Deirdre - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm from Ireland but I live in Chicago at the moment..... I love: having VISITORS from HOME!!, going to California, listening to music, going to see live music, shopping (although I'm trying to cut back - quite successfully I might add), reading, dancing and having fun in general. I just moved to Chicago in September and I love it. So far, my favourite things to do include cycling along the lake shore, having beers in Jake's, tapas in Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba, taking dance classes at Ameba and wandering around downtown. In Tucson, my fav. places to go out are the Red Garter, Plush, Congress (esp. for live music incl. karaoke hehe), Gentle Bens, Dirtbags (once it's before 10pm), Elle (for dinner) and ... The World Famous Golden Nugget (of course). In Dublin, I LOVE WHELANS! I also love Kehoes, Bruxelles, The Bridge (on Christmas Eve) and The Palace (no, not the one on Wexford Street). I have a cat called Naoise - she is adorable (and don't believe anything that Bren says about her - she doesn't like him that much either). I love maps and atlases and globes too.

My Interests

Music, Maps and Atlases, Travel, Reading, Dancing, Running, Morning Becomes Eclectic, Wine+Beer and Astro.

I'd like to meet:

Stuart Murdoch (again)

Music:

Belle and Sebastian, Rufus Wainwright, Whiskeytown, Frank Sinatra, The Thrills, The Byrds, The High Llamas, Jellyfish, Blur, The Rolling Stones (ANGIE!), Josh Rouse, Neil Young, Antony and the Johnsons, Michael Jackson, Brian Wilson, The Tyde, Johnny Logan, Pulp, Ben Lee, Air, The Flaming Lips, Carole King, Daft Punk, Goldrush, The Railheads, Gorrillaz, The Magic Numbers, Radiohead, Neil Hannon, Beth Orton, Super Furry Animals, Elton John, Jack Johnson, Morrissey, Kris Kristofferson, Mercury Rev, REM, Patrick Park, Missy Higgins, The Beach Boys, Declan O'Rourke, The Rolling Stones, Arcade Fire, Beck, Kings of Convenience, The Dandy Warhols, The Clientele, Luke Kelly, Royksopp, The Eagles, Whipping Boy, Ryan Adams, Suede, The Zutons, The Divine Comedy, Manu Chao, Carla Bruni, Death Cab for Cutie, David Bowie, The Underdogs, and others.....

Television:

Don't have one.

Books:

Here are a few that I liked .... Tales of a Female Nomad (Thanks Clare), Anything by Jane Austen or Dr. Seuss, Memoirs of a Geisha - amazing book! Snow Falling on Cedars (Thanks Dad), All of my atlases+factbooks+trivia books, Norwegian Wood (Thanks Jannicke), A Gathering Light (Thanks Smish), The Last Party (Thanks Kev), 100 Years of Solitude (Thanks Steve), A Place of Execution (Thanks Lyn), Just a Modern Rock Story (Thanks Jim), An Instance of the Fingerpost (Thanks Ibo), Freakonomics (Thanks Kate), Life of Pi (Thanks Pascal), My Name is Red (Thanks Dad), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Thanks Ali), The Mother Tongue (Thanks Kev), The Lonely Bones (Thanks Jannicke), The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Thanks Ben), The Catcher in the Rye, Fingersmith (Thanks Sylvia) ..... I'll add more later.

Heroes:

DMC!!!