About me
Age: 36
Hometown: Leeds, UK
Email: richard.ashby@gmail.com
Blog: www.richtacular.com/wp
Twitter (personal): @richtacular
Twitter: @universityleeds & @webcomms
A bit more...
I live in Leeds, am 36 years old (but still young enough to enjoy dubstep) and have worked in IT and web content for around 13 years.
Happily married to my soul mate Em aka Talullah. She’s used to my geeky ways, and we make a great team.
A few of my favourite things...
Interests
Cinema, video games, reading, high definition, music, technology, social media, DTS audio, art, Italy, small dogs and blogging.
Type of pasta
Fusili
Small British land mammal
Grey squirrel
Inside leg measurement
29.5 inches
Character actor
Tony Shalhoub
TV programmes
The Wire, Monk, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Night Gallery and Rogue Traders
Music
I have fairly broad musical tastes but particuarly enjoy Sigur Ros, Yo La Tengo, Pixies, Brian Eno, Kitsuné Maison compliations, Elvis Presley, French house music and Johnny Cash.
Video games
Quite old school and mainly Japanese. My top four games of all time are Rez, Super Mario Bros, Shenmue and Outrun.
Films
The Graduate, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, The Game, Donnie Darko, Rear Window, Jaws, It's a Wonderful Life, Cinema Paradiso, The Apartment, Halloween, WALL-E and The Shining.
Books
Love reading. I'll read cereal boxes if there's nothing else around, but some great books include The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Everyman by Philip Roth and most things by Stephen King. Most recently I really enjoyed Freedom by Jonathan Franzen for its incredible scope, wonderful characters and humanity.
Heroes
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Shigeru Miyamoto, Rod Serling, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and most of all my Dad.
