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Anna Rebecca Rogers

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About Me

I am a PhD student in film and exist in a permanent state of deferred misery as I will need something to do later. I step out with Patrick Durkan whom I like very much although he is sometimes too hairy. I like apples, marmalade sandwiches and cats, wearing tweed and generally behaving like a grumpy granny; i have an aptitude for pulling a face like that of Les Dawson whilst 'trying' to write or drive, or whilst doing both simultaneously. I am prone to sobbing with total abandonment in very public places such as the uni library and, more recently, Blackwells in Edinburgh where I reached my personal nadir of human misery when i discovered that a large rotter who calls himself 'Daniel Frampton' had written my PhD already; yes, he had written it well and truly. Recently, and probably as a consequence of the awful and aforementioned 'incident', I have developed an interest in casseroles, be that the dish or the dishing out of the dish, and was surprised to discover that a wide array of culinary feasts can be included in this generic category including various curries. I am yet to cook one as I want to defer my disappointment but I am considering changing my PhD title to 'Filmic Presentations of Casserole: Widescreen and Technicolour'. I used to have a nose piercing, then i started working in Tesco and got a cold and lost my cool (in that order); i am now a nerd who listens to talking books and i like it. I really like going to the ballet

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My Interests

films, philosophy, philosophy and films and films and philosophy and philosophy. reading books, playing snap with myself (it's the most exciting card game you will ever have...try it), trying to beat Patrick at boggle, listening to music, drinking tea in bed and inappropriate drinking when miserable; I like talking to myself and laughing at my own jokes. I am also VERY interested in Patrick Durkan. I like going to the cinema and sitting in the back row and then not doing anything remotely naughty. I like calling small boys 'rotters'. I have always wanted to make the perfect scone but have never managed. Recipes would be gratefully received. I am not interested in cooking as it makes me stressed but I do like stirring things and eating. Jean Seberg and Gena Rowlands, knitting, bad detective novels, Julie Christie, Grace Kelly. I like wearing berets and looking 'uber continental like a giant, pink croissant' (Mike).x I also like buying and wearing lipsticks that do not suit me.

I'd like to meet:

Groucho Marx. I would also like to meet Patrick Durkan with greater frequency. I want to meet Olivia Schelts and seven bottles of cheap wine next weekend.xx A friendly but spikey cat who can hold his drink and wants a home [23 /11/06. found, one cat, name: Jeremiah. Occupation: sleep deprivator, tough on the streets. Cannot hold drink due to serious milk allergy]

Music:

Thanks to Patrick's magnanimous xmas pressie (which I opened early due to it being tantalisingly wrapped in a flimsy paper bag)I have discovered and am in rapturous love with the music of The Cure. I also like, in no particular order:Jon Redfern and Patrick Durkan, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush and bjork, bat for lashes, Neil Young. Joseph Arthur, Arthur Russell (many thanks to Ed) cocorosie, joanna newsom, smog , bright eyes, my bloody valentine and sonic youth, french crooning women and serge gainsbourg chet baker before he lost all his teeth and credibility down a bottle, the smashing pumpkins... to be continued. CONTINUATION:Joni Mitchell singing a 'woman of heart and mind' on 'miles of aisles' like she really means it. I would also like to add that Leonard Cohen's 'blue raincoat' is very good. Stina Nordenstam's 'Dynamite' album is one of those things I like to call a 'masterpiece' from start to finish. I like it lots. LAST BUT NEVER LEAST, THE HALOED JEFF BUCKLEY (no voice will ever surpass).x

Movies:

This could take a long time. The film I have liked the most is L'Avventurra and recently the mother and the whore by jean eustache, Orson welles and his fakes. Godard, Ozu, Antonioni (obviously), Cassavetes, Van Sant, Jarmusch, Allen, (S)Coppola, Akerman, Darren Aronofsky, Werner Herzog, Denis, Jean Vigo, Tarkovsky, Ophuls, Fellini, Man Ray, Campion, LYNNE RAMSAY, Malick, Fritz Lang, George Melies, Luis Bunuel, some Rossellini (he seems to have made an awful lot of films that you can no longer get hold of, good cause for throwing a wobbly, I say) Chabrol and Hitchcock,some Truffaut, some Rohmer, Celine and Julie go boating, AGNES VARDA,some Von Trier big ear, It's all about Love, HARMONY KORINE, any Bergman film with screaming in it, Kieslowski in his most Polish period and wajda, Tati, Marx Brothers, some Powell and Pressburger, Kurosawa, old musicals, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (she did everything he did but backwards and in high heels), Preminger, Don't look now, Bringing up Baby, Bertolucci (spider's stratagem, the conformist, before the revolution etc.)i'm quite hungry now...to be continued. After i'd eaten, i enjoyed the films of Dreyer and really got into Kubrick when I went through a sitting down phase...I saw Night Moves at the EIFF and was loving it...I seem to like any Japanese film with long takes and a pretty female in...alain resnais, in particular 'Providence' especially when SIR John Gielgud says 'FARTFACE', chris marker, later Visconti...lately, I have found myself astounded and confused by Pasolini's free, indirect, subjective but poetic willies. I was also really upset that Robert Altman died recently as Nashville is a truly great film in my opinion.

Television:

no apart from Miss Marple and Poirot and Columbo (does anyone know which Columbo episode John Cassavetes directed? did he do it under a pseudo (?) i suspect he did the pesky lil' pesker, grrr.

Books:

In the name of all that is holy...IRIS MURDOCH, it all pretty much comes full circle to her. I Love Sartre. Saul Bellow...more die of heartbreak apparently. Patricia Highsmith most definitely, Evelyn Waugh, J.D Salinger (oh...it's all so blindingly obvious). I like reading historical biographies with rude bits in. I like Nancy Mitford for working in that bookshop in London and writing 'Madame de Pompadour' and also for creating a character called 'the bolter'. Mostly I just like Iris and nearly everything else disappoints me, sorry.x When Olivia writes a book, I bet you a tenner that I'll like it.i'm working my way through Proust's rabbit warren of a mind...that's no joke, no time wasting allowed.x

Heroes:

Sartre, Iris Murdoch, Woody Allen, Miss Marple, Jean Seberg, Margot Tenenbaum, Chan Marshall, Mrs. Anne Sexton and PATRICK DURKAN when he saves me from myself and near calamity in the kitchen (you know, the minor fire, stroppy tantrum sort). pippi longstocking, my dear and wonderous friend, Olivia and now...OLIVE, our little winner, that beauty child pageant striptease MC...i'd also like to thank my mum and my agent