Violet

About Me

Hello, my pseudonym is violetforthemoment. I have signed up to MySpace so I can comment on pages here. I blog here and barely have enough interesting things go on in my brain to maintain that so there'll be no blogging here. Go here . (Anyone who knows me Proper, by the way, I want to keep my real name and too much info that could identify me out of online-type-things, given that I sometimes talk about my job on the blog ...)

My Interests

Tea, books, crime, whiskey, glitter, Liverpool FC, ancient China, programmes about carnivores, guitar solos, board games, dim sum, sleeping, compilation tapes, anthropomorphic personifications, reading scripts...

I'd like to meet:

Bill Shankly, Erwin James, Sarah Kane, Tim Roth, Howard Devoto

Music:

Associates, Jeff Beck, Bloc Party, John Cale, Camera Obscura, The Cardigans, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Detroit Cobras, Ian Dury, Guns 'n' Roses, PJ Harvey, Richard Hell, Jimi Hendrix, Howlin' Wolf, Josef K, Joy Division, June Brides,BB King, Magazine, Manic Street Preachers, New Order, The Organ, Iggy Pop, Public Enemy, Rolling Stones, Saint Etienne, Sex Pistols, Dmitry Shostakovich, early Simple Minds, The Skids, The Smiths, Stone Roses, Suede, Television, X-Ray Spex

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, The Big Sleep, Blade Runner, Brick, Carlito's Way, Casblanca, Coffee & Cigarettes, The Devil's Backbone, Dogma, Dogville, Dr Strangelove, Empire Strikes Back, Fight Club, Goodfellas, Heathers, If..., La Haine, Life Of Brian, The Maltese Falcon, Oldboy, Secretary, Taxi Driver, Twin Town, The Virgin Suicides, Withnail & I

Television:

American Gothic, Blackadder, Brass Eye, Buffy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Green Wing, House, House Of Cards, I Claudius, John Barnes' Football Night, Red Dwarf, Teachers, The Thick Of It, Twin Peaks, The Wire, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, The Young Ones

Books:

Aeschylus - Oresteia trilogy, Calvin & Hobbes, Dostoevsky (Poor Folk, The Devils, Crime and Punishment), Jeffrey Eugenides (Virgin Suicides, Middlesex), Neil Gaiman (partic. Sandman comics, American Gods), Graham Greene, Sarah Kane, Steve Mc Manaman - El Macca, Yukio Mishima (The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, Spring Snow), Haruki Murakami (esp. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, South of the Border West of the Sun), George Orwell, Terry Pratchett (I like the Vimes stories), Kevin Sampson - Awaydays, Alan Sillitoe (esp. Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner), Tolkien, Robert Tressell - Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun, Martyn Waites - Born Under Punches, James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia, Tennessee Williams (particuarly Something Cloudy Something Clear), whoever wrote Look Back In Anger...