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Lisa

popular culture no longer applies to me

About Me

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde

My Interests

love (in bunches), reading (my second great love), sleeping in, live music in small clubs, writing, playing celebrity, spicy food, twilight zone reruns, champagne and french fries, edward gorey illustrations, singing in the car

I'd like to meet:

anyone who likes to turn everyday occurences into a musical.

Music:

interpol, maximo park, the rakes, sneaker pimps, massive attack, white rose movement, duels, the faint, black wire, jeff buckley, richard ashcroft, rufus wainwright, sunshine underground, pet shop boys, the lovemakers, crowded house/neil finn, grant lee phillips, alex lloyd, rob dickinson, cowboy junkies, everything but the girl, bloc party, del amitri, travis, blur, john denver, arctic monkeys, elton john, & of course... the beatles

Movies:

vertigo, mullholland drive, days of wine and roses, annie hall, all about eve, waiting for guffman, best in show, a might wind (the almighty christoper guest trilogy), la dolce vita, half nelson, high art, the dreamlife of angels, motorcycle diaries, swimming pool, the player, the lost weekend, moulin rouge

Television:

the office (both uk & us), kath & kim, real time w/ bill maher, six feet under, project runway, felicity, footballers wives (the original - NOT extra time, sports night, bad reality tv w/ vodka (antm, tar, tb... & if you know what those acronyms stand for you are just as bad as me), 90210 reruns

Books:

crime and punishment, eloise, salome (oscar wilde's), like being killed, under the banner of heaven, drinking: a love story, brass, civil disobedience, othello, story of my life, 1984

Heroes:

ludwig van beethoven, caroline knapp, dostoevsky, thoreau, people who deal with reality and life in an honest fashion, and & am in awe of anyone who can write a good melody,