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.

Trying again, still trying and trying something new. And oh, one more thing.

Trying again

Know me? Well hello. Don't know me? Well, hello to you as well.
If you do know me then you may well know that I have blogged in the past but that I've never really stuck at for more than three of four posts. I've decided to try it again but seen as I can't remember the account details for my old blog I'm having to start from scratch. Ho Hum.
As in the past the inaugural blog post has unavoidably become about the blog post itself and I had planned for this to happen. In fact I had planned to mention that I had mentioned blogging, I had not, however, planned to mention that I had planned to mention it (Still with me? Me neither).

Still trying

Sine December I haven't had a job. I am becoming increasingly tired of the fact that I am unemployed, the days seem so long and tedious and I have almost run out of things to do. For example I have watched Les Mis on blu-ray twice today and even so there is still time to fill until I must sort dinner.
But I am still trying to find a job and hopefully, provided I didn't fluff it up at interview on Monday, I could soon be working at the same place as my lovely Kelly, super.

Trying something new

I am political. I used to strongly support the Lib Dems and so I campaigned for and with them, but then they decided to become a second Tory party and I couldn't support that. So now I will campaign for and with Labour. The people that I have met from the local party in Exeter are all lovely. That said, as were the people from the Lib Dems, it was just the party that began to stink. Hopefully, I can continue to support Labour in Exeter and can help them towards continued and further success. It was a good feeling to be on the winning side for the County Council elections recently and yes, that was one of the factors that led me to defect; a desrie to succeed.
I would love to become even more deeply involved in politics, perhaps becoming a party official or even an elected representative. So it feels good to be involved with a party of good people which I can support and which I can be confident will succeed.

Oh, one more thing

As my blog title and address suggests I am slightly camp. I just watched Les Mis twice for heaven's sake. I love eurovision, musicals and the royals but also, and rather crucially, women. I am camp but also as straight as... er... a straight thing.