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About Me

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
HUR.
Hello! :) At the moment I'm a student at Alcester Grammar school studying biology, chemistry, RE and English literature. I don't get EMA, so I don't study them very hard. I am never in time for school, despite living ten minutes down the road, just the same as I am never on time for anything. At any rate it's the summer holidays, so I'm "chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool" by:
* baking cakes the size of paving slabs
* giving my hamster dodgy haircuts
* reading books that won't come in handy in later life
* failing to complete my personal statements
* watching the early series of ER in their entirety
* painting Freudian pictures of men smoking cigars/eating chips in a suggestive manner
* toking in trailers
and
* generally having a pretty good time of it
One day I'm going to give it all up for a life of professional snooker. If you're a snooker player, kudos to you.
I'm aware that I still have a lot of growing-up to do and so does everyone, which is why it irritates me to see people finding twu wuv at 15, 16, 17. I don't try to be Kool (obv.) and I don't try to be something that I'm not. I'm not very good at juggling more than three commitments at a time, though I can juggle three apples or similarly rotund objects reasonably well. I'm trying hard to be a philanthropist, though the longer I work as a children's shoe fitter the harder this seems to be.
I READ voraciously, and if you recommend a good book to me I will very much appreciate it and remember you fondly in the future :) I also like to laugh, colour-in and eat sweets and vegetables, though not at the same time.
I am having a passionate affair with Pointless Information and am interested in just about everything, a direct result of living with my father who will happily give you a lecture on Byzantine culture or WWII stealth bombers or René Descartes' dualist concept while you're dashing to the loo. (This has rubbed off on me somewhat, and I'm a Sponge for anything that won't come in handy for an exam.) The aforementioned father refuses to allow animals in our house, which means that my rebellious student days will probably be lived out in a grotty flat o' cats that ponce about the place with exciting names like Mr Manvell, 2Bashy and Corrugated Card.
I won't preach to you, and it'd be lovely if you don't try to do so to me. However:
* I DON'T like vain people
* I DO believe strongly in post-feminism feminism
* I DON'T approve of people belittling other people
* I DO believe in freedom to choose
* I DON'T think that by the time I can vote there will be any discernable difference between the Conservatives and New Labour (though I generally sit on the fence, so that is okay)
* I DO believe that creationists, fundamentalists and extremists belong at the same fuckwitted end of the religious foodchain
* I DON'T like Frankie Goes to Hollywood or Guns 'n' Roses and nothing you can say will ever change that.
Any other issues are open to deb8, m8.
FOR ALL THE RELIGION-HEADS THAT KEEP TRYING TO ADD ME: please don't.
I think that covers everything, so that's HOW 4 NOW!
(At the moment I'm in the middle of streamlining this profile into a more pithy, witty, trippy form. This doesn't explain why the font is suddenly in capitals, but this was a creative mistake on the part of Myspace and not me.)

My Interests

Colouring-in * going out * staying in * scathing wit * the brewing and subsequent consumption of alcohol * pre-Wittgenstein philosophy * 1950s Hollywood * chatting shit* musicaa * That Green Feeling * critical self-analysis * nerdy science * keeping a secret hamster named Dennis * the pre-raphaelites * feminism (though not feminazism) * making cuddly toys * complicated high-fives * reading and writing pretentious nonsense * rolling myself in my duvet and refusing to get up * people-watching * Japanese-speaking * snooker-playing * picture-painting * trailer-toking * maracca-laughing * literature-guzzling * bonfire-huddling * flower pressing * tasty baking *

I have also been getting into INTERNET SHOPPING in a big way since I found out I could use my debit card for this and am now excitedly frittering my hard-earned £££ on books, DVDs and psychoactive herbs.

I'd like to meet:

People who aren't up themselves
People who aren't posers or phoneys
People who don't self-harm for attention (scratch that, anyone who isn't constantly screaming for attention)
People who can name their bad points and try to fix them
People who don't preach existentialism in order to justify their clichéd teenage (w)angst
Poeple who enjoy using their brains
People who can punctuate and write coherently
People who play snooker professionally
People who aren't slaves to extremes of fashion
People who cry if they see a torn-up book
People who know how to listen
People who feel their music in their hearts and their heads and their toes
People who are honest, whatever they feel
People with similar interests to me
People with completely different interests to me
People who'll understand that I can be happy without having the all-American smile
People who like colouring-in
People whose ratio of brains to eyeliner is greater than 1:3
People who can create their own magic without resorting to drugs
People who aren't pseudo-depressants
People who can put up with copious quotations from Holden Caulfield
People who may be quiet but are still strong enough to stand up for what they love
People who understand what I'm on about
People like you

Music:

My musical tastes range from SO BAD IT'S GOOD to SO GOOD IT'S BAAAAD. In-between, a few favourites are are:

* Jeff Buckley * The Young Knives * Leftover Crack * DeVotchKa * The Long Blondes * Bloc Party * The Skids * Pulp * LCD Soundsystem * Joy Division * Nick Drake * Luna Sea * Skankin' Pickle * Psapp * Battle Royal * Ben Christophers * Cypress Hill * PJ Harvey * The Dresden Dolls * Massive Attack * Mint Royale * Thomas Newman * Oi Skall Mates * Most jazz and blues * The Pipettes * Black Sabbath * Little Richard (a-wop-bop-a-doo-wop) * Save Ferris * Not Rod Stewart *
I also really like that song by the Plain White T's, but not so much that I'd waste a tenner by going to a gig to see them (although I have been known to do that and it's usually turned out okay).

Movies:

I like movies that make me think, but not movies that are pointedly pretentious, pseudo-intellectual and running away with/from themselves. I also like films that cater for my kind of humour (i.e. whacked).

* Road to Perdition * Cowboy Bebop * The Wicker Man * American Beauty * Requiem for a Dream * Bill&Ted * Stand by Me * Chocolat * Donnie Darko * Life of Brian * Snatch * A Streetcar Named Desire * Ferris Bueller's Day Off * Rocky Horror Picture Show * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind * Take Care of my Cat * The Crucible * Studio Ghibli * The Truman Show * Little Miss Sunshine * Tarantino gory-orgies * Dr Strangelove * Amadeus * Zorba the Greek * Shaun of the Dead * Fat Albert *
To be honest, as long as it doesn't feature Hugh Grant, Ben Stiller or Keira Knightly in any way, shape or form, I'm perfectly willing to give it a look.

Television:

"You, my love, are allowed to beat the shit out of your television, choke its thoughts and corrupt its mind Kill, kill, kill, KILL the motherfucker before the song of zombified pain and panic and malaise and its narrow, right-wing vision and its cheap, commercial gang-rape becomes the white noise of the world.
You, my love, are allowed to forgive and love your television."
I don't have Sky, so my TV viewing is restricted to channels 1-5 and any DVDs that I fork out for. Consequently, my favourite shows are:
* Black Books * ER * Grey's Anatomy * Jeeves and Wooster * Spaced * Prison Break * Snooker * Pseudo-science with Adam Hart-Davies * The Moomins * Deal or No Deal * Green Wing * A Bit of Fry and Laurie Fit and Lolly *
Whenever I visit a more fortunate friend's house, I monopolise the Sky box and watch:
* Robot Chicken * Daria * Roller Jam * Braniac *
Sometimes I watch things like The Daily Politics to watch Gordon Brown getting a good rinsing from the Opposition and to time Jacqui Smith's acquiescent nods. University Challenge is always fun to tune into, just in case there's any Oxford totty strutting their stuff/beating de Montfort into a bloody pulp. YER!

Books:

are written by good authors, like:
* J.D. Salinger * Harper Lee * Sylvia Plath * Hubert Selby Jr. * Truman Capote * Lian Hearn * Terry Pratchett * Sue Townshend * William Nicholson * Anthony Burgess * Virginia Woolfe * Arthur Miller * Kierkegaard * George Orwell * Geoff Ryman * Jospeh Kesselring * Marcus Aurelius * Mary Wollstonecroft * Steve Jones * John Gribbin * Daphne DuMaurier * P.G. Wodehouse * Jean-Paul Satre * Joanne Harris * Franz Kafka * Steven Pinker * Richard Dawkins * Muriel Spark * Naomi Wolf *
I love books more than I love most people, which isn't as cold as it sounds 3

Heroes:


Jeff Buckley * Sylvia Plath * Holden Caulfield * Kate Winslet and many other curvy women * Harper Lee * Kouta Hirano * Diana Dors * Dylan Moran * Tank Man * George Orwell * Arthur Miller * Will Self * Stephen Hawking (despite him not really being a gangsta rapper) *

I admire these people for what they've done or overcome. Or in the case of Diana Dors, because she is fantastic. I don't try to emulate them because I don't want to be a second anybody.

I like to think that this shows something of the man behind the cerebral persona. That is why I, too, am joining the cult of this image.

My Blog

Faking It (a day trip to Oxford University in words and pictures)

Today I went on an open day to OXFORD UNIVERSITY and took some photos. I'm in a generous mood, so I'd like to share these experiences with you :)It took a long time to get going - I was up with a lark...
Posted by Car(amel)o(pra)line on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:11:00 PST

2oo7 Reading List

The God Delusion - Richard DawkinsWild Sawns - Jung Chang (again)Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary WollstonecroftMeditations - Marcus Aurelius (not cover to cover, 's a dipper)Trustee from the...
Posted by Car(amel)o(pra)line on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:16:00 PST

My ambitions

I decided to take a moment out from a hectic schedule of quoting Kafka/discussing creationism and thermodynamics/campaigning against a pub of many memories being turned into a carvery in order to comp...
Posted by Car(amel)o(pra)line on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:53:00 PST

New year's eve prayer

(I'm aware that it's not new year yet, but Jeff Buckley is too good to wait.)You, my love, are allowed to forget about the Christmas you just spent stressed-out in your parents' house.You, my love, ar...
Posted by Car(amel)o(pra)line on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:41:00 PST

Ode to Ant 'n' Dec

large of forehead, small of namehosts of saturday takeaway gamegeordie lads on byker groveone went blind when a paintball explode(ed)a forage into pop with an ill-fated bandI bought your classic ...
Posted by Car(amel)o(pra)line on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:31:00 PST

A Thought

I have been 16 for precisely 5 months, but I haven't ridden a moped yet. This blows.
Posted by Car(amel)o(pra)line on Wed, 31 May 2006 11:37:00 PST