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~Mini~

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me


Favourite childhood career choice: Pirate/lion tamer
Favourite drink: Tea, hot or iced. And mojitos
Astrological sign: Aries (Cancer rising, moon in Scorpio)
Sibling status: Only child
Special talent: Doing impressions, languages (two fluently and three plus a bit more), being a punk rock frontgirl
Bragging bit: I got a first on my journalism degree
Here's my blog with published articles heleneaasen.blogspot.com , including work I've done for Channel 4, The Guardian, Bergens Tidende and more.

My Interests

I like animals and music and politics and health and nature and music (so much, in fact, I had to mention it twice) and literature and films and games and friends and art and design, rhetoric and languages and philosophy and just pondering about the world and people in general. I love the outdoors (in small quantities, mind you), good music and idiosyncracies.

I'd like to meet:

non-sleazy, friendly people, fellow culture enthusiasts and other freaks with good intentions

Music:

I like reggae, hip-hop, dancehall, punk, rock, soul, electronic music, funk, classical music, world music (obviously this is somewhat of an umbrella term - like many of the above) but I'm particularly fond of Greek, North-African and Middle-Eastern sounds), pop... anything as long as it has something to say either musically or lyrically... even 80s metal on occasion (!)

Movies:

Favourites include:
The Wicker Man
Citizen Kane
Brokeback Mountain
Spirited Away
Kill Bill 1
Arizona Dream
The Seventh Seal
Underground
All About My Mother
Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me
Jackie Brown
Pulp Fiction
Blade Runner
Rollerball
Fargo
The Shining
American Beauty
It's A Wonderful Life
Casablanca
Dr Strangelove
Taxi Driver
Dog Day Afternoon
Donnie Darko
Bowling For Columbine
2001: A Space Odyssey
Super Size Me
Breakfast Club
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Elf
Lost In Translation
Spinal Tap
Zoolander
The Cable Guy

Television:

Family Guy
Twin Peaks
Pets are People
Sopranos
Seinfeld
BlackAdder
Peep Show
Black's Books
Curb Your Enthusiasm
South Park
Sex & The City
any programme containing competitions and/or animals

Books:

Favourites:
anything by Haruki Murakami
Philip K. Dick
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
almost anything by Erlend Loe
Maybe I Just Wasn't Made For These Times- Brian Wilson autobiography
Trick Baby- Iceberg Slim
anything by Jack Kerouac
Music biographies and music history, film, art. Quite all-encompassing interest in literature, really.

Heroes:


Kelly Johnson from Girlschool
Brian Wilson
Jack Kerouac
Jon Snow from Channel 4 news
Johnny Depp
Angus Young (we share the same birthday and both are guitar-playing, school uniform-wearing little f***ers)
Annie
Peaches
Amy Winehouse
Prince

My Blog

Recipe for happiness

Step one: go to www.youtube.com Step two: get a handkerchief ready Step three: type in "talking cats dogs" Step four: laugh your ass off, and wipe the tears away with the hankie Step five: share with ...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:36:00 PST

Check out this video: Panda-Monium

Posted By:KiLLaH PeZGet this video and more at MySpace.comLook, it's me at work. That's what we pandas do all day. Really!...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:12:00 PST

Second Life

When one of the world's biggest news agencies launch an employee into the depths of cyberspace, and a US government committee is undertaking an investigation of virtual games commerce, is it a sign of...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:16:00 PST

On humans ...

Do scientific research, sci-fi fantasies and late-night birds and motors-programmes mix? Apparently so, as a report commissioned by men's satellite channel Bravo emerged this week, claiming the human ...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:29:00 PST

Finally science has done females a favour

Wow, two blog entries in one day, you say? Impressive, non? Well, upon my daily read of the Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende online, I came upon a story about a rather interesting scientific discov...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:13:00 PST

Environazis

Although I completely and utterly agree that environmental issues are central to 21st century living, and try my best in little ways to be as nice to nature as possible, there are people who go too fa...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:15:00 PST

It's a family affair

Why must family visits be so inextricably connected with inner turmoil and strain?   You love them, you hate them, you want them to give you things and money and love yet you get snappy and ungr...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:13:00 PST

Cleverness - a minuscule sociological exploration of commuters

Is it just me, or does it seem like some people read certain books in certain places for more than pure and simple enjoyment? First, a diversion, but not a pointless one. I'm sure a thorough investiga...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:17:00 PST

Cats that look like hitler.com

Wow, I just found the possibly most perverted animal-related website on the whole web: a whole page devoted to Kitlers, that is cats that look like Adolph Hitler. Trust me, you don't want to miss this...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:14:00 PST

Summerti-hi-hiiime

Alrighty then! I know my blogs always start off in an unbelievably uninteresting and tedious way, but usually there's a point somewhere around the middle to end. Did you know that in Japan it's consid...
Posted by ~Mini~ on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:17:00 PST