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Cath

Caught a ride with the moon

About Me

Don't know what I think about this blogging thing... i'm hoping to not have time to do much blogging because I'll be busy doing stuff. It would be cool to use as a diary though...About me? I blather on a lot. as anyone who as received an email from me can tell you. simple summary: love my husband and my friends, love my music, love live gigs, miss my friends in SA, want to sing desperately, love art and LOVE London.Hate bigots, hate violence, cruelty and glass furniture but that should just go without saying.

My Interests

music, books, movies, gigs, art, comedy (standup, black, sitcoms etc), fetish, photography, people.

I'd like to meet:

with my friends all the time. like when you were at school... you know, and you got to see them everyday. that was cool. now we all have to work and move to all these far places. that's crap.

Amanda Palmer doing her version of Radiohead's Creep:

Music:

Crash Symptom, Tori Amos, Thea Gilmore, Editors, Queen Adreena, Dresden Dolls, NIN, Gin Blossoms, Franz Ferdinand, Damien Rice, Imogen Heap, Johnny Cash, Suzanne Vega, Keane, Snow Patrol, Cure, Suede, The Tears, Pulp, The Cranes, Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Leonard Cohen, Morrissey(with or without the Smiths), Rammstein, Liz Phair, Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sarah Mclachlan, Natalie Merchant, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, 10,000 maniacs, a-Ha, Andrea Bocelli, Antony and the Johnsons, Belly, Kristen Hersh, Billie Holiday, Bjork, Blondie, Catatonia, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie, Deacon Blue, Prefab Sprout, Dead Can Dance, Edie Brickell, Erasure, Duran Duran, Falco, Garbage, John Cameron Mitchell, James, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Lloyd Cole, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Pearl Jam, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Prince, Rob Zombie, Shakespear's Sister, Sigur Ros, Sinead O'Connor, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sneaker Pimps, Soundgarden, Sting, The Breeders, Stone Roses, Throwing Muses, Vast, Wet Wet Wet(don't judge me - love Marti Pellow!),

Movies:

Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Crash (David Cronenberg's), Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, XMen, Batman Begins, Tank Girl, Corpse Bride, Nightmare before Xmas, Flash Gordon, My Neighbour Totoro, City of Lost Children, The Devil's backbone, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander (can't anyone else see the sense of Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller being the perfect threesome twosome?), Seven, Fightclub, Harry Potter, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Transamerica, Volver, Dancer in the Dark,

Television:

"The internet's on computers now?" - Homer Simpson

Books:

Amy Tan, Sarah Waters, Kathy Reichs, Johnathan Kellerman, Patrick Suskind, HP Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, George Macdonald Fraser, Mark Gattis, Tom Robbins, Stephen King, William Burroughs, and a variety of 'self-help' books. Also currently reading a few autobiography/biography type books - John Peel, Margrave of the Marshes very cool. Some classics - liked Catch 22 (but no one believes me...), 1984 was cool. Graphic Novels - Alan Moore(V, Swampthing, Constantine, League of extraordinary Gentlemen - the list goes on and on), Neil Gaiman(Sandman). Beautiful and amazing stuff. Harry Potter.

Heroes:

Jason and Kate

My Blog

Bjork - Hammersmith Apollo - 14th April 2008

Back down Hammersmith way  can't say I'm a big fan of the neighbourhood or the centre you have to trundle through to get to your destination. We did cheat this time and caught a cab from town. To mak...
Posted by Cath on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:11:00 PST

oh me oh my.

god, this is now getting really difficult. I am soooo tired and work isn't helping - bad planning on my part has meant that I am still working until the end of next week and I can tell you that this i...
Posted by Cath on Tue, 20 May 2008 10:18:00 PST

The truth about being pregnant

I wonder if I should write a blog with all my truths about being pregnant and later a ’truth about labour’ follow up.... simply because I think it would be good for anyone c...
Posted by Cath on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:15:00 PST

Diamanda Galas - Queen Elizabeth Hall, 20th March

A quick, furious type before I get back to homework (actually - cleverly - since this is ’life-writing’ this does classify as homework too). We haven’t been to a gig in an age - actu...
Posted by Cath on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PST

poopoodeedoo

it’s late and I’m tired but I’m blogging still... I’m finally feeling more human since work is no longer the all consuming thing in my life. finally down to one job but still g...
Posted by Cath on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:05:00 PST

oh my god - it’s a cot and a pram.

I should be blogging more at this stage of the year and have finally finished doing two jobs at once so I can now focus on one job, my course and my life. not necessarily in that order for a change. ...
Posted by Cath on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:38:00 PST

Junior - 433 grams of lovin’

   Ended off thursday in the hospital spending some time in a dark room peeking at little junior juta on a monitor... the scanning lady (very sweet, zimbabwean gal, oddly enough) said she's ...
Posted by Cath on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:46:00 PST

My philosphy: I

Right, tonight's subject is perception and narrow-perception... You know what it's like. You're a teenager, you get sucked into the cult-like appeal of your local youth club and the religion that acco...
Posted by Cath on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:37:00 PST

Peepoopah pah!

It's time to renew my bloggingness. I've been quiet for awhile due to exhaustion, trying to combine: work (shite), course work (great), pregnancy illness/fatigue, and stuff. For my own personal record...
Posted by Cath on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:52:00 PST

not to mention the gods

seriously rufus wainwright is brilliant. can't say I'm finding the latest pj harvey album as accessible as all the reviews say it should be but rufus he rarely disappoints me. I love finding someone w...
Posted by Cath on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:10:00 PST