One day I’ll live in Cuba and/or Spain and own a winery and write novels and grand histories of important things but until then I make do pretending to be a hipster and working as the Marketing Manager of a bank. When I’m not devising strategies to communicate the virtues of term deposits and home loans, I write things. My first book, a satirical look at popular culture entitled HipsterMattic was released last year through Allen and Unwin. The Australian called it “punchy” and “enjoyable” with “moments of brilliance”. My mum thought it was funny. The ABC, The Punch, Maxim, Q Weekend and Crikey publish my other musings from time to time and I’m a contributing editor to Marketing Magazine. I also regularly write feature articles for a few other niche media publications and gourmet travel magazines. Before I was a bank person I was an actual journalist working for uncle Rupert, during which time I won an award, I can’t remember if it was a Walkley or the Cumberland Newspapers Sports Story of the Month, but I’m going to presume it was the former.

When I’m not writing or marketing I sometimes play in a band. Our biggest claim to fame is that we made the Hottest 100 voting list in 2007, which isn’t a very big claim to fame, but hey, you take what you can get. We played the Big Day Out once too, but it was at about 1.30 in the afternoon and we were on at the same time as Grinspoon so not many people came to see us. I once auditioned for MasterChef and I got to the first round but then they asked if I actually wanted to be a chef and I said, ‘well, no, not  really’ and that was the end of that. I climbed a volcano in Vanuatu a few years ago and it scared me, but that’s about the only thing I wouldn’t do again.

These are a few of my favourite things, in no particular order:

• Ryan Adams
• Cooking
• Eating
• Wine
• Writing
• Ernest Hemingway
• Traveling
• Truman Capote
• John Steinbeck
• Music
• Banksy
• Gill Sans

And these are things I’m not particularly fond of:

• Volcanos (the exploding kind, I quite like the Damien Rice song)
• Kyle Sandilands

That’s about it really, I’m fond of most things, other than war/despots/general evilness.

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