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Foe-toes-freak

I have arms and legs and hands and feet and my name is Karina

About Me

Before I start waffling on in a self indulgent manner, I am NOT here for dating, flirting, serious relationships or any of that jazz. Not saying this because I think I am gods gift, just don't wanna waste your time and you can be flirting with somebody else. Goodluck :0) I just wanna meet creative people or people who are into the music I am into or share similar interests and make some friends/network. If you are Brian Fair reading the above, please ignore ha ha!I am a vegetarian and whisky luvin legal secretary by day, studying for my degree part time in English and Creative Writing, a singer on Sundays with Thirty One Lines and singer and autoharp player on Friday nights (generally through to Saturday mornings!) with my new project the Straussleeches. In my spare time I like to fight crime and protect the innocent my alter ego is Super Spinster!. :0)Loves: my family, singing, writing music, writing poetry, watching bands live, men with tattoos and long hair, people who make me laugh, travelling, the hobbits, being near the sea, animals, bikers, whisky, music festivals, frikkin big and fast rollercoasters (ie Oblivion and Rita),comedy and the countryside and dreadlocks (I luv em!)Hates: cruelty to animals, real fur, materialistic people, stress, being skint, winter, selfishness.Ambitions: To have one poem in my lifetime published in a respectable magazine/anthology.To write one song that gets some attention/recognition.To go travelling (hopefully in the next few months once my house is sold!)PS CHECK OUT MY LIL BROTHER'S ART IN MY TOP FRIENDS 'SIR STEVEN OF ROYLES' HE IS NEARLY AS TALENTED AS HIS BIG SISTER HA! I love this video!

My Interests

Music - making it, listening to it Poetry - writing it, reading it Animals - stroking them, not eating them Chocolate - eating it, not stroking it

I'd like to meet:

Brian Fair, Kyle Sanders (I want to stroke his dreadlocks!),Nina Simone, Kate Bush, Eddie Vedder, Pete Steele, Trent Reznor, Ricky Gervais, Phil Anselmo, Monty Python, David Jason, Dawn French, The League of Gentlemen, Gandalf, Doris Day and anyone who will make me laugh :0)PLEEEEEASE VOTE FOR BLOODSIMPLE TO PLAY MANCHESTER BY PRESSING BELOWThis song says it all...

Music:

Pearl Jam, Life of Agony, Maiden, Billy Holliday, The Pixies, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Audioslave, Kate Bush, NIN, ACDC, Vast, Foofighters, Shadows Fall, Sikth, Nina Simone, Pantera, Slayer, old Sepultura, Metallica, Type O Negative, Breed 77, Killswitch Engage, Soil, Bloodsimple, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Korn, Afghan Wiggs, Cat Power, Massive Attack, Editors, The Supremes, The Temptations, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, Nick Cave, Tracey Chapman, Al Green, Otis Reading, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder

Movies:

So I Married an Axa Murderer, Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the Rings, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Coming to America, Space Balls, Lost Boys, Butterfly Effect, Carry Ons, Monty Python (all of em), The Lake House, anything with Doris Day, Emma, Dracula, Stargate (don't care wot anyone says its a bloody good film, it's got Egyptians innit!!)

Television:

Mainly Comedy: - Vicar of Dibley, Only Fools and Horses, Friends, Catherine Tate, League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, Royale Family, Seinfeld, Shameless, Father Ted. Documentaries on egyptology.

Books:

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Terry Pratchett, Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy, any poetry, Sarah Waters, Shakespeare ( he was a dude!)Stuff on Egyptology particularly Nerfertiti, Stephen King, Katherine Mansfield.

Heroes:

Brian Fair, Randy Watson from Sexual Chocolate is da man ha!! Kate Bush, Eddie Vedder, Nina Simone, Austin Powers, Delboy, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye (coz you gotta save the babies!), Ronnie Barker, Nick Cave, Dawn French, Charlotte from Charlotte's Web, Egyptologists, Mr Darcy, my mum and dad, my 90 year old grandad!

My Blog

Gig with my new band at the Alma, Bolton on 30.06.07

I am currently writing some acoustic stuff with Star and Rachel. We will be doing a short set at The Alma on Saturday 30th June 2007 for those of you who would care to come and have a listen, or would...
Posted by Karina on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:05:00 PST

Bedside Cabinet Poem

One of my latest creations February 07   Bedside Cabinet   Hearing voices like screaming chalk on a blacked out board muffles through this melamine casket.   Laughter stinging, comrades...
Posted by Karina on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:58:00 PST

A poem I am working on at the moment

This is a poem I am working on, has no title yet, need a couple of more stanzas I reckon.   Curl yourself around her, Try to smuther the crack. If she goes will she ever come back? Lock her insid...
Posted by Karina on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:45:00 PST

My 'Femme Fatale' Poem

My brother was recently short listed for an art prize and I wrote a poem about my first experience of a London art exhibition. Femme Fatale is the name of his piece that got through........... &n...
Posted by Karina on Wed, 24 May 2006 01:44:00 PST

'LA GAY' Poem

One of my poems... LA GAY POEM 1Leopard skin granny, with a lamb-esque face goingat speed, pulls a cigarette from her dead skin hand bag.Glancing around looking for an audience, she revertsto lov...
Posted by Karina on Tue, 23 May 2006 02:58:00 PST