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Nina

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About Me

Live in a big white house in N1. Working as a performing arts specialist to pay the rent and i also tread the boards... learning to do my own PR... love the acting just hate the bollocks that goes with it! And my third and final job is a barmaid at the hawley arms, come and have a pint and say hello! Check out the theatre company: www.kindletheatre.co.uk, www.triangletheatre.co.uk and look out for the show i'm working on; "See You Next Tuesday!"

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My Interests

Love art, enjoy painting, espicially oil, and sketching. Writing/devising and performing. Long walks. Descovering places- love old cities with cobbled streets and tiny walk-ways.

I'd like to meet:

People who have a lust for life

Music:

Ed Harcourt, Miles Davis, Billy Holiday, John Coltrane, Ben Webster, Tom Waits, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Magic Numbers, Antony and the Johnsons, Prince, Dave Matthews,Low Sparks, Peaches, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, Blossom Dearie, Abdullah Ibriham, Buena Vista Social Club, Elton John, Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Joan Armatrading, Coldplay, Joanna Newson, Aretha Franklin, Ryan Adams, Jack Johnson, The Velvet Underground, Frank Zapper, Louis Prima, Otis Redding, The Jam, The Cure, The White Stripes, The Kings of Leon, Marcy Playground, Rufus Wainwright, Razorlight, Kings of Convinence, Republic of Loose, Blondie, Pavement, Flaming Lips, Sam Cooke, Ska and Dub, The Smiths...fuck! loads of different stuff

Movies:

Some Like It Hot, Marx Brothers Films, Busta Keaton and Charlie Chaplin films. Kes, The Elephant Man, Fish Called Wanda, Happiness, Gummo, Woody Allen Films; especially Annie Hall. Secrets and Lies, Shine, Shawshank Redemption,Peters Friends, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Three Amigos, La Haine, Garden State, Amelie, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Donnie Darko, Midnight Cowboy, Das Boat erm...

Television:

The League of Gentlemen, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Monty Python, Reeves and Mortimer, Brass Eye- pretty much anything by chris morris.The Simpsons, love a bit of horizon/cutting edge, huge fan of good old david attenbourgh and all the animal kingdom!

Books:

Perfume by Patrick Suskind, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Rotters Club, Circle of Friends, 1984, The Handmaids Tale, The Budha of Suburbia...Got to say, all of The Harry Potter Books, The Hobbit, haven't got around to the others, uni got me into a bit of Marx, Freud and Jung... more non-fiction The History of Love, The Unlikeness of Being, Crow Road (need to read more Iain Banks) Atonement, The Reader, William Boyd. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, The Book of Colour.

Heroes:

Jack Lemon, Charlie Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Zappa, Lucien Freud, Edward Albee, Beckett, my Mum and Dad.

My Blog

pick up the pen and don’t try and think

Over the top under the road far away and keep the merriment flowing in a hollow shell of unforbidden hacking that casts off shadows that keep us locked we fall fast and hard but who calls anything eas...
Posted by Nina on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:48:00 PST

Mr O.D

He is, in all parts, stiched together by a patchwork of colourful tailoring A glint in his eyes and a charmed knowing smile. He sits small and beautifully compact in an elegant awkwardness. Occas...
Posted by Nina on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:00:00 PST

Tube stories

    There is a man on my tube. He has a scuffed folder. He's in his mid to late 20's but is dressed like a 13year old boy and carries himself in much the same way. In his folder are var...
Posted by Nina on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:31:00 PST

A firefly

Sat at a wooden table, glass of red in one hand and a rolly in the other i stared across the vast expanse that is now my parents garden. The house sits atop a mountain side and looks down on a valley ...
Posted by Nina on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:25:00 PST

The Age of String

"There was a time when it wasn't uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their destinations. Shy people considered loudmouths had no less need for it...
Posted by Nina on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:23:00 PST

The Squirrel couldn't hack it....

Briskly walking to the station this morning to catch the 8.11am train to Blackfriars. I was wearing flip-flops and the one on my left kept rubbing. I had to slow down as the blister was building and s...
Posted by Nina on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 04:50:00 PST