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Miss Emily Golightly, Travelling

walking on water wasn't built in a day

About Me

Here are some things I like:
Books.
Toasters.
University.
Earl Grey tea.
Melbourne.
Bennett’s.
Stockings & socks & tights.
Cinemas.
Hugging.
Seeing the person I am waiting for at the train station.
Listening.
Roses.
Turkish Delight.
Bears.
Poetry.
Sewing.
Pfeffernusse.
Plugging in.
Dresses made of feathers.
Kisses.
Being spoken to in languages I do not understand.
Night.
Colours.
Wearing jewellery.
Shoes.
Photographs of walls in a city street.
Cooking.
Quiet.
Pigeons.
My sister.
Dogs.
Threadless.
Watching the football with my grandpa.
Fish & chips.
Talking.
People.
Icing.
Chords.
Russia.
Zines.
Lemon.
Waking up.
Library smell.
You.

My Interests

Your stupid opinions University of Melbourne Politics Student.

I'd like to meet:

most of the people i want to meet are dead or fictional or both.

Music:

Tori Amos, Crowded House, Bob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens, Charles Mingus, Bright Eyes, Wilco, Augie March, Split Enz, Radiohead, Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, Martha Wainwright, The Streets, Lior, Joy Division, Tom Waits, New Order, The Strokes, Prince, Springsteen, David Bowie, Fourtet, Sendi, Jeff Buckley, The Police, The Smiths, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Hilltop Hoods, The Cat Empire, The Cure, Belle and Sebastian, Amy Winehouse.

Movies:

American Beauty, Little Miss Sunshine, Big Bird in China, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Some Like It Hot, Wizard Of Oz, Igby Goes Down, Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove; Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Rope, Love Actually, Back To The Future, Brick, Fight Club, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Amelie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 24 Hour Party People, Trainspotting, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Strangers on a Train, Donnie Darko, Fear and Loathing, The Pink Panther, Pulp Fiction, Velvet Goldmine, Vertigo, Marie Antoinette, Babel, Metropolis, Leprechaun 4: Space Platoon.

Television:

Black Books, Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, Tripping Over, Ugly Betty, House M.D., Invader Zim, Daria, Antiques Roadshow Britain, Nip/Tuck, Brothers-who-solve-stuff television of shame, Family Guy, Simpsons, American Dad, Drawn Together, Brothers And Sisters, Poirot miniseries, Look Around You, What Not To Wear, Miniseries about Lord Byron.

Books:

The Master and Margarita, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Lolita, On the Road, Brideshead Revisited, Wonder Boys, Everything Is Illuminated, Leaves of Grass, Pride & Prejudice, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Virgin Suicides, Perfume, Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Dubliners, The Great Gatsby, The Blind Assassin, Sirens of Titan, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, American Gods, Madame Bovary, The Metamorphoses, Metamorphosis, Wuthering Heights, Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, Hercule Poirot and Agatha Christie in general, Wodehouse's Jeeves books, Rules of Attraction, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Bleak House, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, White Teeth, Orlando, The Name of the Rose, The Eyre Affair, Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

My Blog

Dressing up

Posted at the shared blog of Tim and James and myself, although mostly Tim and James, because I am lazy: Eaten By Alsatians. Get on it. This week has been one of clothes and shoes and bits and pieces ...
Posted by Miss Emily Golightly, Travelling on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:49:00 PST

Kerouac

Jack Kerouac wrote this after the publication of The Subterraneans, in reply to queries from Ginsberg and others about his 'Spontaneous Prose' style. Belief and Technique For Modern Prose S...
Posted by Miss Emily Golightly, Travelling on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:55:00 PST

Dr. Emilys Ten Tips for Failure at Exams and Probably Life

An appropriately ill-timed guide for both specific and general incompetence.   Research. Hear me out. This has the double benefit of being both a) apparently vital to your well-rounded education...
Posted by Miss Emily Golightly, Travelling on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:01:00 PST

Imdb.com heralds the Apolcalypse. Again.

The imdb.com message boards are basically where morons go to argue incoherently about trivial nonsense with other morons. It is a place totally devoid of intelligence, humour, and coherence. Its poste...
Posted by Miss Emily Golightly, Travelling on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:50:00 PST

The Habits of the Boomslang

I am at work with the child psychologist this morning. Ive spent 10 minutes being lectured on the venomous properties and behaviours of various snakes. The lecture was illustrated by series of texta p...
Posted by Miss Emily Golightly, Travelling on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 06:32:00 PST

Meh.

So, you know you're awesome when you have two friends. And one of them is the moderator. And the other one is your sister.
Posted by Miss Emily Golightly, Travelling on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:49:00 PST