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Sally

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About Me

Endless bus journeys around South London. Dusty old books. Daydreaming most of my life away. Stealing cats. asking bartenders for drinks from the 1930's to confuse them. Writing.Pondering. Laziness. Big hair. Constant giving in to temptation. Anxiety over doing so. Big stupid ideas with very little action.Dreams of distant lands. Old mens pubs. And maybe a little more. One day.


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My Interests

Piracy, amateur anatomy, pipe smoking, freemasonry, the lost tribes of the south pacific, cemeteries, composing waltzes, Bed and Breakfasts with faded wallpaper.

I'd like to meet:

King Charles II and Henry Miller. Preferably together, in a cosy pub in Soho.

Music:

The Clash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Jacques Brel, Gogol Bordello, The Scientist, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Ukranians, Mercury Rev, Billie Holiday, Joy Division, Edith Piaf, The Cramps, The Fall,British Sea Power, M.I.A.,the Pixies, Lee Scratch Perry, Depeche Mode, The Specials, !!!, The Beta Band, Dusty Springfield, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Peaches, Le Tigre, Scott Walker, Flaming Lips, Roy Orbison, Django Reinhardt, The deity that is Tom Waits, Tricky, the Slits,Echo and the Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins, Dresden Dolls, Arcade Fire, Brian Jonestown Massacre

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, Grease, Mullholland Drive, The Servant, Gilda, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Lost Boys, La Reine Margot, Brighton Rock, Kung Fu Hustle, Colours, 2046, Cache, Secretary, Comme une Image, The Third Man, House of Fools, Withnail & I, My Fair Lady, The Misfits, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cabaret, Shaun of the Dead, Letter to Brezhnev, My Summer of Love, School for Scoundrels

Television:

Question Time and anything with John Snow

Books:

Novels set beside the seaside, novels with lots of rain in them, novels with miserable male anti-heroes, grand over the top epics, lost masterpieces, McGinn's colour atlas of human anatomy, anything to do with London, anything to do with the Spanish Civil War,anything with lots of blood and guts, Dostoevsky, Patrick Hamilton, Julian McClaren Ross, EM Forster, Iceberg Slim, Roy Porter, Henry Miller, F Scott Fitgerald, Allan Sillitoe, Peter Ackroyd, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Bukowski, Boris Pasternak, Graeme Greene, G K Chesterton, George Orwell, Joseph Heller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Iain Banks, vampire porn and French filth.

Heroes:

Joe Strummer for his service to popular culture; Tony Benn for his service to the British political system; the Earl of Sandwich for services rendered to my stomach; Dirk Bogarde.

My Blog

Towers and the Greys

  A fine line between the blues and the greys. The blues a rich musical melancholy; the greys: geographically specific. Where an overcast sky hanging damply over you, its pale light tripping off...
Posted by Sally on Sat, 17 May 2008 11:46:00 PST

The Twilight world..

The time has come where the taught part of my course is almost at an end, (2 ΒΌ essays to go...one week to write them in) and the four month dissertation slog begins. I can't belive how quickly the l...
Posted by Sally on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:13:00 PST

Diary of a Hypochondriac, Age 25 3/4

I have the most unglamourous malady of them all: hypochondria. A constant fear that I'm about to topple over with a fatal disease, and a tendency to persistently google potential symptons an...
Posted by Sally on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:31:00 PST

Jamie Oliver: judge, jailer, executioner.

He comes over like Jesus crossed with Mussolini. Judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one.. tenderly putting an arm around an elderly lady he has just informed that "statistically, only has sev...
Posted by Sally on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:03:00 PST

God bless the lack of market research...

I have a pathetic little hobby, to match my pathetically childish humour. I like to collect the names of shops with odd names. My main fodder is hairdressers, who more than any other retail sector&nbs...
Posted by Sally on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:58:00 PST

Nevermore....

Is there anyone out there? Do you know what's real anymore? I don't think I do. Take England. Saturday night. I stay in and I'm watching "Dance X" on the Beeb. In Dance X, teenagers and young twent...
Posted by Sally on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:11:00 PST

What life has taught me that my mother never warned me about

" First impressions do count" Starbucks = laziness (sorry I keep banging on about this, but it's true)" They are only a friend if they accept the particular insanities unique to you" There is salvatio...
Posted by Sally on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:07:00 PST

Evening class

I turn up early, because its my first class and I want to make a good impression. In seconds I know this writing class is a whole different kettle of fish from the old one. In place of my previous shi...
Posted by Sally on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:55:00 PST

Advertising executives want to be your best friend

It was on the BBC website; so it must be true. "Word of Mouth marketing is the latest advertising boom to hit the US, and now it's coming to Britain". This delightful form of marketing is when the av...
Posted by Sally on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:54:00 PST

New years resolutions....

Its the time for shallow promises again. A somewhat useless but nonetheless cheerful attempt to impove our lives in the little ways we know how. Thus follows my idiotic contribution to the spirit of "...
Posted by Sally on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:02:00 PST