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MB

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Woody Allen, we could be friends, i know we could, really, call me Woody, call me. Spike Lee, bell hooks, Andrea Lee, J D Salinger, Roland Mouret; so met him once, but once is just not enough!!

Jake Gyllenhaal, cuz he is... well for conversation only naturally..... I mean we have soooo much in common: He likes to ride his bike through NY/LA, i ride my through London, if that isn't a connection you tell me. And all u shiny myspace people of course, who not only dream a thousand dreams, and realise them, but might have jake's nr :)

Music:

Billie Holiday, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Digable Planets, William Fitzsimmons, Olu, Talib Kweli, Nitin Sawhney, Regina Spektor, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Belle& Sebastiaan(especially love love THE STATE I AM IN, how poignant is that song), Sade, Erykah Badu, Cardigans, Dido, Remy Shand, Arrested Development, Nick Drake, Ella Fitzgerald, Kings of Convenience, Samatha Lavital, Lauryn Hill, The Weepies, Sia Furler, Nora Jones, Dwele, Susie Suh, Counting Crows, Nirvana, India Arie, Oasis, Robin Thicke, Racheal Yamagata, zero 7, Jurrasic Five, Mos def ( he an amazing artist, and he oozes style), Beatles, 40 foot-echo, Live house, Yann tiersen, Ben Harper,Cassandra Wilson, Buena Vista Social Club, Celiz cruz, Duke Ellington, Coltrane, Charlie my man "bird" Parker, Barry White, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, Coldplay, Snow patrol, Les Nubians, Otis Redding, Fela, Switchfoot, INCUBUS, Goapele, Ayo, Van Hunt,.....

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, When Harry met Sally, Before Sunrise, A Love Song For Bobby Long, Sidewalks of NY, Cache, Everything is Luminated, Happiness, Au revoir les enfants, Ghost World, Fight club, Squid&the whale, Tadpole, Welcome to the Doll House (TODD SOLANZ ROCKS DA HOUSE),Goodbye Lenin, Amelie, liberty heights, Gardenstate, Junebug, Notebook, Napoleon Dynamite, Sex y Lucia, Faceoff, Lovers of the Artic Circle, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Breakfast at Tiffany's, City of God, Crimes and Misdemeanors, United States Of Leland, Punchdrunk Love, Do the Right Thing, Half Nelson, Get on the Bus, Their Eyes are Watching God....Roots ( GOD my parents made me watch that like when i was 6, that and Gandi, ....ever wonder why i think too much well that might be a clue)

Television:

No TV, meaning to get one for the past 2 years, but always seem to forget.

The radio is on though! tuned to BBC Radio 4!

Occassional DVD marathons of West Wing!!! WEST WING FOR LIFE. and CSI VEGAS AND NY. Vegas is preferred due to the yummy men: Gary dourdan, William Petersen and George Eads... Wonder years. ahhhhh loves the winnie et kevin and the score!! what a score

Books:

I, the divine by Rabih Alameddine, Shanghai Baby, Norwegian Wood, The stranger by camus, Catcher In The Rye, To Esme with love and squalor, To Kill a mockingbird, Sula, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Alchemist, Amos OZ's Black Box, Ain't I a woman, Black Feminist Thought, Bulletproof Diva,.man can't answer this question it's too hard I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

Heroes:

I don't believe in heroes. We are all humans capable of amazing feats, yet fallible all the same. No need to put someone up on a pedal stone and watch them fall.

My Blog

proposition

Friday night. Coltrane is love supreme  watching the streets empty out in search of some comfort  a lie, or some distraction with a winning hand from an inebriating concoction   a ...
Posted by MB on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:46:00 PST

Conspiracy theories on Librarians from the Island girl

Friends, Romans and Countrymen, lend me your ears: the books I ordered have arrived. My cup runth with joy. These books are brand new and bought, might i add.  Yes, i buy book...
Posted by MB on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:35:00 PST

make-believe literary agents mourning the loss of Naoko

I have come to the realisation that i get a little attached to make-believe people, you know, the ones that live in books and whatnots, the products, or rather, the figments of someone else's imaginat...
Posted by MB on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:01:00 PST

coffee breaks

Today, the boy with coffee breaththinks me a foolbecause I saythere was another3 years 4 floorsand a creaking bed agowho too smelt of coffee and old newsand came well-suited with similar intentions,id...
Posted by MB on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:58:00 PST

SITUATIONS

When you are in a "situation", and I mean a serious SI-TU-a-TION!! You know, when what started out as a little fun, a little extra-curricular activity, is getting kind of heavy. And you find your...
Posted by MB on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:48:00 PST

Shameless Self-promotion part..??Lost track, shit!

You know the deal: read and weep! :)article.http://www.fashion156.com/featured/yah, LONDON FASHION WEEK!! YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!Not to worry folks, fashion week season will be over soon (: and i shall...
Posted by MB on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:34:00 PST

An ode

You ready? Let's take it back. Way back. Long before a barefooted Miss Badu stepped onto the scene, waving incense sticks, donning multi-coloured headwraps and showing Tyrone the door; long before a y...
Posted by MB on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:48:00 PST

blame mr.updike

 Are all New Englanders juggling carpooling and dinner parties with 5pm romps in motels just outside city limits? On their third marriages with a mistress ...
Posted by MB on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:42:00 PST

Desolation Row

I believe it was a Mr Hughes who phrased it best when he asked: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- and then run? " I ...
Posted by MB on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:06:00 PST

who wants to buy me a new ipod nano

Is the girl still here? Of course i am! where else would i be? Granted, I have been thinking of running away from home but seeing as i pay rent, electricity, gas, council tax, internet ...
Posted by MB on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:33:00 PST