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Gail

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About Me



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"Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked...in the head...with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. It's a dumb question...skip it."

My Interests

Music, art, galleries, cinema, museums, clubs, pubs, illustration, photography, design, web design

I'd like to meet:

Malcontents and miscreants.

Music:

Goldfrapp, Kylie, Peter Bjorn + John, Groove Armada, Badly Drawn Boy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, My Chemical Romance, The Smiths, Scissor Sisters, Interpol, Ladytron, Keane, Bedroom Walls, Franz Ferdinand, Delays, Blondie, Stone Roses, Ian Brown, Oppenheimer, Madness, The Specials, Turin Brakes, Camera Obscura, Royksopp, Neutral Milk Hotel, Blur, David Bowie, Outkast, Metric, Suede, T-rex, Pulp, St.Etienne, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, The Postal Service, The Grates, R.E.M, The Killers, The Beatles, Gary Numan, The Mountain Goats, Pet Shop Boys, Girls Aloud, Gorillaz, Jose Gonzalez, Super Fury Animals, Manic Street Preachers, Arcade Fire, Supergrass, The Strokes, Editors...

Movies:

Moulin Rouge, About Schmidt, Rumble Fish, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Billy Liar, Beautiful Thing, Cabaret, Giant, Small Faces, The Royal Tenenbaums, Mona Lisa, East of Eden, Adaptation, Wish You Were Here, The Rules of Attraction, Withnail and I, The Graduate, Capote, Gladiator, Brokeback Mountain, Grease, Bugsy Malone, The Talented Mr.Ripley, Mrs.Henderson Presents, An Awfully Big Adventure, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Ice Storm, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, The Boyfriend, Edward Scissorhands, The Producers (orginal version), Entertaining Mr.Sloan, I Heart Huckabees, Pleasantville, Control.

Television:

Greenwing, Teachers, Kath and Kim, The I.T Crowd, Peep Show, Spaced, My Name is Earl, Harry Hill, Alan Partridge, Roman's Empire, anything with sharks in, history programmes documentaries and the news. (Currently addicted to BBC4 & Dave)

Books:

Atonement, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Generation X, The Yes Man, Alice in Wonderland, Essays in Love, The Great Ideas, Remains of the Day, Capote: A Biography, If No-One Speaks of Remarkable Things, Arthur and George, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime, anything by Ali Smith...

Heroes:

James Dean, Debbie Harry, Stephen Fry, Keith Moon, Eddie Izzard, Kenneth Williams, Douglas Copeland, Morrisey, Kenny Dalglish, Alphonse Muncha, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Liza Minelli, The Beatles, Jarvis Cocker, Tchaikovsky.. ((you are all heroes to someone))

My Blog

Interesssting...

Fully searchable web site of all 197,745 criminal trials at the Old Bailey (1674-1913)Search for who was burned alive for copying coins(!) Who got sent down for piracy. Bigamy, buggery and brothels - ...
Posted by Gail on Wed, 21 May 2008 05:49:00 PST

Word.

According to your ex, you are?I have no idea, they haven't spoken to me in a year and a half, so they prob hate my guts. But that's because I can be a right tit-basket at times *sigh*When was the last...
Posted by Gail on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:58:00 PST

Video-rama

Couple of clips from The Onion which I found amusing: ...
Posted by Gail on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:32:00 PST

Make ya own toys!

How ace is this...Readymechs are free toys to print out as PDFs...all you need is some card and 10 minutes of time:Readymech
Posted by Gail on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:13:00 PST

Fazzybook

Thanks to Sandy for sending this bossness: ...
Posted by Gail on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:57:00 PST

Dev

I had to take Devon to the vets on Tuesday. (Not eating etc) The vets decided to take out some teeth, and have various tests for swollen lymph glands etc. It was later decided that he probably had kid...
Posted by Gail on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:30:00 PST

Workio

I have now officially left work now, so am free for birthdays, weddings and barmitzphas*, or sitting in the Jolly Miller pub, I know you love it really.(*as soon as the cold goes)G x...
Posted by Gail on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:15:00 PST

The only way Im gonna get a recording contract...

Ever wanted to know what your record would look like if it was released and pressed? (Ok, ignoring the fact that everything's gone digital now and an mp3 would look about as exciting as a day out to C...
Posted by Gail on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:19:00 PST

Apropos of nothing

With Christmas round the corner I have been wondering about what crap to buy myself for a reasonable small sum. Ok, it'll prob feed a village in Mozambique for 3 weeks, but Christmas being the season ...
Posted by Gail on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:48:00 PST

If you remember this you grew up in the 1890s..

If you remember this you grew up in the 1890sJust wanted to remind people of the good ole days.You're an 1890's kid if:You've ever ended a sentence with "Indeed!"You can sing the lyrics to "I Guess I'...
Posted by Gail on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:22:00 PST