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Chloë

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About Me

'These musty old books have a great deal more to say than in any of your... fabulous web pages.'
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My Interests

Music, films, books, archaeology and Egyptology, basses and guitars, Coffee, wine, misanthropy, Vintage hairstyles and makeup, fully fashioned stockings,pencil skirts, old vinyl, macintosh computers, lots of random crap.

I'd like to meet:

The cat's mother.

Music:

The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Beatnik Termites, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band, Beck , Blondie, Blood Red Shoes, Bob Dylan, Catatonia , Cerys Mathews, CocoRosie, Courtney Love, The Cure, David Bowie, Devendra Banhart, The Divine Comedy, Elvis Presley, The Flaming Lips, Flamingo 50, Fugazi, Gackt, George Harrison,Gruff Rhys, Hole, James Iha, Jeff Buckley, Joan Baez, John Jacob Niles King Crimson, The Kinks , L7, Le Tigre, Lou Reed, The Mars Volta, Martha Wainwright, Ms Dynamite, My Latest Novel, My Way My Love, Nirvana, No Doubt, Noël Coward, The Noisettes, Of Montreal, OutKast, Pixies, The Pop Group, Pulp, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Sonic Youth , Space, Spïnal Tap, Suede, Tratchenburg Family Slideshow Players, Travelling Willburys, The Vaselines, Vashti Bunyan, The Velvet Underground, Veruca Salt, Vetiver, We All Have Hooks For Hands, Woody Guthrie, The Zombies, Zombina and the Skeletones.

Movies:

In the Mood for Love , Breakfast at Tiffany's , The life of Brian , Pink panther films, Dr Strangelove, 'once upon a time in china' series , Infernal affairs , Spirited Away , Fist of Fury (indeed anything in Bruce Lee's tragically short career) , Shaolin Soccer , Spring Summer Autumn Winter and Spring , Edward Scissorhands, Some Like it Hot , Hardboiled , Indiana Jones trilogy, Being John Malkovich (or any indie John Cusak stuff, 'grosse point blank' etc) , Spinal Tap , Pirates of the Carribean , The Big Lebowski, Old Ealing comedies such as 'Kind hearts and coronets' and 'The Titfield Thunderbolt', 50's b movies such as 'Attack of the 50ft woman, 'Forbidden Planet' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', Ye olde stuff 'Metropolise' ' the Blue angel', 'Nosferatu', 1950s government public information films,

Television:

Dr Who , time team ,curb your enthusiam , Monty Python , Fawlty Towers , the IT crowd , Black Books , Buffy the vampire Slayer, Father Ted,

Books:

a small selection of dear favourites: unbearable lightness of being, nausea, winnie the pooh, wuthering heights, A room of one's own, 1984, name of the rose, 100 years of solitude, a smattering of poetry here and there (Dickinson , Plath, yevtushekno, ol' will) gilgamesh, daphnis and chloë, and many more I don't have the inclination to remember I've actually read/ or will admit to.

Heroes:

Indiana Jones.

My Blog

Sleep

When you just about get to some vague state of sleep as the light is cracking through your blinds and the birds start their chorus of taunting. The irony of listening to songs such as 'in the arms of ...
Posted by Chloë on Wed, 28 May 2008 05:04:00 PST

’listening to’

That 'listening to' tihng has disappeared from myspace blogs! never mind: I am listening to Pelle Carlberg 'Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls' Which is a gem ...
Posted by Chloë on Mon, 12 May 2008 05:00:00 PST

Happiness

Happiness 1 , book and coffee Happiness 2: Coffee and new lipstick. Sometimes it's the simple things you have to take pleasure in. I've been in an odd mood the last few weeks. Today was a good odd moo...
Posted by Chloë on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:08:00 PST

Does music make us miserable gits?

Facebook angst-fest notes have now been moved here thanks to my Dad being on facebook ...I’ve been browsing the intarwbez (never wiki your ailments, I may now have to add ’mild hypochondri...
Posted by Chloë on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:44:00 PST

Up to a brownstone , up three flights of stairs

I had the weirdest dream :I was in some horror movie hotel/medical institution with a really rather sexy bloke (the kind who are like an amalgamation of every hot guy ever and thus cannot exist in the...
Posted by Chloë on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:47:00 PST

family gatherings checklist

I love my family but sometimes they drive me insane, here I have prepared a friendly checklist in retrospect of the day:Too much food (usually involving copious amounts of barm cakes for some reason, ...
Posted by Chloë on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:31:00 PST

Geek deaths x 2

Geek death no 1 Some guy who created dungeons and dragons died. I've never played a pen and paper rpg in my life (which means I can claw back ohh half a cool point) but one of my RPGer mates has a hu...
Posted by Chloë on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:03:00 PST

apparently I'm lost

                                    What Type of Person Are You? ...
Posted by Chloë on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:43:00 PST

I spent the winter on the verge of a nervous breakdown

But not in norway.If anyone has been bored enough to read through my past blogs there may have been alsight hint of the unravelling of my mind. (and when i am depressed , I write , my mind doenst stop...
Posted by Chloë on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:58:00 PST

the day i stop being curious & wanting to learn and to discover is the day I might as well die

aka the never stopping mind of a wierdo infp type.I'm in one of my ever present reflective moods. The ones I love and hate with equal measure.I am so glad I have Jackie as a freind , I'll never forget...
Posted by Chloë on Thu, 31 May 2007 05:12:00 PST