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Catriona

Timing isn't a strongpoint

About Me

Fascinated by people ... love to hear their stories, ideas, hopes and aspirations, plotting and planning, answers to solutions, what-could-have-beens.... Also try to never take for granted the fact I can see, hear and touch what’s going on in this thing we label a life. Am a journalist and chose local news for more than a decade as loved its richness as much as its blandness. Have been moved and touched by so many stories. Sometimes my work helped bring about change for the better, sometimes it rocked establishments. There were moments of pure comedy too and loved having so much contact with so many bizarre and wonderful characters. But it’s good to change. Now looking to photography. Using words and pictures hope to give a voice to the unheard, shine a light in places of darkness and document the ordinary as well as the extraordinary. Like to dabble with art and paint, draw and doodle. Also love to write. But, what I love most is living and experiencing the here and now... hot layouts | socomments.com

My Interests

Life and the people and experiences that make it happen. Feeling free, dancing, talking and listening, feeling and seeing .... daydreaming. Cityscapes, walking on the beach barefoot, collecting shells and pebbles, big open spaces, blowing bubbles, picnics. Snowdon. Thunderstorms. Drinking champagne, vodka, chablis or rioja. Passionate about photography and art. Graffiti and its freedom of expression. Vintage Face magazines. Junk shops. Handbags. Shoes. Yoga. The film Paris, Texas. Loved being a kid in the seventies as we played out till dark, had Sesame Street, The Muppets and summers that seemed to go on forever... and ever.... and ever! Loved the eighties for the arrival of House, the nineties for the parties and the noughties? Hmmm ... can't say.... still living 'em!"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now," Goethe.

I'd like to meet:

Looking to network and make new friends with people from all walks of life.

Music:

Love the way music touches you and makes you move. Trance, house, funk, dub, soul, nu-jazz.

Movies:

Paris, Texas; Rumble Fish, The Champ, American Beauty, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, The Wanderers, Blade Runner, Crash, Gladiator, AI, Jungle Book, Dog Day Afternoon, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Goal, Red Rock West, Fargo, Evil Dead, Taxidriver, Streets of Fire, Big Trouble in Little China, Willow, Total Recall.

Books:

Photojournals - old, new kitsch - anything with photographs in.

Heroes:

Nelson Mandela, William Shakespeare, Martin Parr, Damien Hirst and ... Batman."There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living," Nelson Mandela."Photography is all about passion and that's the thing you have to find in your life - expressing that passion." Martin Parr

My Blog

gianni ferrio"la morte risale a ieri sera"1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOk_fbyoLCM Don't make trash movies like they used to......
Posted by Catriona on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:12:00 PST

"Cool"

Is the word "cool" actually cool or is it deemed "cool" by older members of the human race and so in fact isn't? Tricky one this. Only ask as I recently heard myself saying cool a few times in a conve...
Posted by Catriona on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:25:00 PST

Sweet, sweet music

Have been falling in love with music all over again. And the reason? Well, have finally caught onto the iPod thing and bought myself a silver classic which stores about 20,000 songs! The thing has bee...
Posted by Catriona on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:22:00 PST

Home

Just read an article by Alain de Botton and these few words simply blew me away... 'Imagine being able to return at the close of each day to a beautiful home. Our working routines may be fra...
Posted by Catriona on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:05:00 PST

Speaking minds

Problem with celebrities is that they want EVERYTHING. When they decide to speak their minds it tends to end in an uncomfortable - star speaks mind and is dropped by so and so...
Posted by Catriona on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:29:00 PST

Agonisingly funny

Stag doos... hmmm. Enjoying a coffee in the sunshine and watching the world go by on a side street in Liverppol city centre was interupted for a few agonising moments. In fact watching the world go by...
Posted by Catriona on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:50:00 PST

too old for this

You know what’s it’s like... you look in the mirror and apart from a few laughter lines (hehe!!) creeping in you don’t feel any older. But I’m slowly being beaten by the nightm...
Posted by Catriona on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:19:00 PST

Choking on them

Feel ashamed to say I use plastic bags. There I've said it. Yes me, despite recyling and avoiding shops that package even their fresh produce in plastic trays and wrapped in plastic - I...
Posted by Catriona on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:34:00 PST

From on-hold to fast forward

I would give anything for more time.... What little I have is just slipping through my fingers and running away from me. Simply can't keep up. I've been in stages in my life where time dripped by like...
Posted by Catriona on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:26:00 PST

Doorstep shocker

I opened my front door last night to be met by two boys with faces like angels who started singing 'We wish you a Merry Christmas' .... Hmmm, knew they were being cheeky so told them to come back near...
Posted by Catriona on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:19:00 PST