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Jenny Ondioline

you've got to pick up every stitch

About Me

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My Interests

Generally interesting things.

I'd like to meet:

RIP

Music:

Loads more since I first wrote this, but I currently can't be bothered to update it. Anyhow, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Stooges, machine made R'n'B, David Bowie, The Duke Spirit, Hole, Part Chimp, Mark Lanegan, Kenickie, Hot Snakes, T-Rex, Kate Bush, Ikara Colt, Stereolab, PJ Harvey, Girls Aloud, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, old reggae, Art Brut, My Bloody Valentine, M.I.A., Bjork, Kurt Weill, Velvet Underground, Arcade Fire, The Slits, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four, Belly, Aphex Twin, Roots Manuva, Saul Williams, Mogwai, Phil Spector, Public Enemy, violent bubblegum pop, Roxy Music, New York Dolls, Bloc Party, Blondie, At the Drive In, Missy Elliot, be your own PET, Queens of the Stone Age, Frank Sinatra, Sonic Youth.

Movies:

Horror films, weird films and films with too much machismo in them. No Rom Com. *spits*

Television:

I like documentaries and some comedies. Anything with monsters and/or ghosts in it. You really can't go wrong with monsters and/or ghosts.

Books:

Henry Miller, Homer, William Blake, Anais Nin, folk stories, Kit Williams, D H Lawrence, Philip K Dick, John Kennedy Toole, Professor John Carey, Charles Baudelaire, John Milton, Michel Foucault, Ernest Hemmingway, Bret Easton Ellis, Joyce Carol Oates, W Somerset Maugham, Henry Rollins, Arthur Rimbaud, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Donne, Dante Alighieri, Giorgio de Santillana & Hertha von Dechend, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Bukowski, Arthur Bradford, Joseph Conrad, Yukio Mishima, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Hubert Selby Junior. Plus more stuff I read recently but haven't bothered to update in this list.

Heroes:

The Marchesa Luisa Casati - she wasn't a very nice person, but she knew how to work a look.

My Blog

The Strange Death of My Liberal Stereo

I'm sad to announce that after eight and a half years of constant use, my beloved stereo has finally died. It's been experiencing a slow decline over the last year - if you ask it to play a CD t...
Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:41:00 PST

Hugh Grant

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Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:41:00 PST

Oh Brother XL2120 Where Art Thou?

I'm investigating the possibilities of buying a sewing machine - very possibly this one - and having a go at making clothes. Yes, really. Auntie Joan (dad's sister), used to make all her ...
Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:20:00 PST

The Rest Will Follow Through, But I Didn't When I Met Jason Reece

Part of my birthday present to Steve was a ticket to see Trail of Dead play Liverpool Carling Academy last Saturday, and naturally it would have been extremely rude of me not to accompany him.We got ...
Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:47:00 PST

Hot Pix of My Magic Garden!

Step one - empty contents of box and read instructions. Have a cup of tea. Try forcing paper into slots. Realise that it won't fit together. Hack at the mountain with scissors. Step two -...
Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:25:00 PST

Untrue Romance

Today, on my way to work, we drove past a man who I recognised instantly as B. Aged 19, I had a crushing, burning lust for B, and I even found the courage to ask him out. He declined. I hadn't seen hi...
Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:05:00 PST

Panic at the (Christmas) Disco

A couple of weeks ago this email arrived in my work inbox -"The festive period is fast approaching and the (insert name of the university division my department comes under) Christmas Party will be o...
Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:43:00 PST

Don't Touch Me, I'm Sick

I've had flu for the last few days, I caught it off Maggie, but I don't hate her (much).I haven't felt this bad since the start of this year, and for the last couple of days I've been in bed. In fact...
Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:24:00 PST

Erinaceus europaeus

My dad just found a hibernating hedgehog (to be precise a Western European hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus) in the compost heap. My dad had to move him into the undergrowth, so we wrapped lots of leave...
Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:32:00 PST

Dan Quayle Found Alive and Well and Working at Monsoon

Because I work in the coldest place on earth (a converted stable building, very pretty but not built for people), in the winter I have to wear layers and layers of thick jumpers to avoid catching pneu...
Posted by Jenny Ondioline on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:37:00 PST