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About Me

I'm still under construction, but so far I'm a she-comic, stand-up and compere-you can often catch me mc'ing the Kings Head Comedy Club in Crouch End on a saturday night. I also conjoin with Sheila Hyde to become The She-Hee Cha-Ha Show-Ho and our current comedy adventure is 'The Lost Resort' with fantastical musical support from boy genius Mathew Robins. At other times I meld with Hester-ukelele-orchestra-of-Great-Britain to form 'Elvenbitch', lovely rock'n'roll elf ladies.We've been compering the theatre tent at Glastonbury for the past few years. I write poems and other stuff too.
Here is some poetry in motion, in the language of... ballet

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I'm the one in the red shoes...of course.

My Interests

accordion-squeezing, ballet-dancing, beer, acrobatics, rock'n'roll, our past, our future, the circus, having a nap, comedy.

I'd like to meet:

alternative selves in a parallel universe, experience different perspective, dip into the jungian conciousness that is myspace blah blah blah- and everyone else too.

Music:

Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths, Joy Division, The Trees, Kylie, Norma Waterson, Eliza Carthy, The Monkees, Glen Tillbrook, Francoise Hardy, Terry Hall, Kate Bush, Elvenbitch, Pixies, Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain, Peter Paul and Mary, secret Radiohead habit singing along with hairbrush, PJ Harvey, Nina Simone, obscure jazzy gypsy things i hear and then forget the name of, Martin Carthy, Elvis Costello, Judy Collins, Marianne Faithfull, John Otway, Mike Scott, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Jacques Brel, The Beatles.

Movies:

Vertigo, Lost Horizon, Les Enfants du Paradis, Rebecca, The Uninvited, The Dream of Olwyn, films with elves, Withnail and I.

Television:

Casualty, the sopranos; they sort of go together quite nicely.

Books:

Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, wb yeats, Hugo Williams, Christina Rossetti, William Blake, David Peace, Graham Masterton, Ian Rankin, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan,Sarah Waters, Phillip Pullman.

Heroes:

Eugene Balla, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan of Arc, Lucille Ball, Tinky Winky, Black Beauty,Robert Mitchum, Marie Lloyd, Annie Fratellini.

My Blog

Kellett Road

Acrobat ; Eugene Balla 1911-2004 You walk past his house every day and never guess it is a house of mysteries. ...
Posted by charmian on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:30:00 PST

The Little Maid

A fat girl writing thin poetry.She is dry and emptythe words flow like custardmount up like jellya landscape in yellow and pinkthe Rockies at sunset, the desert,I've never seen thembut here they arein...
Posted by charmian on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:44:00 PST

The Wrong Mummy

I follow her out of Dickens and Joneson to cold Christmassy Oxford Street.The back of her cuddly leopard print coatis promising and her walk is brisk. I break into a bright little trot to keep up,my h...
Posted by charmian on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:27:00 PST

Country and Western

Her name was Susan ( I read on her stone),a wife and a mother of three,all orphaned in nineteen sixty sixwhen she stepped onto the A303.My brother's soft-top too fast, too sleek,the Give Way sign all ...
Posted by charmian on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:05:00 PST

Little Beads Of Light (by me)

Little beads of lightdripping from the rusty nightinto my heart clenched so tight, little beads of lightdripping off the rusty old night.An old red rail across the night sweats those little beads of l...
Posted by charmian on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:31:00 PST