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Clarissimo

you can still see the stars from the gutter...

About Me

I'm renowned for my big gob so you probably know more than enough about me already....

My Interests

music, dancing, dressing up, telling bad jokes, art, books, shiny magazines and jewellary, mismatched clothing, decoration (home and cake), homemade cocktails, class tourism, real log fires, climbing trees, water fights, autumn mornings, summer evenings, sleep.

I'd like to meet:

People with too many ideas and not enough time...

Music:

This list has got way too long... The Technique Crew... Anything released on the I Can Count Music label, lots of country music that i can slap my thigh to and shout wooooop! Laurent Garnier, Mr Richie Hawtin, Will Saul, Andy Wetherall, The Cleaners, DJ Assault, Stevie Wonder, The Who, The Cure, Blondie, Bowie, Beck, Blur, Bjork, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Billy Childish, Be Your Own Pet, The Flaming Lips, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bob Dylan, Suede, Velvet Underground, Stone Roses, New Order, Joy Division, The Clash, The Specials, The Smiths, The Charlatans, The Silver Jews, Har Mar, The Noisettes, The Knife, The Shins, Devo, Sigur Ros, Simple Kid, Dungen, Deerhoof, Gang of Four, Turin Brakes, Ralfe Band, Thom Yorke, Tom Vek, Bat For Lashes, Tilly & The Wall, Broken Social Scene, Broken Family Band, Belle & Sebastian, Brightblack Morning Light, St Etienne, Elliott Smith, Cat Power, Burt Jansch, King Creosote, Kawaii, The Wainwright family et al, Hal, Jim Noir, Joanna Newsom, David Sugar...oh, and lots of 60's soul, RnB and Motown blah blah blah... essentially I'm a musical slut, though quite a discerning one...

Movies:

LA Story, The Linguini Incident, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spirited Away, The Goonies, The Hudsucker Proxy, Lethal Weapon (all of them), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Heathers and generally all 80's Teen Movies, Annie and Annie Hall, Rear Window, Breakfast at Tiffanys, City of God, Pump up the Volume, Ghost World, Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Dig!, Candyman, Cape Fear and any film with Zombies in it...

Television:

Black Books, Peepshow, Nathan Barley, Kath n Kim, The Loveboat, Columbo, West Wing, Murder She Wrote and Quincy, Newsnight when i am feeling as though i don't know enough about the world and Channel 4 news if I'm home in time... Oh, and The OC but only on Sundays if I'm able to focus that early in the day and am being too lazy to go out and do something...

Books:

I literally will read anything and frequently do. I always have a book in my bag. Favourite ones found in there include... Under The Net, The Magus, The Corrections, The Accidental, Super Cannes, A Confederacy of Dunces, Surrender The Pink, Ham On Rye, Air by Geoff Ryman and anything by Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Stephen Fry, Tom Wolfe, Raymond Carver, Ian Rankin and Douglas Coupland. Also, for some reason the Reader's Digest fascinates me though I've never managed to read everything in one (probably because i only get to steal glimpses of them in waiting rooms)... and finally, the New Yorker Magazine is great.

Heroes:

Whoever invented hammocks. I love a good hammock.

My Blog

11 things i learnt in new york...

1. skyscrapers with trees growing up the side covered in blossom are really quite beautiful. 2. people don't stare as much as they would over here if you wear a big fake walrus moustache in a restaura...
Posted by Clarissimo on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:50:00 PST

Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!

It's freaking cold up north. Saying that I have had an excellently non-successful time in my efforts to save money, not drink, not go out until normal people get up on sundays and to do...
Posted by Clarissimo on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:02:00 PST

Thank you kind friends

just a quick note to thank all my lovely friends for the calls and texts over the past few days.sinister illness now tentatively been waved (fat handedly) goodbye to (fingers crossed - well not mine t...
Posted by Clarissimo on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:08:00 PST

The Sound of Silence

Oh crikey I have lost my voice. It is really weird. I can only squeak or growl out a very husky whisper occasionally. The world is a much quieter place and i don't like it. Before anyone tries to say...
Posted by Clarissimo on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:22:00 PST

Scissor Sisters v The Rapture

the new scissor sisters stuff is very disappointing and mostly sounds like a beegee being strangled with a harpsichord string... the new stuff from the rapture is great.  that's it xxx  ...
Posted by Clarissimo on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:43:00 PST

Better than Cilla...

I realised today that I am responsible for setting up THREE couples who are now happily married (or about to head up the aisle). That is a better success rate than Cilla Black in ten years of Blind Da...
Posted by Clarissimo on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:24:00 PST

Knotting Cherries...

Hello friends... I learnt a new skill yesterday. My beautiful and talented friend anna selflessly spent some post-dinner time with a bowl of cherries teaching me her party trick. I can now tie a knot ...
Posted by Clarissimo on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:09:00 PST

Corduroy and Kathmandu

Hello myspace friends... Sticking with my non-top 8 tyranny this week everyone in my top 8 likes corduroy. In different ways. Mostly normal. What's not to like huh? I know a terrible joke about c...
Posted by Clarissimo on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:48:00 PST

My Lovely Top 8 this week...

this is the start of a weekly(ish) change around of my top 8 so i get to see more of your pretty faces more often and so i can list random reasons why you're all fabulous... Deputy D is high on my ra...
Posted by Clarissimo on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:51:00 PST

Things I have learnt since moving to London...

1. It is difficult to steal a dog. 2. People can sleep standing up. 3. It is not morally wrong to have a cleaner and a handyman. 4. 'Tube Face' is an excellent insult. 5. There will always be someone ...
Posted by Clarissimo on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:34:00 PST