Books, nooks and lingering looks. Food.
soooo, Neil Tenant and Rufus Wainwright. Although maybe I don't want to meet them. Maybe they're self-centred maniopaths so it's more likely I just want to be them.I would like to meet Mr Morrison at some point.I would like to have met Muriel Spark but again, she was a bit of a bastard. What is it with me and offensive queeny types?I'd like to meet more of my friends' friends.
PJ Harvey Radiohead Benjamin Britten - a lot Seal The Pet Shop Boys! Booka Shade Keane Cheap Bent Electrode Glamorous Exceptions
I love Francois Ozon. Huit Femmes was great - Sitcom also and the one about Hansel and Gretel with a psychosexual angle.I was amazed by Boys Don't Cry. I love The Hours and think Meryl Streep is the best thing since the end of food rationing.I also like Jodie Foster and for that reason and for the reason that I love mysteries I liked Flightplan. No one else seems to though.Red Road. Saw that recently and IT WAS BRILLIANT! Looking forward to the other 2 in the series.
Murder! I love any Agatha Christie adaptations for tv especially. I can't get enough of the careful recreations of claustophobic, painstakingly recreated 30s and 40s situations and I love murder mysteries for the building tension and very satisfying working out of Who Dun What.I also like Timeteam. Maybe I just like things that work out puzzles. I'm not very good at gameshows though. Who wants to watch who wants to be a millionaire? Not I.
I'm a big bookie. Books that have meant a lot to me at various times are, Doris and the Mice from Mars by Hilary Hayton, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot, Runaway by Alice Munro, Memento Mori by Muriel Spark, Franny and Zooey by Salinger, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. I'm dipping into John Knox's History of the Reformation in Scotland at the moment and I've been reading a history of literary Edinburgh. I get more and more interested in Scottish literature and culture at the moment. I love poetry and write occasionally. I'm keen to get better at writing lyrics. Oh, also Agatha Christie and occasional dips into Patricia Cornwell. I like maps too.
Russell Brand! He's my new hero, honest. I've finally found someone that I can imagine wanting to grow up to be like - if you see what I mean. I know he's only 4 years older than me but he's given me hope to carry on. You can keep having anarchic fun and getting on everyone's tits past 30. Everyone else that I ever liked got old and sensible. Philip Schofield for example. He even boasted about how happy he was to be grey. When I am an old woman, i shall wear purple.Apart from him, basically, young people. People in their teens with tight arses.That was a joke, by the way, I'm a bit giddy.I like people who inspire me - ha ha!oh dear, I don't seem to be taking this very seriously, it's because I'm on holiday. No, SERIOUS, I've got a lot of friends who show me a few intriguing possibilities about how you might live your life. I'm not really up for most of them but I can usually pretend in a convincing enough manner for the odd night here and there. Lots of cool people that I know are in my friends list. I won't embarrass them, or myself, by picking out a few heroes amongst them.Also, I love the Pet Shop Boys. Man, they are the coolest! They've never shrunk from naming a few home truths and pulling the rugs out from under a few expensively-heeled feet. and they're flawed, like I'm flawed. But they've kept going. Well done them. And they're better than ever. I'd shag Neil Tennant (if he'd have me).