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Ange

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About Me


I like going out and dancing the night away anywhere where you can wear trainers and sit on the floor without people looking at you like you are a tramp. I don't like feeling under dressed. That said, I do sometimes get all dolled-up proper like a broad should. I like all your basics: gigs, beer, gigs with beer, films about gigs, films about beer, books about gigs, books about films about beer...
Ideally, I'd like to start my MA in Film fairly soon, it would be pure indulgence for me... and I am about to embark on some music theory and hopefully start developing some real skills with the classical guitar and piano, instead of just bashing out blues chords. I'm also about to launch a blog with my sis, Sal. It will focus on unsigned music in the region. It's in its early stages but we are hoping it takes off. We are also hoping it has ligging potential. We shall see...Oh yeah, and after the title of my fave book, I hope to be 'On the Road' next year.. aren't driving lessons expensive?


I've recently finished work at the Light House in Wolves town on a creative industries project called PLOT - check it out if you are really REALLY bored...(with the blue-clicky...) and I've also just finished colunteering at FLIP 2007 - the Award Winning*, greatest and bestest (and only) Animation Festival in Wolf-town. I love it so although I'm not on the books there any more I still help out when I can.
I am now officially "in telly" and my sparkly new job is at Brum Uni on a TV development project called Ideas Lab. It's very cool and I am learning loads about the tricky business of factual TV. I am also learning that for some jobs all you need is a brain. I'm getting mine from ebay.
I love my cat. Her name is Lola, she was a showgirl. And of course I also love my friends and family (who are also my friends. My main aim in life is to be amazed - and maybe I'll also be amazing my own self one day...
*Silver award for Best Festival 2006 - I had my photo taken with Ruth Badger! Now you wanna add me, don't ya!!!!
Backgound image: 'The original plan was to...'- Julian Opie
(click blue) 2003.

My Interests

Betwixt 18th September and Easter (shifts fom year to year) I do sup mostly this:

Betwixt Easter (shifts from year to year) and 17th September, I do sup mostly this:

This is the Genius of David Shrigley... click his blue name that you just read and be amazed.

I'd like to meet:

Film peeps... And anyone else who has ever listed jalapeno's as a hobby!
Then of course there's your basic totty/hero worship list, so I'm talkin':
the Stipester, (I TOUCHED him man, oh yeah...)...
Ewan Mc-G (Guys and Dolls, Woof!)
Tennant, natch (although I will have to get in a queue behind pretty much everyone I know and I'm too polite to push in)
Eddie Izzard (I think we are on a similar wavelength - apart from he's a genius comic an' all)
Kevin Spacey (I would get his autograph for Elk)
John Cussack (cause I went through a phase of drawing him and I would whip out all me sketches stalker style and go, "See, John? See what I did for you? I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN..." - even though I'm not - and he would go pegging it down the road and I would quickly sketch that too)
Dermot O'Leary (he hot AND cool...)
Robert De Niro (I would ask him if I could call him Bobby D and he would say, "What? Bobby Davro? No way Jose!")
And I would make the bearded Blessed say, "YOU SEE!"

Music:


First off I just have to say that the aforementioned Shriggers wrote lyrics which have been turned into an album 'Worried Noodles' by many talented muso's... ten piles of awesome!

The guitar solo in the Pumpkins' 'Cherub Rock' at Reading this summer was the closest I have been to music heaven in a long itme. I was hoping to bannish my Corgan fixation but instead it got a bit worse...Tonight Tonight under a clear dusk sky... RUN VT!

Rightio then, if you're gonna make me do a top-three-er, I'd have to say:

I went to see Guillemots
(click the blue word, click it! Click it now! View their website, 'tis wonderous-strange...)at Birmingham Alexandra in November 06 and it was BY FAR one of the MOST AMAZING sounds I have ever ever heard and I am totally in love with them and will be always. I'm currently clinging onto the desperate, desperate hope that Blur will reform and headline next year's Reading, or reform and make a new album, or reform and tour, or reform and drink tea, or just reform. It's basically about the reforming. (The hope is reform-based). REM's Dublin Olympia show rocked my world. It made me blog, for goodness sake. I can't wait for the next album. I know it's gonna be the one I have been waiting for since Hi-Fi. Without sounding corny it's worth mentioning that I class REM as one of the constants in my life. They are in my blood.
OK, time for a picture. Here's the 'mots at Glasto (well, Fyfe anwyays)...wish I had been there...

I get accused of being stuck in the '90's for refusing to believe Britpop is over, (I actively champion this with my good pal Elk)......and for wearing tanktops (which I thought were '70's anyway...)- again with the Elkster. I'm currently enjoying the revival of various Britpoppers, notably Kula Shaker, Shed 7, Ocean Colour Scene, Marion (does anyone remember Marion?) - and I'm holding out for the 'swear, Sleeper, Echobelly, Perfume, Mansun - come on guys! You know you wanna (reform and do a tour peddling old hits and disguising your aging faces that is).

Also lovin' Cold War Kids, Gogol Bordello, Silversun Pickups, Sunshine Underground, the Klaxons, Bright Eyes, Bloc Party, Kings of Leon, Bat for Lashes and Hot Chip at the mo, (and I'm sure I'd like the new Bjork album if Elk hurried up and copied it for me - yes Elk, I'm still waiting, how long has this text been on here, eh?) and I'm also digging a few oldies out like Bowie, Cat Stevens, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, The Beatles Love Album (it's ALL BEAUTIFUL) ELO (ahem...) and the Pet Shop Boys (*cringe*.) Now, in the depths of this paragraph I hope it's safe to admit my love-wobble for Calvin Harris. Ooh, it's his little Scottish gorgeousness and phat choons, ill beats and dark bass..I know it's not right, and I'm not proud of myself but there it is. I gave up smoking (kind of). A girl's gotta have a vice...

And finally...shout outs to Eugene McGuinness and his lovely little mini-album - I saw him at possibly his one and only Brum gig - sort it out, Euge!...) - and Lightspeed Champion - a touch shambolic but charming nonetheless.

Movies:


Ooh look, another pretty slideshow....
Aren't films great? Yeah they are.... hell yeah.

Television:


Books:


Currently reading:
Here, have some quotes...
"In everyone there sleeps
A sense of life lived according to love
To some it means the difference they could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps
As all they might have done had they been loved. - Philip Larkin.
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett.
"A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross? Kind of like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on, you know." - Bill Hicks.
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it...Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching." - Tennessee Williams.
"We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon A Time lasts forever." - Philip Pullman.
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” - Jack Kerouac.

Heroes:


Don't talk to me about Heroes, most of these men sing like Surfs!
Oh, OK then. Buffy. Look, she's Lego:
And my folks. They aren't Lego - (yet)
And then there's the man, the legend, fellow Jedi Michael Stipe. Worshiped from afar by me since 1989.

River Phoenix 1970-1993..

My Blog

UNEXPECTED: Lightspeed Champion and Bright Eyes - Birmingham Academy

After a long day's work when it feels like you are moving through treacle I head on down to Kate's cute, tiny and chaotic flat for tea.  I knock the door and as I wait for her I look at the weeds...
Posted by Ange on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:13:00 PST

THIS IS NOT A SHOW: Sheffield, Dublin and R.E.M.

  Thursday. A businessman becomes a hu-man before my eyes as his laptop gets folded away and he drapes his coat over his shoulders and settles down to sleep on the train. The Yel...
Posted by Ange on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:37:00 PST

Magic, magic 'e'....

 'Ang' becomes 'Ange' with me.... ...
Posted by Ange on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:59:00 PST

On June 9th Ang became smoke-free...

I don't know how it happened.  I don't know where it came from, apart from the odd thought passing across my brain like a grey cloud casting it's shadow in the middle of the road on a hot summer'...
Posted by Ange on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:48:00 PST

Screen Forum: Digital Shorts

  These films are ace, as is Katie's kick-ass flyer design -  so here it is in all it's glory.  If you want to attend mail me at [email protected] (And keep your eyes peeled for...
Posted by Ange on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:02:00 PST

Quiz wot I did.

OK, so I know these things are written by spotty 14-year-old Americans but you know, sometimes there's nothing better to alleviate boredom than writing about yourself.  And then posting it. 1. Ho...
Posted by Ange on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:26:00 PST

I Ching therefore I am.... confused again.

34. Ta Chuang - The Power of the Great -- -- -- -- above Chên The Arousing, Thunder ----- ----- ----- below Ch'ien The Creative, Heav...
Posted by Ange on Fri, 04 May 2007 02:25:00 PST

I-Ching

I cast the I-Ching (yarrow) and it gave me this: 40. Hsieh - Deliverance -- -- -- -- above Chên The Arousing, Thunder ----- -- -- ----- ...
Posted by Ange on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:02:00 PST

Irony and Misfortune are tag-teaming my ass...

I'm quite rich this month, actually.  I'm not talking mega rich - but, you know, I have a bit more dollar than usual (since taking poorly-paid job due to a misplaced sense of idealism...) So, any...
Posted by Ange on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:49:00 PST

Come on, Monsters, you don't have to cry... we can be HAPPY!

I'm sorry - I have no excuse for this.  Other than, you know, I'm in the office on my own.  And I'm bored... and the sun's out (and I worked so hard to make it so...)HAPPY EASTER (Bank Holidays come s...
Posted by Ange on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:07:00 PST