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Gillian

Give the audience a reason to care. Too many web pages are like tales told by idiots, full of sound

About Me

..I'm a newspaper journalist. I have also started my first novel. I've been a vegetarian for 16 years. I love to travel, watch movies especially Japanese horrors, read books, discover bands, see live bands, meet new friends, keep in touch with old ones... I love animals, especially cats. I'm against seal clubbers, wearers of fur, people who kill animals etc. I am a notoriously bad cook and I also park for free in pay-and-display car parks because the Road Service is too greedy.

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My Interests

Good food, wine and sunsets (together), live music, literature, travel, movies, obscure documentaries like those on Channels Four and Five, intellectual chats, current affairs, aviation, great white sharks.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, journalists and people who love music and novies.
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Music:

Green Day, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol, Fratellis, Simon and Garfunkle, REM, Killers, Duke Special, James Blunt, Jesse Malin, Athlete, Nine Inch Nails, Hal, Aerosmith, Keane, Soul Asylum, U2, The Doors, Queens of the Stone Age, HIM, Stone Temple Pilots, Tommy Stinson, Franz Ferdinand, Air, Angelo Badalamenti, etc etc etc....

Movies:

Mulholland Drive rocks...as does anything by the master, David Lynch including Fire Walk With Me. I like The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, The Beach, The Ice Storm, St Elmo's Fire, The Crow, Donnie Darko, 25th Hour, Young Guns, Lost Highway, Lords of Dogtown, Napoleon Dynamite, Hideous Kinky, Ghost World, Anchorman, Lost In Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Salaam Bombay, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Holy Smoke, Wargames, The Lost Boys, Dodgeball, White Chicks! Brokedown Palace. I also have a weird fixation with films set on airlines - Air Force One is a fave!!

Television:

Lost, Twin Peaks, Jackass, Anne of Green Gables (way back in the 80s!), Battlestar Gallactica, A-Team, Sky News. Love documentaries especially human interest and offbeat. Gordon Ramsay's shows are pretty funny. I also watch the Sky Travel channel when I need a holiday - that studio backdrop sure makes me feel like I'm in paradise.

Books:

Fav all-time author: Larry McMurtry.Books: too many to mention. Four favourite books are: The Secret History by Donna Tartt; In Search of Captain Zero - Allan C Weisbecker; Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro; Disgrace - JM CoetzeeAlso love Jon Krakauer, Colin Bateman, Primo Levi, Zadie Smith, Alex Garland, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Emily Bronte.

Heroes:

God, unsung heroes, Detective Lou Smit.

My Blog

A regurgitation....

This is taken from the Scotsman..straight to the point.... The joy of MySpace is the way it puts musicians and music-lovers directly in touch with each other. If you love a band, you can ask to "add" ...
Posted by Gillian on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:12:00 PST

This is what I've come up with so far

I am still hovering over the synopsis....this is the result so far... Patience is a reporter working nine to five in a male-dominated London newspaper, covering mundane happenings in and around ...
Posted by Gillian on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:12:00 PST

Art exhibition

..> ..> For those of you who are in Cookstown, Co Tyrone (I know there aren't that many of you), there's a fantastic art exhibition taking place from April 2 to 16 in the Burnavon Arts centre w...
Posted by Gillian on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:28:00 PST

Writing: good idea/bad idea?

I am currently working on one specific chapter which I feel could best be presented as just pure dialogue and nothing else. I'm not sure how this would work though and would appreciate any commen...
Posted by Gillian on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:10:00 PST

Beware the ides of March

Beware the ides of March http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclo pedia/296942.stm I am currently suffering a crisis of character. I am now officially 32 years old. Thank you all s...
Posted by Gillian on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:27:00 PST

Documentary

I'm still grappling with the art of trying to get my documentary up onto MySpace. However when my laptop comes back from the laptop hospital, I will try again - prob being that I recorded it from VHS ...
Posted by Gillian on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:04:00 PST

Come out, wherever you are....

Hello...earth calling my top friends  on MySpace....where are you? You have all disappeared. Hello....anyone out there?  I am having to conduct solitary monologues to amuse myself while you ...
Posted by Gillian on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:13:00 PST

And now for something more exciting....Chapter 11

Chapter 11..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> In the car on the way to the airport Patience frantically searched for the coveted tape.  "Shit, close call." ...
Posted by Gillian on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:20:00 PST

Unearthing treasures

At the weekend, during a trip to Barnes and Noble NYC, I unearthed a treasure. We had just visited the site of the World Trade Centre, after walking from Grand Central the whole way down Broadway...
Posted by Gillian on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:00:00 PST

Me and my laptop

My piccies of NYC will have to wait as I've had a little accident with the laptop. The CD rom drive is not functioning thanks to my heavy-handedness.  I now have a laptop with the drawer fully ex...
Posted by Gillian on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:33:00 PST