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Antoinette

..oppressed by the figures of beauty...

About Me

It wasn't just this street corner but the fact of a street corner at all that seemed, in the light of the moment, so beautiful Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
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[adjective]:

Pretentiously academian

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My Interests

Music, Literature, Theatre, Films, going out, getting drunk, having fun, football, pro evo, Xfm, scrabble

I'd like to meet:

I like people who are interested in art and life but don't take themselves too seriously..who like to have fun and to whom arrogance is a word of an unknown tongue.Alternatively, in the words of Jack Kerouac:The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

Music:

Ryan Adams, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Amy Winehouse, Antony & the Johnsons, Interpol, Razorlight, the Smiths, the Cure, Arctic Monkeys, Nick Cave, Bloc Party, Libertines, Babyshambles, Raconteurs, Marvin Gaye, Prayerboat/Emmet Tinley, Whipping Boy, the Beatles, Radiohead, Nirvana, the Pixies, Arcade Fire, the Stone Roses, Blur, Pulp, Strokes, Kasabian, the Coral, Ian Brown, Morrissey, Al Green, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon, Editors, Smashing Pumpkins, Sex Pistols, Aretha Franklin, Undertones, Rufus Wainwright, Elliot Smith, Mercury Rev, the Flaming Lips, the Jam, the Kinks, the Charlatans, the Who, Bright Eyes, Devendra Banhart, Dusty Springfield and..ahem..Take That : )

Movies:

Take the Money & Run, American Beauty, the Producers, Withnail & I, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Midnight Cowboy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Anchorman, Blazing Saddles, Bullets Over Broadway, Citizen Kane, Muppets' Christmas Carol, Sideways, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Spinal Tap, 300, Reality Bites, The Way We Were, Streetcar Named Desire, The Third Man

Television:

Sopranos, the Simpsons, the View, Who Wants to be a Millionaire Spongebob Squarepants, Six Feet Under, Blizzard of Odd, Black Books, Curb your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Dragons' Den

Books:

Henry & June by Anais Nin, Middlemarch, the Last Party, Anna Karenina, Great Expectations, a Short History of Nearly Everything, poetry of Yeats and Larkin, Middlesex, Lolita, Chronicles - Dylan biography, Lucky Jim, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Philadelphia Here I Come, everything by Beckett, Hamlet and King Lear, Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro, Wuthering Heights, Life of Pi, Heavier than Heaven biog of Cobain, Ray Coleman biog of Lennon, all of Austen's novels, Dracula, the Oresteia, the Master, the Way We Live Now - Trollope, Three Theban Plays - Sophocles

Heroes:

Anais Nin for sculpting passion out of words, and words into passion, Kennydoodledandy (that's you Dave), the poet laureate of text messages, and also the good, the true, the beautiful..Philip Larkin, for his combination of hope and cynicism, Yeats for transmuting unrequited love into an art form, Bob Dylan for his lyrical defiance, George Eliot for being the greatest novelist ever, Robert Smith for being the most eloquent idealist incarnate, Samuel Beckett for his life as much as his art, Einstein for his soul as much as his science..Dylan Moran for being devilishly funny and devilishly attractive..Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Kate Moss for their luminous, unignorable beauty...people who wear their greatness without a pinch of condescension

My Blog

..twenty most annoying songs..

..mostly I agree though I must admit a soft spot for Meat Loaf and Semisonic..oops. 1. Black Eyed Peas, "My Humps"2. Los Del Rio, "Macarena"3. Baha Men, "Who Let The Dogs Out"4. Celine Dion, "My Hear...
Posted by Antoinette on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:35:00 PST

..one hand on your round ripe heart..

Babe, You Turn Me On Stay by me, stay by me You are the one, my only true love The butcher bird makes it's noise And asks you to agree With it's brutal nesting habits And it's pointless savagery Now, ...
Posted by Antoinette on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:51:00 PST

..when parting is a sweet sorrow..

  Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye Leonard Cohen I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,yes, many loved before us, I know that ...
Posted by Antoinette on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:31:00 PST

..just because..

..la di la..   Made-Up Love Song #43    Guillemots   I love you through sparks and shining dragons, i do, now there's poetry, in an empty coke can. I love you through sparks...
Posted by Antoinette on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:52:00 PST

..no offence to Hoxton..

..but I think the following from A.A. Gill captures all that is wrong with Nathan Barley London..   "Hoxton is fashionable and swanky because it's ugly, miserable and poor. It is the unlucky reci...
Posted by Antoinette on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:58:00 PST

..noel gallagher on tom chaplin..

..and one thought Liam was the comic genius..   "The rest of us if we ever have to go into rehab deny it to the hilt, but he issues a statement going, "No, no, no, I'm doing drugs, really I ...
Posted by Antoinette on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:43:00 PST

..alex james, on love..

..with some of this I agree, with some I disagree..   The Sunday Times November 26, 2006 I wish for...love Sex and lust are just the groupies of fame and fortune. True love, says Alex...
Posted by Antoinette on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:18:00 PST

..theirs is all the youth we might have had..

The Garden Party - Donald Davie. Above a stretch of still unravaged weald In our black country, in a cedar shade, I found, shared out in tennis-courts, a field Where children of the local magnates pla...
Posted by Antoinette on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:16:00 PST

..Reg Presley,trundling the Troggs round student unions banging out Wild Thing twice,with an..

  ..encore of Wild Thing..      The Sunday Times November 12, 2006 In a class of his own Age has not mellowed him, this beacon of cool eccentricity in a world of manufac...
Posted by Antoinette on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:50:00 PST

..on inspiration, that rare, random descent..

..to look, to see, to write..   Black Rook in Rainy Weather - Sylvia Plath    On the stiff twig up thereHunches a wet black rookArranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain-I do n...
Posted by Antoinette on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:25:00 PST