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soupy loup

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorI feel a constant need to correct people's grammar. [cf. www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com ]

My Interests

Knitting, cooking and baking, jigsaw puzzles, other puzzles esp. crosswords, Sudoku and Futoshiki. I'm trying to get into Kakuro, but I unfortunately don't have great skills at adding up in my head.I'm also a total lush.

I'd like to meet:

People who find this as funny as I do.

Music:

Old country rock please. Or David Bowie. Or the Velvet Underground. Um, wouldn't say no to a bit of Girls Aloud. Stevie Wonder, OCCASIONAL bits of Elton John. British Sea Power, The Tenderfoot, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, oh lots, I can't be bothered thinking about it. I am however currently addicted to Dr. Dog's "Takers and Leavers" EP. And always will be, it seems

Movies:

Rocky Horror. Chick flicks. Stuff with Jack Nicholson in. He looks like my dad, or maybe the other way around..?

Television:

CSI; CSI:NY; CSI:MIAMI; Neighbours; University Challenge; Family Guy; Curb Your Enthusiasm; QI; Buffy; Countdown; Futurama; Frasier; oh, and I can never quite rid myself of my love for Friends.

Books:

Fiction:
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up!
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Homer - The Iliad
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials trilogy
JRR Tolkein - The Hobbit
George Orwell - 1984
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

Non-fiction:
Reference books esp. the Oxford Classical Dictionary and atlases/maps of any kind.

My Blog

Some Hong Kong holiday snaps

I went to Hong Kong for two weeks. I took many more pictures than I am showing here, but I have not the patience to wait years for Photobucket to upload them all. So here goes:One of the first things ...
Posted by soupy loup on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:33:00 PST