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Ilona

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About Me

Freelance editor and full-time Actionette, I love sleeping, watching BBC4, sewing, pie, bargains, 60s Polish film posters, nosing around people's houses, feminism, any old timey footage of London.

My Interests

Dancing with the fabulous Actionettes, reading, Routemaster buses, buildings, buying stuff on eBay, Stephen, decorating my new house, charity shops, going for long walks, drinking, spying on scary next door neighbours, skiving, museums, cake (baking and eating), cheese, japanese food, finding the perfect pair of flat, brown ankle boots, my twin neices

Movies:

Silk Stockings, Trust, It's A Wonderful Life, Spellbound, Insomnia, Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion, Pretty In Pink, Manhattan, Play It Again Sam, Born In Flames, Next Stop Wonderland

Television:

Lost, CSI, Desperate Housewives, ER, any home decoration/makeover shows, Sopranos, West Wing, 24

Books:

Cruddy by Linda Barry, Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, all Katha Pollitt, Joan Didion, Mary Gaitskill, Carson McCullers, The Bus We Loved by I've forgotten his name, Richard Wright, Judy Blume, James Baldwin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Crow's Devil by Marlon James, The Devil Wears Prada, Everyone Worth Knowing, Female Chauvanist Pigs

Heroes:

Judy Blume, Roseanne, Sara Paretsky, Kathleen Hanna, Katha Pollitt, Gloria Steinem