I'm a feminist writer. i like crooked rib that i write and sell and can be found at the here shop, the blog is at www.sianandcrookedrib.blogspot.com.
i like sushi and visiting tokyo, i like paris particularly in the twenties, wearing overblown vinatge dresses, re reading children's books, red lipstick and seamed stockings, making cakes, reading feminist blogs, reading claire's blog, listening to jay scratch, cooking with butternut squash, walking along bamburgh beach, trying to put my leg behind my head, dancing until i can't feel my legs with niz, ladyfesting and writing articles, walking around bristol and london for hours with no where to go, my friend's baby, cosies, seeing my mum's friends, seeing my friends, green eyeshadow, paintings by modigliani, drinking coffee and eating croissants in bed on saturdays, kissing is nice, big lakes, greta garbo, my snake skin shoes, lots and lots of mascara
Music:
I am really into music. came to it a bit late i guess, but really care about it. i mainly like hip hop and electronica, love bjork for instance, and roots manuva, mos def, the dangerdoom (any mf doom in fact) is really good, and jah dilla's stuff. all of it. no questions. i don't like hip hop that is too preoccupied with bling and hoe's, because really, ive got better things to think about! that is why i like roots manuva and mos def, plus i i really want the jaylib album, getting more into older stuff by public enemy. tribe called quest i absolutely love. and mf doom's voice just gorgeousness. i love lauryn hill. on the electronica side, obviously matmos and most people on hte warp lable are wicked, mira calix, luke vibert, plaid, i love prefuse 73's one word extinguisher. i love miss kittin and girly electroclash stuff like chicks on speed. yay! plus i love jazz, mainly old lady jazz like billie holiday who i am crazy about. i think nina simone has one of the greatest voices ever, and if anyone wnats to get me a copy of 'sinnerman' i will love them forever. altho my knowledge of kind of more experimental jazz is a little sketchier, i love charlie parker like ginsberg did. and schmind stuff too, belle and sebastian, riot grrl like le tigre, electrelane, plus some folksy artists like joanna newsome, josephine foster, really getting in to bob dylan and johnny cash is a leg, oh i could go on all day. camera obscura are my new favourite band! and the white stripes. but love kylie and madonna and beyonce too. and then there's the funk, for where would we be without spanky? nicole willis is everyone's fave this year, and i love aretha and dusty, wicked! vicki anderson and millie jackson too! all this mixes in with my absolute love for all things sixties girl groups, the chiffons 'one fine day' is best for dancing in the clubs, the ronettes all have good tunes, i love the shirelles and the shangri la's ('walkin in the sand' is sooo great in its weirdness) and I hugely believe these ladies were feminism! and dubstep is definitely making life a lot happier and steppier these days. my favourite dub step is bass clef, but i also love skrean and pinch and the hench/skulldisco folk.
my favourite getting ready songs are stone's catch me(thank you jay forever for that!) and bob and earl's harlem shuffle.
Movies:
old ones mainly. i love marilyn monroe and audrey hepburn. and greta garbo. but also like new films, andf am getting into manga a bit more. cabaret and the seven year itch are among my favourite films. and if i am ever blue then nothing works as well as desperately seeking susan, i promise.
Television:
the problem with tv is it is less fun to watch by yourself. like, i can't watch neighbours anymore.
however:
twin peaks
the mighty boosh
nathan barley/brass eye/alan partridge/nighty night
peep show
rock profile
popworld but only in the days of simon
and i watch repeats of friends far too much
the office and extras too.
Books:
well, obviously i do english so i read a lot of books. mainly modernist writers like ts eliot and woolf and djuna barnes, but also love SOME victorians. dostoyevsky was a genius. wuthering heights is one of my favourite novels, as is Nightwood. been reading a lot of margaret atwood recently though, and catching up with murakami. thanks to raf i have rediscovered pippi longstocking, and have decided that reading chilfhood favourites is a great joy. finally read naked lunch and mary shelley is my new hero (seriously, she must ahve had the BEST life, and the guy who said she didn't write frankenstein can fuck off) among my most appreciated books aer voyage in the dark (i love jean rhys) the brothers karamazov, mrs dalloway, nightwood, wuthering heights,catch 22, dr zhivago, othello, the waste land, heart of darkness, the great gatsby, jane eyre, howl and kaddish....
