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Amy

We speak in silence every time our eyes meet

About Me

27, the fairer sex, I work hard, like music, films, books, comics, drinking red wine. I also like shopping, I am female after all. What more could you possibly want to know?

My Interests

Well my main interests are films (see below) and writing. I love fairy tales in some Freudian way, so predictably I love Angela Carter, I love horror films - there is beauty in gore but more beauty in sinister insiduous terror. I like simple things like a good red wine, a brill DVD and a cheeseboard =p. I like other things too - including... the sea - reading - red wine - black eyeliner - art - stormy weather - cadbury's caramel bars - ramsey campbell and friends - old, empty buildings - the brothers grimm - gwen stefani - curry - the colour green - the smell of rain - flock wallpaper - mature cheddar cheese - edward gorey - czech beer - collecting dvds - photography(looking at it) - zombie films - comics - superheros! - rain - cthulhu - stripey T's - tokyo street fashion - christian bale (yum)- not being sixteen anymore - collecting keys - alice in wonderland - red lipstick - nunsploitation - greek mythology - polkadots - hayao miyazaki films - history - alan moore - tall men - trees - hammer horror - !!films!! - christina aguilera - rummaging around second hand bookshops - computer games (yes i am proud to be a nerd) - skulls (not real ones, like on t-shirts and stuff) - autumn - looking around old churches - travelling - dracula - grey skies - jack white - the moomins - chanel no. 5 - sushi - belgian chocolate haagan daaz- whippets & greyhounds - coffeeARTISTS I LIKE ARE - arthur rackham - aubrey beardsley - colette calascione - trevor brown - gerard willemenot - gustav klimt - marc chagall - mark ryden - masaru shichinohe - rene magritte - edward gorey - mark rothko

I'd like to meet:

Jesus and Batman

Music:

jeff buckley, the smiths, tom waits, morrissey, martha wainwright, michael nyman, leonard cohen, the pixies, tindersticks, radiohead, air, stuart staples, rilo kiley, bright eyes, bob dylan, neil young, rhcp, nina simone, raconteurs, philip glass, yeah yeah yeahs, nick drake, peaches, weezer, SOAD, grandaddy, interpol, the shins, bjork, david bowie, mars volta, john martyn, cat power, nin, regina spektor, lullaby for the working class, hem, talking heads, modest mouse, smashing pumpkins, kate rusby, idlewild, greenday, fratellis, cold war kids, death cab for cutie, MCR, flaming lips, counting crows, damien rice, the boss, british sea power, the killers, muse, placebo, stroke, willy mason, , elliott smith, lambchop, REM, arcade fire, tori amos, jamie t, christina aguilera, patrick wolf, maximo park, the gossip, kate bush, white stripes,

Movies:

I love LOVE LOVE films. I particularly like THESE guy's films: dario argento, terence fisher, george romero, john boorman, woody allen, steven spielberg, takeshi miike, takeshi kitano, michael hanake, claude chabrol, hayao miyazaki, darren aronofsky, david lynch, david cronenberg, ingmar bergman, greg araaki, catherine breillat, peter greenaway, akira kurosawa, both coppolas, francois ozon, mario bava, jess franco (kind of...), tim burton, jane campion, ken russell, hideo nakata, zhang yimou, alfred hitchcock, chan-woo park,

Television:

curb your enthusiasm, spaced, scrubs, simpsons (seasons 1-6), friends, the league of gentlemen, futurama, sex and the city, funland, america's next top model.the outer limits, hammer house of horror, doctor whoAlso any show made by MTV (trashy but scarily addictive)

Books:

I like to read pretty much everything! Favourites include M.R James, Dickens, Chuck Palaniuk, Marguerite Duras, Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Algernon Blackwood, Henry Miller, Hugh Selby Jr, Peter Straub(marry me?), Ryu Murakami, Iain M Banks, T.E.D Klein, Arthur Machen, Ian McEwan, H.P Lovecraft, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Philip K Dick, Leon Garfield, Angela Carter, Henry James, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Brett Easton Ellis, Joyce Carroll Oates, Lewis Carroll, Stev-o King, Ursula le Guin. Dan Brown (aha...aha...kidding about the last one...) (this is how i feel a lot of the time...)

Heroes:


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My Blog

Miss my hair...

It's not the first time I cut it off though... I did so last year with a pair of scissors after a weirdly bad break up.I usually never have bad break ups except last year was a bad year. Heh.&nbs...
Posted by Amy on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:15:00 PST

Moving out of Dullsville - population me-

My last blog was quite boring so I thought I'd post a new one. I was sober when I posted the last one and now that I have some vin rouge I feel more like waxing lyrical. Do you remember there was a ch...
Posted by Amy on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:21:00 PST

Cringey-ness

I always cringe when I look at my page thingey. I hate that tag-line thing. What are you ever supposed to write in it other than wanky song lyrics??  I have been off line for a while actuall...
Posted by Amy on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:46:00 PST

Happy happy holidays!!!!!

Wow I am so tired. First half term completed in my new school though  and never a boring moment. Ooh and I am a qualified first aider - how excellent?! Blogs are so weird. Who gives a damn what y...
Posted by Amy on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:42:00 PST

Random new blog

I'm am sooo glad it's Friday. Has been my first week at my new job and I am MAJORLY exhaused... I can't even summon up the energy to go for a celebratory drink so have just crashed on the sofa with a...
Posted by Amy on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:30:00 PST

Summertime and the weather is fine...

or, unbearably hot. Sweat is dripping from my every pore. I feel like I'm sweating in places that I never knew had sweat glands (and I taught biology). Well, the summer's here - six weeks of NO work. ...
Posted by Amy on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:04:00 PST

Irie mon (not sure what that means...)

Just got back from the sunny Carribean woo-hoo! Did a lot of sporty stuff, very unlike me, like catamarran-ing, snorkelling, diving, kayaking etc. Also did a whole lot of drinking - cocktails and...
Posted by Amy on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:56:00 PST