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cassandra

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About Me

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Myspace LayoutsBorn in London - live in Melbourne - spent quite a few years travelling overseas - Europe, America, UK - settled in London for four years - came back to Melbourne five years ago and have JUST completed my Honours in Cinema Studies last year... Polymorphous Perversity in David Cronenberg's CRASH.

Dying to start travelling again. Loved my 4 week holiday to London and The Big Apple. Very much looking forward to my next trip through South-East Asia, The States, Europe, Greece and the UK.

I am a vegan and quite spiritual. Love people, animals, film and music.

My Interests

MUSIC, FILM, Theatre, People, Animals, The Beach, Travelling, Walking, Banditing, Kissing, Drinking, The Sun, Water, The Paranormal, The Supernatural, Beauty, Dreaming, Fewelishness...

I'd like to meet:

River Phoenix.. Robert Mitchum, a young and dashing Omar Sharif, Bret McKenzie. River and Willow....

Vegans and Vegetarians, cool people, people with passion....

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Music:

Waaaay too many to mention, but here are a few....... Weezer, Radiohead, Powderfinger, Nick Drake, Gillian Welch, Dan and Rob, The Blackeyed Susans, Gotye, Gnarls Barkley, Jeff Buckley, Ennio Morricone, The Devastations, David Bowie, At the Drive In, Rage Against The Machine, Van She, Cut Copy, Morrissey, The Smiths, Ben Harper, Travis, Tosca Tango Orchestra, Seafood, Eskimo Joe, Blur, The Doves, Spoon, Pollyanna, George, Ben Folds Five, Stevie Wonder, Elbow, Augie March, Gersey, Chicago, Air Supply, Jet, The Cat Empire, Glen Cambell, Skunk Anansie, The Spoils, Jen Cloher, Rail, Blackeyed Peas, Garbage, Grandaddy, Foo Fighters, Nat King Cole, Counting Crows, Live, John Denver, TV on the Radio, Snow Patrol, The Shins, Hefner, Ed Harcourt, Phantom Planet, Tom McRae, Katherine Williams,The Dears, Hefner, Rufus Wainwright, The Ennio Morricone Experience, Baxter Dury, Tindersticks, Damien Rice, Elvis Costello, Elton John, Bambi Lee Savage, Trunk, Basement Jax, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Gershwin Bros., Something For Kate, Paul Dempsey, Modest Mouse, Harry Connick Junior, Magic Dirt, Unkle, You Am I, Queens of the Stoneage, Chris Isaak, Ennio Morricone... Singer/Songwriters, Indie, Classical, Hard-Rock, Scores for movie soundtracks.... Musicals - Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound of Music, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Moulon Rouge...

Movies:

Waaaaaaaaaaaaay waaaaaaaaaaaaay waaaaaaaaay too many to mention....................................... a few... LOVE Film Noir. Admire directors, such as Spike Lee, Michael Mann, David Lean, Peter Jackson, Michael Winterbottom, Richard Linklater, Luis Bunuel, Baz Luhrmann, Wong Kar Wai, Terrence Mallick, Ang Lee, Billy Wilder, Mel Brooks, Jacques Tati, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Spike Jonze, Sergio Leonie, Danny Boyle, Roman Polanski. A few favourite films include: The Goonies, Willow, Once Upon A Time in America, Donnie Darko, Lost Highway, A Short Film About Love, The White Masai, She's the Man, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Stand By Me, Mullholland Drive, Un Chien Andalou, The Apartment, L'Age d'Or, Blood of a Poet, The Thin Red Line, Lawrence of Arabia, Greece, Fiddler on the Roof, Hair, Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, Repulsion, Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Sound of Music, Touch, Donnie Darko, Waking Life, In the Mood for Love, The Way We Were, Splendor in the Grass, Out of the Past, The Misfits, The Searchers, Running on Empty, Annie, South Pacific, The Lion King, Chicago, The Witches of Eastwick, Sex, Lies and Videotape,The Omen, Dream A Little Dream, Pot Luck, Evil Dead, I love you to death, A Fish Called Wanda, Dead Again, American History X, The Hunger, National Lampoons European Vacation, Envy, The Black Stallion, Punch Drunk Love, Adaptation, Being John Malcovich, Aladdin, Fantasia, The Neverending Story, Pricilla Queen of the Desert, Moulon Rouge, Romeo and Juliet, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Tin Drum, Sophie's Choice, Night of the Hunter, Shallow Grave, 28 Days Later, Mystic River, The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, See No Evil, Here No Evil, Xanadu, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy, Superman Trilogy, Indianna Jones and the Temple of Doom, Shindler's List, Singing in the Rain, The Ring, Far From Heaven, ET, Purple Rose of Cairo, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Back to the Future I & II, Paris, Texas, Raising Victor Vargas, Amelie, Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Man with Two Brains, From Dusk 'til Dawn, Pulp Fiction, Footloose, Stealing Beauty, Heavenly Creatures, Lost Boys, Fright Night, Interview with the Vampire, This Year's Love, There's Something About Mary, Amores Peros, Edward Scissorhands, Benny and Joon, Traffic, Magnolia, Finding Neverland, The Dead Zone, Shaun of the Dead, The Mosquito Coast, Festen, Dancer in the Dark, The Deer Hunter, Midnight Cowboy, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Trouble Every Day, Night of the Creeps, Dead Ringers, Videodrome, My Beautiful Laundrette, Brick, 2:37, Some Like it Hot, Control, Mr Goodbar, As it is in Heaven...

Television:

Seinfeld, King of the Hill, The Office, Extras, The Apprentice, Survivor, Funniest Home Videos, Monkey Magic, 21 Jump Street, Press Gang, The Soup, Spooks, The Chapelle Show, Carnivale, Twin Peaks, The Late Show, D-Generation, Kath and Kim, Days of Our Lives, Simpsons, Extras, RAGE....

Books:

I know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb; Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks; Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks; The Girl at the Lion d'Or - Sebastian Faulks; Enduring Love - Ian McEwan; The Slave - Isaac Bashevis Singer; The Prophet - Kahil Gibran; Simon and The Oakes - Marianne Fredriksson; Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy; The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass; The LAst Kabbalist of Lisbon - Richard Zimler; A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens; Conversations with God (1,2 & 3) - Neale Donald Walsch; Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky; Harry Potter books - JK Rowling; The Outsider/Stranger - Albert Camus; The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad; The Devils/Possessed - Fydor Dostoyevsky; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - David Eggers; Billy Buss, Sailor - Herman Melville; Captain Correlli's Mandolin - Louis de Benieres; The Reader - Bernhard Schlink; The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho; The beach - Alex Garland; Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell; The Catcher in The Rye - JD Salinger; Anything by Shakespear.....

Heroes:

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

"The Great Dictator", Charlie Chaplin

My Blog

The Australian Music Prize 2007

Howdy y'all,Just dropping by to let you know about The AMP 2007.Each year an Australian music artist (or group of artists) will be awarded, courtesy of PPCA, a cash prize of $25,000.00 in recognition ...
Posted by cassandra on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:13:00 PST

WORLD VEGAN DAY

Sunday October 28th Phoenix Community ReserveEast Malvern, MelbourneWho's up for it? Check the link below:http://www.wvd.org.au/html/2007/~ Cass xx
Posted by cassandra on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:08:00 PST

MMF

So... I'm a little sad to be back in Melbourne after a wonderful month in London and New York City... however... I am pretty damn excited about the line-up for MMF thus far!! Check it and Bring it:Her...
Posted by cassandra on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:43:00 PST

Cassandra is going to Meredith

.... Cassandra is just a little excited.Yes. Yes.Check it: http://www.mmf.com.au/Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! !!!
Posted by cassandra on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:17:00 PST

Phone is Broke

Just a shout out to y'all fewels that this fewel's phone is broke.So if I ain't replyin' to none of y'all messages, it's not because I don't like y'all or nuttin'.You know it.Word.Fewel from the Queen...
Posted by cassandra on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:29:00 PST

people

i am sick of them.i am sick of me.
Posted by cassandra on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:13:00 PST

Visual DNA

http://dna.imagini.net/friends
Posted by cassandra on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:44:00 PST

Addicted...

Facebook.That's all I have to say.Facebook.
Posted by cassandra on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:58:00 PST

I am going to be an AUNTIE!

... well, kinda ...
Posted by cassandra on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:45:00 PST

DRUNK

Drunk Monk... Sooo drunk... Like a skunk even.. Drunk.ATTRACTIVE.
Posted by cassandra on Thu, 10 May 2007 05:02:00 PST