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Kat

Here are a few of my favourite things.

About Me

I've temporarily run away from London life to live in Tokyo. Am loving every minute !! Have only just signed up to this My Space thing, so will think of something interesting to write when I'm not in a ridiculously expensive Japanese internet cafe.

My Interests

A is for Amaretto & Adventures, B is for Bumblebees, C is for Charity shops & Casio watches, D is for David Shrigley, Dancing & Duvets, E is for Eighties Sportswear & Ebay, F is for Fiat 500s, French speaking Friends, Frizbee & Fringes, G is for Guinea Pigs & Giant Squids, H is for Hampstead Heath, I is for Inappropriate (my favourite word), J is for Japan, K is for Karaoke, L is for Lychees (they taste like flowers!), M is for Monopoly, Manchester & Montreal, N is for Nan Goldin, O is for Options & Opportunities, P is for Penguins, Photography, Picnics & Pink stuff, Q is for Quantity as well as Quality, is for Retro Radios, S is for Scandinavians, Socks & Sunshine, T is for Travelling by Train, U is for Understatement, V is for Vanilla Vodka & Vintage Jewelry, W is for Wolfgang Tillmans & William Eggleston, X is impossible - suggestions welcome! Y is for Yazoo Chocolate Milk (the best hangover cure ever), Z is for Zzzzzzzzzzz

I'd like to meet:

People doing the same thing as me, and people doing something different to me aswell. Friendly like minded folk with something interesting to share. Gig go-ers, photography enthusiasts & people with pugs.

Music:

Guitar based alt folk / indie loveliness: Belle & Sebastian, Adem, Iron & Wine, Kings of Convenience, Jose Gonzales, Gravenhurst, Tunng, Coco Rosie, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Magnet etc ..... Beats to Make you Move Your Feet: Drum'n'Bass !!!!! Electronica, Electro, Minimal stuff, Hip-Hop etc ..... Other random genuises: Bjork, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Missy Elliot and many many more ....

Movies:

Amelie, anything by Wes Anderson, Gattaca, Reality Bites, Life is Beautiful and of course Star Wars.

Television:

Don't watch much.

Books:

Dave Eggers, David Mitchell, DBC Pierre, Thomas Pynchon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Heller ... currently reading Murakami for the first time, the jury's still out.