I am trying to write, and play, and love and live all at once.
I hate wasting time. I am trying to do less of it.
I dislike distances of the heart.
I very much enjoy cheese, and also houmous. I like televised sports, especially boring ones like darts and curling. I like haggling. I love field hockey. The piano is the best instrument ever invented, closely followed by the trombone. Reading is essential. Laughing is too. I like pub quizzes, and also philosophy. I enjoy friendship projects. I like being taught new things, and also playing badminton. Listening to you would be great. You listening back would be nice too. I like to sail big boats. I am learning to be a better Texas Hold 'em player. I get satisfaction from polishing brass. I love language. I love archaisms. Paintballing is refreshing. I would like to watch a movie with you. Lights are incredible. The theatre is amazing. Mostly I listen to music, write things down, play field hockey, and eat Special K.
I just met them.
Everyone I've met on my travels, all over again.
You, if you are who you say you are.
These pages reflect you not me.
In alphabetical order (procrastination expert): Ryan Adams, Aiden, AFI, Alkaline Trio, Fiona Apple, At The Drive-In, Avenged 7x, Battle, Beat Union, Bedouin Soundclash, Billy Talent, The Bled, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Ane Brun, Jeff Buckley, Eva Cassidy, Capital Girls and Capital Pearls, The Cat Empire, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, City and Color, CocoRosie, The Crimea, Jamie Cullum, Dashboard Confessional, Kimya Dawson, The Detachment Kit, Ani DiFranco, The Distillers, Dropkick Murphys, Encyclopedia, Engerica, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Feist, The Fight, Finch, The Foos, From Autumn To Ashes, From First To Last, Frou Frou, The Future Kings Of Nowhere, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Glassjaw, Goodshoes, The Goo Goo Dolls, Goose, GreenDay, Greenwood, Guillemots, Halo, Hard-Fi, Head Automatica, Hell Is For Heroes, The Hope Of States, Hundred Reasons, Incubus, Jack Johnson, Jairus, Jimmy Eat World, The Juliana Theory, Justice Seth Lakeman, Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park, Long-View, The Loved Ones, The Mars Volta, Matchbox 20, Cathy Mattea, Matthew Good Band, MC Lars, Mika, The Mooney Suzuki, The Moldy Peaches, The Mountain Goats, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Neutral Milk Hotel, No Comply, Not Katies, Ocean Red, The Offspring, Panic! At The Disco, The Paper and The Plane, Dolly Parton, Patent Pending, Phantom Planet, Edith Piaf, The Pierces, Portugal: The Man, The Postal Service, The Rasmus, Robots Talk In Twos, The Rocket Summer, RX Bandits, Say Anything, Secondsmile, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Simple Plan, Sparks Lights and Flames, Regina Spektor, The Starting Line, Straylight Run, Sufjan Stevens, Taking Back Sunday, TAT, Third Eye Blind, Three Doors Down, Justin Timberlake, Transistor Transistor, TV On The Radio, The Used, Waxwing, Weapons Of Brass Destruction, Yellowcard, Jenny Owen Youngs, 9 Days... plus many more...
Directors I like:
Steven Speilberg,
Peter Jackson,
Sofia Coppolla,
M. Night Shymalan,
David Lynch,
Guillermo Del Toro
David Fincher
The Coen Brothers
Actors and actresses I like:
Johnny Depp,
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Eric Bana,
Alan Rickman,
Joaquin Phoenix,
Christian Bale,
Robert Downey Junior,
Kirsten Dunst,
Kate Winslet,
Emma Thompson,
Rachel Weisz,
Rachel Griffiths,
Angelina Jolie
Vincent (a short by Tim Burton), Finding Nemo, Road To Perdition (beautifully shot), The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club (my favourite script), American Beauty, Dangerous Minds, LA Confidential, The Sixth Sense, Shaun Of The Dead, 28 Days Later, Scary Movie (the first one), Sense and Sensibility, Disney, The Sound Of Music, Unleashed, Kill Bill, The Machinist, Munich, The Constant Gardener, Mean Girls, In Her Shoes, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Transamerica, Girl Interrupted, Lucky Number Slevin, Arlington Road, The Devil Wears Prada, The Prestige, Elizabethtown, Stranger Than Fiction, Brick, No Country For Old Men, Juno, The Departed, Donnie Darko, Pan's Labyrinth, Lost In Translation, Fargo
I try to go to the cinema twice a month. Most recently I saw Man Of The Year which managed to be a comedy and a thriller and was pretty sweet.
ER, Desperate god-damn Housewives, Ally McBeal, Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Will and Grace, Roseanne, House, Bones, and The Simpsons. I don't watch those on TV, I own the DVDs. Oh, and if I'm ill/procrastinating then there is nothing better than Murder She Wrote or Diagnosis Murder. That Van Dyke team solve it every time. Trinny and Suzannah also make my world a better place, and my mum a better dresser. Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Ellen
His Dark Materials (Phillip Pullam), An Equal Music (Vikram Seth), Junk (Melvin Burgess), To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Bloodtide (Melvin Burgess), 1984 (George Orwell), The Shadow Of The Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon), Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier), Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman), House Of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski), Lunar Park (Bret Easton Ellis), The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (Milan Kundera), The Devil Wears Prada (Laura Weisenberg), A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson), The Outsider (Albert Camus), Terry Pratchett books, Harry Potter (of course), Mary Wesley novels.
I am currently reading The Grapes Of Wrath which I am in love with, and I've just finished The Time Traveler's Wife which was a quick and satisfying read.
Regina Spektor, David Crystal, Derren Brown, Peter Vardy, Alison Winsborough, Vernon Little, Brand New, Jesse Lacey
Lara Wildgoose.
Legends
You have to do something to get into this category you know.
Jo Ferris
Jesse Lacey
Regina Spektor