DOB: 8/7/73

Place of birth: Sandringham Hospital.

Current home: A hills cottage in the Dandenongs.

Some favourite musical acts: Silver Jews, Okkervil River, The Smiths/Morrissey, Lambchop, Yo La Tengo, Smog, Ladybug Transistor, Mates of State, The Byrds, Pavement, Bright Eyes, The Wedding Present, Dusty Springfield, Magnetic Fields, The Go-Betweens, Lloyd Cole, The Shins, Otis Redding.

Some favourite writers: Raymond Carver, Don de Lillo, Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, Ian McEwan, David Foster Wallace, Anne Tyler, Dave Eggers, Richard Powers, Jeffrey Eugenides.

Some favourite films:
“The Royal Tenenbaums” & “Rushmore”
“Rear Window”
“Amelie” & “Delicatessen” & “The City of Lost Children”
“Highway 61” & “Roadkill”
“Double Indemnity”
“Simple Men”
“The Staion Agent”
“American Splendor”
“Return of the Secaucus Seven” & “Eight Men Out” & “Limbo”
“The Man Without a Past”
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”
Pretty much everything by the Coen Brothers
Most old things by Woody Allen