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About Me

Birthplace: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Childhood: Bulawayo & Harare, Zimbabwe. Adolescence: Cape Town, SA. Early twenties: La CoruÃ±a, Spain. Late twenties to date: London, UK. Seen a few things, done a few things, would like to do a few more things. I probably do a lot more thinking than is good for the health. I swear a lot. Especially whilst hoovering. 'Fuck' is such a talented word because it can be used in pretty much all grammatical forms. Noun, adjective, adverb; you name it, fuck does it. I admire that in a word. I want people to be themselves around me. No airs and graces, no pretences, no bollocks. My life up to now has gone in 8-9 year cycles, each in the different countries mentioned above. I've broken this tradition by remaining in my "UK Cycle" for a year longer than the norm and have that itchy-feet-feeling has developed into an overwhelming itchy-body feeling... Nearly 36, and still getting itchy feet? Is there a cream for that? More than a little disappointed with humanity and my as yet undiscovered or unfulfilled role within it, so music, reading and writing is kind of cathartic for me while I trip, stumble and fall through life. I hate all the games we're forced to play in order to kill the time we've been haphazardly allocated to spend on this planet. Tom Waits sums it up better than I can:
'The laws that govern your private madness when applied to the daily routine of living your life can coagulate into a collision.'
And collide they do.

My Interests

..Music, Music, Music The Moon
CURRENT MOON moon info Going to gigs Well-crafted works of fiction Writing, or yearning to more like People-watching Travelling (but who doesn't like it?) Awe-inspiring landscapes Language, grammar, punctuation Films that inspire some sort of inner reflection Cats, dogs & other four-legged beings Trees, I love trees (but I don't hug 'em) The winter sun on my face Sleeping Dreaming Dreamers Laughing & making others laugh Being in the company of those I love Diseases of the mind Tortured souls Eau de parfum Chocolate (addict) Tea (addict) Jack Daniels Oh, and did I mention MUSIC?

I'd like to meet:

HERE FOR THE MUSIC. Well, at least when I first signed up for MySpace I was. You know how Oscar Wilde's mother, Speranza, held a regular "salon", i.e. gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host? That's kind of what I wanted this space to be, but the other way round: a gathering of talented musicians who take their art seriously - as well as those who are, well, doing their best - who can inspire the hostess. And she requires MUSIC and lots of it ALL THE TIME.Things have moved on somewhat. Where I began my cyber-existence with only bands as 'friends', look, people have taken over!! Thanks to the groups I've joined and to the dynamics of this little cyberworld, I've met some damn fine people. Avid readers and thinkers. Music-lovers. Kindhearted folk. Selfless individuals. Inspirational souls. All scattered around the globe. So, completely unintentionally, the salon is full of bands AND people. Music AND friendship? I'm a lucky monster.Clock extract
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Add to My Profile | More VideosI don't search for people I may get on with; I prefer them to find me instead. One thing I do ask of anyone who feels they'd like to add me to their 'friends', how about sending me a wee message saying why... Kind of helps to establish the Girl Collectors from the Genuine Cyber-Friendship Requests... Also, it's a better cyber-icebreaker than just being another profile in a queue of friend requests...

Music:

In no particular order except for the first two... Tom Waits Mark Lanegan Queens of the Stone Age Desert Sessions White Stripes Radiohead Thom Yorke The Raconteurs PJ Harvey BjÃ¶rk Neutral Milk Hotel Beck Einstuerzende Neubauten Modest Mouse Nirvana Kyuss Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Grinderman A Perfect Circle Rammstein Clinic Wilco Jimi Hendrix Eagles of Death Metal Mondo Generator Muse Isis Pelican System of a Down Deftones Red Hot Chili Peppers John Frusciante Death From Above 1979 Port O'Brien Arctic Monkeys Editors
(1st album) Leaves Howling Bells The Kills Franz Ferdinand
(1st album) Portishead Prodigy LCD Soundsystem daft punk Death in Vegas Gorillaz Depeche Mode Roxy Music The Doors Howlin' Wolf Muddy Waters Son House Bob Dylan Nick Cave Daniel Johnston Leonard Cohen Elliot Smith Cat Stevens Nick Drake John Martyn... ...and countless songs & tunes that I have danced to, cried to, laughed to, partied to, and rhythmically nodded my head to over the past 3 decades... Dance, jazz and classical music (Mozart in particular) also in the collection for when the mood takes me.BANDS I'VE DISCOVERED, OR WHO HAVE FOUND ME, ON MYSPACE The Waystation
USA The Cetan Clawson Revolution
USA
Kreeps
UK Peter Murphy's Carver Combo
Sweden DrugDealers
Mexico Domes of Silence
UK

Movies:

My Own Private Idaho Three Colours:Blue The Double Life of Veronique Paris,Texas Blue Velvet Nosferatu the Vampyre Lost Highway Stalker The Enigma of Kasper Hauser Death & the Maiden Bagdad CafÃ© Before Sunrise Before Sunset One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Atomised Sin City Sleepy Hollow Stigmata 1984 The Machinist Mulholland Drive Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Streetcar Named Desire The Unbearable Lightness of Being Henry and June Bitter Moon Life of Brian The Big Lebowski Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Being John Malkovich Leon Pitch Black House of Flying Daggers Birdy Dancer in the Dark Name of the Rose Strange Days The Libertine Stargate The Sixth Sense Amadeus Donnie Darko The Usual Suspects The Mission Tidelands The Doors Before Night Falls Tony Takitani Casshern Constantine El lado oscuro del corazon No te mueras sin decirme adÃ³nde vas El hombre mirando al sudeste ACTORS: John Hurt Johnny Depp Benicio del Toro Gabriel Byrne John Malkovich Samuel Jackson Juliet Binoche Javier Bardem River Phoenix Christian Bale Cate Blanchett John Cusack Viggo Mortensen (not just for their looks, promise!)

Television:

Haven't watched it for over a year now, but if you have to ask: Deadwood Carnivale The Daily Show Charmed Green Wing Lost Without a Trace Stargate SG-1 Extras Monty Python Fawlty Towers QI The X Files Later with Jools Holland Programmes featuring live music / music videos Planet Earth Channel 4 & BBC2 documentaries

Books:

AUTHORS, AND MY FAVORITE OF THEIR WORKS: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment Angela Carter
Nights at the Circus Kafka
Metamorphosis John Fowles
The Magus (thank you Danielle) Mario Vargas Llosa
The Feast of the Goat Haruki Murakami
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Jeanette Winterson
The Passion Will Self
How the Dead Live Toni Morrison
Beloved Anthony Burgess
Earthly Powers Virginia Woolf
Orlando John Updike
The Rabbit series Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
& all his plays Alan Paton
Ah, but your land is beautiful Mikhail Bugalov
A Dog's Heart I Claudius
Robert Graves Yann Martel
Self Jostein Gaardner
Sophie's World AUTHORS FOUND (& LOVED) ON MYSPACE: Nick Hemsley
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Heroes:

..mother, father, sister & partner - they've all at some or other time sacrificed something for me & for that, I'm grateful Josh Homme for bringing the music home (See what I did there? Homme? Home? Awesome. Or pathetic.) TOM WAITS FOR BEING THE GOD OF MUSIC AND POETRY Fuck it, anyone who gives without expecting anything in return - that's true heroism. Egret for being the personification of the above line "Anonymous" for being the catalyst that inspired me to find the desire to live again. I will always be grateful.

My Blog

its my turn now

maybe it's a good thing your phone is turned offi'd probably just cry and sayi miss youover and over againyou don't want to hear thati dream of you a lot these daysof how we were in each other's pres...
Posted by Lara Monster on Sun, 18 May 2008 12:55:00 PST

"Nothing will come of nothing: speak again"

Shakespearean Experience of the Learean KindI was a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl when I was first formally introduced to Shakespeare. Of course I had heard the name being bounced about before, on TV, ...
Posted by Lara Monster on Sat, 17 May 2008 05:26:00 PST

I hate this kind of hippy shit

Today's 'words of wisdom' (cough) on my Daily Tear Off Calendar 2008: "Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." What a load o' shite. I've just scratched my nose...
Posted by Lara Monster on Fri, 09 May 2008 12:45:00 PST

The Final Banter

We used to have such a good laugh, didn't we, Paul? Take the piss out of each other; take the piss out of others. Yep, we rather enjoyed taking the piss out of others, didn't we? It eased the stress, ...
Posted by Lara Monster on Fri, 02 May 2008 02:25:00 PST

Lara does Attenborough

Well, not literally. On one of my many visits to my mother last year, I arrived to find certain events had taken place within the lives of the neighbourhood animals. First, let me introduce them to y...
Posted by Lara Monster on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:15:00 PST

A waltz for a night

For years I've avoided Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and 'Before Sunset'. When I say 'avoided', I mean obsessively avoiding everything about them; synopses, reviews, press releases, interviews, clips. ...
Posted by Lara Monster on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:57:00 PST

Why I shall not procreate

This Be The Verse by Philip LarkinThey fuck you up, your mum and dad.They may not mean to, but they do.They fill you with the faults they hadAdd add some extra, just for you.But they were fucked up in...
Posted by Lara Monster on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PST

Future as Fig-tree

Excerpt from The Bell Jar - Sylvia PlathI saw my life branching out before me like the green fig-tree in the story.From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and ...
Posted by Lara Monster on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:21:00 PST

Written Feb 22

Go onHiss at meSpit at meSnarl at meShow me your fangsDrench me in your stinking bileTear at my flesh until you draw bloodGo on, I tell you, don’t stopFor every drop of rabid saliva that hits my...
Posted by Lara Monster on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:24:00 PST

morning womb

seven o’clock in the morningovercast daylight penetrates closed blindsthe duvet is pregnant with the warmth of your bodyheavy with sleepyou sink like lead into the mattressearplugs block out the...
Posted by Lara Monster on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:16:00 PST