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RAGADAN

I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?

About Me

solemnly
myselves
ask "life, the question how do i drink dream smile
and how do i prefer this face to another and
why do i weep eat sleep--what does the whole intend"
they wonder. oh and they cry "to be, being, that i am alive
this absurd fraction in its lowest terms
with everything cancelled
but shadows
--what does it all come down to? love? Love
if you like and i like,for the reason that i
hate people and lean out of this window is love,love
and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason
that i do not fall into this street is love.

[ee cummings.]
i present as cyclothymic with reactivity.
in the past i have been referred to as "spiky", "a little intense", "fucking grumpy" & "a chore". some college-os once said that i was "always really friendly & enthusiastic about everything", but i think maybe they had not met me.
i pretend to be more abrasive than i actually am.
i dig: lit & lang (outside of lectures); psychology, anthropology, mentalism, parapsychology, theatre, music & music & musicals, wine & wine & tea, cats & foxes & tortoises & iguanas, lucid dreaming, theoretical physics, monopoly, men with massive beards, dungarees, junk percussion, fairy tales, charity shops, model villages, the harry potter fandom & staying up really fucking late by accident.
at the moment i am temping like there's no tomorrow but i would like to be a writer, if i can ever be arsed. i probably can't be arsed. i never never never want A Career.
i play p-p-per-cussion in LUSK , & also i sing bits for my boyf as part of THE AMBER SLEEP . also we are starting a duo called ODDLEIFSON and i am trying to write, eek.
when i am home i play drums for THE BELL INN BRASS BAND , hurrah.

My Interests

nil of note

I'd like to meet:

EMH mk.2

Music:

i hate talking about music.

alt/ experimental/ prog/ math/ electronica/ idm/ post-rock/ riot grrl/ folk/ neo/freak-folk/ goth/ pop/ songstery acousticky shite/ punk cabaret. i've just accidentally got into j-pop o_O

65 Days of Static

!Forward, Russia!
Adem
Adiemus
Aereogramme
Akron/Family
Alanis Morrisette

The Album Leaf
Ani DiFranco
Animal Collective
Antony & the Johnsons

Arab Strap
Architecture in Helsinki
At the Drive-In

Audrey
The Badger King
Bat for Lashes

Battles
Beirut
Be Your Own PET!
Betty Blowtorch
The Big Sleep
Black Ox Orkestar
Blonde Redhead

The Blood Brothers

The Books
Brenda
Britta Persson

The Butterfly
Call it a Clunes
Carina Round

Caroline

Catatonia
Circa Survive
Circle Takes the Square
CocoRosie

Cocteau Twins
Colleen
Colour of Fire
Cortney Tidwell
The Cranberries

Crowded House

Crystal Castles
CSS
CtrlAltDel
Cursive
Daisy Chainsaw

Damien Rice
Decora
Deerhoof

DestroyAllDreamers
DevotchKa

Diane Cluck
Dirty Three
Dntel
Do Make Say Think
Don't Look Back

The Dresden Dolls

Efterklang

Emilie Autumn
Enya
Ephel Duath
Eux Autres
Evanescence
The Exploits of Elaine
Explosions in the Sky

Final Fantasy
Fiona Apple
Fischerspooner
The For Carnation
For My Pain

Foreigner
Four Tet

Frank Sinatra
Freezepop
Frog Eyes
From Monument to Masses
Frou Frou
Fur Patrol
G&&&&&am p;#035;035;035;035;229;te

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

The Gossip
Hammock
Hannah Fury
A Hawk & a Hacksaw
Help She Can't Swim

Hiding Place
HIM
Hole
HORSE the Band
iLiKETRAiNS
Imogen Heap

InMe
Islaja
Itch
Jack Off Jill

Jaga Jazzist
Jakob
JJ72

Joanna Newsom

John Zorn
Josh Groban
Julie Ruin
Juliette & the Licks
Kate Bush
The Knife
Lacuna Coil
Lamb

Laura
Laura Viers
Le Tigre

Led Zep
Linkin Park
Lis er Stille
Love is All
Low

Mago de Oz
Maia Hirasawa
The Mars Volta

MaybeSheWill

Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia...
Melissa Auf der Maur
Melt Banana
The Metric
Mew

MillionDead
Mimas
Mogwai
Mommy & Daddy
Mono

Moses Eats Cheese
Mum

Muse

M83
My Brightest Diamond
My Latest Novel
Napoleon IIIrd
Neon Blonde
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nico Muhly
The Noisettes

Oh No! Oh My!
Olivia Lufkin
The Organ
Paavoharju

Panic! at the Disco
Patrick Wolf

Pedro the Lion
A Perfect Circle

Peter Gabriel
The Pirate Ship Quintet
Phil Collins
Philip Glass
PJ Harvey

Placebo

The Police
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Psapp

Quack Quack
Queen Adreena

Queens of the Stone Age

Rasputina
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Sparowes
Regina Spektor

REM
Rockettothesky

Rose Kemp
Ruins
Sahara Hotnights
Sash!
Savage Garden
Saxon Shore
Scarling.
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
Shannon Wright
Shiina Ringo
Shiny Toy Guns
Sia

Sibylle Baier
Sigur Ros
SikTh
Six Organs of Admittance
A Silver Mt. Zion

Sketchie
Skunk Anansie

Sky Larkin
Sleater-Kinney

Slowdive
The Stiletto Formal
Stina Nordenstam
Strap the Button
Sufjan Stevens

Supertramp

Sweek
Talk Talk
Tattle Tale
TATU
Te
Tegan & Sara
Thee, Stranded Horse
TheSTART

Tilly & the Wall
Tin Hat Trio
Toe
Tokyo Jihen
Tom Waits
Tool
Tracy + the Plastics
Tunng
TwentySixFeet
Under Byen

UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start
Vashti Bunyan
Venetian Snares

Veruca Salt
Vex Red

The Waterboys

Why?
World's End Girlfriend
Xiu Xiu

Yann Tiersen
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs


Yndi Halda
YourCodeNameIs:Milo

Justplayed:

Thisweek:


Movies:


A Beautiful Mind
Akira
Aladdin
Amelie
American Beauty
The Amityville Horror
Among Giants
And Now for Something Completely Different
A Scanner Darkly
A Very Long Engagement
Back to the Future
Being John Malkovitch
Big Fish
The Birds
The Blair Witch Project
Blue Velvet
Brassed Off
Bridget Jones' Diary
The Butterfly Effect
Calendar Girls
Cast Away
Chocolat
Confetti
Corpse Bride
The Crucible
Darkon
David & the Magic Pearl
Delicatessen
Dogma
Donnie Darko
Edward Scissorhands
Escape to Witch Mountain
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fern Gully I
Fight Club
Finding Nemo
Finding Neverland
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Hogfather
Hook
Hot Fuzz
The Hours
Jumanji
Ladies in Lavender
The Land Before Time
Life of Brian
The Lion King I & II
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Lord of the Rings
Love Actually
Lunacy
March of the Penguins
Mary Poppins
The Matrix I
The Meaning of Life
Minority Report
Monsters Inc
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Moulin Rouge!
Mulholland Dr.
One Hour Photo
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Pokemon Movie
Powder
RENT
Return from Witch Mountain
Revenger's Tragedy
The Ring
Rocky Horror
Romeo & Juliet
Run, Lola, Run
Silent Hill
Solid Geometry
Soul Music
Stargate
Sweeney Todd
The Sword in the Stone
Tarnation
Teeth
Titanic
Trainspotting
Transamerica
The Truman Show
Velvet Goldmine
Wallace & Gromit War of the Worlds
Watership Down
Whose Life is it Anyway?
Wild Zero
The Witches
Withnail & I
10 Things I Hate About You

Television:


A Town Called Panic
Buffy
Derren Brown
Have I Got News For You
Red Dwarf
Spaced
The Mighty Boosh
Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
Brasseye
The Day Today
Star Trek: Voyager
Green Wing
R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet
The Tribe
Time Trumpet
Nathan Barley
Xena: Warrior Princess
Angel
Extras
Paranoia Agent
Peep Show
The Office
I'm Alan Partridge
Look Around You
Will & Grace
Planet Earth
The Journey of Life
Friends
Family Guy
South Park
Big Train
Black Books
Modern Toss
Gordon Ramsay
Top Gear
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
The Peter Serafinowicz Show
Ally McBeal
Pokemon
Blackadder
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Most Haunted
Jeremy Kyle
Bargain Hunt
Early Edition
Round the Twist
Funhouse
The Incredible Games
Maid Marian & her Merry Men
Bertha
The Clangers
The Herbs
Elidor
Aquila
Bernard's Watch

Books:

these are my favourite books:

this is the most important one:
Jo Rowling
Harry Potter. All of them, though CoS annoys me. I like PoA & GoF & HBP & DH the best, I think? I mainly ship Dr/Hr & Dr/H ^_^
Philip Pullman
Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Terry Pratchett
Discworld
Peter Dickinson
The Kin
Ursula le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuin
The Farthest Shore
John Wyndham
Day of the Triffids
The Chrysalids
The Midwitch Cuckoos
The Kraken Wakes
Trouble with Lichen
Virgina Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
Mark Z Danielewski
House of Leaves
Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
DH Lawrence
Women in Love
Jean Rhys
Good Morning, Midnight
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe & Everything
So Long, & Thanks for all the Fish
Mostly Harmless
The Salmon of Doubt
Charles Berlitz
The Philadelphia Experiment
Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones' Diary
The Edge of Reason
Louise Rennison
Angus, Thongs & Full-Frontal Snogging
It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
Dancing In My Nuddy Pants
...& That's When it Fell Off in my Hand
...Then He Ate my Boy Entrancers
LJ Smith
The Forbidden Game Trilogy
The Secret Circle Trilogy
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting
Filth
George Orwell
1984
Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Notes from a Small Island
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Nancy Turner
These is my Words
A.S. Byatt
Possession: A Romance
Justin Cartwright
The Promise of Happiness
Meg Rosoff
How I Live Now
What I Was
Just In Case
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho
Philip Ridley
Sparkleshark
Brokenville
Brian Clarke
Whose Life is it Anyway?
Alan Bennett
Talking Heads
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
John Braine
Room at the Top
Samuel Beckett
Krapp's Last Tape
Not I
Play
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Peter Shaffer
Black Comedy
Lucy M. Boston
The Children of Green Knowe
The Chimneys of Green Knowe
The River at Green Knowe
An Enemy at Green Knowe
Philippa Pearce
Tom's Midnight Garden
Robin Jarvis
The Whitby Witches
A Warlock in Whitby
The Whitby Child
The Alchymist's Cat
The Oaken Throne
Thomas
CS Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Last Battle
Richard Adams
Watership Down
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Isaac Asimov
The End of Eternity
Philip K Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Silvia Plath
Elizabeth Bishop
e e cummings
William Carlos Williams
Hans Christian Andersen
The Bros. Grimm
Helen Cresswell

The Bongleweed
The Secret World of Polly Flint
Moondial

Heroes:

Jo Rowling, Derren Brown, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Captain Janeway

My Blog

2007

 1. Have you had any relationships this year?yes2. Have you had your birthday yet?noo it is in about a fortnight, i have already celebrated it once though. i shall also be celebrating it next wee...
Posted by RAGADAN on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:51:00 PST

this year's results

Sem1 : Mediaeval Renascence: 65English in Time: 53Narrative of Witchcraft: 58 Sem2: Literature of the Romantic Period: 63English in Space: 58Romance, Ballad & Fairytale: 66 Which = 60.5 overall, s...
Posted by RAGADAN on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:26:00 PST

reserved artist

  .. You are an Artist ..> ..> ..> Your appreciation of beauty, ability to think abstractly, and innovativeness make you an ARTIST. Never one to be tied to a particular way of doing ...
Posted by RAGADAN on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:29:00 PST

...i will be back in the shire

this weekend, but more importantly, for a week from july 9th- july 15th. or maybe july 7th-15th. i am going to see HP on the 13th at the ass rooms. anyway that is when i am back, i want to say hello t...
Posted by RAGADAN on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:38:00 PST

i have grown tired of this place.

i really have. not in a big, melodramatic, depressing end-it-all way. i'm just feeling completely apathetic towards everything, & uninspired and uninvolved in everything around me. it's like... i ...
Posted by RAGADAN on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:35:00 PST

ahahaha

from Best Magazine: "The killers, described as Goths who were fixated with a dark and strange youth culture known as 'Emo'" ahahahahahahahahahahahahhaa
Posted by RAGADAN on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:08:00 PST

...


Posted by RAGADAN on Tue, 22 May 2007 08:16:00 PST

recording this weekend...

Went fairly well although we didn't get the mixing done so have to go back.  Rough demos of What Will You Say and Stone can be heard at the Lusk Myspace so please go listen =) I do drummings &...
Posted by RAGADAN on Mon, 21 May 2007 07:11:00 PST

quizilla...

                                    Which Mighty Boosh Character ...
Posted by RAGADAN on Fri, 18 May 2007 05:59:00 PST

wig's fault - an old short & a new short.

Dead Paper.It was ranged around the woman on piles on the desk, mounds like snowdrifts.  Her life. Their life. Reams of the stuff. Rebecca had been saying for days that they should Deal With It, ...
Posted by RAGADAN on Wed, 16 May 2007 06:03:00 PST