Out-of-date biographical information!
What's to say? I don't know, I guess I've moved around a fair bit... here's the wheres and whens:
- 1975 - born, Bromsgrove, England
- 1975 - Norton Lindsey, England (near Stratford Upon Avon)
- 1977 - Oxford, England
- 1980 - Calgary, Canada
- 1989 - Oxford, England
- 1993 - Chicago (Naperville), IL, USA
- 1995 - Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA
- 1999 - Seattle, WA, USA
- 2001 - Chicago, IL, USA
- 2007 - Encinitas, CA, USA
- 6 months in Malmö, Sweden when I was 2 and a couple of months in France and Florida...
I guess the constant moving had a few effects on who I am. Gave me a greater appreciation for things that are different, made me feel like a bit of an outsider (what with the always being the new kid in school), brought me closer to my parents and Brother, left me feeling a bit baseless... whatever. I could go into all of that deeper but I don't think I need to - overall I think the moving had a net "good" effect on who I am. You don't want to read about stuff like that anyway though, right? You want the juicy stuff?
I'm naked as I type this. Isn't that hot?
MARC QUICK FACTS
- I like cats, not dogs
- my favorite color is green
- I drove myself to the hospital at 2am doubled over in agony with a partially ruptured appendix because I didn't want to wake the baby
- I hold three citizenships:
- English
- Canadian
- American
- on a drunken weekend a while ago I grabbed Dave Matthews' ass outside a bar because a friend offered me $100 to do so
- I used to be a catwalk model (when I was 18)
- I was tear-gassed twice during the 1999 WTO riots in Seattle. Once walking home from work and once on an ill-advised run to buy milk
- I'm missing the last joint of my left ring finger (because I was stupid when I was 7)
- my middle names are John Lawrence
- I won a gold medal in the 1988 Junior Winter Olympics for x-country skiing
- I was a raver ('92-'94)
- I played right lock in rugby
- I have had a gun held to my head on two separate occassions
- I have jumped out of a plane
- I was an extra in Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins
- I was an extra in Life Or Something Like It with Angelina Jolie and Ed Burns
- I have had four piercings and have two tattoos
- my first earthquake experience was the 6.8 Seattle had in 2001. I was at work and ended up stuck under a table with a woman that wouldn't stop screaming
- I like to ride bikes. Right now I ride my Dad's old bike, a 1984 Colnago Super. I get lost in a world of bliss when I am riding it; something you can only truly understand if you have experienced the pure, unadulterated joy of sailing down a hill, soaked in sweat, sun on your face, wind in your hair.
FAVORITE MOVIES
- About Schmidt (2002)
- Akira (1988)
- Audition (1999)
- Breaking Away (1979)
- City of God (2002)
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2002)
- Dancer In The Dark (2000)
- Funny Games (1997)
- Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
- Lord of the Rings: Trilogy (2001-2003)
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
- The Science of Sleep (2005)
- Shaolin Soccer (2003)
- Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
- There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Trainspotting (1995)