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Kath

eco-girls don't do it with showers

About Me

I do not own, nor am I intending to purchase, a webcam. So you can all just shh.

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My Interests

Creative writing, singing, laughing, general wittering.

I'd like to meet:

Dog people. Genii. Men who look good in cricket whites. Edward Norton. Someone who can read 'Hawk in the Rain' and make it sound as it should.

Music:

Kenickie, We Are Scientists, The Crimea, Dirty Pretty Things, Delays, Babyshambles, The Libertines, The Killers, Blondie, Catatonia, The Clash, David Bowie, Franz Ferdinand, Girls Aloud, Manic Street Preachers, Bishop Allen, Archie Bronson Outfit, Misty's Big Adventure, Super Furry Animals, Ani Di Franco, Supergrass.

Movies:

Secretary, Fight Club, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko, American Psycho, American History X, A Clockwork Orange, (all the gentle stuff, y'know), Garden State, Harold and Maude, quality musicals such as Calamity Jane and Grease.

Books:

Jean Rhys, Toni Morrison, Samuel Johnson, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Cavendish.

My Blog

Nuhhhhh

As my family is more than capable of sitting together in a room without speaking for hours on end, it seems that the only way I can communicate with other human beings and thus validate my own ex...
Posted by Kath on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:46:00 PST

George Monbiot has gone pragmatic.

Rather than revolt against capitalism and consumerism, he's bitten the bullet and decided the best way, the only way is to work within it. To be honest, I don't know why so many people dig their heel...
Posted by Kath on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:29:00 PST

Thought for the day

(I'm currently writing 3 essays a week + a dissertation so I've no time for developed thought) Whilst Marks and Spencers 'Perfect Balance' meals are the food of the minor gods that middle class consum...
Posted by Kath on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:36:00 PST

All For Your Delight [/photowhoring]

Back at college now so all that remains is to sit and reminisce over the events of the holidays, the last part of which was consumed by possibly the last ever play I'll do for The Alderbury Players (m...
Posted by Kath on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:03:00 PST

Jeremy Kyle

Is growing increasingly like a classical Shakespearian actor when denouncing some hapless cretin unable to control their crack habit/rottweiler/prepubescent neice. Just you watch, you'll see what I me...
Posted by Kath on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:02:00 PST

on the subject of Smarties

I was never allowed Smarties as a child, because they had food colouring in them. This, allegedly, made me hyperactive. Though apparently 'not nearly as bad as the kids you see dragged around sup...
Posted by Kath on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:42:00 PST

We went to the seaside yesterday

Much frolicking was had by all. Carousels were ridden, "crazy" golf was played, jazz bands were danced to, chips were eaten, topless men were admired, and Baywatch was, indeed, recreated.   Also...
Posted by Kath on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:30:00 PST

Slight deviation from This Week's Mission

due to the fact that the music of lots of the bands I am to approve or otherwise won't actually load up...   Your Autobiography Part 1: The Birth of You Were you a planned baby? - one would suspe...
Posted by Kath on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:06:00 PST

Synchronicity is a wonderful thing

Two things me and the late John Peel shared an affection for: The Crimea, and synchronicity. I seem to be developing an obscure synchronicity with Pete from Big Brother. The other day we witnessed Pet...
Posted by Kath on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:48:00 PST

*chortles*

Cambridge just can't help being so very... Cambridge sometimes... Do other University offices, on the travel directions part of their websites, have a special entry for Arriving by taxi or chauffeur-d...
Posted by Kath on Tue, 09 May 2006 04:48:00 PST