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Amelia

caravanprincess

About Me

Well that's highly subjective innit?

My Interests

Music, hot yoga, cooking, shaking a tail feather, long-distance walking, kayaking, poker, mental and emotional health, language, all things Welsh and Mexican.

I'd like to meet:

Whoever installed my bastard boiler.

Music:

Rock n roll, funk, blues, country, propa indie, hip hop, soul, RnB, ska, reggae, world and anything else my ass can follow . . . except folk which does indeed rock but is pretty hard to bogle to.

Movies:

Jamon Jamon, Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown, Withnail and I, Delicatessen, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, La Dolce Vita, Breakfast at Tiffany's, La Strada, Les Enfant du Paradis, Diva, Twin Town, Fargo, Team America, Pan's Labyrinth, Science of Sleep etc., etc.,

Television:

Am with the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy on that one. Good for throwing out of hotel windows I hear.

Books:

Diary of a Gnostic Dwarf, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nights at the Circus, The BFG, The Tale of Genji, Waiting for Godot, Confederacy of Dunces,Titus Andronicus, The Iliad, The Bacchae, La Jalousie, La Nausee, La Chute, Boda de Sangre, Lolita, Room With a View, Tea in the Harem, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The House of Mr Biswas, On the Road, Streetcar Named Desire, Grapes of Wrath, Wind in the Willows, Swallows and Amazons, Antic Hay, Crime and Punishment, Great Expectations, The Arabian Nightmare, Where Have All the Bullets Gone, Viz, The Vesuvius Club, The Inferno, Cider with Rosie, My Family and Other Animals, 100 Years of Solitude and anything else I can get my greasy little paws on.

Heroes:

Maya Angelou, Angela Carter, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Dr Chris Manning, Jim Henson, Tony Benn.

My Blog

Taking the Devil's Money, Doing the Lord's Work

This isn't going to be my wittiest of blogs dealing as it does with the minutiae of charitable endeavour. So to those of you who don't think I'm in the employ of poisoned purveyors of mind-altering su...
Posted by Amelia on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:35:00 PST

Seroxat Turned Me Green

I've just returned from New York where it was indeed just like I pictured it, skyscrapers and everything . . . The weather was clement, the entertainment delightful and the food top notch. In fac...
Posted by Amelia on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:24:00 PST

Not OK Computer

I've recently taken to attending a form of yoga where the room is heated to Sub-Saharan temperatures before the body is forced into a variety of desperately painful contortion...
Posted by Amelia on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:05:00 PST

Suicide is Painless

Fresh and invigorated from a most pleasant sojourn near the Brecon Beacons at the Green Man Festival, I had barely washed the mud from between my toes when I read that there are vast geograp...
Posted by Amelia on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:18:00 PST

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

A few weeks ago I was reminded of what it feels like to be a patient. In true not practising what I preach style I failed to recognise the warning signs of a familiar set of symptoms. Too late, I trie...
Posted by Amelia on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:33:00 PST

Bad Medicine

For those of you who don't know me let me start by saying that I am a fully paid up member of the space cadets, happily grazing on rabbit food and hexing wong 'uns with my special voodoo finger. That ...
Posted by Amelia on Wed, 24 May 2006 03:45:00 PST

Sacking the Church of Dubious Wisdom

So lets talk about about the NHS. Lovely idea, shame it's sailing up Shit's Creek without that paddle and whilst the crew are desperately signalling their SOS, we're all waving them happily on. If goo...
Posted by Amelia on Tue, 09 May 2006 03:37:00 PST

Depression, anxiety, mental illness and mental health

Right then, well I originally joined this thing so I could listen to lots of new music but now I'm here it seems as good a platform as any to spread the mental health word. I work for the Centre ...
Posted by Amelia on Wed, 03 May 2006 04:15:00 PST