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miss dooey

i search for the beat in this dirty town.

About Me

geeky. awkward. bad clothes. good humour. men with beards. paperback books. starbucks coffee. dancing like an idiot. holding hands. making faces. fringes. writing my novel. loud music. quiet pubs. gin and tonic. old lady handbags. peep show. neckerchiefs. proper kisses. checked shirts. tatty notebooks. crystal maze shellsuits. laughing like a dirty old woman. talking to strangers. apologising for the drunken-ness of my friends. the banter. dresses. flat shoes. people you don't know smiling at you. good manners. big hair. lots of cups of tea. falling in love with strangers in the street every day. obsessed with people who look like eccentric lecturers.

My Interests

books, cowboys, vintage shops, hairiness, laughing, banter, skirts, cheap boots, randomness, photography, boys in bands.

I'd like to meet:

people who say what they mean. people with ideas. people who love and/or hate. people who look scandinavian. people who are able to listen to the complicated speech of 'banter as a way of life' from a drunken big baps ferry at 4am. people who look like eccentric lecturers.

Music:

currently obsessing over: june carter and johnny cash, slow club, maximo park, the killers, ELO, danger high voltage by electric six.

Movies:

trainspotting, the wedding crashers, festival, young adam, some like it hot, the motorcycle diaries, the good girl, the truth about cats and dogs, the departed, the break-up, me and you and everyone we know, control, stranger than fiction, the graduate.

Television:

peepshow. hollyoaks. trashy documentaries (especially those involving the obese). the crystal maze. the smoking room. csi. house. come dine with me. the high life. qi. frasier. diagnosis murder.

Books:

pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility, trainspotting, plainsong, goodbye to berlin, hey nostradamus!, mansfield park, burmese days, the catcher in the rye, how i paid for college, 1984, persuasion, northanger abbey, survivor, the incredible lightness of being, the history of love.

Heroes:

george orwell, justin schlosberg, oscar wilde, christopher isherwood, jane austen, richard o'brien, superhans, jeff koons, brandon flowers, sondre lerche, miranda july, stephen fry, johnny cash, june carter cash, john mackay.

My Blog

smog.

It floats above us, clinging to the air - heavy and thick. We move tentatively, unsure how to manoeuvre around what looms over us. Eyes meet, transmitting silent signals, testing to see if we should...
Posted by miss dooey on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:28:00 PST

pretty vacant.

I obsess about the lost, about the depth of emotional vacancy found in so much twentieth century literature. And lying here in bed with him I realise it has seeped into me, that I am empty and void to...
Posted by miss dooey on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:43:00 PST

never again.

As I try to concentrate I become distracted by everything. Any action anyone or anything makes is amplified by the frustration I feel in my lack of uptake of knowledge. The air conditioning whir...
Posted by miss dooey on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:34:00 PST

i find it hard to pick up the pen.

I step onto the black springy foam of the mat in front of the entrance.  The doors do not open, my presence goes unnoticed.  I stand still for a moment to see if it takes time to register my...
Posted by miss dooey on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:06:00 PST

power

I apologise firstly for being rubbish at reading everyone elses work and I am just about to read ALL of them and comment to prove I am pro-active.  I don't have any sort of political inclinations...
Posted by miss dooey on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:30:00 PST

static.

Ooooh my very first blog, how exciting!  For the creative writing class I have written a piece about a character who has lost their memory.  This is a VERY rough draft and I am not too pleas...
Posted by miss dooey on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:30:00 PST