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last year's girl

calorific succubus

About Me

I'm 25 years old and still can't walk in heels. I'm a writer and journalist, and am yet to get my head around the fact I get paid to do the only thing I've ever wanted to do regardless of how little glamour there is in my day-to-day. By day I edit a professional magazine for a legal training company, and by night review bands if you'll let me in for free and don't mind some caustic criticism. In my head I've been a city girl all my life but now I'm actually living in Glasgow in a trendy boho loft with the twelfth Doctor , whoever's kipping on our sofa this week and a monkey named Moriarty (because calling a monkey Dean would just be weird) I feel like I'm wherever I'm supposed to be.

Read my blog, it's better than Myspace's "seven boxes and a dash of colour" (lawl Katie):

LASTYEARSGIRL.PIXLET.NET
"it got quoted in the Guardian dontcherknow".

My Interests

Arm graffiti, bad lunches, bad weedgie accents, celtic football club, cheap red lipstick, cheeseburgers, dubious home baking, finding my purpose, freedom of speech, gin, girls in rock songs, goldfish, haribo for breakfast, in-jokes, inappropriate freebirding, internet acronyms in conversation, manifestos, media law, mexico, missing Christopher Eccleston, mix cds, monkeys, new media, new york, quarter-life crises, rock and roll music, the Urban Decay counter...

I'd like to meet:

Fellow adventurers. Bohemians. Artists. Travelling minstrels. "People who write". If distance, money, space & time were no object, I'd go back to 1964 or something and molest Bob Dylan. Other than that? I'm not really fussed. Send me a message and say hello, and we'll take it from there. Let's get drunk and trade heartbreak stories.
BANDS: I've got anonymous adds switched off because I get so many thoughtless requests from you inconsiderate fuckers; it's not that I don't like new music but if you want my attention then send me a message and tell me why I should give you a listen (and please bear in mind my list of likes to the left). The more clever you make it, the more likely I am to add you. Any copy-and-paste insert-name-here crap will be summarily deleted by the way, AS WILL ADVERTS POSTED IN MY COMMENTS PARTICULARLY IF THEY ARE OF A SCREWING-WITH-YOUR-LAYOUT IMAGE NATURE. If you don't like it, get a fucking job and stop living off my taxes. Cheers much.

Music:

Whiskeytown, the Replacements, Bob Dylan, Jesse Malin, the Mountain Goats, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sleater-Kinney, The Hold Steady, Ryan Adams, The National, Lucero, Death Cab For Cutie, Jenny Lewis, Kathleen Edwards, the Decemberists, Arab Strap, the Weakerthans, Broken Social Scene, the Clash, Ramones, Elliott Smith, Kate Nash, Helen Love, Lily Allen, Joan Baez, Wilco, the Kinks, the Libertines, Joanna Newsom, the Long Blondes, Le Tigre, the Velvet Underground, Bruce Springsteen, Idlewild, Richmond Fontaine, the Shins, John Vanderslice, the Violent Femmes... This is by no means a definitive list, but I got such a slagging from my alphabetised one YOU HAVE NO IDEA.

Movies:

Fight Club, Pirates of the Caribbean x3, Annie Hall, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, A Life Less Ordinary, Almost Famous, Lost in Translation, Ghost World, Josie and the Pussycats, Secretary, The Dreamers, Bring It On, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, Clerks, Garden State

Television:

The X-Files, Top Gear, nu-Who/Torchwood (it's a love/hate thing), The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Spooks, Heroes (when I remember it's on), Have I Got News For You, THE REAL HUSTLE... and I think I was the only person in the world who actually liked Tru Calling.

Books:

The World According to Clarkson, anything by Douglas Coupland or Jim Dodge, a bit of Dickens... and I still love the Discworld to distraction.

Heroes:

Ms Corin Tucker of the rawk band Sleater-Kinney.
And Jeremy Clarkson.

My Blog

my gheyspace...

...is the #1 result on Google for the term "gheyspace". How very postmodern. And, yet further proof that I am in fact The Internet. PS The second result is from somebody who refers to herself as "pixi...
Posted by last year's girl on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:07:00 PST

I DON'T DO MYSPACE BLOGS

http://lastyearsgirl.pixlet.net
Posted by last year's girl on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:08:00 PST