Name: Lauren Hughes

Email: lauren@rockpulse.co.uk

Location: Stafford, UK / Bradford, UK

Fave bands: The hives, the chilis, good charlotte, the rasmus, nirvana, alanis morrissette, joni mitchell, jet, the streets, the commitments, the blues brothers, aretha franklin, papa roach, linkin park, incubus, sugarcult, paul simon, ladysmith black mambaza, tenacious d.

Interests: Reading, writing, rocking, singing, acting, acting like an idiot, archaeology, making models, fighting the sock-tribes under my bed with my wooden sword, hanging out with mates, watching movies, gardening, walking, photography, drawing, listening to kerrang, living.

Fave films: 13th warrior, galaxy quest, die hard trilogy, pirates of the caribbean, the whole nine yards, asterix and obelix take on caesar.

Fave books: Paradise, toni morrison; the hobbit, tolkein; city of beasts, isabelle allende; dancing barefoot, wil wheaton; enigma, robert harris; the moving toyshop/ holy disorders, edmund crispin; selected poems of Edna St Vincent Millay; anything by terry pratchett (except for eric); the war of don emmanuel's nether parts by louis de bernieres.

Hates: War, needles, heavy machinery, pistachios, processed cheese, slugs, my physics teacher, george bush, people not listening, soap operas.

Fave quote: 'Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy, i shall be gone, and you may whistle for me' - edna st vincent millay, 'alex, where are you going' 'to see if there's a pub!' - galaxy quest,'scratching could not make it worse, an' 'twere such a face as yours were' - much ado about nothing, '"pished" i am _assured_ that this means tired' - pratchett's a hat full of sky, 'I'm a real boy' *thud* - Shrek 2.

Fave site: www.epilogue.net and boards.eesite.com/board.cgi?boardset=room3b - Room 3B.