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Ang

Blondie?!

About Me

Hello. I co-run a pretty unique and ace alternative boutique in Newport, South Wales, called Starling Vendetta. I also run my own goth/cyber clubwear label called Tarantella. My business partner Flick runs Glitter & Trauma handmade accessories. You can look at all this in the links below......Aside from that little lot, I like music, especially if it involves loud guitars and death metal growls, or classical instruments, or is Placebo. I like wearing black. I don't like wearing colours.I also like hills and mountains and moorland, I read 'geeky' hillwalking magazines and bore everyone shitless with my tales of moors and skies and how much I like looking at maps. Most Sundays I can be found sitting on top of a hill not wanting to go back to Newport. I take pictures now and then but since I managed to reuse the same film twice most of them have come out like this:Finally, I am from Yorkshire and being fiercely proud of this probably only fuels the mockery I get for my (now pathetically soft) accent and love of the Yorkshire Tea tea box.

And just so's you know... If I don't know you, I won't add you unless you introduce yourself first.

My Interests

Music of various guitar-based types... I play the flute in a band called Dressup! too. Alternative fashion & design & arts. Yorkshire Dales, Brecon Beacons, Cadair Idris... etc :) Maps, geeky walking magazines, my walking boots.

I'd like to meet:

Amelie. Simon from Trail. Mr Rochester. Especially the one from the BBC.

Music:

Placebo, A Perfect Circle, Opeth, Cult of Luna, Skunk Anansie, Nine Inch Nails, Mozart, Ludovico Einaudi, Elgar, Wagner, Underworld soundtrack and anything involving Maynard!, Tool, Muse, Amelie soundtrack, old school Verve, Hole, Jane's Addiction, Deftones, Pantera, Queen Adreena, King Adora, Isis, Radiohead, Apocalyptica, Paradise Lost, Arch Enemy, Sigur Ros, The October Country, Obsidian, That Hideous Strength, The Cure, Jeff Buckley, Metallica, Youngblood Brass Band, Screaming Banshee Aircrew, Kidneythieves, Skinflick, Apoptygma Berzerk, Acid Tongue, Bauhaus, Danny Elfman, Ghost of Lemora, Goteki, Psyche, KMFDM, Type O, Razorblade Kisses, The Smiths, on & on it goes...

Movies:

Amelie!!! Delicatessen & the rest of the Jean-Pierre Jeunet collection. Velvet Goldmine. Boys Don't Cry. Pride & Prejudice, Harry Potter 3&4, Dracula, American History X, Addams Family, Nightmare before Xmas, the usual TimBurtonness. Interview with the Vampire, Rocky Horror.... you get the picture.

Television:

Charlie & Lola. Time Team. Planet Earth. Jane Eyre. And the occasional Emmerdale.

Books:

Middlesex, I Am Legend, Northern Lights (next two on their way!), High Fidelity, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Frankenstein, Pride & Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Tipping the Velvet, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Northanger Abbey & more Jane Austen!... A bunch of academic stuff like Inside Subculture... Can't forget Eats, Shoots & Leaves... And yes, I love Harry Potter, OK.

Heroes:

Amelie.