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Rhian

Living with RECKLESS ABANDON since 1983

About Me

Difficult to know where to start really but like most people I'll plump for the beginning. I'm from a large family with three older siblings and a young enterprising niece. We're a multi-national family with our feet spanning across the border as my mum's English and my dad's Welsh, though we don't let the racial sparring get in our way. Anyway I went to school for a bit and did alright in the GCSEs and the A-Levels and everyone was expecting me to go off to Uni like my friends, sadly I disappointed them all for a while and spent three years in a mind destroying toy shop job - realising that I was miserable and spotting my friends graduating I decided to get out of there and spent a few months living the highlife in London before heading off to the University of Liverpool. Oooh... summary.

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My Interests

I wanted to click Various in the religion box, except that wasn't an option. It would work here to, I'll try to be brief. Writing, reading, music, drawing, cooking, singing badly, photography, history, theatre, cinema, dancing, the ottoman empire, british comedy, fantasy and science fiction, mythhology, folk stories, interesting debates, walkings nice, forests, shed parties, drinking games, toys. Hopefully the rest will come up in the bits below.

I'd like to meet:

JAFFA CAKES! You know who you are.

Music:

Lots and lots - I couldn't even list or unlist genres as I might not like everything, but there's always something that will pop up and surprise me. Paticular favourite types though have got to be 50s rock 'n' rollers, a lot of the 60s stuff is brilliant (and the Beatles were my second love), 70s is a fantastic mix of punk and glam for me, 80s passed me by a little but there are exceptions, 90s have been endlessly entertaining and I'm loving a lot of whats happening now. Current keyword for my favourite songs is I guess 'relentless' or perhaps 'cheeky'. Oh and my profile song will nearly always be a song by the last band I saw live and really liked (myspace permitting)

Movies:

Lord of the Rings finally combined my passion for film with my passion for Tolkien and has become a firm favourite. Lots of other excellent ones though - Shaun of the Dead is currently on the top of the list, Monty Python's Holy Grail is fab too and I love the Muppet Movies (though not the ones where they recreate books so much as I think they rely too much on human leads) and I find Bollywood unnerving and entertaining all in one go.

Television:

I like programs that I can dip in and out of because I never have time to watch everything regularly, so mostly it's comedies. Although theres been some excellent short drama series recently - loved Casanova and The Second Coming has stuck with me for quite a while. Spaced, Black Books, The League of Gentleman, Big Train, The Green Wing, Teachers, Atomic Betty, Phoenix Nights, Simpsons, Futurama, Monty Python, Morcambe and Wise... Dr Who gave me shivers down the spine, though as I live next door to Daleks maybe it's not surprising.

Books:

Lord of the Rings was the first book that I truly and utterly loved, it was the one that made me want to be a writer, although it was Harry Potter that reawoke it when I lost my way a bit, as I'm hooked. As for other fantasies, I love the other C.S.Lewis one - not Narnia - the trilogy with Perelandra and Out of the Silent Planet and... and... bugger. Obviously Song of Fire and Ice series as it actually makes me buy hardback copies and always enjoy a Terry Pratchett. Anyway that ones good. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski is fantastic. Recent reads? Ummm... I really liked Empress Orchid and Memoirs of a Geisha, so obviously it's all about the Japanese

Heroes:

Other than these guys...Well... George R. R. Martin who writes the Song of Fire and Ice fantasy series. I think he might actually be better than Tolkien. Which is sacrilege.

My Blog

Therapy 3

2nd October   I found it really hard to write about the last couple of sessions after they had happened  there was lots I could have said but I started feeling really down. I had been told that ...
Posted by Rhian on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:50:00 PST

Therapy 2

OK - just to clarify, this was written a while ago while I was having hypnotherapy to deal with depression. There's one more post to go about the subject after this - which will probably be up in a fe...
Posted by Rhian on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:18:00 PST

Therapy

  Well - most people probably don't know that for the past couple of weeks I've been having therapy sessions. At the time I wasn't supposed to talk to people about what was going on - but I could...
Posted by Rhian on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:01:00 PST

For Stephen and Alix

Well I picked up a copy of Dr Who monthly today for my long bus journey home from Cheltenham and discovered I have been entirely vindicated in my belief that Ricky and Jake were gay lovers: "Talking o...
Posted by Rhian on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:13:00 PST

Tony Blair

Hey, big thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes - I just enjoyed a quiet day with the family as I've been ill as usual but it was a really nice day - I made a dancing bear, a horse and a dog ou...
Posted by Rhian on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:57:00 PST

July 7th

OK, So the last year has just flown by and the anniversary of the London bombings was this week and it really upset me, which was slightly odd as I didn't realise it had had a big effect on me. I wasn...
Posted by Rhian on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:09:00 PST

who who who who who who

Oh my god. I've seen Pete Townshends belly button
Posted by Rhian on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 02:13:00 PST

Grief

Hey I feel like I owe everyone apologies for being a really rubbish friend and not answering everyone for ages, except I don't really as for once there's actually a reasonable excuse (beyond my usual ...
Posted by Rhian on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:30:00 PST

The Odyssey

Well I've just endured an horrendously Homeric return journey from America. For those of you not up on your classical Greek literature, I'll give a quick recap - because I like to (my drunken ren...
Posted by Rhian on Wed, 31 May 2006 05:27:00 PST

Disabilities

Well it looks like my Dad is out of another job with the Peugeot plant closing, it was only supposed to be a temporary job anyway but we'd hoped it would last for a few months as it might be his last ...
Posted by Rhian on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:28:00 PST