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Holloway Girl

Author. Dream-weaver. Visionary. Plus student.

About Me

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I am obsessively organised and alphabetise my DVDs, so what could be more apt than an A-Z?
(a) avocado, alphabetising
(b) bisexuality, baklava, b3ta
(c) chocolate, card-making, crystals
(d) driving, deconstruction, drinking!
(e) Eddie Izzard, eyeshadow
(f) food, French
(g) guinea pigs, gin, gooseberries, gigs
(h) horsing around, hummus
(i) internet, intimate evenings, incense
(j) jokes, Jump
(k) kitties, Karnataka
(l) law, lime and lemonade (mixed with vodka), the L Word, Liberal Democrats
(m) Marillion, Manchester
(n) New Age
(o) organisation, orange juice (and gin!!)
(p) pineapple, planning, politics, postmodernism
(q) questioning, quiet
(r) reading, rock
(s) spells, socialising, scrapbooks
(t) telly (not much tbh), typing, talking to my guinea pig
(u) using imagination...apparently not for "u" words though!
(v) violin (ex), voting
(w) writing, whisking (cake mix)
(x) eXtinguishing the fires of a private hell, provoking the heartache to renew the licence...(I was stuck...)
(y) yes this is difficult
(z) zzzzzz

My Interests

Prog and post-metal type music, rebelling against commercial chart music :)
Politics and philosophy
Northern-ness...OK maybe it's adopted but Northerners are the best!
Comedy in various forms...make me laugh and you've got me hook line and sinker.

I'd like to meet:

Eddie Izzard. Jimmy Carr(fait accompli!). Frankie Boyle. Hugh Dennis. Paul Whitehouse. Stephen Fry. Hugh Laurie. Rowan Atkinson. Noel Fielding. Russell Brand.
Steve Hogarth. Ian Mosley. Mark Kelly. Steve Rothery. Pete Trewavas.
David Duchovny. Johnny Depp. John Stuart Mill. Jeremy Bentham (not the stuffed corpse at UCL thank you very much!).


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Music:

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Amplifier
Anemo
Arcade Fire
Arena
Bon Jovi
Culture Club
Credo
Cyndi Lauper
Darwin's Radio
David Bowie
Dead Like Harry
Dire Straits
Dream Academy
Duran Duran
Eurythmics
Evanescence
Explosions In The Sky
Faithless
Finger Eleven
Fish
Genesis
Grey Lady Down
Isis
It Bites
IQ
Jadis
Jeniferever
Johnny Cash
JUMP
Karnataka
Kate Bush
Kino
Magenta
MARILLION
Mogwai
Mostly Autumn
Mylo
NEO
Now
Oasis (MANCHESTAAA)
Oceansize
Opeth
Pendragon
Peter Gabriel
Pink Floyd
Placebo
Porcupine Tree
Primus
Pure Reason Revolution
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine
Razorlight
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Redjetson
Robert Palmer
Rush
Simple Minds
*something pretty*
Spock's Beard
Sting & The Police
Strangefish
Talking Heads
The Automatic
The Clash
The Cult
The Darkness
The Gathering
The Howling Bells
The Reasoning
The Smiths
The Verve
The Walkaways
The Who
The Wishing Tree
U2 (the older stuff)
Ultravox
Yello
YES
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies

Movies:

Cruel Intentions
Life of Brian/Holy Grail
Walk the Line
Pirates of the Caribbean
Edward Scissorhands
Syriana
Labyrinth
Young Sherlock
Ali G Indahouse (init)
The Aristocrats

Television:

8 out of 10 Cats
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Ally McBeal
Angel
Blackadder
Black Books
Buffy
Coupling
Charmed
Friends
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
I'm Alan Partridge
JEREMY KYLE
Knowing Me Knowing You
League of Gentlemen
Millennium
Mock The Week
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Not The Nine O'Clock News
One Tree Hill
Peep Show
QI
Rush Hour
Spaced
Spitting Image
The Fast Show
The L Word
The Mighty Boosh
The Young Ones
Twin Peaks
West Wing
X Files

Books:

1984 by George Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
David Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean series
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
John Wyndham:
1. The Chrysalids
2. The Midwich Cuckoos
3. The Day of the Triffids

Heroes:

Oscar Wilde
John Stuart Mill
Eddie Izzard
Steve Hogarth
Jimmy Carr
Russell Brand
Noel Fielding
Rowan Atkinson
Frankie Boyle
The baby-eating bishop of Bath and Wells
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are...

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My Blog

Hiding in her cellophane world in Glittertown

Is this taking procrastination to a whole new level? I just copied my blogs from Myspace over to Bebo - I suppose I am an official teenybopper emo social networking whore. I blame the insomnia, person...
Posted by Holloway Girl on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:18:00 PST

Living in a mindless state.

Marillion's "You're Gone" caresses my ears from the direction of my brother's room. A few hours earlier I was in a trance-like state in Lytham's fine Station Tavern as "Incubus" followed "Brave" and "...
Posted by Holloway Girl on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:02:00 PST

Does anyone else think...

...that there's something not quite right about Gary Lineker?
Posted by Holloway Girl on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:38:00 PST

Paris diaries, vol. 2

Thursday 09/08/07 Bonne matin, Paris! Today we decided to check out our local area. We walked through the Jardin du Luxembourg, wishing it was sunnier but appreciative nonetheless. It's quite awe...
Posted by Holloway Girl on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:13:00 PST

Paris Diaries vol. 1

Whilst on holiday in Paris I kept a travel journal. I don't yet know for what purpose: maybe I'll look back at it in years to come and remember my first visit to this beautiful city. It's quite self-i...
Posted by Holloway Girl on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:14:00 PST

Rock FM

Marillion fans take note.On the recent entry of Marillion's single, "Thank You Whoever You Are" into the top 40 this afternoon, Preston's Rock FM DJ Lucio felt it necessary to insult the band and the ...
Posted by Holloway Girl on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:18:00 PST

Productive prose (or not)

What is there left to do if an exam is finished 20 minutes early but write a description of what you see for no true purpose? Anyone who's had an exam in Sackville Street building will know what I'm t...
Posted by Holloway Girl on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:54:00 PST

177

...is now my lucky number. This many people in Freckleton wanted me to be their councillor; which pleasantly surprised me and highlights the fact that despite the lack of democracy sadly prevalent in ...
Posted by Holloway Girl on Sat, 05 May 2007 11:48:00 PST

A matter of concern to me

...that so many young people won't be voting in the upcoming local elections on May 3rd.If you're 18+ or will be by then, GET YOURSELF REGISTERED at www.aboutmyvote.co.ukIf you are registered to vote,...
Posted by Holloway Girl on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:21:00 PST

Deontology, council, social norms and flannels

Having just read through my old blogs as a procrastinatory device, I was struck by two things. One, I used to spend too much time filling in surveys; two, I have changed a lot since filling them in. M...
Posted by Holloway Girl on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:53:00 PST