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* Alexia *

Buttons and chopstix

About Me


I've just finished three years at Southampton Solent University doing Journalism, coming away with a 2:1, woop woop! I'm Fashion Editor and features writer for Lifescape magazine (although word on the street is I've been promoted to Features Editor ;p), a cruelty-free glossy that can be found in Waitrose, WH Smiths, Borders and online. Our website is www.lifescapemag.com. It's the best magazine ever! :) I also work for Veggie Vision, an online veggie TV station, check it out at www.veggievision.co.uk. And MAD Promotions PR company (Making A Difference). And do film reviews for FilmCritic, which can be found at www.filmcritic.zoomshare.com. I run a national students' animal rights/veg group called Students Against Animal Crulety (www.myspace.com/saac_national) with a wonderful lady called Julia (who I've never met lol, she rocks though).
I was joint head of music at Sin Radio (the Uni's radio station) last year and had a show every wednesday called Old Skool.
My other life is in Southend on Sea with my boyfriend Steve, six and a half years! I love going for meals and cooking lots of weird and wonderful things. I am vegan and wouldn't change it for the world, it's the healthiest (well apart from having a completely raw food diet, which I'm heading towards, well maybe 70%) and most compassionate diet you can get. I have a big love of films, so love going to the cinema but also watching old stuff, feel like I missed out on a lot of good cinema being born in the '80s!. Lots of time is spent, when I'm not being sociable or working myslef to the bone, watching films from Lovefilm.
What do I look like? I have longish red and blonde curls, and sadly had to get rid of my dreadlocks nearly a year ago because they went a bit wrong swimming in Center Parcs! I'm quite petite, although many would argue that actually I'm a short-ass, with a bit of a thing for sewing buttons onto things, like shoes, bags and skirts!!
Check me out on The Vegan Society's website! http://www.worldveganday.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.S howItem&g2_itemId=40

My Interests

Films, books, writing, yoga, swimming (when I can be bothered), Steve, cycling, animal rights, veganism, drinking, eating out and cooking random things, gigs, dj-ing, music, clubbing, chatting non-stop, redesigning/making clothes, photography, art, travelling

I'd like to meet:

I did have a load of people typed here, but I decided to get rid of it. I don't know if I'm really the sort of person that 'wants to meet famous people because I like their music/films etc'. I mean in a journalistic way, there's tons of people I'd love to interview, every person has their story, even the boring old woman across the road kind thing. If the heading means 'who I'd like to meet on here' (it's a bit ambiguous), then I guess just people with the same interests, who actually wanna talk and not just add me to look like they have lots of friends. If you're gonna add me, have something to say, or what's the point! I mainly use myspace to keep in touch with friends though, and has been quite useful hearing bands I haven't heard of before. Rant rant rant lol :-)

Music:

Fabric Live, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, The Cure, Joy Division, Felix Da Housecat, Miss Kittin, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Faint, Bauhaus, Bjork, AFI, Converge, xCanaanx, Outbreak, Eden Maine, Medulla Nocte, The Legacy, Slayer, System of a Down, Boy Sets Fire, Earthtone 9, Garbage, Suede, Daft Punk, Prodigy, The Flaming Lips, Faithless, Goldfrapp, The Postal Service, Figurine, Hunter Gatherer, Massive Attack, Sigur Ros, Johnny Cash, Portishead, Fisherspooner, LCD Soundsystem, Mylo, Moby, Modest Mouse, The Pixies, Adam and the Ants, Marilyn Manson, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Pulp, The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack ;-), old school stuff from early '90s (ie. when I was in school - I believe you can't just stop liking something because you grew up) ~ Quite a mixture then ;) I'd say at the moment my main genres are electro and old bands like Joy Division that I find really hard to categorise!

Movies:

I'm a bit of a movie buff :) But here are my favourites: Sin City, The Assasination of Richard Nixon, The Shining, Natural Born Killers, American Beauty, Cape Fear, Taxi Driver, The Count of Monte Cristo, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivry Service, Belleville Rendevous, Seven, Akira, The Last Samurai, Amelie, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle, In the Mood for Love, Scarface, many Hitchcock films (favourites are The Birds, North by Northwest, Strangers On A Train), Nightmare Before Christmas, Asian films like Audition and Dark Water etc, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Lord of the Rings trilogy, L.A. Confidential, Un Chien Andalou, Lost Highway, High Fidelity, Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, The Cube, 12 Angry Men, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pirates of the Carribean, House of Flying Daggers I love going through Top 1000 Films books/sites and discovering films I haven't seen or heard of before..

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, Lost, Planet Earth, I'm not really a TV fan, and the stuff I normally would wanna watch tends to be on at stupid times like 3am

Books:

Most Stephen King novels (especially Insomnia), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time, The Big Over Easy, Tales from Earthsea quartet, classics like The Count of Monte Cristo, Day of the Triffids etc, non-fiction ie. alternative therapies, conspiracy theories, different religions, self-help, animal rights, films, etc, comics, but mostly text books for uni during term time, damn them

Heroes:

You can't rely on anyone but yourself :) Try and be your own hero. If a person has qualities you aspire to, or have done something you see as heroic, go ahead and do it yourself, it will feel amazing!

My Blog

Check me out on the news!

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Posted by * Alexia * on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:13:00 PST

No mobile for the next five weeks!

Well it's finally here and I'm off to sunny Virginia to work for five weeks! I'm not taking my mobile coz it'll cost me and you a bomb if texts and phone calls start going back and forth.. But feel fr...
Posted by * Alexia * on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:05:00 PST

LOOKING FOR UK STUDENT ANIMAL RIGHTS/VEGGIE GROUPS!

Hello!If anyone belongs to, runs or knows of any student (be it university, college or school) animal rights or veggie groups can you please get in touch?I set up Students Against Animal Cruelty at So...
Posted by * Alexia * on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:28:00 PST

Sad

I left Southampton Saturday, and I have to say I am still sooo sad.. To all those I have 'left behind', we will never lose touch, I love you all. I have made so many wonderful friends at uni, and alth...
Posted by * Alexia * on Tue, 29 May 2007 04:32:00 PST

Quotes that sum me up and inpire me

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaimi...
Posted by * Alexia * on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:00:00 PST

Lanzarote!

Well the time has come, and I'm off to Lanzarote on Thursday for five days! I feel very lucky to have been given this opportunity, as it is a press trip and well.. frankly, free!  It's a yoga ret...
Posted by * Alexia * on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:11:00 PST

Gigs! Gigs! Gigs!

Got a great line-up of gigs comin up over the next few months, bout bloody time too! Soooo we have the amazing Massive Attack in Brixton on Feb 8th - have wanted to see them since the first time I lis...
Posted by * Alexia * on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:10:00 PST

Goodbye Southend, Hello Southampton!

I'm back in Southampton now and start back at uni properly Monday, eeek! God only knows how I'm gonna keep up with all my outside uni work and inside uni work but I'm gonna give it a damn good try! Bo...
Posted by * Alexia * on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:39:00 PST

Japan!!!

Well it's finally arrived, after a year of waiting - we're off to Japan tomorrow! I really can't wait, although am a little worried about storms. My  cards told me there'd be storms, we checked o...
Posted by * Alexia * on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:10:00 PST

Goodbye dreads :(

I have bad news for anyone that loved my dreads as much as I did.. They have to go  For a time now they have been slowly messing up and getting big bumps in that I have no way of getting rid of, ...
Posted by * Alexia * on Sat, 27 May 2006 07:58:00 PST