curmudgeonly, irascable & eccentric, barely socialised, catastrophically unhygenic, frequently profane, inappropriate & blasphemous.  It's awfully boring to say I was born at an early age, but does not change the truth of the matter.

I travelled early as well, and spent the next 30 years trying to figure out who I was - indeed, who I am. At 37, I feel like I'm at least at the point where I'm starting to learn how much I don't know, and beginning to work out ways to find out.

I'm often engaged in: trying to be a good parent to Bram, who's now !! SIX!!, and Daisy, who is a bouncing, joyful baby, a good husband to Eve, to whom I have been married for almost as long as the third Matrix film, and trying to find the right word. Sometimes I even manage all three simultaneously.

I am obsessed by Jimi Hendrix, a fact you will discover if I ever take off my shirt in your presence. No, it's not Lionel Richie.