I live 4 music. Hence, I like singing (will often find me with my mp3 player singing to myself lookin like a complete loony), dancing, going to clubs/gigs, playing my classical guitar and cello (tho am sadly celloless at mo, any donations kindly welcome).Also bit of a culture vulture so love doing anything touristy. Love travelling, like to play tennis ( will beat my friend someday), play capoeira (tis well cool and Brazilian)Check it out: .. width="425" height="350" .... ,and love to walk in the luvly mountains and countryside (tho am urbanite at heart) and spose I like shopping tho makes me sound so girly! Love to see a good film. And of course I love to read, am english lit student after all. And last but not least loving the comedy, check out these funny chaps: .. width="425" height="350" .... .. width="425" height="350" ....
See heroes section , (though would quite hard to meet the deads ones it must be said). Would generally like to meet people with same passion for cultural things, have a good sense of humour and are open-minded, have something original to say and are good at listening and giving advice (am quite a talker and worrier!).
Almost anything apart from death metal, cheesy house, most country music,Katie Melua and The Feeling (oh and that annoying Mika guy with that stupid 'Grace Kelly song'), here sum faves: Radiohead, The Beatles,PJ Harvey,Bob Dylan, Suzanne Vega, Bjork,Tori Amos, Kate Bush,The Young Knives, Beck, We Are Scientists, David Bowie, The Police, Portishead, Moloko, Massive Attack, Nick Drake, John Martyn (for the sublime solid air), The Futureheads,Bloc Party, Amy Winehouse,Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker, Nitin Sawhney,The Jam/Paul Weller, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones,The Kinks, The Smiths, The Cranberries, The Cardigans, The Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's, Chopin, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, J.S Bach, Liszt,Bob Marley,Stevie Wonder, Jeff Buckley, London Electricity, Orange Blossom, Buena Vista Social Club, Jeffersson Airplane, Pentangle, Eliza Carthy, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Howling Bells, Johnny Cash (the exception to all country is crap rule), Gang Of Four, The Buzzcocks,The Clash,The Who,Led Zeppellin, Klaxons, Talking Heads,Editors,The Roots, Queens of the Stone Age,and Camille, check out her coolness:
Most films by the Coen Bros (esp. The Big Lebowski),Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder (esp. Some Like It Hot) Frank Capra (esp. Its a wonderful life) and Howard Hawks (esp. Bringing Up Baby), but also: Pulp Fiction, The Station Agent, Sideways, Thumbsucker, Rebel without a cause, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Clockwork Orange, , Dangerous Liasons, The Age Of Innocence, The English Patient, Schindler's List, The Constant Gardner (most films with Ralph Fiennes in em apart from maid in manhatten that's bollocks), Spinal Tap, Best In Show, Stir Crazy, The Jerk, Amorres Perros, Talk To Her, Bright Young Things, Withnail & I, The Motorcycle Diaries,Run Lola Run, Amelie, M, The Wizard of OZ, The Labryinth (David Bowie in spandex how can you go wrong!?), Legend, Wonder Boys,Rain Man, Foresst Gump, As Good as It Gets, The Kid, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, All About Eve,Breakfast at Tiffany's, Splendour In The Grass, Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Pink Panther films, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Royal Tenenbaums.
Green Wing , Six Feet Under, Shameless (b4 it went crap), Friends, ER, Sex In The City, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Mighty Boosh, Curb Your Enthusiasm, any costume drama, Have I Got News For You, QI, A bit of Fry and Laurie, Louis Theroux docs, Sugar Rush, Blackadder, Never Mind The Buzzcocks,The Office,Whose line is it anyway?, Mock the week.
Most things by Sebastien Faulkes, P.G. Wodehouse, Sarah Waters and George Eliot, also: Catch-22, The Good Soldier, The Map Of Love, 1984, On the road, Catcher in the rye, Alice in wonderland, Great Expectations ,one flew over the cuckoo's nest, To kill a mockingbird, Mrs. Dalloway, Jane Eyre,The god of all small things, Spike Milligan war memoirs, moab is my washpot (stephen fry auto-biog), Godess: the many lives of Marylin Monroe,Sweet Scars Of Paradise: The life of Janis Joplin, far from the madding crowd, madame bovary, portrait of a lady, my family and other animals.
John Lennon,Bjork, Billy Connolly (aka the funniest man in the world TM):.. width="425" height="350" .... Bob Dylan, Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard,Brendon Burns (one of the best stand-ups I've ever seen), Marylin Monroe, Louise Brookes, George Eliot, Sarah Waters, Virginia Woolf, James Stewart, Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers, PJ Harvey (here she is being so cool and sexy it hurts): .. width="425" height="350" .... Kate Bush, Karen O, Louis Theroux, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Nina Persson, Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Jaqueline Du Pre, Cary Grant, Thom Yorke,Audrey Hepburn,Hitchcock, Wilder.And of course last but not least my brilliant friends and family.