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Sally

Look at the moon

About Me

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I'm a second year student at Cheltenham studying Creative Writing. I love to write, sleep, daydream, drink, eat, and generally laze around. I love all things purple. I love the moon. And I can't stop eating sweets.

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5 parts competitiveness
3 parts ambition
1 part empathy
Method:
Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add emotion to taste! Do not overindulge!
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My Interests

Music, poetry, words, candy, photography, food, drink, travelling...

I'd like to meet:

Grace Slick, Jim Carrey, Ella Fitzgerald, Eva Cassidy, Janis Joplin, plus the American side of my family

Music:

OK here goes, the definitive list of the music I love: Ace of Cups, Alison Krauss, Aretha Franklin, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beethoven, Billie Holiday, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, The Byrds, Carole King, Cream, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Dave Brubeck, Deep Purple, Don McLean, The Doors, Duke Ellington, The Eagles, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Eva Cassidy, Fairport Convention, Frank Sinatra, The Incredible String Band, Iron Butterfly, James Taylor, Janis Ian, Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Jendrix, Joni Mitchell, Judy Garland, King Crimson, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Love, The Mamas & The Papas, Metallica, Miles Davis, Muse, Nat King Cole, Nina Simone, Nirvana, Pantera, Peggy Lee, Pink Floyd, Rachmaninov, The Rolling Stones, Santana, Sarah Vaughan, Simon & Garfunkel, Skip Bifferty, Sting & The Police, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Velvet Underground, The Who. Plus lots of psychedelic sixties bands and lots of classical music. Yeah that's about it :-)

Movies:

Everything from musicals to old-fashioned rom coms to modern day Hollywood. I love Johnny Depp, films that make you cry, think, laugh, etc. Here are just a few of them:







Television:

At the moment I like The Mighty Boosh, The Apprentice, 24, Buffy, The Forsyte Saga, 10th Kingdom, Fast Show, Green Wing, Smack The Pony.

Books:

I love Bill Bryson. But at the moment I'm mostly into Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Parker and Angela Carter.

Heroes:

Eva Cassidy, Janis Joplin, Ella Fitzgerald, plus some others I can't think of.

My Blog

Untitled

This is Untitled because I can't think of a name for it... written after walking home at 1am, 6.2.07.It's on nights like this, walking homethrough the fog, the dark blackand clogging as a cloakthat I ...
Posted by Sally on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:56:00 PST

A Book

I wrote this on 10.1.07 after buying and reading a book of poetry.I bought a book,its pages crimson,bleeding like dawn over water.I fingered the thick pages,crisp and new for me,made for my eyes.I too...
Posted by Sally on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:09:00 PST

Eternities

Written 7th January 07.I sleep for eternitiesin this bed, each onepackage-wrapped and clean,compact as cocoons.I close my eyes andI am here, free;trapped in clingfilm,soaring on the roof.This small re...
Posted by Sally on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:25:00 PST

Dream

I wrote this after a night of strange dreams, December 2006.I dreamt last nightthat unicorns carried meon a golden throneto maize fields.They gave me a bookon metaphysics. I readit.I walked in the fie...
Posted by Sally on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:19:00 PST

Storm Warning

Written December 2006.The boughs of the apple treetwist around themselves and groan,receiving the rain to their leaves;the clouds above swirl withsunlight shielded; split-secondlightning cracks the sk...
Posted by Sally on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:01:00 PST

Red Skirt

I wrote this for a poetry assignment 13th November 2006.The wind on the hill hasmade sport of her skirt,red, and long, and linen;it has picked it up and rustledand ruffled the bright fabric,it tugs an...
Posted by Sally on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:09:00 PST

Pygmalion and The Statue

Written for a creative writing class October 2006. It's supposed to be from the point of view of Aphrodite.One so heav'nly beautiful as ICannot let dormant beauty lie,For beauty is a most prized thing...
Posted by Sally on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:43:00 PST

Shoes

Written October 2006, in a frenzy of similes.They bear the mark of the daysand nights; faithful as boomerangs.Obedient vessels,my double travellers;they trudge through mud like heavy cattle through ra...
Posted by Sally on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:52:00 PST

Song For Love Unrequited

Written September 2001.I see piercing shards of light,Which penetrate my squinted eyes,As I turn to the white moon:A hole punctured in black.And from the cobwebbed corners of my mind,Through the shift...
Posted by Sally on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:57:00 PST

Living Alone

I wrote this when I was living alone, August 2006.Chrome taps.Clip-clapOf plastic-soled slippersOn linoleumEmpty stairwell.Clock on wallTicks TicksGarish televisionBlares;Tangerine facesHollow la...
Posted by Sally on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:35:00 PST