my daughter, my other half ♥, politics, the Liberal Democrat party, the English language, bad jokes, Audrey Hepburn, hairdye, mad eye makeup, stripey things, cats, Manchester, Pembrokeshire, tea, maple syrup, birdwatching, tarot, jaffa cakes, 80s cartoons, sunrises and sunsets, astronomy, peace and quiet, picnics, friends, acquiring clothes and shoes, music (see below), daydreaming, wild flowers, strokable stuff, being northern, origami, making cakes and crumbles, sweet chilli sauce, beaches, all things gingery, writing, sarcasm
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I'd like to meet:
Myself at various points in my past so I could give me a jolly good shake and ask me what on earth I was thinking!
Music:
Not writing an exhaustive list, but here's a fair amount of the stuff I'll be found listening to most often: Morrissey, Suzanne Vega, Dubstar, Bis, the Wildhearts, the Ramones, Suede, Blur, New Order, the Smiths, the Tears, the Buzzcocks, Rollins Band, Azure Ray, the Dogs D'Amour, Hanoi Rocks, the Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Half Man Half Biscuit, Luxembourg, Rachel Stamp, Bad Religion, NOFX, Rancid, Pitchshifter, Mesh, VAST, the Chameleons, the Cardigans, the Verve, Therapy?, the Damned, Pony Club, Depeche Mode, Justin Sullivan, St Etienne, Judge Dread, Heather Nova, the Horatii, EMF, James, Julie London, Nina Simone, John Cooper Clarke, David Bowie, A-Ha, the Pixies, the Ravonettes, DJ Shadow, Billie Holiday, Tool, Joy Division, the Long Blondes, Foo Fighters, Regina Spektor, Juno Reactor, Future Sound of London, Holly Golightly, Morcheeba, Crass, Descendents, Apoptygma Berzerk, Lush, VNV Nation, Plastic Fantastic, New Model Army, Incubus, Goo Goo Dolls, Skunk Anansie, Freezepop, Jeff Buckley, Barenaked Ladies, Zombina and the Skeletones, Switchfoot and literally anything I can dance to (and I've danced to some really surprising things...) or sing to - I particularly love a good mashup :D (two songs at once! Gemini heaven!)
Movies:
Let's narrow it down to the absolute favourites: So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Truman Show, A Life Less Ordinary, Shooting Fish, Breakfast at Tiffanys, and But I'm a Cheerleader. I like films that are upbeat fluff, mostly, and I *can* enjoy a silly horror movie, but I have a big thing about avoiding simulated violence, disaster and war - I don't think that stuff is good for your soul. Can you believe they have made a film about the World Trade Centre attack just five years after it happened? I just don't get it - you have to be some special kind of sick to derive entertainment from that. And while we're at it... why do so many computer games reward people for simulating genocide and GBH? That's.. it can't be healthy.
Television:
Television is a life sapping waste of time, but I'm not complaining and some of my favourites (past and present) are: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Balderdash and Piffle, Never Mind the Full Stops, The Day Today, Coronation Street (I know, sad..), Child of our Time, Seven Up, The Fast Show, Powerpuff Girls, The Sky at Night, Frasier, Rex the Runt, Have I Got News For You, Red Dwarf, South Park, and QI
Books:
I can't write a list of every book I've loved here but I'll give you an idea of my taste by selecting some absolute favourite authors and poets: Stephen Fry, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Danny Wallace, George Orwell, HG Wells, Henry Rollins, Oscar Wilde, PG Wodehouse, Oliver James, WB Yeats, Robert Frost, Roger McGough, William Ernest Henley, Eleanor Brown
Heroes:
Not heroes as such but here are some of the people famous and otherwise, dead and alive for whom I have a lot of respect and affection, who I like to think I am a bit like in some way or other: Kate Ashley, Glyn Ashley, Ed Ashley, Richard James Edmunds, Henry Rollins, Danny Wallace, Audrey Hepburn, Morrissey, John Peel, Bill Hicks, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry, George Orwell, Shira Sandler, Bill Bailey, Dave Burton, David Lloyd George, William Gladstone
