Bob Fosse. I am also secretly rather fond of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas. My favourite musical is A Little Night Music, by Sondheim.
• Other musical loves include Philip Glass, Tchaikovsky, The Divine Comedy, Kate Bush, Arvo Pärt, Portishead, and Saint Etienne.
• The writings and conlangs of JRR Tolkien, and Peter Jackson's film version of The Lord of the Rings.
• Japanese cuisine. Especially the sting of wasabi in my nostrils!
• Egyptology and the Egyptian pyramids.
• Pimm's on a summer's afternon.
• Learning about astronomy. Check out Dr Phil Plait's website, Bad Astronomy.
• The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe and Skeptoid podcasts. I listen every week, and so should you!

[edit] Some things I hate:

• Racism, sexism and homophobia.
• The damage religion has done and continues to do to humanity, and the limits it imposes on what we are capable of.
• The musicals of Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

[edit] Wikipedia stuff:

• I have just finished (as much as anything can be finished here!) an extensive rewrite/revision of the page Cats in Ancient Egypt.
• I'm currently ploughing my way through articles concerning J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, disambig/redirect fixing (Navigation Popups is a great tool for this kind of stuff), doing general fact/grammar/style checking and cleanup. Geeky, huh?
• I'm also helping to get the article on Tolkien himself up to featured article standard. Fingers crossed! Update: The article has been awarden FA status! Hurrah!

[edit] Pages created by me:

• Symphony No. 3 (Glass) (Philip Glass's third symphony)
• Rath Dínen (Location in The Lord of the Rings)
• Elfhelm (Character in The Lord of the Rings)
• Repertoire (theatre) (Theatre terminology)
• Murun Buchstansangur (Unusual Channel 4 children's animation from the 1980s)

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