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About Me

19 year old Briton. I am a Student at Canterbury University where I study music I play the harp and it is my passion. I study with Gabriella Dall'olio who is just incredible. I'd like to play in Orchestras but as long as I can take the harp thru life and keep playing, I find that's important After university I aim to study the harp in France. I love to read and think and daydream all the time, I like to play folk music, and I write my own songs. I Want to meet new people and find new and fulfilling friendships with people all over the world, really. Reading is a big deal of course; My favourite writers are Henry James, V. Nabokov, Annie Proulx, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. I have a huge interest in Languages. I speak French and German to fairly good standard, but I'd still like to speak Russian or Italian... Talk to me (in your language of choice)! This profile was edited with MySpace Help - Profile Creator and Editor MySpace Profile Help!

My Interests

Reading books, playing the harp and the piano, singing, writing my own stories, writing letters, making things, speaking foreign languages, composing,writing my own songs, the lute, Narwhals, fishes, coral, clams, starfish, sea lavender; anything to with the sea! Walks, Pagahm harbour, mediaeval art and tapestries. I journal everyday, extensive scrapbooks on everything! Sitting in cafes watching the people...I play the harp but I still want to play the LUTE, HARPSICHORD, FLUTE AND THE 'CELLO!! I love these intstrumnets 3

I'd like to meet:

People of a peaceful, passionate, friendly, open minded and liberal nature for friendship and letter writing...

Music:

Joanna Newsom, The Mamas and the Papas, FLEETWOOD MAC, The moody blues, Carly Simon, Bright eyes, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lyn, Jenny Lewis,The arcade fire, ABBA, T-Rex, Devendra Banhart, Scatter, Dolly Parton, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, the Beatles, Mystery Jets, etc. Iron and wine, Vetiver. Strongly pro- classical music (Sibelius, Ravel ,Vaughan-williams, Gershwin, Albeniz, Schoenberg and Dvorak)

Movies:

German films like; 'Die Fatten Jahren sind vorbei' (also known as 'Die Edukators')and 'Der Wald vor lauter baumen'- (amazing amazing amazing)Donnie Darko, Uncle Silas, Rear Window, Cold mountain, The corspe bride, Spirited Away, Jarhead, Howl's moving castle, Picnic at hanging rock, Alice in wonderland (!).

Television:

Anything about nature, Desperate housewives (sorry! I know I'm a clone).

Books:

"The Great Gatsby", by F.Scott Fitzgerald; "East of Eden", by John Steinbeck; "Lolita" and "Speak Memory", by V. Nabokov; ; "Washington Square" AND 'Daisy Miller' by Henry James. "Reading Lolita in Tehran", by Azar Nafisi, 'Ariel' by Sylvia Plath.

Heroes:

My old German lecturer, Bet MacDonald; my harp teacher, Frances Kelly; Joanna Newsom (harpist and singer), my favourite harpists, Alice Giles, Isabelle Moretti, Anna Verkholantseva; AND Ronnie Barker, Mary O'hara (Irish harper and singer), my piano teacher, Terence and.....Mark Bolan...Pauline Quirke...

My Blog

Toot's memoirs

I just finished Judith Moore's memoir, 'Fat Girl'. To be honest, it broke my heart. Praised by most writers, it is sometimes disregarded by some critics as a piece of 'monumental self-pity'. I d...
Posted by Young folkie harpiste on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:35:00 PST

The concerto and the opera; my secret demons.

I have so much to prepare. I don't feel ready and I don't feel adeqaute, and I don't feel capable! There are few times where I have felt so uncertain as to what will happen to me. The world of music i...
Posted by Young folkie harpiste on Mon, 01 May 2006 11:40:00 PST

les choses. Elles Changent!

Things change in so short a time. I am beginning to cope with time a little more. I feel more active and more creative than I did before. I write much more and I have a nice little box of stories and ...
Posted by Young folkie harpiste on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:25:00 PST

My space? How funny.

Hello World! I actually have a blog, and you have my profile, so I guess you could learn enough about me through that! I am not terribly interesting, but I have a lot of interests, adn a strong desire...
Posted by Young folkie harpiste on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:20:00 PST