Elliot

Meal i would die for:

I'm a huge fan of both sushi and mexican food, but if there's one dining experience i want to have before i die, it would have to be a meal at El Bulli.

Home town:

Mountain View, California and Birmingham UK, plus maybe Barcelona, Brussels, and my current adopted home: Bristol. It's complicated!

Where to find me:

In my own little world

Books/Authors:

Aldous Huxley, Douglas Adams, Ursula LeGuin, Bill Bryson, Naomi Klein, Gabriel Garcia Marquéz

Music:

Just about everything except for R&B, country and just about anything on commercial radio. Commercials included.

Quotes:

There are only two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot

"The world has enough for every man's need, but not enough for every man's greed." -M. Ghandi

"Knowledge corresponds with the past - it is technology. Wisdom is the future, it is philosophy." -Herbie Hancock

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
- Mark Twain