Mr Hollywould, not falling over, getting lots of lovely clothes from Uncle Sam's, blushing furiously, eating bananas suggestively in front of boys, JH Lynch, Popbitch popbitch popbitch, vitrines with interesting stuff in, not having panic attacks, getting up to no darn good, fa-shun, Christian Boltanski, the Victorians, using *asteriks* as punctuation, collecting clothes and make up, hiding, Roland Mouret, swooning, gutter-trash-glam, the Huntarian museum in the Royal College of Surgeons, rock climbing - although I haven't been in ages, arm wrestling, plucking my eyebrows, wandering around massive museums and galleries on my own and getting lost, getting tingely feelings, I like words like maelstrom, maremma, ratchet, arboretum and mausoleum, ponies, kittens, puppies, gigzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, going for walks on beaches and poking around in rock pools with a stick and a crabbing line, big scary weather, looking at stuff for ages, hoarding things I *might* need one day, moozak, spending quality time avec my buddies, randomly throwing French words into sentences, sleeping, kitsch, Vladimir Tretchikoff, under where?, not passing out at gigs, being toasty warm, kittens, inventing new swear words, trying to learn about being all technological-like, kittens, road trips, Betty Page and stuff like that, avoiding dog poo, trying to learn the concertina, fires - camp and otherwise, milky earl grey tea, etch-a-sketch, avacados, glitter, clothes, kittens, nice pants and warm socks, leopard print, pretty cowboy boots, blagging stuff, red wine, trying not to be hung-over/ finding the best hangover cures, my hair, kittens, driving - I really really want a black mk II Golf GTI - used to drive a well sexy bright red 1979 VW camper with a 2litre Porsche engine whacked in the back but then it died :( and I couldn't afford to keep it, my saxophone, showers, having an en suite so I can be neurotic without inflicting it upon anyone else, kittens, that clattery noise that vacuum cleaners make when they suck stuff up, having adventures, obsessing about stuff, worrying, all ancient and decrepid VW campers, pointy shoes, big wardrobes, clean kitchens, I like being a girly girl, any shoes in a size 9, kleptomania, kittens, cross stitch, knitting very very very long scarves, folkies, pampering, 'comedy' bikini-line waxing, men with facial hair, my bed, tight tight jeans, brocade, accessories and accessorizing, knitting, spingley spanglies, people who help other people cos they're nice and its a nice thing to do, avoiding eye contact, real ale, Bombay Sapphire, ice, electro disko dancing, dancing in general, avoidance. I don't like having my feet touched - try it and I'll kick yer head in.
I like more things than this, but it'd be very long and very boring to read. You've probably given up already in fact.
Kittens.
I'd like to meet:
someone who can get free beer
...failing that, these people...
...oh, and people who know the difference between their, there and they're, where, we're and were and that old fave, your and you're... GAH!!!!!
Don't even *think* about adding me if you don't know how or when to use these!
I mean it.
Music:
Normally changes from week to week... my favourites ever ever ever, among others in no particular order - Nick Cave, Pixies, Smog, Yo La Tengo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flaming Lips, Le Tigre, Hot Chip, Wilco, early PJ Harvey, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Pony Up, Eagles of Death Metal, Jim White, Jim O'Rourke, Sebadoh, Colder, Calexico, Kinski, Billy Bragg, Husky Rescue, Yes, Johnny Cash, Will Oldham, Jeffrey Lewis, Sonic Youth, James Yorkston, Envelopes, Joanna Newsome, Pulp, Wolfparade, Nina Nastasia, Elbow, Tunng, The Melvins, Deerhoof, Four Tet, Bjork, The Sonics, Dresden Dolls, Cat Power, Fuck, The Monks, Shit Disco, Mudhoney, Devo, The Arcade Fire, Jolie Holland, Sparklehorse, The Postal Service, My Morning Jacket, Joy Division, Stereolab, The Moldy Peaches, Superwolf, Micah P Hinson, The Neon Plastix, Fields, Pavement, New York Dolls, older Daft Punk stuff, The Concretes, The Von Bondies, Angelo Badalamenti, Ramones, Art Brut, Animal Collective, The Beta Band, Runaways, Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield, Human League, Mahler, Love, Clor, The Undertones, Link Wray, Velvet Underground (only if I'm the right mood though...), The Stranglers, Babes in Toyland, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Clash, The Make Up, Roxy Music, The Bush Tetras, Modettes, Simple Kid, Violent Femmes, The Slits, Bucky, The Termites, Graham Coxon, Ladytron, Josephine Foster, Mogwai, B-52s (not Love Shack), The Blue Orchids, Optimo and DFA DJs, Kings of Leon, Neneh Cherry, Interpol, Johnnie + The Hurricanes, Melt Banana, John Martin, X Ray Spex, LCD Soundsystem, The Spinto Band, CSS, Marlene Shaw, The Go! Team, Echo and the Bunnymen, Spanky Wilson, Noisettes, Death From Above, Django Reinhardt, Ok Go, Blondie, early Blur stuff, Patsy Cline, Michelle Shocked, Willard Grant, Talking Heads, Gillian Welch, any Northern Soul artists, RL Burnside, Modest Mouse, Herman Dune, Bumblebeez, St Etienne, Susumo Yokota, Dolly Parton, Beck, Lee Hazlewood, The Breeders, Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, The Fall, The Knife, Erase Errata, The Creepers, The Only Ones, Belle + Sebastian, Nancy Sinatra, Electrelane, Amusement Parks on Fire, The Smiths, Minnie Riperton, Al Green, Maximo Park, Sigur Ros, The Rakes, Architecture in Helsinki, Dirty Three, The Cure....
I was brought up in a time warp in the north listening to Jethro Tull, Marillion and Supertramp... still trying to get the ringing from my ears...
Movies:
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Wings of Desire, Downfall, The Goonies, Capote, Life of Brian, Rushmore, Down by Law, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, The Descent, loudQUIETloud, Performance, Some Kind of Monster, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Lantana, Roger Dodger - a very surprisingly great and under-hyped film that needs everyone's attention, The Breakfast Club, Blow Up, Susperia, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Some Like It Hot, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Best in Show, Baseketball, Orgazmo, American Psycho, A Mighty Wind, The Wicker Man, Withnail and I, Secretary, The Edukators, Goodbye Lenin! (bit of a Daniel Bruhl crush going on there), The Station Agent, The Return, Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky was a complete *genius*), Spirited Away, Lost in Translation, The Squid and the Whale, Black Narcissus, The Leopard, Noi the Albino, Oldboy, Team America, The Proposition (ok ok, I've got a bit of a Nick Cave obsession...) Dancer in the Dark, Adaptation, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine, Shrek, You, me and everyone we know, Cinema Paradiso, The Grudge (Japanese one) - anything that doesn't have Lindsay shitting Lohan in it or isn't utter gob shite, basically.
Television:
Hollyoaks all the way...
When Hollyoaks isn't on - Twin Peaks, T' Boosh, Peep Show, Green Wing, The Antiques Roadshow, Knightmare, Camberwick Green, Ivor the Engine, Ren + Stimpy, T4 (if only for Steve Jones...mmmm...), cheesy murder mysteries, Footballer's Wives, Most Haunted, Popworld, Brookie - RIP
:(...
Usual shit.
Books:
The Master and Margerita is *the* most fantastically amazingly briliant story I've ever read - Mikhail Bulgakov was a genius. *fact* Run out right now this minute and buy it! All of his plays and novels are worth pouring over.
Ivan Turganev - On the Eve - in fact... pretty much anything by old Russian guys....
The Delta of Venus - Anais Nin - can't beat a bit of beautifully written old French porn...
Nick Cave - And the Ass Saw the Angel, Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy, Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn, anything by DH Lawrence or F Scott Fitzgerald, Stuart Home - 69 Things to do with a Dead Princess, Patrick Suskind - Perfume, Patrick White - Riders in the Chariot, Graham Swift - Waterland, anything by Edgar Allan Poe... it goes on...
Put it in front of me and I'll generally read it... or at least look at it disdainfully...
Heroes:
My mum and dad. No-one else.
