Just writing and designing, making up alternative realities and passing them off as books. Love animals, children, anything that talks back. Left handed people... I have both left and right handed friends....
I'd like to meet:
YOU! Anyone who needs a graphic designer or wants to talk to a graphic designer! Other artists, musicians, actors, animators, silly people, writers, creative people. Mo Mowlam would have been nice, (she said "I can't sing; I can't dance; I can't write; I can't spell; but something I can do is get on with people.") Tori Amos would be awesome... Oh and Johnny Depp... Jack Black, Ian Mckellen, Janeane Garofalo, Carrie Fisher...Tom Baker, Margot Kidder, Lord Bath, Gillian Anderson, Toni Morrison, Lucy Lawless, Christopher Walken (God of Dance) my dad and everyone in the afterlife, The TARDIS, the Doctor/and/or scientist with the power to electromagnetically propel me through time roughly two thousand years in the fictional future to a world which I call my baby.. Anna Drummond Moray (where are you Anna?....Somewhere in Perth, Scotland..present day) Sharon Osborne, Susan Sarandon, Neil Gaiman, Kate Bush, Grace O' Malley, Salma Hayek, Lily Tomlin, Rachel Weisz, David Tennant, Brendan Fraser, Buki Akib, Tim Robbins, Michelle Yeoh, Käthe Kollwitz, Tim Burton, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Martin, Erik Estrada, Karen Allen, William Blake, Mary Shelley, Rik Mayall, Ted Raimi, Sam Raimi, Russel T Davies, Terry Gilliam, Luc Besson, John Sayles, Alice Walker, Julie Andrews, Robert Rodriguez, Bruce Campbell, Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce,(They died before they found out how to project matter as well as light and sound, where are they now? My teleporter's still a cardboard box...and my time machine's gone virtual), Glynis Barber, Renee O'Connor, Morgan Freeman, Rutger Hauer, Bill Bailey, Ellen DeGeneres, Gus Van Sant, Margaret Atwood, Tom Savini, George Clooney, Michael Brandon, Connie Imboden, Mary Steenburgen, Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Anne Boleyn, Jennifer Saunders, Tracey Emin, David (The Hoff) Hasselhoff! Queen Elizabeth the first, Great Lost Aunty Betty somewhere in Southampton, (who exploded a pavlova in a microwave so the chances of her being able to work a computer are remote) And of course, Rob from Ars Magna Recordings! You're all out there.... somewhere....
Music:
Tori Amos, (New Album, American Doll Posse, out on May 1st 2007) Kate Bush, Rachmaninov, Detritus, Bjork, Dar Williams, Ani Difranco, System of a down, Loreena McKennitt, Muse, Tenacious D, Radiohead, Katie Melua, Black Hole Generator, Boy is Fiction, Nine Inch Nails, Portishead, the Carpenters, the Doors, KD Lang, Danny Elfman, Elliot Goldenthal, The Eurythmics, Marilyn Manson, A Wake A Week, Fields of the Nephilim, Perry Blake and even (looks away embarrassed) Cyndi Laupa and Neil Diamond, (goes and hides in toilet) Jacqueline Kroft, Imogen Heap.
Movies:
Finding Neverland, Even cowgirls get the Blues, Romy and Michelle's highschool reunion..in which Janeane Garofalo says 'This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy..' favourite quote of all film time.. aNYTHING WITH werewolves in because I grew up thinking I'd marry one.. STILL BELIEVE IN WEREWOLVES...Benny and Joon, The quick and the dead, City of lost children, The Nightmare before Christmas, All of me, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ginger Snaps, The Alien Saga, Salute of the Jugger, Bob Roberts, Dead of winter, The 13th Warrior, Dangerous minds, Brotherhood of the wolf, Enemy Mine, Star Man, Orlando, The mystery men, School of Rock, Pirates of the Caribbean, Powder, Miss Congeniality, The fisher King, Frida, Severance, 28 Days Later, Girl Interrupted, Ladyhawk, Evil dead 2, Japanese, French, Canadian, American, Chinese, Italian and British Horror/sci-fi/fantasy! Oh and Bagdad Cafe...
Television:
X files, Xena.. Lost...smack the pony, Ugly Betty, Doctor who, Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica... The Lost Room, Dempsey and Makepeace.. Heroes, Big Train, Spaced, Green wing, Monkey, Three non blondes, Extras, ER, Daisy does America, Father Ted. America's next top model, (Really funny)... Black Books.
Books:
The Sandman, Death the high cost of living, and, the books of magic by Neil Gaiman, Paradise by Toni Morrison, The Mayfair witch series, Interview with the vampire series up to a certain point, Anne Rice. The secrets of the Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander, The Wasp factory by Ian Banks, The female man by Joanna Russ, Lord of the rings, Tolkien. The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth, by David Starkey, Weaveworld, Everville and the great and secret show by Clive Barker, The Book of Werewolves, by Sabine Baring Gould, the ballad of Halo Jones, and League of extraordinary gentlemen, V for vendetta, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Egypt, Lewis Spence, Imagining women, Bonner , Goodman, Allen, Jones and King. Stupid white men by Michael Moore.
Heroes:
Grace O'Malley the old Irish pirate queen, Doctor who, Gandalf, Aughra, Princess Leia, Mary Poppins (She is real, she is re..), Xena warrior princess, Hariett Makepeace from Dempsey and Makepeace... Jack Sparrow, If I were a man and a pirate and fictitious I'd be Jack. These all seem to be largely fictitious... A very dear friend Darran Lloyd who was like a big brother to me, an amazing person...but amazing people sometimes don't live as long as they should. My mum, the kindest person in the world and my son, the funniest. (He's six. I asked him what he'd like from Father Christmas this year, and he said..'Immortality...and the power to stop war...') David Dando-Moore, Queen Elizabeth 1st...Favourite artists include, Frida Kahlo, John Martin, Otto Dix, William Blake, Stanley Spencer, H.R Giger, Kathe Kollwitz, Salvador Dali, Connie Imboden and Dave Mckean. People who have had a positive influence on my life as an artist include, my tutors, Christopher Nurse, Frances Woodley, Graham Talbot, Dr. Matthew Rampley.
