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Gemma

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About Me

I am silly. I like taking photos and I like watching sunsets on top of high buildings whilst drinking cranberry finlandia. I do like to be beside the seaside. I ask a lot of questions. I live to dance and prance. I can down a pint in a few seconds. I am leaving the shire for a life as a globetrotter.

My Interests

Iceland, Icelandic Jumpers, Travel, Cranberry Finlandia, Cowboy hats, Sunrises/sets, Romance, Swimming under waterfalls, Stargazing, Tasmanian Devils...

I'd like to meet:

More funny people. I would also like to meet a Koala and Panda bear.

Music:

Love it all - Sigur Ros, Bloc Party, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Guillemots, P J Harvey, Zero 7, Radiohead, Billie Holiday, Jose Gonzalez, The Chemical Brothers, Sia, Basement Jaxx, Martha Wainwright, Incubus, Polly Paulusma, Razorlight, Gemma Hayes, Delays, Feeder, Joni Mitchell, Counting Crows, Kooks, Ryan Adams, Idlewild, Jewel, Biffy Clyro, Jeff Buckley, Roni Size, Martina Sorbara, Damien Rice, Pixies, Bjork, Ani DiFranco, The Cure, Jimmy Eat World, Azure Ray, Beth Orton, Kings of Leon, Faithless, Goo Goo Dolls, Red House Painters, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos, Semisonic, Yo La Tengo, Tracy Chapman, liam frost and the slowdown family

Movies:

Before Sunrise/ Before Sunset, Butterfly's Tongue, The Squid and the Whale, Sideways, Life is Beautiful, The Land Before Time (awww), Noi Albinoi, Pot Luck, Central Station, Open Hearts, The Return, Wings of Desire, Somersault, Il Postino, Together, Italian for Beginners, Keys to the House, Broken Wings, The Way we Were, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, Whale Rider, The Motorcycle Diaries, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Etre Et Avoir, The Princess and the Warrior, 101 Reykjavik, Muriel's Wedding, Strictly Ballroom, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Goodbye Lenin, Garden State, Little Miss Sunshine, I Capture the Castle, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stealing Beauty, Reality Bites

Television:

Any camp Australian crap - Kath and Kim, Neighbours, Dame EdnaAlso other things that make me chuckle such as: America's Next Top Model, Peep Show, Nighty Night

Books:

Oh I am a bookworm - some good ones are : Bee Season - Myla Goldberg; Eucalyptus - Murray Bail; Monkey Beach - Eden Robinson; The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger; Catch 22 - Joseph Heller; Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden; Cloudstreet - Tim Winton; Dirt Music - Tim Winton; Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich; The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Louise Erdrich; Beloved - Toni Morrison; The Handmai'ds Tale - Margaret Atwood; Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy; To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee; The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger; 1984 - George Orwell; The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath; The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood; Gem Squash Tokoloshe - Rachel Zadok; A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka

Heroes:

Heidi's jumper, The Samiad