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Tasha

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About Me



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My Interests

I love netball (am a self-confessed netball geek); I love animals - have three cats and two snakes - would have a zoo if I could. I love Japan and anything Japanese - am fascinated by their culture and traditions juxtaposed with the extremely modern fashion and technology.I love Christmas and everything about it.I love crockery that doesn't match - life's too short to have matching stuff - that goes for underwear too. I also like religious kitsch - really want to get hold of a portrait of the virgin mary that has little lights around it - If you know where I can get one, let me know.

I'd like to meet:

Robert De Niro;Sam Rockwell;Peter Kay; Tony Soprano - I'd endure the nasal breathing and enormous belly just to be near big T, the king of New Jersey. Maron! I'd even consent to being his gumah.

Music:

An eclectic mix: The Beatles; Sufjan Stevens; Kaiser Chiefs; The Sundays; Arctic Monkeys; The Kinks; Gomez; Donovan; Kings of Leon; Goldfrapp; PJ Harvey; The Rolling Stones; The Velvet Underground; The Pixies; Hendrix; Coldplay; Snow Patrol; Pink; The Small Faces; The Animals; The Cure; The Honeysmugglers; Nirvana; Rufus Wainwright; The Feeling; Belle and Sebastian; Nina Simone; Christina Aguilera; Prince

Movies:

so many: The Godfather part I; Goodfellas; The Godfather part II; Star Wars original trilogy; Leon; Apocalypse Now; Kill Bill vol I and II; Sin City; LA Confidential;Goodfellas; The Usual Suspects; The Ring (Japanese version); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hero; Lost in Translation; The Magnificent Seven; The Krays; The Lost Boys; The Great Escape; Anchorman; Zoolander; X-Men and X-Men 2; Spiderman and Spiderman 2; The Fantastic Four; (I love superhero films); Black Hawk Down; Escape to Victory; Rocky III; Fight Club; Charlie and The Chocolate Factory; Tim Burton films; American Beauty; Memento; 51st State; Love Actually; Donnie Darko; The Frighteners; Seven; Bruce Lee films; Payback; Training Day; Best In Show; Sweet Home Alabama; Lake Placid; Shaun of the Dead; Gladiator; Sling Blade; Martial Arts films; We Were Soldiers; Reservoir Dogs; Taxi Driver; Trainspotting; Crash; Scream; Pulp Fiction; Snatch; True Romance; The Lion King; Shrek II; Batman and Batman Returns; Batman Begins; Interview with a Vampire; Galaxy Quest; Hawk the Slayer; The Goonies; Mean Streets;

Television:

The Sopranos - just the best series ever made; Scrubs - the funniest programme on tv; Buffy (I know it's sad - but I love her); Angel; ER; Hotel Babylon; Will & Grace (except that I hate Grace); 24; Lost; Dark Angel; My Name is Earl; Dungeons and Dragons (the cartoon); Sport - athletics, gymnastics, football, netball, ice skating; Kath and Kim; America's Next Top Model; Hong Kong Phooey; The A-Team; Streethawk; Manimal; Dangermouse; Charmed; The Red Hand Gang; Crackerjack; Mooncat; The Moomins; Chorlton and the Wheelies; Jamie and the Magic Torch; Bones; Close to Home: CSI;

Books:

I love books. Love the classics. love sci fi stuff, don't do chick lit.Under Plum Lake; The Synthetic Man; A Confederacy of Dunces; His Dark Materials Trilogy (genius!); The Magus; Beloved; Shakespeare - especially King Lear (love the darkness of it); The Stars Tennis Balls; The Alchemist; Christopher Brookmyre books; Memoirs of a Geisha; JK Rowling; Pride and Prejudice; Money by Martin Amis; Haruki Marukami books; A Catcher in the Rye; To Kill a Mockingbird; Goodnight Mister Tom; The Faraway Tree stories; Most Enid Blyton (the books of my youth); Brett Easton Ellis; Terry Pratchett; Snow Country; I'm OK, You're OK by Thomas someone;

Heroes:

Tony Soprano; Devastatin' Dave Rorschach

My Blog

Heartbroken

My cat died on Tuesday.  My beloved Seiko.  She had a tumour and was very poorly so I had to take the decision to have her put to sleep.  I know it was the right thing to do.  I kn...
Posted by Tasha on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:01:00 PST

Halloween II

Obviously as it's 31st October today all the tv channels are obliged to cram their timetables with as many frightening programmes and films as possible. Most stations have come up trumps: BBC One - Ha...
Posted by Tasha on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:35:00 PST

Trick or Treat? or just Shite?

Just a short blog and not a diatribe about Halloween heralding the onslaught of Americanism in the UK forcing the death of the British culture etc.  This seems to be the gener...
Posted by Tasha on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:29:00 PST

Baby's First Tattoo

Okay, so I've finally decided to get a tattoo.  I've actually wanted one for years, but was waiting till I could decide what to get.  Didn't want to just pick one out of a book, I wanted it ...
Posted by Tasha on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:38:00 PST

Race for Life Part IV: A New Hope

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... Well, actually just over a week ago in a muddy park in Hemel Hempstead, The morning mist was beginning to dissipate revealing the sodden ground punctuate...
Posted by Tasha on Tue, 30 May 2006 06:28:00 PST