Tamsyn purplemonkey - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hello I am Tamsyn - I run The Purple Monkey Comedy Club in Kettering with my lovely friends Joe (also husband) & Alan. I also design and make beautiful and exotic creations for those with more money than time. I like going on trains and walking about with i-pod on and big sunglasses to hide behind.

My Interests

Comedy, films, music, graphic novels, random doodling, making elaborate and impractical cakes, victorian corsetry and getting me into it. Fetishes include stationary, kitchen equipment and book-sniffing.

I'd like to meet:

People who like to whittle away entire days on coffee and nonsense. People who need costumes. Anyone who thinks that being creative is more important than having a house or any money.

Music:

Todd Snider, Arcade Fire, The Wedding Present (just bought too-expensive boxed-set of Peel Sessions. mmm. its a lovely thing), Sleeping States, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bear Suit, Retro Spankees, Pretty Dead Girls, Langhorne Slim, Tom Waits, Joy Division, Thomas Truax, White Stripes, Belle & Sebastian, Morrissey, Trachtenburg Family, Bowie, Kinks, Editors, Beach Boys, Johnny Cash, Nick Drake, Adem, Nick Cave, The Cure most things that are good...

Movies:

Anime, Zombies, 80s brat-pack, Contemporary artsy stuff, anything with Jimmy Stuart, most things with Vincent Gallo (not the blowjob one)... Top 10 Today. Little Shop of Horrors Buffallo 66 Happiness Amelie Dawn of The Dead Pans Labyrinth Hot Fuzz Labyrinth Its a Wonderful Life Legend of the Overfiend

Television:

passively... Judge Judy actively... Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Buffy, Dr Who. in secret... anything involving celebrities dancing in spangly costumes (purely professional interest)

Books:

Mmmm books. currently reading Les Liaisons Dangerous (not in French)

Heroes:

Queen Elizabeth I, Hunter S Thompson, Bill Murray, Chester Brown, Morrissey

My Blog

Opium and amdram

This week I have been auditioning, casting and designing the costumes for a production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses what i will be directing in September. Got a smashing bunch of people to work with, n...
Posted by Tamsyn purplemonkey on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:03:00 PST

Burlesque agogo

ah its been a while so i thought i would have a quick blog (husband is away and i need to fill time between the embroidery and gazing whistfully out the window...). This week i had my first taste of f...
Posted by Tamsyn purplemonkey on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:58:00 PST

goings on...

This last few weeks some very strange things have been happening at No. 96 - seeming to co-incide with the departure of Matt and Emma (ex house-mates) including death, injury and dampness. Anothe...
Posted by Tamsyn purplemonkey on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:39:00 PST

Call me Brown, Mrs. Brown...

Well I'm a whole 8 days into marital bliss, I think JB and I are both still finding it a bit surreal and are still prone to falling into fits of giggles and exclamations of 'We Got Married!', as ...
Posted by Tamsyn purplemonkey on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 04:48:00 PST

yay!

yay! its back - i touched the void for a moment there but its all ok again.
Posted by Tamsyn purplemonkey on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:11:00 PST

my beautiful page!!!

all my lovely sparkly background things and my lists... my precious lists! all gone... life is so transient and fragile. has anyone else had their space hooliganised? ah well another few hours in fulf...
Posted by Tamsyn purplemonkey on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:05:00 PST

oh the inertia...

HIGH EXPECTATIONS + BELIEF IN THE INHERENT GOODNESS IN PEOPLE + REALITY = UNCHARACTERISTIC BOUT OF MELANCHOLY grump grump grump.
Posted by Tamsyn purplemonkey on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:25:00 PST

keeping me off the street this week...

I am entering new territory here - blogging seems either a bit egotistical or profoundly futile (assuming that other people are going to read it or that no-one is going to read it). But never letting ...
Posted by Tamsyn purplemonkey on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:11:00 PST

hello darling

just thought i'd see how this bit works...
Posted by Tamsyn purplemonkey on Sun, 14 May 2006 02:34:00 PST