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Stitch

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your life plans.

About Me

This is a tricky one. It's a bit of a where do I start.... so I decided that I'd ask a friend how he'd describe me. His response was, "You defy categorization", and gave me a big beautiful smile! I can only take that as a complement, but then he is my friend.

My Interests

Photography (love the smell of the chemicles and telling a story), Sculpture, Painting, Digital Art. Sewing... dress making, corsetry, art-quilt. Music - nothing like seeing a band live. Shoes.... love wearing beatiful shoes (problem is does a girl EVER have enough??!), shopping for, the history of.... (apparently there is a little shoe museum in the south of france i've been meaning to look up for years). Am presently pineing from not having a cat in my life.... and those that you bump into in the street.... I swear they can smell the desperation for kitty cuddles.

I'd like to meet:

People who are comfortable in their own skin.An estate agent who knows how long it takes to walk a 2km. An estate agent who doesn't try to get you to rent a flat because of it's 'great parking space'....blah blah blah..... only to ask - so do you have a car? no.

Music:

Morrissey, The Smiths, The Cure, Suede, Garbage, Interpole, Covenant, The Dresdon Dolls, David Bowie, Tori Amos, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Heather Nova, Ashton Nyte and the Accussed, Gary Numan, Johnny Cash, Arcade Fire, The Kills, Babyshambles, The Ravonettes, Placebo, The Editors, Depeche Mode, Garbage, Goldfrappe, The white stripes, Jim Neversink, Queen Adreena, Ramstein, Clap your hands and say yeah!, Joydivision, The Noisettes, PJ Harvey, Placebo, She wants revenge, The Raconteurs, The tears, The Strokes, Yeah yeah yeah's, Belle and Sebastion, The Diesel Whores, Frou Frou, I love you but i've chosen darkness, The puppini sisters, REM, The velvet underground, Wilco, Audrey, The Killers, Tom Waits, Bright Eyes, Blanche, Amy Winehouse, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, The Shins, Ladytron and the Supremes..... ha ha now if that aint eclectic i don't know what is!

Movies:

Finding Neverland, Edward Scissor Hands, Nightmare before Christmas, Chicken Run, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Amelie, Scoobey Doo, Evil Dead, ...all Aardman (if you're a fan look out for Pib & Pob, "that's going to need a plaster!") Pirates of the Caribbean, Quills, Wild at Heart, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Sleepy Hollow. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Inland Empire

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer! The Young Ones. Desperate housewives. The Wombles (yep... it's a nostalgic thing.... and i'm talking about when they still had their little black beady eyes and stop animation), Twin Peaks, League of Gentlemen, Green Wing, La Linea

Books:

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, Coraline, Violent Cases. Roman Dirge - All of his graphic novels, I especially like Lenore. Harry Potter. Daniel Wallace - Big Fish. Piece by piece (Tori Amos) Memoirs of a Geisha. The state of the union. Wuthering Heights.

Heroes:

My mum, "take the time to stop and smell the roses".

My Blog

Time whizzes by.......

Do you ever suddenly stop..... I just did. I realised it's August 2007, I'm at my parents home, I had never planned this.... and i've wondered where this year has gone. Granted i've had a strange year...
Posted by Stitch on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:39:00 PST

Gran

I am one of the very few people, who have been blessed not only to know all four of my immediate grandparents, but also to have known my great grandmother.Add a double whammy blessing on that - i've k...
Posted by Stitch on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:49:00 PST

Is chivalry dead?

After my fabulous night of Japanese food, charming company, a visit to the theatre, a nightcap, I tried to get a tube onto my friends gig. The tube was closed, perhaps I got the closing time wrong? Di...
Posted by Stitch on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:03:00 PST

Equus

On Saturday night I went to the theatre and saw the play Equus. Its been one of my long time favorite plays, if you cannot feel intense pain, then how can you feel intense passion? If you've never fel...
Posted by Stitch on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:30:00 PST

Quick question

Okay - this is going to be a little rant - but i promise to try and keep it short and sweet..... well maybe not sweet, rather a little bit bitey but here it is. I'm just wondering what's up with peop...
Posted by Stitch on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:06:00 PST

HUGE EYES! GRINNING LIKE A CHESHIRE CAT! FLYING ALONG THE WAVES

When I was at home in Durban I rediscovered 'boogie boarding'  actually I was surprisingly good except that once I was on a wave I couldn't get off it and would be true kamakazi style flying towards...
Posted by Stitch on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:47:00 PST

MISCONCEPTIONS

I have just had a fantastic holiday back home in South Africa. It's a beautiful country with an energy quiet unlike any other. I'm not one to believe that 'the grass is greener on the other side', I'v...
Posted by Stitch on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:45:00 PST

Take the tree out of your own eye before you start looking at the splinter in mine!

Sometimes you have weeks where you feel like you have a sign on your forehead that says, ..insult me because I like it!...I've just had one of those weeks, perhaps I..m being a little bit oversensitiv...
Posted by Stitch on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:57:00 PST

Lets call it swimming!

May 13th, went to see the Dresden Dolls at the London Astoria..... we decided to get a better view, we'd go upstairs. Walking into the bar was like walking into a surrealist painting. FABULOUS! ....
Posted by Stitch on Sat, 13 May 2006 09:56:00 PST

Paris

Just got back from a wonderful weekend in Paris, only to be stuck on the Northern Line for an hour, a journey that should have taken 30minutes. Welcome back to London! Seriously - the Paris Metro is ...
Posted by Stitch on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:52:00 PST