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james grape

full of bees (adj)

About Me

i like original 'zoom' ice lollies best, but they're hard to find. 'fab's are also good. rather partial to a 'feast' too, but that's more of a full meal. suppose that's where they got the name.i think you'll find we all need a holiday

My Interests

music; in a few bands - The Miserable Rich (on it's way), Shoreline (http://www.shorelinemusic.it), films, photography(http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesgrape/), books and that, cricket (yes, really), football, pool, badminton, backgammon, quick crosswords, fire (ooh!), english food (yes, really), european food, asian food, food food, ice lollies, the French Foreign Legion, drinking to forget, drinking, forgetting, port (yes, really)red wine, rum, vodka, beer, gin, grand marnier(over ice), politics (yes, really), the environment and that, chocolate, the looks of Scarlet Johansson(who isn't) but i'm all for equal opportunities. it's a bit odd doing one of these, doncha think?

I'd like to meet:

the fourth countess windlesham, on her way back from the stables, splashed with mud, hair matted and stuck in kiss curls to her neck and cheekbones, clothes torn and ravaged but holding up to the rigours of the chase, smile of the nearly satisfied, nearly, just nearly...... you still here?

Music:

Oh, no, really. Sorry, but...no. I really couldn't. Please, i really can't say. You...understand...? You can't make me say it.

Movies:

The Hairdresser's Husband, The Ladykillers (original only), Buffalo 66, Magnolia, 5x2, When We Were Kings, Withnail and I, Infernal Affairs, Jamon Jamon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Krystof Kieslowski....

Television:

Futurama, Wonder Showzen, Six Feet Under and not a great deal else.

Books:

Charles Dickens (yes, really), Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Haruki Murakami, B.S. Johnson, John Fante, Dave Eggers, Raymond Carver, John Fowles, Jonathon Safran-Foer, Kazuo Ishiguru, Tibor Fischer, Vladimir Nabakov, Marcel Proust (but only the early funny ones)

Heroes:

all you guys are heroes to me.no. really.well, keep working on it, anyhow.