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Lil Red

This is what you'll get, if you mess with us

About Me

Mostly? I like eating cake and getting on my soap box. Oh and I'm reeeeeally rubbish at speling (HAH see what I did there)
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My Interests

Gabey baby
Feminism
duck ponds
Britpop
my girls
the lads
cooking
swimming
Socialist Alliance
being on my own
cake and tea
the Linny
G2
conspiracy theories
the Matriarchs
gigs
snooker
Nintendo 64
cat ornaments
bed head hair
apologetic shoulders
gaudy sixties patterns
post-structuralism
hand/ nose/ hip fetishes
badminton
gin
Zelda and teh Ocarina of Time
trees
strong female protagonists
William Morris
the women's hour podcast
fair trade coffee
Eddie Izard
primark
Modernist literature
dancing
being on a train
Tony Benn
Channel 4 news
french, spanish, greek and mexican food
the natural history museum
the swings
passion and cause
jelapenos (or al pacinos)
self-deprecation
our Germaine
Charity work and donations
sleep-ins
french knickers
getting my rant on
pencil skirts
licking
writing words
Margaret Atwood
finger painting
baby photos
brown bread
Albert Park
The eighteen-twelve overture
my family tree
book marks
lilies
flutes
David Tennant
musicals
Lauren Bacall
the North-East coast
Alfonse Mucha
ghost stories
raggered-trousered philanthropy
long scarves
postcards
hugo woman
southern accents
balsamic vinegar

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with slightly anti-ideological tendencies, looking for a partner to lead the Revolution. Must own complete back catalogue of the Manic Street Preachers

Music:

A freaky beat with direction-changing guitars accompanied by a melodic ditty and thought-invoking lyrics. Glockenspiel preferred but not essential.

Movies:

Edward Scissor Hands
Secretary
Amelie
Basketball
Requiem for a Dream
Rear Window
Strictly Ballroom
Vertigo
Bound
Stir Crazy
Leon
The Usual Suspects
Bringing up Baby
The Royal Tanenbaums
Carlie and The Chocolate Factory (the Gene Wilder version)
Life is Beautiful
28 days later
Jack and Sarah
A life less Ordinary
Donny Darko
American Beauty
Kids
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Trainspotting
Seven Brides for Seven brothers
Funny face
True Romance
City of God
Brassed Off
Miss Congeniality
Bring it On
Xmen
Chasing Amy
Cat on a hot tin Roof

Television:

Channel 4
Film 4
BBC 4

Books:

I love books me!
uni reading: EM Forster - A Passage to India
fiction reading: Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
non-fiction reading: Wole Soyinka - The Changing Mask of Fear
Kate Atkinson.
Margaret Atwood.
Virginia Woolf.
Zadie Smith.
Julia Darling.
Jane Austen.
Hanif Kureishi.
Angela Carter.
Willa Cather.
EM Forster.
Mark Haddon.
Maxine Hong Kingston.
Ian McEwan.
Charles Dickens.
George Orwell.
Aldus Huxley.
Toni Morrison.
Will Self.
Simone De Bueaviour.
Charlotte/ Emily Bronte.
Thomas Pynchon.
Germaine Greer.
Djuna Barnes.
Katzuo Ishiguro.
Jeanette Winterson.
Andrea Levvy.
Alice Walker.
Gertrude Stein.
Amy Tan.
Noam Chomsky.
DBC Pierre.
JD Salinger.
Franz Kafka.
F Scott Fitzgerald.
Samuel Beckett.
James Joyce.
Anthony Burgess.
Alice Sebold.
Salman Rushdie.
Graeme Swift.
Graham Rawle.
Oscar Wilde.
Joseph Heller.
JK Rowling.

Heroes:

My Mum. Esther's mum. My auntie Emily. Trippy Mave. Oh and our Germiane OF COURSE

My Blog

These things elevate me above animals

It has been a truly bizarre few weeks. Just when I think that the merry-go-round that my life has somehow become is easing to a soft slow pace, up it starts again by some force of imaginary, metephori...
Posted by Lil Red on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:13:00 PST

And we’ll swim from these island shores, Til there’s a fear of drowning

I can't believe it is nearly the end of Autumn. Oh, I know there is no official Winter Solstice for a number of months yet, but there is that distinct nip in the air that smells of cold and fireworks ...
Posted by Lil Red on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:34:00 PST

Connect Festival

When I was at Connect festival I:camped right next to a real life lochdanced in a giant battery (a duracell one)accidentally rinsed my mouth with gin instead of water when brushing my teethsaw the mos...
Posted by Lil Red on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:04:00 PST

Cause nobody knows the wreck of my soul the way you do

I'm not usually the emotional type. I spend most of my life repressing feelings that get me down with the odd explosion that creeps out and airs its volatile self in public. And by public I mean my mu...
Posted by Lil Red on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:41:00 PST

Glastonblogy

When I went to Glastonbury I:watched the sunrise from Stone Circleparticipated in the making of a lady fireresisted the temptation to roll in the mud/ climb trees/ generally make an idiot of myselfdan...
Posted by Lil Red on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:57:00 PST

Metaphor

Winter: My Secret. Perhaps some day, who knows?But not today; it froze, and blows and snows,And you're too curious: fie!You want to hear it? well:Only, my secret's mine, and I won't tell. Or, after a...
Posted by Lil Red on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:55:00 PST

I wanna be so skinny, That I rot from view....

Well, no I don't REEEEEALLY but its sort of relevant and everyone knows I could do with losing a few at the moment and this will amuse those who know of my newly found apetite in the post-partum body....
Posted by Lil Red on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:42:00 PST

SUCK MY LEFT ONE

It has been a few months since I have made a blog entry, and although I have not wanted for material that I could use to get my rant on appropriately, I have had precious little time to fit in all tha...
Posted by Lil Red on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:43:00 PST

The greatest Anthems in the world....ever!

My life in Soundtrack. YES you wish your music taste to be as good as mine...Opening credits:Pulp - little girl with blue eyesWaking up:Manic Street Preachers - YesAverage day:Radiohead - the BendsFir...
Posted by Lil Red on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:46:00 PST

Can I stay here lying under the table together with you now?

It seems to me that there is an apparent correlation between the alarming velocity with which time turns its twisty route to our inevitable fate of meeting our maker and the amount of begrudged respon...
Posted by Lil Red on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:10:00 PST