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Kate

Life Isn't About Finding Yourself, Life Is About Creating Yourself

About Me


Please do not message me asking for my msn, I will not give it!
I just finished my BA (Hons) in Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Warwick, and now I'm at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London to do my masters in History of Art. Sweet :)
Things Which Turn Me On (metaphorically speaking)
Architecture * learning * music * travelling * clothes, style and fashion (not being fashionable...) * the ancient world * having a laugh with my buddies * scenic nature * national trust and heritage houses and gardens * venetian masks * art * when songs remind me of a time or place * people who can spell * millie's cookies * accomplishing my goals * photography * Christina Aguilera, Keira Knightly, Mischa Barton haha * looking at property papers * chinese food * dancing * turning up my music when there's no-one around to hear *

I love travelling and experiencing new cultures, and have been very fortunate in the amount of traveling I do. Hey, the world's your oyster, might as well explore it! Some of the places I've been: Antigua, Austria, America x19, Barbados, Canada x4, Cyprus, Denmark, France x7, Greece incl. Rhodes and Corfu x6, Grenada x2, Germany, Gebralta, Italy incl. Sicily x9, Hong Kong x2, Malaysia, Mexico, Morrocco, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain x3, Sweden, Scotland, Switzerland, Thailand incl Koh Samui x3, Tunisia, Turkey x2, Wales

My Interests

MUSIC!!!!!!

Play piano, flute, saxophone, attempt to play electric and bass guitars... Going to gigs, travelling, history of art and architecture, the ancient world, walking, bunac, American National Parks....erm, far too much to write here...

I'd like to meet:

I am primarily here to discover new bands, or keep in touch with people I actually know in real life. Otherwise I want to meet the emperor Nero - what a legend! And someone who gets my Myspace headline...

Music:

METAL!!!!

http://www.last.fm/user/AnadyomeneVenus/
What I've been listening to most this week...

(death/ thrash/ prog/ speed/ power/ melodic/ heavy/ neoclassical/ symphonic/ goth) Bands:::: Symphony X, Threshold, Decapitated, Chaos Incarcerated, Necrophagist, Adagio, Opeth, Annihilator, Anata, Bloodbath, Amon Amarth, Kronos, Laaz Rockit, Cannibal Corpse, Sarpanitum, Deicide, Sabbat, Vader, Carnal Forge, Vanden Plas, At the Gates, Evile, Hate Eternal, Demolition Hammer, Atrophy, Devin Townsend, Heathen, Nile, Vehemence, Nuclear Assault, Visceral Bleeding, Unleashed, Incantation, Gammacide, Mutant, Dying Fetus, Vio-lence, Desecration, Suffocation, Borknagar, Nebukadnezza, Dark Tranquility, Dream Theater, Demolition Hammer, Arcturus, Wintersun, Mass Extinction, Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Inflames, Dragonforce, Liquid Tension Experiment, Children of Bodom, Planet X, Gama Bomb, Angra, Iron Maiden, Pain of Salvation, Nightwish, Nasty Savage, Nevermore, Razor, Andromeda, Meltdown, Artension, Yngwie Malmsteen, Piranha, Enchant, plus loads more...
Goth/EBM bands::::VNV Nation, Blutengel, Echo Image, Final Selection, Gothminister, Iris, Evil's Toy, Resurrection Eve, Void Construct, Angels and Agony, And One, Apop. Bezerk, Cruxshadows, Covenant, Umbra et Imago, Assemblage 23, Stromkern, Razed In Black, Icon of Coil, The Second Sight, Neuroticfish, Velvet Acid Christ, Funker Vogt, Cesium 137, In Strict Confidence, Project Pitchfork, Suicide Commando, Colony 5, and loads more....

Other bands I like:::: Our Lady Peace, My Vitriol, The Beach Boys, Conjure One, The Beautiful Mistake, Poison the Well, Whitesnake, Sikth, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Manson, Linkin Park, Lacuna Coil, Depeche Mode

Trance:::: Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Brain Child, PPK, Dj Lange, Mauro Picotto, Solar Stone, System F, Binary Finary, Cygnus X, Greece 2000, Humate, Lucid, Sash

Classical:::: Vaughan Williams, Nyman, Barber, Satie, Sakamoto, Puccini, Faure, Debussy, Allegri, Bach, Bruch, Morricone, Albinoni, Part, Gorecki, Vivaldi, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Steiner, Libera


I also like jazz (Diana Krall!), spanish, turkish and other world music, and *gasp* some hip-hop and r&b mainly cos it reminds me of good times... I'm no music elitist!

Movies:

The Hole, The Neverending Story, Jackie Chan movies, Airplane, American Beauty, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Clueless, Spinal Tap, Sliding Doors

Television:

Family Guy, Southpark, Black Books, My Family, WWF, CSI, America's Next Top Model, Property Programmes, X-Files, Ready Steady Cook, travel programmes, X Factor auditions for the comedy value, things about misbehaving kids

Books:

I don't really have time to read for fun anymore - I read so much for my uni course that I'd rather do something else in my free time. But I guess my alltime favourite books would have to include La Cle Sur La Porte, The Odyssey, the Magic Faraway Tree *ahem*, Agatha Christie books...

Heroes:

I don't have a hero. What's the point? Be yourself, don't idolise people, because if you do, then you idolise their traits too. It's ok to look up to or respect people, but idolising people is obsessive behaviour, which is not good!