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About Me

No more knitting. I'm saving children now, officially, and unpaidly in a nice big office. Well, as of next Tuesday. I'll keep you updated on how many I save.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

firemen. equality of capability. travelling. politics. music. languages. scuba diving. stella. gin. reading. steak. dancing. china. argentina. piano. punctuation. tactility. kisses.

I'd like to meet:

a fireman, to talk politics with. and a solvent benevolent patron. all the better if they are one and the same.and louis garrel.

Music:

The Gotan Project, Guitarras Fusion, The Music, The Pixies, The Clash, Violent Femmes, The Cure, Our Lady Peace, Cooper Temple Clause, Ben Folds, The Whitlams, Deftones, Interpol, Dvorak, Puccini, RATM, Chemical Brothers,Muse, Pink Floyd, Audio Bullies, Radiohead,The Smiths ,My Vitriol, Foo Fighters, NIN, SOAD, Jeff Buckley, Sublime, The Living End,Primal Scream, Spiderbait, McClusky, Muse, Oasis (yes, really), Millencolin, Stone Roses, Nirvana,Rachmaninov, Spiderbait, New Order...

Movies:

Casablanca, Godfather, A Clockwork Orange, Carlito's way, anything by Pedro Almodovar, La fille sur le pont, Annie Hall, the Graduate, Notting Hill (yes really), True Romance, Die Hard, End of the Affair, Natural Born Killers, Some like it Hot

Television:

I watched neighbours recently, but it just wasn't the same without Drew.

Books:

Graham Greene, Michael Ondatje, Salman Rushdie, Iris Murdoch, Ian McEwan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Martin Amis, John Steinbeck, Bret Easton Ellis, Vikram Seth, Milan Kundera.

Heroes:

the ribena berries. possibly the red wine berries too. and the panadol berries.

My Blog

What new terror is this? (The world and E this week)

North Korea claimed to have carried out a nuclear test, with technology provided by the architect of Pakistan's inaugural nuclear tests in 1998. Allegedly, South Korea possess 10-15 nuclear warheads, ...
Posted by Esther on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:12:00 PST

A bigger problem?

The number of obese/ overweight people in the world now outweighs the number of starving people. A survey underaken by the university of North Carolina found that approximately 800 million people 'go ...
Posted by Esther on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:10:00 PST

Supreme Court ruling

And now, with the recent Supreme court ruling, concerning the applicability of the Geneva Conventions, can we expect much to change? The judgment, necessary as it was to check the unfettered abuse of ...
Posted by Esther on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:56:00 PST

THIS WEEK...the world and i...

This week:- Israel's conflict with Paletinian militants in Gaza spread to Lebanon: strategic bombing and blockading has crippled Beirut and residents of the southern area of Lebanon are being warned t...
Posted by Esther on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:04:00 PST

When Esther met Kandinsky

Kandinsky: one of the first untortured artists i've seen much work by, if you can call a 9 room exhibition 'much'. Also one of the first artists that i've reacted to negatively, which was much more re...
Posted by Esther on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:04:00 PST

Guantanamo suicides 'acts of war'

I don't know if I'm allowed to copy and paste from the good old BBC, but here's the relevant snippets... "The suicide of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war,...
Posted by Esther on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:40:00 PST