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Lizzy

I am here for Friends

About Me

In a band called Wurlitza - you can find us on myspace.I also teach music & convert and rent out railway carriages to rail enthusiasts for holidays at St Germans and Hayle - check out railholiday.co.uk. I live in a railway station with husband Dave & children Walter, 8, and Poppy, 5.Thanks to Derek Dickinson for the photo.

My Interests

Music, art, poetry, cycling, walking in the dark, Expressionist film & ideology. Like to read poetry aloud while playing the piano - try Shumman of Foreign lands & People with Whitman's I hear America singing - wonderful.

I'd like to meet:

Walt Whitman, J.S.Bach (preferably at the same time as I'm sure they'd like to meet each other)

Music:

jazz, punk, new wave, blues, classical (Bach, William Walton, Stravinsky, Dvorak, Brahms, Purcell, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Greig)Louis Eliot, Louise Parker, Sissy Blow, Unpopular Music label, Velvet Underground, Wurlitza, Alabama 3, The Jam, Cornershop, The Clash, The Cure, Delta Dukes, Black Friday, Kaiser Cheifs, Carter, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Billy Bragg, Half Man Half Biscuit,

Movies:

Piccadilly, Sunrise, Drowning by Numbers, Typo,

Television:

Don't have a television - but when I'm around one I like Jools Holland

Books:

Janet Frame - You are now Entering the Human Heart, Flann O Brien At Swim 2 Birds, Andrew Lanyon A Fairy Find, Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn, Irvine Welsh Trainspotting, Zadie Smith The Autograph Man, Hemmingway Fiesta, John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids, Douglas Adams The long dark teatime of the soul. (At least - that's the list today)

Heroes:

Anyone who creates art or plays music. Anyone who likes to dance. Anyone who is eccentric. (And of course all of my friends most of whom fall into the aforementioned)

My Blog

the curious world of blogs and a poem about boxing

The virtual Lizzy returns, a strange man with a penchant for televisions, an obsessive wierdo with a desire that everything returns to nine (37 = 3+7 = 10, 37-10=27, 2+7=9) the fickle child with a rec...
Posted by Lizzy on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:34:00 PST

Further correspondence from Tricky Prophet

I was gladdened to receive in the post today, alongside the usual, another letter from Tricky Prophet. "My Dearest Lizzy,I am pleased to report that further developments have come to light on the myst...
Posted by Lizzy on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:34:00 PST

Lizzy headspace & the first correspondence of Tricky Prophet

Today strange things are happening in my head. The ends of my sentences have become butterflies - I try to catch them, but they're gone. There's a space where the thoughts are jumping through, like th...
Posted by Lizzy on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:27:00 PST

Lizzy?

Entering the bizarre world of the virtual person - Lizzy. Here you see posted a photo, but is this Lizzy? Is anyone ever one person all the time? Options: Lizzy - plays in a band, living a Barbietopia...
Posted by Lizzy on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:16:00 PST