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lindsay j. haynes

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About Me

i'm lindsay. i'm from bristol, we've got a river.
i'm pretty sure i started the trend of saying "blatantly" when i was twelve, but i'm not sure i should claim it because all the people who over-use that word now are prats, most of whom don't even really know what it means.
i only listen to good music. i don't especially care if you agree with me about it.
i really like drawing. i want to be an illustrator. i like the packaging on japanese candy (i like the candy too), children's books from the 60s and 70s, and most cartoons involving anthropomorphised food products. i collect vinyl art toys, and badges. i really like dada but i'm not very dadaist. i actually find a lot of it quite aesthetically pleasing, which i know isn't the point.
i like defending 'controversial' (usually conceptual) art and watching people get pissed off about it. i kind of like the london 2012 olympics logo (even if it's sort of "nu rave"-looking). it's a bit like piero manzoni shitting in tin cans: i love hearing outraged people say "i could have done that" when someone gets paid millions for a simple idea.
i don't think i'm a grown up yet. i do read newspapers but i also watch spongebob squarepants. i eat like a five-year-old.
i'm a vegetarian. i wish someone would invent veggie hot dogs that taste good. hot dogs are the only meat i miss, which is gross because i know they are just tubes of assorted pig bits like lips and eyes. i'm not vegetarian for ethical reasons/'pigs are cute' reasons (even though they are!). it's not the taste really either, i just think the concept of ingesting flesh is not appealing. i avoid milk too when possible. it's got pus in it!
i'm quite good with computers. i can do some design wizardry with the adobe creative suite, but at the same time i think it would be cool if i could just pack it all in and become some sort of neo-luddite.
i'm trying more and more to be an honest and straightforward person. but i also don't really care if people think i'm an arty prat, either.

My Interests

neo-absurdism

I'd like to meet:

riff raff.

Music:

the smiths, bob dylan, squeeze, david bowie, neutral milk hotel, iron and wine, guided by voices, patrick wolf, broadcast, low, blur, sigur ros, the wedding present, eisley, the beatles, midlake, grizzly bear, silver jews, wilco, elliott smith, the arcade fire, joanna newsom, tv on the radio, the cure, the police, nico, the zombies

Movies:

everything that involves wes anderson, the devil and daniel johnston, the squid and the whale, to kill a mockingbird, yojimbo, seven samurai, spirited away, my neighbour totoro, thumbsucker, ghost world

Television:

arrested development, the west wing, bob l'eponge. NOT QVC.

Books:

a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, the fortress of solitude, norwegian wood, the bell jar, franny and zooey, the wrong boy, our band could be your life, the virgin suicides, sex drugs and cocoa puffs, you shall know our velocity, vitamin d

Heroes:

kurt schwitters, tristan tzara, wes anderson, toshiro mifune, david shrigley, atticus finch, harriet the spy