Awesome Sauce

Hello there.

I see you’ve stumbled onto my ‘me’ page. I’m honoured. No, really, I am; it would seem that links to my Facebook, Twitter and Youtube aren’t enough to sedate your thirst for knowledge about me. Ok, my ego’s getting a bit big now, sorry, but if you really must, I’ll post a couple things here about me.

So, I’m a student at Birmingham City University doing a BSc in Music Tech, which is awesome (also, my blog is called Awesome Sauce because that is my term for anything really really cool - if it actually existed, it would be rainbow coloured and taste of win. On a side note, either Tumblr or Firefox (or both (inception brackets)) is apparently American and is trying to change coloured to colored; I say no to this tyranny, and thus the red squiggly line of spelling check shame shall remain in place, but I digress).

I play guitar (mostly acoustic) and write and perform music under the alias PandEmmic - saying that, I do pretty much everything under the alias PandEmmic, so if you see something with that username, there’s about a 98.395% chance that it’s me.

I thoroughly enjoy games. When I say I’m a gamer, I don’t mean I play MW2 multiplayer all the time - I like multiplayer, but I much prefer campaign or mission style games that have a good backstory and aim. I also sometimes need to change underwear when encountering new graphics. Above all, games should be involving - it annoys me when people say “you know games aren’t real, right?”. Yes, thank you, I’m aware they aren’t, and neither are films or books or plays, but if a game doesn’t make you feel like you’re the one saving the Earth from an alien invasion, or winning the grand prix for the 3rd time, or defeating Gideon so you can get Ramona back, then it’s not doing its job as a game.

I like logic and philosophy. My philosophy on life is pretty much every man (or woman, of course) to himself (or herself), as long as you choose it yourself. Don’t follow a religion because your parents do, but equally don’t let me poke logical holes in your beliefs - assess all the information and choose what makes you happy.

I’m pretty laid back. Actually, I’ve been called horizontal by friends on multiple occasions, and when meeting new people they tend to assume I’m either a musician or a stoner, soooo, I guess I must be pretty chilled. I like it like that - there’s no point getting pissed about stuff when it isn’t gonna change anything; just keep cool and do what you need to do.

I ride a motorbike, currently a blue Suzuki Intruder 125 (what with not having passed my full test yet), which is awesome, especially when I go on dodgems in my leathers and people call me the stig :3

I like listening to a fair few different genres of music, but it tends to be either ska-punk or electro indie rock at the moment, with Streetlight Manifesto, Reel Big Fish, Architecture in Helsinki and Death Cab for Cutie springing to mind.

I absolutely love comics, and it annoys me when people think they’re juvenile, or assume I’m immature when I mention them; Hell yeah I’m immature, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be mature as well. I love Marvel, and am currently working my way through the entire X-men, Spiderman and Deadpool backlogs, while trying to keep up to date with things like Civil War (Oh Stark and Rogers, why?), starting from 1963. My favourite character is by far Deadpool, followed closely by Spider-man, Iron Man, Wolverine and Shadowcat, respectively. My current reading list is, for anyone who’s interested or wants to spark up a conversation with moi, X-men v1, Deadpool v3, Spider-man v1, Civil War and X-men Regenesis.

So yeah, I think that’s pretty much it. If you’ve read this far, I both congratulate and thank you. Feel free to ask me anything, and I’ll probs answer, unless you go anonymous and ask me for my pin number. There’s limits, y’know? Finally, here’s your reward: a gallery of me, enjoy ;)

Me, Twikki’s guitar, yardbird jazz club

Um, yeah, moving on…

Rockaoke, singing Johnny B Goode

MINECRAFT! Ahem, sorry, I’m good.

Halloween costume - had a mask and gloves as well, but they made it harder to drink bud :3

Bonfire night - I love long exposure shots like this; it says PandEmmic, but you knew that already, right? ;)

Same night as the one above, how cool is that?