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About Me

I'm Lisa, sometimes masquerading under the name livmachine. I was conceived in a prefab in Frenchay, I'm glad that post-war housing played a part in helping my parents make me. My first business enterprise was making Union Jack flags for the Queen's Silver Jubilee, I made about 15p. This was also my last business enterprise. When I was 15 years old I was an extra in a BBC drama called Fighting Back, but never made it to screen to my relief. I appeared in low budget video nasty The Vacuum Cleaner (made by my brother and his mates), I played the landlady and had the life sucked out of me by the evil aforementioned vacuum cleaner. I always wanted to be a graphic designer and studied at Salisbury College of Art. I toyed with the idea of being in a band in the 90s, then I realised that the Chris Lowe to my Neil Tennant really did expect me to write the songs, the music and play all the instruments. I once showed some of my lyrics to a bloke who vaguely knew Massive Attack or Portishead, I can't remember now. After a while in the design game I gravitated towards the world of publishing where I still reside.
Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothing Going On But The Rent

My Interests

Listening to music; going to gigs; painting and drawing; spending way too much time on the internet; going to the gym; writing; a jolly good night out; making up nonsense (see future blogs and the occasional post on my favourite forums)
Things I Love Laughing until I cry
My MacBook
Talking nonsense
Having a good old debate
Dogs and cats
Dreaming (day and night)
Croissants
Krispy Kreme donuts
Flapjacks
Milkshakes
Spontaneous nights out
Blue skies
Being positive about life
Ladies and gentlemen
Saying I can like rude things because it's 'artistic'
People who have the same sense of humour as me
Hair straighteners
Sitting in the sun and just thinking
Things I Hate Prejudice
Cyclists who ignore traffic lights
Bullies
Lack of good manners
Negativity
My hair going wonky
People not listening
Checking the All About Soap crossword
Sprouts
The kind of bloke that's in the WKD adverts, embodies everything I dislike in a man.

I'd like to meet:

Lots of gorgeous people with brains and a sense of humour!

Girls Aloud, especially Kimberley Walsh for 'some reason'. I think she's picking up my psychic message here

Olivia Newton-John - shut it, she's a goddess!

Oh and Jason Orange, his hair is lovely

Something I Made Earlier

Music:

Girls Aloud; Pet Shop Boys; Dusty Springfield

60s girlpop; Olivia Newton-John; The Smiths; Morrissey; Propaganda; Saint Etienne; ABBA; Amy Winehouse; Kylie; The Pipettes; Scissor Sisters; Take That; Sophie Ellis-Bextor; Chungking; Dragonette; New Young Pony Club

Movies:

Pedro Almodovar; Angelina Jolie films; James Bond; Grease; Xanadu; Hairspray; Victor Victoria; Carry Ons

Television:

Life On Mars; Golden Girls; The Avengers

Deal Or No Deal (!); The Persuaders; Department S; Jason King; Maid Marian and her Merry Men; The Friday Night Project; Kath and Kim

Books:

Douglas Coupland; D H Lawrence; Lisa Jewell; Jenny Crusie; Sebastian Faulks; Armistead Maupin; popular psychology

My Blog

What it feels like for a girl

Reading the excellent 'Psychologies' magazine this week, I read the article on Susan Sarandon, a great example of success, talent and sexiness. 'Psychologies' always features a famous woman who posses...
Posted by livmachine on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:53:00 PST

The Kimberley Diaries Part 2 ON TOUR

After overwhelming response from the first exclusive extract of 'The Kimberley Diaries', we've decided to ignore it and publish the second extract anyway. DISCLAIMER: Our lawyers are yet to confirm th...
Posted by livmachine on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:51:00 PST

The Kimberley Diaries

From the publishers of 'Calm Your Inner Gerbil Taking Your Inner Peace By A Lead', a new explosive exposé of life in a girl group from the perspective of someone right at the centre of the action. R...
Posted by livmachine on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:53:00 PST

So much bloody stuff!!!

I'm taking a break from packing. I'm moving tomorrow after months and months of trying to sort out where the hell I was going to live. Now the folks have allowed back into the family home, and did a n...
Posted by livmachine on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:35:00 PST

Let it shiiiiiiiiine, let it shine - Ashton Court Festival

The first Ashton Court Community Festival (as it was called back in the 1980s) I went to was when I was about 16, my dad wanted to have a look around so the whole family went up, the only bits I remem...
Posted by livmachine on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:37:00 PST

I love this, it's inspiring...

This was in an Apple ad years ago, I don't know who wrote it but I think it's really inspirational.Here's to the crazy onesHere's to the crazy ones.The misfits.The rebels.The troublemakers.The round p...
Posted by livmachine on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:35:00 PST

Calm Your Inner Rabid Gerbil

A few months ago, I dreamt I was walking somewhere barren, a desert I suppose, and for some reason I had a rabid gerbil on a lead, it was foaming at the mouth and looked like an illustration rather th...
Posted by livmachine on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:57:00 PST

Random ramblings in the early hours

As the title suggests this is probably a load of old man's wrinkly bollocks, but it's 3.14am and I'm not quite ready for my bed yet. I just got back from a really good night out at Lipstick On Your Co...
Posted by livmachine on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:28:00 PST

Big Ass Isle Of Wight Festival Blog

So, apart from the Ashton Court Festival, I had only been to one festival in my life and that was Glastonbury in 1995, where my abiding memories were of the bloke I went with eating Crunch Creams whil...
Posted by livmachine on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:04:00 PST

Aw, all about my first love...

I've been thinking about the awesome times I've had lately, and it's all connected with the one thing that I have loved since I can remember. In work the other day, a friend said she didn't understand...
Posted by livmachine on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:51:00 PST