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About Me

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My Interests

~i do it for the joy it brings, cos i'm a joyful girl. cos the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world~ ani difranco

I'd like to meet:

Music:

just to name a few.. craig cardiff, carole king, fleetwood mac, counting crows, dave matthews, stevie nicks, hayden, sarah harmer, ani difranco, hawksley workman, air, kings of convenience and the list goes on

Movies:

benny and joon, amelie, lost in translation, royal tennenbaums, igby goes down, life aquatic, virgin suicides, almost famous, meatballs, canadian bacon and the list can go on and on

Television:

the mighty boosh

Books:

i tend to love every book that i read. and i'll more than likely just say that they're all my favourite. i've become addicted to reading in the last few months...here's what i've been filling my head with.. 'the alchemist' paulo coehlo, 'the sun also rises' ernest hemingway, 'white horses' alice hoffman, 'flowers for algernon' daniel keyes, 'tis' frank mccourt, 'on the road' jack kerouac, 'life of pi' yann martel, 'the dreamers' gilbert adair 'asleep' banana yoshimoto 'the prophet' kahlil gibran 'this is the beat generation' james campbell 'the rum diary' hunter s thompson, 'the god of small things' arundhati roy, 'by the river piedra, i sat and wept' by paulo coehlo, 'the accidental' by ali smith, 'the hours' by michael cunningham, 'valley of the dolls' by jacqueline susann, 'on beauty' by zadie smith and i doubt that i'll ever finish 'oryx and crake' by margaret atwood

Heroes:

anyone with a wild and passionate desire to live// those who love hard and heavy

My Blog

because this is our life

it's that time again. that time to feel numb and unsure. and i know from experience that this- more often than not- leads to better things. it leads to writing, reminiscing, longing and th...
Posted by jolene on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:46:00 PST

real love

.i hear this song and think of my baby. All my little plans and schemesLost like some forgotten dreamSeems like all i really was doingWas waiting for youJust like little girls and boysPlaying with the...
Posted by jolene on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:18:00 PST

valley of the dolls- finished

It's 3:30am and i can't sleep. I have finished the book and it left me with a stale taste in my mouth and a sickly feeling in my stomach. My fears are validated by humanity alone. It appears tha...
Posted by jolene on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:36:00 PST

valley of the dolls- jacqueline susann

300 pages in and 167 to go, this book has taken it's toll on me. it's quite human, you know. you know those books that romanticize things like poverty or drugs? it's not o...
Posted by jolene on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:52:00 PST

home

you know that term 'you are what you eat' ?well i've been thinking about places. you are where you're at. changing places changes you. i feel as though i'm a completely different per...
Posted by jolene on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:41:00 PST

ranting..as usual

how often do i cry?often enough.i am such a sap. i can't help it. it doesn't take much to make me cry and i do. the other night, andy told me how it made him angry and upset tha...
Posted by jolene on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:31:00 PST

rumbles and bumbles

it's all in your head, she saidthere's nothing there it's all in your head, she saidthere's nothing there so why do you do this?a rumble's a rumbleand nothing morebut it shouldn't be nothingthere shou...
Posted by jolene on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:08:00 PST

they can shove it up their bums

ok. so i pay 80 pounds a week for rent, right? 80 pounds for a place i hardly sleep at, for a place that's always a fucking mess, for an internet connection that cuts out all the time and ...
Posted by jolene on Tue, 15 May 2007 08:23:00 PST

sometimes i wonder and i wonder sometimes

first of all, thanks jenny for introducing me to a new favourite show. i have fallen in love with The Mighty Boosh. the characters are so loveable and the humour so odd.. makes sense ...
Posted by jolene on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:16:00 PST

i'm sorry heinz

making chicken noodle soup is not your forte. stick to tomato and lentil soups and leave the chicken noodle to campbells
Posted by jolene on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:28:00 PST