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One Dizzy Redhead

The ginger's free, but the fizz'll cost ya!

About Me

young, fun, silly, cute, clever, sarcastic, charming, ditsy, loyal, dorky, snappy, in love, stress-shy, busy, lazy, clever, hysterical, fragranced, bitchy, spacey, skinny, smokey, clever, slinky, loud, musical, talented, scattered, clever, splashy, lovely.

My Interests

tennis, singing, charities/non-profit groups, French pop music, cologne, hair products, Andy Roddick's naked sweaty body, Eastern Newfoundland, drinking cheap champagne out of mugs, wacky TV shows, old movies, red hair, my big schlubby boyfriend, runny cheeses, otters, the swarthy men of Bollywood, being re-incarnated as a 400 lb. black laydee.

I'd like to meet:

Alive, dead, real, and fictitious: Conan O'Brien, Courtney Love, Lindsay Davenport, Xena Warrior Princess, Hazel from Footballers' Wives, Tintin, Ruth Elizabeth Davis, Pamela Des Barres, Nicole Richie, Charles M. Schulz, Lucy Ricardo, Charles Nelson Reilly, Frank and Estelle Costanza, Princess Margaret, Patsy Stone, Hubert de Givenchy, Sybil Fawlty, Justine Frischmann, Tommy Sexton.
Who I am.:

General:
Name: One Dizzy Redhead
Birthday: September 23, some year in the very late 1900s.
Location: St. John's, NL
Religion: Catholic
Eye/Hair Color: brown/RED
Height/Weight: 6'1'', 130lbs.
Heritage: Probably Irish/English pirates
Piercings/Tattoos: Never
Favorite:
Music/Song: 9-to-5 by Dolly Parton (at the moment)
Band: The Mamas and the Papas
Movie/TV Show: All About Eve/Seinfeld
Drink (alcoholic): G&T
Soda: Ginger Ale
Clothing Brand: Anything that fell off a truck and ended up at Winners on Bloor Street West
Shoe Brand: Again, anything that fell off a truck and ended up at Winners on Bloor Street West
Month/Season: JULY/SUMMER
Holiday: Christmas/St. Monica's Day
Pick One:
Sunny or Rainy: Sunny
Fruit or Vegetable: Vegetable
Night or Day: Day
Love or Money: Love
Phone or in person: Person
Looks or Personality: How about cash?
Coffee or Tea: Coffee
Hot or Cold: Cold? I live in Canada, why would I pick cold?
Your:
Goal for the year: Learn how to not drop 0 everytime I go to the drugmart.
Best physical feature: RED HAIR
First thought waking up: Is this really my house?
Worst crime: Umm, not paying for things? Like, a lot?
Greatest ambition: To be unencumbered.
Greatest fear: Being smelly when I'm old.
Darkest secret: I think James Gandolfini is TOTALLY hot.
Favorite subject: Runnymede subway station! GOD, I love that place!
Strangest received gift: A wall-hanging of an oil-painted cockatoo. I named it Esmerelda
Worst habit: PICK ONE!
Do You:
Smoke/Drink: Yup
Curse: Yup
Shower Daily: Nah, I enjoy natural musk.
Sing: Yup
Play an instrument: Guitar, clarinet... terribly.
Believe in fate: Fate would never have led me to Toronto... the universe isn't that cruel...
Believe in love at first sight: I've fallen in love with hair products at first sight, but it ends there.
Have You Ever:
Been Drunk/High: Wait, I think I'm too old to be taking this test...
Eaten Sushi: What the fuck is this, a test for hicks?! YES, IT'S DIVINE!!
Been in Love: Uh huh
Skipped school: Ok, I'm definitely too old to be taking this test... Yes.
Stolen something: I stole a belt at a party once, but I don't think it counts because it was on someone.
Cried yourself to sleep: Only after particularly stirring episodes of Coronation Street.
Random:
What annoys you most in a person: I HATE BORING PEOPLE! GIVE ME UNEMPLOYED DRUG-ADDLED LUNATICS- JUST AS LONG AS THEY'RE NOT DULL!
Right or left handed: Left
Bedtime: Lame question, not worthy of me.
3 things you can't live without: My big schlubby boyfriend, Du Maurier Light King Sized (25 pk.), Wimbledon coverage on ESPN.
Siblings: Nope
What is your middle name: Michael
Do you have any nicknames: Flippy, RoRo, Ribbly, Minky
Do you have a crush on anyone: SOOOOOOOO too old for this test am I!!!!!!
Are you for or against gay marriage: Well, I live in Toronto so if I did have a problem with it, I'd have to keep it quiet...
What are your thoughts on abortion: What is this, 1974?
Would you take a bullet for one you love: Depends. Are we having regular sex?
In a Member of the Opposite Sex:
Hair Color: BLACK
Eye Color: BLACK
Height: 6'0''
Weight: 200+ (I don't mind some pudge)
Most important physical feature: Hmm, nice torsos are quite fetching...
Biggest turn-off: Gay snappy dressers.
Take this survey or other MySpace Surveys at PimpSurveys.com

Music:

Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marianne Faithfull, Hole, Rolling Stones, Pulp, Liz Phair, M.I.A., Nelly Furtado, Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span, Colleen Power, Annie, Ute Lemper, Brecht/Weill, Fleetwood Mac, Beach Boys, Blur, Spice Girls, Petula Clark, Ike and Tina Turner, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Call Me Poupee, The Smiths, Herman's Hermits, Ivor Novello, Robbie Williams, Blondie, Serge Gainsbourg, Elastica, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mama Cass, Eartha Kitt, Nouvelle Vague, Witch, Madonna, Tiny Tim, New York Dolls, Stevie Nicks, Nine Inch Nails, FRANCOISE HARDY!!!

Movies:

All About Eve, Clueless, Mean Girls, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Gosford Park, The Philadelphia Story, Grand Hotel, Annie Hall, Girl on a Motorcycle, The Catered Affair, La Dolce Vita, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Crying Game, Desperately Seeking Susan, The Anniversary, Death Becomes Her, Shampoo, Sunset Boulevard, Window to Paris, Blow-Up, Chicago, Spice World, FACTORY GIRL.

Television:

Seinfeld, Match Game, I Love Lucy, America's Next Top Model, Prime Suspect, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Absolutely Fabulous (seasons 1-3), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Entourage, South Park, Gidget, Fat Actress, Maude, 90210, Coronation Street, The Lucy Show, Fawlty Towers, The Jeffersons, 2 Stupid Dogs, Flavour of Love, Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Books:

"Passing" by Nella Larsen, "Venus In Furs" by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, "George's Marvellous Medicine" by Roald Dahl, "Down to the Dirt" by Joel Hynes, "Stranger Thingas Have Happened" by Carmelita McGrath, "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, "One Lifetime is Not Enough" by Zsa Zsa Gabor, "Dirty Blonde" by Courtney Love, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers, "Capote" by George Plimpton, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote, "Goblin Market" by Christina Rosetti, "The Castafiore Emerald" by Herge.

Heroes:

Lindsay Davenport, Goldie Hawn, Brett Somers, Marianne Faithfull, Conan O'Brien, Bette Davis, Graham Chapman, Tintin, Helena Troy, Jerry Seinfeld, the inventor of skinny jeans, Miss Monica Walsh and Rosanne.

My Blog

I need to go into rehab because I'm addicted to reading about people going to rehab.

I don't think I'm joking.  I think I've become so obsessed with celebrity gossip (which, since the beginning of 2005 seems to have consisted almost primarily of people passing in and out of Los A...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:40:00 PST

Why do people lie?

Ok, I bought the first two seasons of My Super Sweet 16- MTV's answer to that age-old question: 'why are we obsessed with idiot, generic-looking American teen girls who don't even really seem to have ...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:24:00 PST

TTC merch- it might not be so crud if you thought about it enough...

Ok, so it seems like everyday there's something new going on with the ever-under-rapid-fire Toronto Transit Commission, and I have, for once, been actually reading the news to hear about it.  It'...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:34:00 PST

Amy Winehouse, Marianne Faithfull, Kate Winslet and... the guy that sits across from me at work

I think Amy Winehouse is the best example of "hideousexy" that we've had in a while.  I think the last one that really took her place among the greats was Courtney Love circa 1994.  Before t...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:56:00 PST

MMVAs take it away(s). ???.

I must admit that each June I am impressed with the lineup of notable pop acts and celebrities MuchMusic manages to coerce into making the journey to sweltering Toronto.  It's quite impressive an...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:47:00 PST

The Sopranos: what the fuck, and other nonsense

Wow, it's totally been ages since I've been here.  Oh well, life gets in the way.  I'm also not as keen on the MySpace thing anymore.  ALTHOUGH I STILL PREFER IT TO FUCKFACEBOOK.  ...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:15:00 PST

Who put all the Canadian actors in the life-force-sucking machine?

You know when you're really bored and you're flipping through the channels and you see a show or a movie starting that you've never seen/heard of before? You know how you get a little excited because ...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Fri, 11 May 2007 01:17:00 PST

10 reasons why Dolly Parton should run more things

1.  She's endearing: People who don't like Dolly Parton generally suck .  PS: this is not an off-handed comment, it is the result of much social anthropological research.2.  She can rel...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:57:00 PST

Facebook gets banned in Ontario public offices

I know it's a little strange for me to be joyously supporting the Ontario government's decision to ban the use of Facebook for provincial public employees considering I am writing this blog from my de...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:53:00 PST

Is anyone else as excited about the impending dissolution of the Jolie-Pitt union???

I hate them I hate them I hate them I hate them.  I think she's the most annoying actress on the face of the planet and I hope her lips turn into giant carps and flop off her face and back into t...
Posted by One Dizzy Redhead on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:56:00 PST