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Fiona

Like a wave along the coast, I've come to love the highs and lows.

About Me

Fiona Garden Photography

My Interests


    pouring myself into something I love floating feather duvets getting old shadows hot baths at the precise right moment excellence; pursuit of clean sensors retouching. still really like retouching. fine optics


I'd like to meet:


All my old friendsters.
People who press the button. |

People who try hard.

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Music:


Roxy Fucking Music, Talking Heads, New Order, Rosebuds, Junior Boys, PB&J, Brakes, Sounds, the Knife, TTC, Kenji Kawai, Bowie (4 times live), Arvo Part, Tuxedo Moon, Trisome 21, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Gabriel, Samuel Barber, Tears For Fears, Crowded House, Peter Cetera, Soundtrack of Our LIves, Sisters of Mercy, Chromeo, Simple Minds, The Cure, Sparklehorse, Cinematic Orchestra, Air, George Michael, Angelo Badalamenti, Sigur Ros, Legendary Pink Dots, Leonard Cohen, old Ministry, Brian Eno, TV on The Radio, Neotropic, The Polyphonic Spree, Cocteau Twins, Polyphonic Size, PWEI, Kate Bush, Kenny Rogers, Audiobooks, Soundtracks, Mix CDs that YOU make me.

Movies:


Spinal Tap

Television:


Books:


A Short History Of Nearly Everything, - Bill Bryson, The Catch Trap - Marion Zimmer Bradley, anything Chuck Klosterman

Heroes:

David Bowie, (no, for real.) Annie Liebovitz, Mario Testino, The Carr's Biscuit Empire & the guy who thought up Boursin, (if only we could get them in the same room)

Anyone who can create 8-12 really amazing pages of fashion, the kind that makes my skin crawl, fills me with envy and wild and desperate ambition. This is a good thing.

My Blog

Sex is Violent

I stumbled blindly, no air to feed me / I fell forever down desperation / I lost my dreams to this mad desire / What means the most takes the most to realize today's playlist includes such wonders as ...
Posted by Fiona on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:56:00 PST

hello?

heyhow's it going?not bad, how about you?pretty good. what's up?um, nothing.. you know the Rolling Stones?yeahthey're like, really good. like, really really good.i knowyeah. yeah, exiles on main st...
Posted by Fiona on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:17:00 PST

Amateur Wrestling is Go!

So here's my amateur video of amateur wrestling... basically if it was any more amateur, the people themselves would have been made of 2ftx2ft lego pixels.Between the Down's field trip, the midget ref...
Posted by Fiona on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:12:00 PST

The light at the end of the tunnel

So someone emailed me, asking about quitting smoking, and since it has been pointed out to me that I never finished my blog about quitting, I figured my reply to her would make a great post-script. o...
Posted by Fiona on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:23:00 PST

Day 8: Mass Exodus!!

Oh my god. I mean I knew it had to happen and you hear all these stories, but without going into too much detail, my lungs are ridding themselves of the coating I have so carefully cultivated over the...
Posted by Fiona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Day 4 (or 5, depending on how you look at it)

So.  For those of you who care, the patch FUCKING RULES.  If I had been told how easy this would be, and I do keep saying this, both to myself and to others, I would have done this a long ti...
Posted by Fiona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Patch and why I will shortly be Insane.

It's just... oh God...  I can't do this to myself anymore.  When you have to go, "I wonder if it's a throat tumour??" everytime you have a sore throat...  And hanging out with non-smoke...
Posted by Fiona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Incidentally...

Oh by the way, it's not cancer. But it still hurts like hell. I don't trust doctors.
Posted by Fiona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"Breast" and "Lump" in the same sentence

So I went to the doctor today to have him look at a lump in my breast. A lump. In my breast. Like, come on! I'm only 19!! Oh, no, wait, no I'm not. It's been hurting for a while, and it's been...
Posted by Fiona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Oh just for the hell of it. Another Recipe.

Classy-ass Spinach Salad Get some: prewashed, pre-cut spinach some grape tomatoes some feta cheese an onion some maple syrup or honey Braswell's Lemon Peppercorn dressing All of this can be pu...
Posted by Fiona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST