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liza

who threw that ham at me?

About Me

Well, where to start really. My first book My Celebrity Boyfriend was published by Bloomsbury on Valentine's Day. It's a collection of photographs of lots of famous men pretending to be my boyfriend (a girl can never have too much fun, you know). I've got another myspace web page dedicated to it if you want to check it out - just press here
As for now, when I'm not working to save pennies I'm off travelling and photographing The Billy Ray? Project - a photographic study of the sons of preacher men. I find them, I interview them, I take their photograph and then they have to teach me something as the only one who could ever teach me was the son of a preacher man. So far I've gone all over England, Australia and New Zealand and learnt the likes of how to do cryptic crosswords, make raspberry souffles and how to put a plank on a boat and I'm planning trips to America, Dubai, Israel, Canada, Ireland and Rwanda. The study is open to any faith, denomination, age and country. Check out my blogs for the story so far and the continuing adventures of Billy Ray.....?
And if you have time please check out this amazing website www.ryico.org - It's a project that's running in Rwanda for street kids and really deserves a looksee.

My Interests

movies, exhibitions, travelling, photography

I'd like to meet:


Dick Van Dyke, Elvis Presley, Roger Ramjet, Jackie Chan and anyone who has a rampant mackerel ashtray...

And FINALLY check out my mate Helen Keenwho's in my top friends - she's a bloody excellent stand up and she gigs regularly in London and surroundings. All her gigs are listed on her page. Go see, she rocks.

Music:

David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, ABC, The Pretenders, Blondie, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra

Movies:

Jaws, Yellow Submarine, Spirited Away, Con Air, City of Lost Children, Back to the Future, Blazing Saddles, Kenny

Books:

My Celebrity Boyfriend, It, Furthest Away Mountain, Tales of the City, Pride and Prejudice

And my mate Am's book Straightening Ali (check it out here) .

Heroes:

Frank Zappa, Dorothea Lange, Christopher Walken, Kate Bush, Andreas Gursky

My Blog

Billy Ray 27 or how to pen twirl...

The more I do these interviews the more I realise I have so much to learn, mainly about myself. I can invisible mend, I can make great carrot cake, I can sculpt giant penises but when it comes to keep...
Posted by liza on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:50:00 PST

Billy Ray 26 or How To Dance To Downtown As The Back End Of A Pantomine Cow

Finally, I'm back to this!So Billy Ray 26, well he was one of my inspirations for the project back in the 90s. We first worked together at the Barbican and then we went out on the most hideous tour si...
Posted by liza on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:50:00 PST

nice frock shame about the text

So yes, I'm on sale now in the June edition Elle with Keira Knightly on the cover. Blink and you'll miss me but at least I look vaguely presentable....
Posted by liza on Tue, 29 May 2007 02:30:00 PST

Elle

Yesterday I got to wear purple Vivienne Westwood and green Christian Louboutin 5" heeled wedges.Yesterday I was the "model/talent" on a photoshoot for Elle Magazine.For f**k's sake!!! Me? In designer ...
Posted by liza on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:04:00 PST

Richard, Judy and me

So this is how it went...Friday9am - I'm already shopping as I have nothing to wear. No seriously, nothing, I've not even had time to do my washing for a couple of weeks so I can't even recycle11.30am...
Posted by liza on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:52:00 PST

I'm on Richard and Judy!

Might have to do a fear vomit in a minute. I'm going on Richard and Judy, Friday 16th 5-6pm Channel 4 to talk about My Celebrity Boyfriend. I'm actually having trouble seeing now.... x
Posted by liza on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:45:00 PST

My Celebrity Boyfriend review

Got rather excited today as my friend Carol was flicking through Heat Magazine and came across this... Hurrah!...
Posted by liza on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:42:00 PST

back

what can I say? It's a quarter to five on the 2nd of Jan and I've been awake for about an hour sorting through my post and trying to "manage" the 139 emails that I just HAD to keep from during the tri...
Posted by liza on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:18:00 PST

knackered

Have kind of realised that I haven't actually written much about my time in NZ other to list my various ailments and catastrophes. It's not that I haven't wanted to, it's just that I haven't had time....
Posted by liza on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:42:00 PST

agony pt II: The Sock of Vinegar

I was feeling so smug. I had just survived 3 days of sailing round Abel Tasman, getting bruised and battered, being sung to by the boat, having to row to shore to have a pee, nearly capsizing us and g...
Posted by liza on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:18:00 PST