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Susan

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Lives in Fitzroy. Loves dark chocolate and red wine. Alternative/metal music whore. Professional gypsy. Failed attempt at Vegaquarianism. Entertainment + leisure journalist in training. Witness to centrelink/tafe fuck-up-edness. Born in a white room. Raised in the sticks. Obtained reality in the city.

My Interests

Music, Movies, Writing for fasterlouder.com.au, The Dwarf, A Fine Line, and myself, art gallery visits, creating art pieces, photography, witchcraft and neo-paganism, sudoku, crosswords (or being drivin insane by them

I'd like to meet:

Trent Reznor, Oscar Wilde, Mary Wollstonecraft, Angelina Jolie, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Edgar Allen Poe, P.B. Shelley, JRR Tolkien... what does it say about me that nearly everyone is dead??

Music:

Industrial, Metal, World, Electonic Jazz, Electroclash, Indie, Punk, Trip-Hop, Electronica... I'm open to more. My musical world is exploding at the moment.

Movies:

Indie films, mostly... like Tarnation and What the Bleep Do We Know? Also LotR, Walk the Line, Girl Interrupted, The Crow, The Craft, American Beauty, Brick, Chocolat...

Television:

Black Books, Dead Like Me, Medium, Sex & the City (my guilty secret no more!)

Books:

Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), The Long Hard Road out of Hell (Marilyn Manson's Bio), Memoirs of a Geisha, An Imaginary Life, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Heavier Than Heaven (Kurt Cobain's Bio), No One Here Gets Out Alive (Jim Morrison's Bio)

Heroes:

People I Want to Meet, presumeably. And I will, if they're still alive by then.

My Blog

Infantile Accent Dysmorphia

One of the weirdest things about me has always been my accent. I have a American/Canadian accent, you see. I was born with it. Despite never having been to Canada. Or the Americas. Or anywhere but Au...
Posted by Susan on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:47:00 PST

Shoes & the Suburbs

Christ! Having just read the last entry, am shocked & dumbfounded how long it's been since I've synched my blogs. From now on I will post in all at once. Anyway... now for the newest installment f...
Posted by Susan on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:40:00 PST

Torn

So, my first day at work for Ticketek in the Melbourne Office is ended. I'm having a sleepless night, obviously. This is mostly due to the mention by one of my new work-mates that she is going aw...
Posted by Susan on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:35:00 PST

My God Held For Ransom!

What's in the air lately? Feel like I've lost my mojo, my sanity, and my interest all in one hit. Bob (my guardian... thing, personal god, whatever) has nicked off for a ciggie break, a bong hit,...
Posted by Susan on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:17:00 PST

Survey from Stef

1. single? Yes2. Painted your room? No4. Drove a car? yeah, im not licensed though5. Danced in front of your mirror? who hasn't? honestly?!6. Have a crush? yep7. Been dumped? no8. Stole money from a f...
Posted by Susan on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:46:00 PST

Hyde Park Dreaming

Laid in the park today with Beirut and my note-pad. Was inspired by this guy who looked like a cross between a rock star and a partner at a law firm. He looked neat from a distance, but close-up you c...
Posted by Susan on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:54:00 PST

The Devil & Mobile Phones

Mobile-phones and privacy. Do we have any anymore? People contact me at the most inopportune moments  when I'm in the shower, popping out for milk, having sex: almost like my callers can sense it. I ...
Posted by Susan on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:06:00 PST

New Year's Resolutions, 2007

Start my Uni Prep Course Finish said course! Apply to Sydney Uni Get in :) Find out about Uni exchange programs (Monash, Edinburgh Uni) Learn more about wine; take a wine-tasting tour Publish a...
Posted by Susan on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:20:00 PST

Quiz Answers (Stolen from Marc)

relationships & random questions.( ) stayed single for the whole year( ) got your first kiss(x) kissed someone new( ) made-out for the first time() made-out in/on a car( ) kissed in the snow(X ) c...
Posted by Susan on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:16:00 PST

Myspace: Schools, My Private Horror

Have been looking up my old friends from school using the myspace school-searcher thingame. It's been a bit weird and painful for me. I was the kid at (a private, semi-posh) school who barely spo...
Posted by Susan on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:41:00 PST