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About Me

Jessica Burgess.
Actress and housewife.
I enjoy baking and dancing the jitterbug.
I talk to myself. A lot. Often on public transport.
'Oh England, my Lionheart!'

I'm obsessed with the 1940's.
I wear lots of lipstick and pearls.
I work at Charlotte boutique on Crouch St.
L O V E floral blouses & cardigans, old dusty books, letters, sherry, tweed, Penhaligon's fine English scents, cream cakes, seamed stockings, matte red lipstick, powder compacts, old erotica (1900s-1950s), ribbons & bows, Portobello Rd, cobblestones in stiletto heels, Earl Grey tea in little china tea cups, lampposts, Andrew Watson, Laura Ashley homeware, Wind & the Willows style Autumn picnics with tartan rugs and ginger beer, hairpins, embroidery, rose scented baths, churches & castles, walking in the English countryside, Joyce Grenfell, the colour peach, real fur, four-poster beds, pinafores, libraries, H.Gunton's.


My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Theatre-goers and members of the aristocracy



Music:

Songs of WWII and from musicals of the 1940s, in particular Judy Garland and Vera Lynn.
Kate Bush
Bjork
Bat for Lashes
Ella Fitzgerald
A Hawk & A Hacksaw
Joanna Newsom
The White Stripes
1950's rock & roll
Brass bands, harps and harpsichords.

Movies:

Calamity Jane
Pin Up Girl
Judy Garland films, in particular Easter Parade and For Me and My Gal.
Rogers & Hammerstein musicals
Ghost World
Anything by Mike Leigh, Shane Meadows or Steven Poliakoff.

Books:

The Bronte sisters
Sylvia Plath
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
John Betjeman
Beatrix Potter
'How to be a Domestic Goddess' by Nigella Lawson

Heroes:


Theatre Shakespeare's tragedies
Lorca
Eugene Ionesco
Samuel Beckett
Martin Crimp
Alan Bennett
'Blackbird' by David Harrower
Tennessee Williams
Fashion Alexander McQueen
(Karl Lagerfeld for) Chanel couture
Christian Louboutin
Lulu Guinness
Biba
Ralph Lauren Menswear

My Blog

Miss Valentines top 10 tips for picture perfect prettiness

Always wear dresses and skirts. Never wear jeans, unless they're super high waisted and worn with stilettos and a frilly blouse. Jeans were originally designed as hardwearing work-wear for builders. ...
Posted by Showtime Valentine on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:14:00 PST

The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom ...
Posted by Showtime Valentine on Sun, 13 May 2007 10:35:00 PST

Practically Perfect in Every Way

Yesterday, a little boy saw me in the street and said, "Look mummy, it's Mary Poppins!"I think this is possibly the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me....
Posted by Showtime Valentine on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:22:00 PST

Just William

I went to college dressed as a war-time school boy.Everyone called me William and I did an apple-based improvisation on the concourse.Maybe one day I will get a grip on reality....
Posted by Showtime Valentine on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:58:00 PST

Quotes by Cordle

"All the film stars in the 1920s were lesbians and they all fucked each other" "Jess,  I don't know what i hate more, men or lesbians... I suppose that's why I'm single" "You know that ...
Posted by Showtime Valentine on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:31:00 PST