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Izzle McGizzle

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About Me

I'll loan you my toothbrush, I'll bartend your par-tay! Iris Mackenzie --
[noun]:

A poltergeist sent back in time to change the course of history forever

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

My Interests

Some things that i like include:cracking open the first coldie of the afternoon, playing with cats + dogs, finding vintage threads, waterskiing, hiking, Toblerone, swimming in the sea, chopsticks, drawing, fresh sheets on the bed, making lists, going to the pub, spiders, the colour green...

I'd like to meet:

The Famous Five

Music:

Air, The Delgados, Manu Chao, Smoke City, Massive Attack, Beck, Doves, Goldfrapp, Gotye, Tex Perkins, Serge Gainsbourg, Bjork, Faithless, Peaches, Beth Orton, Portishead, B52's, Lamb, Moloko, Belle + Sebastien, rinôçérôse, Salmonella Dub, Echo + The Bunnymen, The Eels, PJ Harvey, The Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Nouvelle Vague, Jeff Buckley, Royksopp, New Order, The Buzzcocks, The Knife, etc...

Movies:

Being John Malkovich, Fargo, Lilya 4 Eva, The Princess Bride, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (woo! Kev-babes), Donnie Darko, The Proposition, Muriel's Wedding, Le Diner de Cons, Les Visiteurs, Jean de Florette + Manon des Sources (francophile that I am), The Great Muppet Caper, City of Lost Children, Brødre, Tillsammans... can I include the BBC version of Pride + Prejudice (period-drama-ophile that I am)?

Television:

Arrested Development, Family Guy, Scrubs, Degrassi Junior High (put it back on!), Samurai Pizza Cats, The Mighty Boosh, The Chaser, anything with the delightful John Safran...

Books:

Goodnight Moon, In the Skin of a Lion, Talking it Over, He Died With a Felafel in His Hand, The Crucible, Dickinson, Plath, How to Survive a Robot Revolution, Mr Jelly, Madame Bovary (actually, that's not true, I've never read it. Haha!).

Heroes:

Erik the Red, Leif Ericson, Freydís Eiríksdóttir, Ketil Flatnose, Gardar Svavarsson, Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Ivar the Boneless... I tend to like most vikings, really.

My Blog

Striking while the irony is hot...

&or cold, as it were. I (along with the majority of the local population, it seems) have recently acquired a cold of my very own. But this is not a blog about being sick. There is such a thing as...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:38:00 PST

Lo and behold, I've been tagged..

..> ..> ..>..> ..> I've been tagged   Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, facts, or habits about yourself. At the end, you choose 5 people to be t...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:02:00 PST

The Naked Truth

When it comes to choosing an occupation, I admit to being rather... selective. After working in an inbound call centre a few years ago, for close to a year (it was actually over a year, but, by George...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Wed, 16 May 2007 02:23:00 PST

More jubilant than discovering the meaning of obscure Mr Bungle lyrics!

WOOO! I saw Richard Morecroft at the cinema on Saturday night! I have had a thing for this man since I was about 4. He smiled at me, I smiled back, and promptly went into the bathroom to calm down. An...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:15:00 PST

¡I heart Mr Bungle!

Today, in Spanish class, we learnt about the weather*! But that's not the best part. The best part is that, as my eye wandered over the page, I came across a phrase saying "Esta lloviendo", meaning "i...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Wed, 02 May 2007 01:33:00 PST

Snap!

Well, well, we've got a bit of a cold snap here in El Gongo. I've been looking forward to this, for several reasons: a) less people on the beaches; b) hats and gloves and scarves and coats!; c) a...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:49:00 PST

Pharyn-heit

I have pharyngitis! At least now I don't feel so bad about missing work. And that linguistics tutorial yesterday morning. Today is extremely hot. I have come to the conclusion that being sick and hot ...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:09:00 PST

I should be doing homework...

But, as per usual, I find myself making lists and writing effing blogs. Voilà, my lastest effort: The 'Perfect Guy': 1. Has cool hair 2. Plays instrument (harmonica, banjo and/or guitar get extra po...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:01:00 PST

Everybody else is doing it...

Single or Taken: Single   Happy about that: More ice-cream for me!   Eye color: G-g-green   Shoe size: 10 or 11  I'm an ogre.   Height: 181cm - still an ogre.   What are...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:42:00 PST

Good Afternoon :-)

Wednesday 28th February, 4:08pm What a rad afternoon. I've been sitting outside with my kitty, the lovely Daisy, and as I waxed lyrical upon the fantabulousness of this afternoon, I realised it m...
Posted by Izzle McGizzle on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:21:00 PST