drawing things, beading things, making things, altering anything that stands still for more than a minute-kittens beware.
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I'd like to meet:
Kirstie Allsopp. I firmly believe we would be best friends.
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Music:
jack johnson for those lazy afternoons in hammock (not enough of them);
dandy warhols for a good old bop;
arctic monkeys;
audio bullys (the new album is a grower);
nick harper (a must live, the greatest guitar player ever to have penned a song about titties and beer)
Gnarls Barkley
Counting Crows
Chemical Brothers
madness
the Storys
Elvis Costello
Pink Floyd
and loving the rogue traders- discovered them in Aus while drving my rental car around, and it is the best dancing song! and pete murray( he'll be on his way here soon!)
oh and always the good old herbie treeheead for nonsense and sleepy songs.
Movies:
Labyrinth,
big fish, ferris buellers day off, emperor's new groove, beaches, being john malkolvich, moulin rouge, priscilla queen of the desert, blade trilogy, kill bill, edward scissorhands, underworld, the adventures of baron munchausen, so many more, anything quirky and kitsch.
Television:
24, alias, desperate housewives, colin and justin's wedding belles ( car crash tv), lost, grand designs, property ladder, home and away,
and most of all location location location, because i am in love with the knitted vixen that is kirstie.
Books:
like water for chocolate, beloved, the longest memory, hitchikers guide, jonathan livingston seagull, calvin and hobbes, terry pratchett, tony hawks, and lots of biographies, and travel writing. i like books with pictures best.
currently reading ' a heartbreaking work of staggering genius' by dave eggers, and loving his style. have john o farrell lined up next, but it akes so long to read these days- no time! also reading 'we are family' by josie lloyd and emlyn rees with tom
Heroes:
kirstie allsopp (see above) for her feminine curves, 50's outfits and posh accent- I model myself on her.........
