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Kawaii Five-O

you've been misusing the subjunctive again

About Me

A single mother of eight children, all of mixed race. Enjoys daniel steel novels, and ownership dispute with the government.

My Interests

Japanese Food, Clean Washrooms, Hair Straighteners, Historical Re-Enactments, Kittens, Nicknames, Biting Opinions, ARG's, Video Games as Art, Intentionalism, British Comedy, Lavendar Icecream, Authoritarian Meritocracies, Vaguely Elitist Tendencies, Conceptual Art, Post-Modernist Literature, Light-Hearted Eugenics, critical theory, Jim Henson, Armando Iannucci, Brent DiCrescenzo, retro-futurism, JSTOR, John Smith, Alexander Pope, self-loathing, Warren Ellis, Louis Theroux, E.D. Hirsch, Cthulhu, new-historicism, Hot English prof's

I'd like to meet:

Frankly, I just desperately need friends.

Music:

clinic, avey tare and panda bear, dilute, deerhoof, essential logic, frankenixon, herbert, kaito, life without buildings, scout niblett, the rapture, out hud, !!!, animal collective, the fall, echo and the bunnymen, radio four, lcd soundsystem, dfa, jonathan fire eater, dizzee rascal, the go! team, Quickspace, electrelane, (very early) scritti politti, 13th floor elevators, The Fiery Furnaces, max tundra, autolux, uffie, The Langley School Music Project, the joggers, Tom Vek, Fujiya and Miyagi, Supergrass, Crystal Castles, Super Furry Animals, Deerhunter, Mr. Bungle, Gang of Four, TEARS FOR FEARS, Radiohead

Movies:

mulholland drive, blade runner, tin drum, exotica, 32 short films about glen gould, who's afraid of virginia woolf, alien, annie hall, blow-up, darby o'gill and the little people, princess mononoke, labyrinth, return to oz, spirited away, neverending story, My dinner with andre, american beauty, all about lili chou-chou, jin ro, life and death of colonel blimp, Hedgehog in the Fog, The Big Lebowski, The Squid and The Whale, Withnail and I, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Amelie, Pi, Swingers, Adaptation, History Boys, Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield

Television:

serial experiments lain, home movies, regency house party, twin peaks, lost, peep show, mighty boosh, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Bible Black, spaced, Fist of Fun, Adam and Joe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marion and Geoff, QI, Brass Eye, Big Train, That Mitchell and Webb Look, The Wire, The Armando Iannucci Show, Jam

Books:

lolita, point counterpoint, slaughter-house five, A Clockwork Orange, Don Juan (Byron), His Dark Materials, House of Leaves, Heart of Darkness, Dispatches

Heroes:

Sir Dominic Ireland

My Blog

Livejournal

I am now updating my livejournal, as well as re-igniting this ashtray of a myspace account.Is it 1996 already?http://corlimey.livejournal.com/...
Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:00:00 PST

My Woefully Awful Flash Fiction for English

This is a story of a conflict between a writer and categorical failure. One day a synapse won't fire. A nerve fibre will induce the word "Horatio" and the writer is left scrambling for a surname from ...
Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:03:00 PST

Donny Hue and the Colors 2/5

Many terrible ideas were once passable on paper. Some misguided case somewhere will wonder to himself "What if?" and unknowingly unleash a factory of bile-inducing creations on to the world.What if in...
Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:22:00 PST

King of Prussia - Save the Scene 3/5

Dear newly formed independent labels of the future, I would like to begin my correspondence by congratulating you on securing your new business! It's an exciting time for a record label entreprene...
Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:23:00 PST

4 Bonjour Parties: Pigments Drift down To the Brook 3/5

Among the list of instruments 4 Bonjour's Parties make use of in their debut album are a vibraphone, multiple flutes, glockenspiels, an acoustic guitar, an accordion, bongos, a laptop, whatever "noise...
Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:20:00 PST

The Mekons: Natural 3/5

I hope that none of you ever experience the agony of reviewing a band whose discography rivals The Fall. Beginning with their first release Fast Product and straight through toward their most recent a...
Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:21:00 PST

Dog - Karmageddon 3/5

There's a reason why music reviewers utilise band names as adjectives in their reviews instead of extended metaphors and Karmageddon is it. When reviewing a band that has as esoteric a set list as Dog...
Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:19:00 PST

International Falls - Achievement 3/5

Most mediocre indie pop can be traced back to a single cause and reaction. Like a Rube Goldberg machine of second-rate formulas, a verse will be flung out in to a cavity of clumsily repeated power cho...
Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:18:00 PST

Eulogies - Eulogies 2/5 (A flow chart)


Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:17:00 PST

Streaming Audio Killed the Video Star: A critical glance at Myspace band The Paper Cranes

I think that if I ever somehow progress to the point where I have even a fraction of the amount of talent similar to that of musical legends from the past, I'd genuinely die happily. And this is essen...
Posted by Kawaii Five-O on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:10:00 PST