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Sleepy Creatures

Ne pas faire confiance à la droite

About Me

Like Laura Palmer...full of secrets..

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My Interests

Reading amazing books, listening to music...all kinds and appreciating what magic goes into creating it! Travelling....meeting new people and hanging with friends, filming my friends dances, writing for Groove Guide, interviewing, organising petitions.....new one on the way!

I'd like to meet:

I already met them

Music:

The Cure, Jim Moray, Matt Yearbook, Tones on Tail, Primal Scream, IAMX, Interpol, Hot Hot Heat, The Rapture, The Checks, The Electric Confectionaires, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Mesh, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Duran Duran, OMD, Ray LaMontagne, The Killers, Echo & the Bunnymen, M83, Sigur Ros, A-ha, Suede, The Tears, Shart Noveau, Arcadia, My Bloody Valentine, VHS or Beta, The Faint, Gang of Four Placebo, Bloc Party, Morrissey, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Ryan Adams, The Church, Love and Rockets, Tori Amos, The Mint Chicks, The Psychedelic Furs, Sisters of Mercy, The Tutts, Fiona Apple, Kapital, The Batwing Sleeves, Placebo, Beth Orton, The Cribs, Tom Waits, Editors, Pluto, The Octopus Project, Gomez, Scarling, Madonna, Goldfrapp, Grant Lee Phillips, Mansun, Bright Eyes, The Strokes, Manic Street Preachers, AFI, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Love and Rockets, The Veils, Prince, The Sneaker Pimps, Neko Case, The Arcade Fire, The Fall, Julia Darling, Little Bushmen, Richard Swift.

Movies:

Woody Allen Films - but primarily, 'Husbands and Wifes', 'Zelig', 'Annie Hall', 'Manhattan', 'Sleeper', 'Another Woman', 'Love and Death', 'Hannah and her Sisters'& 'Stardust Memories' David Lynch obviously all of 'Twin Peaks' even the extremely trippy bits like the phone receiver twisting and Joan Chens face appearing in it, 'Mulholland Drive', 'Wild at Heart' 'Blue Velvet' & 'Mulholland Drive' 'Heathers', 'The Breakfast Club', 'Pretty In Pink' (generally all of the classic 80's teen flicks) 'Halloween', 'Donnie Darko', 'Capote', 'Henry and June','Pollock', 'Play Misty For Me', 'Dirty Harry' films, 'The Prince of Central Park' cos it reminds me of being young and playing in a park, 'Say Anything', 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari', 'C.R.A.Z.Y', 'Lovely and Amazing', Jim Jarmusch films, 'Lost in Tranlation'.....if I keep adding their will be a list so long it will kill you with boredom to read it........and thanks to youtube a film i adored as a 12 yr old "Raise the Titanic" Thank god for Southeby!

Television:

Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Outrageous Fortune, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Later with Jools Holland, Carnivale, Melrose Place, Flight of the Conchords, Dexter.

Books:

John Fante, Chad Taylor, Henry Miller, Simone De Beauvoir, Douglas Coupland, Cormac McCarthy, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, Jim Crace, John Fowles, Charles Bukowski, Dorothy Parker, Anais Nin, Billy Collins, Iain Banks (but not the sci-fi stuff), Don Delillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Charlaine Harris, David Sedaris, James Frey, Augusten Burroughs....

Heroes:

Wilbur, Weeble, Jo and Laura.

My Blog

You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease

Hooray for Youtube, Last night I was wasting time before going to bed watching old music videos, I had a sudden wave of nostalgia, I used to be quite the pop-kid when I was at high school, in fact a p...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:42:00 PST

This Still Life

I read something last night that killed me...a reviewer was slating the new Brett Anderson album, and called Suede terminally uncool....fuck you you fucker! In honour of the fact they will always be a...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:09:00 PST

The Antichrist is screaming at me

What beckoneth from ye speakerbox? I am a total musical phase boy and by that I mean, I get hooked into certain parts of my music collection for extended periods at a time, although there are always c...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:29:00 PST

The Sun & The Moon

Sometimes when you get to review albums, you strike it lucky and get something you really like, in this instance I have had the good fortune to review the same album twice - The Bravery ' The Sun & T...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:46:00 PST

The Cure Mania

It's Cure mania at Sleepy Towers at present, check out the swoon-tastic new tracks I have posted, from the dreamy screamy 'Underneath the Stars' to the two brilliant singles 'The Only One' and 'Freaks...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:17:00 PST

In The Margins

In The Margins I was reading "Turqoise Days" an Echo & the Bunnymen bio and it refreshed my love of the band, every so often a reminder is needed to revisit certain bands I think. With Echo I often ha...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:23:00 PST

More of the same, except now it gives me a migraine

An album I can wholeheartedly recommend you don't listen to, is the new, rather recycled "Third" the imaginatively titled new Portishead album. From the interviews I've read you would think they have ...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:09:00 PST

Apparently those were bombs not planes

Hurumph! So last night I was with some dear friends enjoying home made pizza and wine, beer etc, after a salty days work on building a cupboard. Yes how manly and productive of me. Well the evening to...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:14:00 PST

I come in with this darkness and I go away white

I'm currently reading "Crystal Lake Memories" - The Complete History of Friday the 13th, the title about to become a misnomer what with the inevitable remake to hit screens in 2009.   While this ...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:42:00 PST

Strange News

I saw this strange bit of news on the net, it is reportedly true, it comes from reliable site (pitchforkmedia) and is very very odd.Aside from the it is a horrible loss for his daughter and estranged ...
Posted by Sleepy Creatures on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:52:00 PST