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Zoe

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About Me


"You're Human Like The Rest Of Them" - BS Johnson
"I don't know. I rather value my melancholy. Used to be a personality trait one was allowed to have. Like Abraham Lincoln or Lord Byron. Now one is required to grin and say things like, 'Great!' " - Alan Shore
"I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds." - Egon Schiele

My Interests

"The Oliver Twist Manifesto"
Professional cynic. Misanthrope. Insomniac. I can't walk past a second hand book shop without going inside. Likewise, record shops. Intrigued by absurdities, oddities & quirks. I like snow, printed material, boots, dancing, drawing, libraries, good food, museums, wine, my bed, dresses, green tea, eyeliner, dj-ing, art galleries, well worn t-shirts, vinyl, photography, snow leopards, words, synths & graffiti. I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass.

I'd like to meet:


You'll have to give me some time to think about that.

Music:

"So unplug the jukebox..."
Barry Adamson, Adverts, As Mercenarias, Adam & The Ants, The Barracudas, Blondie, Big Star, David Bowie, Blonde Redhead, Kate Bush, Buzzcocks, Angelo Badalamenti, John Cale, Can, Captain Beefheart, Birthday Party /Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Grinderman, Leonard Cohen, The Colourfield, Chicks On Speed, Bobby Conn, Clinic, Elvis Costello, CSS, Dead Kennedys, Deaf School, Destroy All Monsters, Dexys Midnight Runners, Devo, Dirty Three, Duran Duran, Durutti Column, Ian Dury, Echo & The Bunnymen, Eno, ESG, Elastica, The Faint, The Fall, Felt, Fun Boy Three, Gang Of Four, Gary Numan, The Go Betweens, God Speed You Black Emperor!, Goldfrapp, Human League, Ideal, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Japan, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Knife, Kraftwerk, Lene Lovich, Leiber & Stoller, Les Rythmes Digitales, The Long Blondes, Soft Cell, Luke Haines/The Auteurs/Baader Meinhof/BBR, New Order, Marianne Faithfull, John Foxx, Magazine, Martha & the Muffins, My Bloody Valentine, Mission Of Burma, The Only Ones, Os Mutantes, Nick Drake, Orange Juice, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, The Sound, Patrick Wolf, Peter Schilling, The Pop Group, Propoganda, PJ Harvey, PIL, Primitives, Astor Piazzolla, Psychedelic Furs, Prince, Jonathan Richman /Modern Lovers, The Raincoats, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Roxy Music, The Runaways, The Ramones, The Slits, Sparks, The Specials, Sonic Youth, The Smiths /Moz, Scritti Politti, Soft Cell, Squeeze, T Rex, Talking Heads, Teardrop Explodes, Television, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, Trost, Scott Walker, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Townes Van Zandt, Visage, X, Wire, XTC, Zoot Woman, those that appreciate the majesty of hand-claps and tambourines in pop music.

Movies:

"Give me a good film noir and a bottle of gin..."
Talk To Her, Ed Wood, Pretty In Pink [even if the ending is all wrong], The Big Sleep, Lost Boys, All About My Mother, Edward Scissorhands, Of Kind Hearts & Coronets, Grosse Point Blank, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Nightmare Before Christmas, Casablanca, Passport To Pimlico, Secretary, Ghostworld, Music Of Chance, Blow Up, Manhattan, Velvet Goldmine, Bad Education, Fargo, Clerks, The Apartment, Withnail & I, Broken Flowers, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Death In Venice, The Maltese Falcon, Shaun Of The Dead, The Grifters, Little Shop Of Horrors, Seance On A Wet Afternoon, Vertigo, Night Of The Hunter, M, Annie Hall, Science Of Sleep, Secrets & Lies, Wisconsin Death Trip, In Cold Blood, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Rushmore, Donnie Darko, Mystery Train, Brick

Television:

"And everything is real..."
Rising Damp, Spaced, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Buffy, Boston Legal, The Fall And Rise Of Reggie Perrin, Porridge, The Likely Lads, Our Friends In The North, House, Black Books, The Secret Life Of Us, Threads, Doctor Who, Green Wing, Hancock's Half Hour

Books:

"All my books are on loan..."
BS Johnson, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, AL Kennedy, F Scott Fitzgerald, Toby Litt, Douglas Coupland, John Fowles, Jonathan Coe, Louise Welsh, JG Ballard, Haruki Murakami, Muriel Spark, Donna Tartt, Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Christopher Isherwood, Graham Greene, Alan Warner, also history, music, travel, food, art and film type things.

Heroes:

"Though nothing will drive them away..."
Lauren Bacall, Luke Haines, Alan Shore, Humphrey Bogart, Tony Hancock, Cindy Sherman

My Blog

4 January

Christopher Isherwood died on this day in 1986.
Posted by Zoe on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:19:00 PST

5 December

Fritz Lang was born on this day in 1890.
Posted by Zoe on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:44:00 PST

8 November

On this day in 1974, police began their futile search for Lord Lucan.
Posted by Zoe on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:54:00 PST

30 September

Truman Capote was born on this day in 1924.
Posted by Zoe on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:33:00 PST

16 August

Bela Lugosi died on this day in 1956.
Posted by Zoe on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:13:00 PST

24 July

Zelda Fitzgerald was born on this day in 1900.
Posted by Zoe on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:54:00 PST

6 July

Frida Kahlo was born on this day in 1907.
Posted by Zoe on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:20:00 PST

18 May

Ian Curtis committed suicide on this day in 1980.
Posted by Zoe on Fri, 18 May 2007 10:07:00 PST

17 April

Pete Shelley was born on this day in 1955.
Posted by Zoe on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:46:00 PST

26 March

The wonderful Tennessee Williams was born on this day in 1911.
Posted by Zoe on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:31:00 PST