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mary

A date with a fig, down prune lane.

About Me

I like the Beach Boys. A lot.
I love Gypsy music and Roma culture. Opre Roma!
And Ivory Billed Woodpeckers.
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My Interests

pop music, singing, eating food, forteana, cryptozoology, folklore (especially english), wild creatures and places, fancy dress, vintage clothes, autoharps, zithers, my lovely banjo, dreams that mean something, dancing, hares, deer, guinea pigs, thylacines, hummingbirds, monoi de tahiti, gardenias, making things, czech republic, magic, magick, cornwall, norfolk, derbyshire, slovakia, karate, genealogy, etymology, william blake, tove jansson, louis wain, the magnificent david houssart, and tuesday weld.

and sonny boy the ivory billed woodpecker.

I'd like to meet:

***PLEASE NOTE***

I want to meet like minded people, and keep in touch with friends. Please only sign up on this page if you actually know me, or at least have something in common with me!
If you're interested in my music visit my other page, and add yourself there.

www.myspace.com/maryepworth

Music:

vintage pop, folk, psych and country. van dyke parks, the beach boys, gene clark, forest,
the shangri-las, american spring, bobbie gentry, dillard and clark, linda perhacs, judee sill, elyse, the seeds, julie london, emitt rhodes, lesley gore, the nazz, todd rundgren, romanyi rota, kalyi yag, vera bila and kale, hank williams, shirley collins, dolly collins, the monkees, mike nesmith, devo, zz top, urge overkill, dennis wilson, gram parsons, will oldham, shudder to think, incredible string band, the left banke, adapter adapter, the nightcrawlers, brigitte bardot, serge gainsbourg, lee hazlewood, the free design, the grateful dead, taraif de hadouks, pilots of japan, the sweeney, emily barker, alan tyler, sumahama, lou christie, margo guryan, love, neil young, plush, sea and cake, sam prekop, archer prewitt, emily barker, nick drake, the blossom toes, the byrds, moby grape, skip spence, tom waits, leonard cohen, vashti bunyan, patsy cline, devo, six finger satellite, sufjan stevens, mark eric, the penny arkade, maitreya kali, the pretty things, the monks, jon epworth,

Movies:

lord love a duck (the best movie ever made, according to me) the day the earth stood still, the wicker man, ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains, the swan (featuring a very young van dyke parks), adaptation, evil dead, zoolander, wag the dog, labyrinth, bowfinger, muscle beach party, all the other frankie/anette beach/ski movies, the royal tenenbaums, rushmore, being there,holes, grace of my heart, the straight story, repo man, wild at heart, grosse point blank, the big lebowski, ed wood, sleepy hollow, beetlejuice, hairspray, pecker, to kill a mockingird, kingpin, the girl can't help it, gadjo dilo, the princess bride, spinal tap, a mighty wind, any terry gilliam movies, samotari, anything starring tuesday weld, ann margret, or young brigitte bardot.

Television:

curb your enthusiasm, malcolm in the middle, arrested development, neighbours, lost, round the twist, snobs, the mighty boosh, the league of gentlemen, nighty night, marion and geoff, big train, medium, people like us, the day today, brass eye, any crap pop tv, the moomins, and anything fortean.

Books:

lord love a duck, wouldn't it be nice, masquerade (kit williams)
catch 22, the long sandy hair of neftoon zamora, all douglas adams, all doug coupland, some paulo coelho (love the alchemist, and veronika decides to die, but eleven minutes is appaling, and the valkyries was just awful), any moomins books, the hunting of the snark, the grail bird, the race to save the lord god bird, the golden bough, great tales from english history, all of spike milligan's war memoirs

Heroes:

van dyke parks,shirley collins,and ken campbell.

My Blog

crap phone photos.

Here are some crap pictures i took with my crap camera phone. feel free to see them as a guide to my general mentality. ...
Posted by mary on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:08:00 PST

mutant squirrel update..

those of you who have been glued to this blog, waiting for more information on the mutated squirrels of Bishop's Stortford, your time has come. The rat tailed one seems to have disappeared (or grown...
Posted by mary on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:20:00 PST

and just in case that was boring you...

it's time for something really mysterious!Get this video and more at MySpace.comNow, I'm not saying that it is a new and terrifying creature, hell bent on wanton destruction, but I'm not sure what els...
Posted by mary on Sat, 13 May 2006 02:45:00 PST

exciting wildlife of east anglia, can you spot them?

David Attenborough has nothing on me. Check out these!a grass snake, swimming in Hatfield Forest.a baby earwig (did you know the mother earwig stays with her children, mammal style?)and, I heard my fi...
Posted by mary on Sat, 13 May 2006 02:36:00 PST

Spring has sprung!

For all of you in the UK, or the south east at least, where the hell did all this sunshine come from?!!!a week ago I was wearing a winter coat and russian hat, and suddenly it's flip flop time! Woo ho...
Posted by mary on Thu, 04 May 2006 03:00:00 PST

Right my lovely friends.....

if I don't reply to requests, messages etc, it's because for the next 8 days, I'll be off with the Gypsies. Quite literally. I'm heading to the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, for some serious snow, and ...
Posted by mary on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 02:29:00 PST

a very happy birthday

It's my birthday tomorrow, and It's already been the best one I could wish for. Last birthday the only thing that happened was my mum being taken to casualty, and being investigated for all the worst...
Posted by mary on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:35:00 PST

And!......

There's a squirrel in one of two cemetaries very near my house (just to set the scene), that has no ears. He/she has instead very attractive white tufts of hair. He/she also lives in a tree that has a...
Posted by mary on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:38:00 PST

things of note...

that have happened to me this week. 1. went to see Sergio Diaz (Os Mutantes) at Guanabara, (a stunning Brazilian bar in London). He was so great, played loads of Mutantes stuff (including ill-advised...
Posted by mary on Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:11:00 PST

heaven is...

soaking in a bath, eating a peach.
Posted by mary on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:30:00 PST