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ruth

come down on the street and dance with me

About Me

wrote a fanzine for 6 years
went travelling
went to uni in sheffield
spend a lot of time dancing wherever and whenever possible
inspect bridges for a living
HATE having wet socks
LOVE making compliation tapes for my friends

My Interests

Music:

Arcade Fire
Aretha Franklin
Art Brut
Beastie Boys
Beck
Billy Talent
Bis
Bjork
Blackalicious
Blood Brothers
Brand New
Brassy
Britney
Buzzcocks
Charlotte Hatherley
Clearlake
The Decemberists
The Delgados
Diana Ross
The Dismemberment Plan
Dizzee Rascal
The Doors
Dusty Springfield
Eels
Future Ex-Wife
Gold Chains
Grandaddy
Har Mar Superstar
Help She Can't Swim
Hot Hot Heat
Hundred Reasons
Insane Clown Posse
Jay Z
Jeremy Warmsley
Lady Sovereign
The Long Blondes
The Long Winters
Los Campesinos
Love
The Mamas and the Papas
Mars Volta
Mclusky
Monkey Swallows the Universe
Muse
Nada Surf
NERD
The New Pornographers
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nina Nastasia
Nine Inch Nails
Ooberman
Outkast
Reuben
The Shins
Sleater Kinney
Stone Temple Pilots
The Streets
Super Furry Animals
System of a Down
Tool
Ugly Duckling
Urusei Yatsura
The Vandals
Weezer

Movies:

Spinal Tap
Amelie
anything by Studio Ghibli
(my favourite is Howl's Moving Castle)
Wayne's World
O Brother Where Art Thou
Heathers
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The History Boys

Television:

TWIN PEAKS!
Also... Black Books
Scrubs
Futurama
Columbo
Buffy
Firefly
Green Wing
Mighty Boosh

Books:

I like books that take me to far away places such as Arundhati Roy's God of Small Things and Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate and of course Memoirs of a Geisha. On Beauty by Zadie Smith is also excellent.

My Blog

some gigs i have been to

This Friday I went to see Ugly Duckling who were tremendous fun. Californian fun hip hop, genius stuff, lots of involving the crowd and general fun. Then Monkey Swallows the Universe on Saturday at th...
Posted by ruth on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:51:00 PST

Cuba!

We went to Cuba for just over a week and it was brilliant. We went on a tour of the country and there were only 2 other people on it, and our tour guide and driver were both Cuban so I think we got ...
Posted by ruth on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:18:00 PST

Nine Inch Nails are amazing

They blew my socks off at the Apollo last night! Hearing 'Hurt' live is always a wrench on the old heart strings but also loved 'Last' which is one of my all time faves. I just love the start of that ...
Posted by ruth on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:30:00 PST

2006: the music, the memories...

Well it's about that time of year when everyone starts asking what your favourite things of 2006 were. So I decided I'd get in there early and get my lists up!   6 Favourite albums of 2006 1. Bi...
Posted by ruth on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:02:00 PST

My favourite band of the moment

I just can't stop listening to The Shins. I only got their albums coz they were curating ATP so I decided to have a listen before we went and I thought, these are OK, nothing special but nice tunes......
Posted by ruth on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:07:00 PST

ATP2 2006: The full story

Well I had a damned fantastic time at atp this year, so i thought it deserved a bit of a write up. Big up to my chalet mates, Damon, Dan, Philippa, Han, Matt and the ever entertaining Toby! Go team! S...
Posted by ruth on Tue, 23 May 2006 02:06:00 PST

my favourite songs of today

i'm listing this for my own benefit really! i do enjoy lists. ooh yes. so this is a list of what i'm most enjoying listening to at the moment...» kevin blechdom - invisible rock» mars volta - inertiat...
Posted by ruth on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:22:00 PST