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.

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.
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.
Jazz, ideally served with Pimm's on a summer's afternoon. I'm especially keen on female vocalists, my favourites being Eva Cassidy, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Julie London. I'm also a fan of the "new swing" band, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and the vocal harmony group The Puppini Sisters.
Learning about astronomy.

[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!