Stuff and nonsense about a slightly camp man

This is the "me" post. Solely about me. I promise that I will try to deviate away from the topic in future posts but I just wanted to give a bit of an outline of myself.

I love politics. Often I think I love it too much, it is a bit odd. But then I simply do not understand the cultural obsession that orbits the idea of 22 men kicking a spherical piece of leather to each other, so I suppose its only fair that I too have something to observe from afar and enjoy. Since becoming unemployed I have had the chance to feed my hunger for politics by simply watching television. The BBC's Daily Politics, PMQs and BBC Parliament provide me with lots of juicy political protein on which I can gorge.
Also, with elections taking place recently I was able to once again become politically active. This an often frightening experience, I thrive on the adrenaline and sense of action that is gained from knocking on doors and disturbing stay-at-home mums, night workers and retirees. But sometimes, just sometimes, the person you disturb is glad to see you and actually wants to speak to you. They can use you to get their issues heard, whether it be disappointment with their son's mental health care or elation for the new 20mph speed limit on their street, it is always nice to hear from the people and have the opportunity and capacity to respond to them myself or by passing on their comments to their local representative.

Another passion of mine is musical theater. Now this is perhaps where most of the ambiguity regarding my sexuality has come from but I am completely heterosexual, just a tad flamboyant and, well, camp. My personal favorite musicals are Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera and Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables. I have only ever seen Phantom live but would love to see Les Mis sometime soon. I also hope to go and see Miss Saigon, again by Boublil and Schönberg, when it returns to London in the near future.
I have on DVD the 25th anniversary performances of both Phantom and Les Mis and also the film versions of each.

I also play a lot of computer games. My favorite platform is the PC but I also play on the Xbox 360. I enjoy mostly simulation games like SimCity, The Sims, Tropico and Prison Architect but I also enjoy a bit of role-playing with games like Fable.

Finally, music. Live music preferably, but do own a not insignificant number of CDs (not a download fan). Since 2005 I have been going to festivals. I have been to Beautiful Days every year since then and I wouldn't miss it for the world. I've been to Volksfest in Plymouth a few times and Bearded Theory once. I would love to go back to BT one day but at the moment cash and logistics are just stuck in the way.
Alongside my love of festivals and their special blend of music I also enjoy tatty pop and the Eurovision Song Contest is my favorite TV musical spectacle of the year.

So I think that's most of everything about me. I might add stuff if I've forgotten it but hopefully I'll be able to stay away from personal nonsense in this blog now. That will be nice.