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About Me

My Interests

Music, literature, film, theatre, dance, art, spring time and autumn colours, a good book on a winter's night, exchanging music, watching the tide, clothes on a washing line, watching the rain.

I'd like to meet:

Likeminded souls

Music:

href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"Get Your Own! | View SlideshowGreen Day, Operation Ivy, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Kaiser Chiefs, Joy Division, Interpol, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Hard Fi, Bloc Party, Travis, The Manic Street Preachers, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, The Cure, Cat Power, The Subways, The Coral, The New Pornographers, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, My Chemical Romance,Lost Prophets, System of a Down, David Bowie, The Doleful Lions, The Pretenders, Joan Armatrading, Radio Head, The Editors, Graham Coxon, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Razorlight, Franz Ferdinand, Devedra Banhart, CocoRosie, Arcade Fire, Kasabian, Neutral Milk Hotel, Brighteyes, Elliot Smith, Ben Folds, Stephen Malkmus, P J Harvey ........Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

Movies:

Donnie Darko, All Johnny Depp movies, The Blues Brothers, Withnail and I, Hero, Shakepeare on film, Sunshine of the Eternal Mind, 21 Grams, Being John Malkovich

Television:

The Fast Show, Film 200. with Johnathan Ross, soaps, Friends, Jools Holland,

Books:

Chatterton and most other Peter Ackroyd books, Frankenstein, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Trumpet by Jackie Kay, Unless by Carol Shields, Music and Silence by Rose Tremain, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Complete Works of Shakespeare, Year of the King by Antony Sher, Beside Myself by Antony Sher, Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, Germinal by Emile Zola, Dickens novels, Thomas Hardy novels, Middlemarch by George Eliot, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Northhanger Abbey by Jane Austin .....Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

Heroes:

Shakespeare, Rosa Parks, Mary Woolstencroft, Mary Shelley, Paul Weller, Johnny Depp, Joan Armatrading, Antony Sher, P J Harvey, Steve Hogarth, Tori Amos, Michael Stipe

My Blog

Insincerity of Christmas

Time for a friend, indeed! You never think of me 364 days of the year But when Christmas arrives, cards must be sent And on a list my name must appear. "On the card I must include my e-m...
Posted by Jeni on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:48:00 PST

A Christmas Tale

Christmas in the South Wales Valleys It is at this magical time of the year That the sound of jingle bells and slays can be heard. When Santa and Rudolph through the air they do fly...
Posted by Jeni on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:41:00 PST

Ashes to Ashes

You are now dust, ash that I scatter around the treeBut once you were a powerwhich hung over me and dest...
Posted by Jeni on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:48:00 PST

Separate Spaces

Far away you and I away from the worldI can be me and you yourselfAnd nobody bothers us. No pressures of jealousy impose themselvesNo temptations to look for moreCan entice us away from ourOne true lo...
Posted by Jeni on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:41:00 PST

Love is All Around

Love is all aroundexcept where you are found.Love is in the airBut it's not as if you care. All you need is loveBut you send bombs not a dove.Deadmen sing the song of yesterdayThe living sing the song...
Posted by Jeni on Wed, 31 May 2006 03:13:00 PST

Favorite Song Lyrics

Forgotten Sons - Marillion Armalite, street lights, nightsightsSearching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighterDeath in the shadows he'll maim you, he'll wound you, he'll kill youFor a long forgot...
Posted by Jeni on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:04:00 PST

Favorite Quotes

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other sid...
Posted by Jeni on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:59:00 PST

Some Favorite Poems

Stevie Smith - Not Waving But DrowningNobody heard him, the dead man,But still he lay moaning:I was much further out than you thoughtAnd not waving but drowning.Poor chap, he always loved larkingAnd n...
Posted by Jeni on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:49:00 PST