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mariane

as simple as a kettle, steady as a rock

About Me

Bye bye Austin, Hello London!

My Interests

laughing, new ideas, compliments (even if they make me blush), cooking spicy food, eating it, art/design/architecture, mountain biking, cross country + telemark skiing, painting and creating, living in foreign countries, getting my feet rubbed but most of all just being with friends

I'd like to meet:

if you can make me laugh you're in

Music:

muse, sufjan stevens - come feel the illinoise, bellx1, elbow, matt pond pa, the Go team!, mylo, feist, magic numbers, modest mouse, ron sexsmith, kent, kasabian, west indian girl, new order, keane, scissor sisters, doves, the killers, kings of convenience, phoenix, air, turin brakes, the shins, snow patrol;) franz ferdinand,the ravonettes, belle & sebastian, badly drawn boy, flaming lips, radiohead, coldplay, the delgados, the strokes, dirty vegas, groove armada, sigur ros, the stills, the cardigans, kruder & dorfmeister, oh and a-ha, how could I forget...

Movies:

lost in translation, amelie, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, big blue, about a boy, cinema paradiso, il postino, big fish, amores perros, city of god, motorcycle diaries, the big lebowski, fargo, brokeback mountain

Television:

i've given up tv

Books:

popular music from vittula by mikael niemi, perfume by p. suskind, the wasp factory and complicity by ian banks, the eyre affair by j.fforde, hitchhikers guide by d. adams, and white teeth by z.smith, midnight's children by salman rushdie, memoirs of a geisha, a man in full by tom wolf. also LOVE design/architecture books with lots of glossy photos.

Heroes:

the eamses, zaha hadid, castiglioni, arne jacobsen, marcel wanders, tord boontje, jasper morrison, patricia urquiola