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Marjie

"Lady Marjorie has gone off the rails and there's likely to be one 'ell of a crash".

About Me

Mother, wife, teacher, singer, eternal student, constantly amused, bemused and amazed that I'm still here and still in The Race by The Grace of God
IT'S ME

PROTO CHRISTIAN SKA. OH THE HUMANITY
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - THE LAWS HAVE CHANGED. JUST GOOD.

My Interests

Sleeping. Chocolate. Acquiring academic qualifications. All sad and all true. Well the chocolate bit isn't really sad in itself unless you know just how much of the stuff I put away. Same with the sleeping. The other one is just sad.

I'd like to meet:

RICHARD AYOADE

Music:

Off the top of my head .... Al Green, Elvis Presley, The Strokes, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Django Reinhardt, Crowded House/Neil Finn/Split Enz, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Paul Simon, Rick Nelson, Gil Askey, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Abba, 60s girl groups, Motown, lots of one hit wonders plus many of the other usual suspects (to be continued and changed according to mood .... check out my ever changing profile songs for that!)

Movies:

Anything with Johnny Depp, good or bad, don't care, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory's Girl (the greatest British film ever made), Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, (to be continued etc etc). Napoleon Dynamite is dynamite. Really liked Atonement.

Television:

Father Ted, Morecombe and Wise, Little Britain, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, The Boss, Dudley Moore, Ken Burns, The Simpsons, Futurama, Monk, Frasier, Newhart, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Red Green, The Royle Family, Dad's Army, Nighty Night in small doses (to be, and all that....)

Books:

The Bible, Jane Eyre, On the Black Hill, Mill on the Floss, Jane Austen, GK Chesterton, Michel Foucault, Shaun Moores, PG Wodehouse, Dorothy L Sayers, CS Lewis, Milton, Shakespeare, Robert Frost, '1066 And All That' (best history book ever) I like the Russians (....)

Heroes:

Jesus

My Blog

Proto Christian Ska

I tried to post a video on this blog but the myspace pixies wouldn't let me - so please have a look on my page for the clip of "Jesus is My Friend" by Sonseed.Just please do it. You'll be happy you di...
Posted by Marjie on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:15:00 PST

Don't build your house on the sand

If our only worth is gained by being better than somebody else; if other people are just accessories to our own image or happiness; if a worthwhile life is one that costs a lot of money and involves p...
Posted by Marjie on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:28:00 PST

I really do love Nick Lowe

I just keep coming back to Nick Lowe and his earlier stuff. I suppose in some ways there's nothing that original about him, but in others there is. He has a turn of phrase both cla...
Posted by Marjie on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:40:00 PST

Rimbaud - A Dream For Winter

Some more literature for you all today! Arthur Rimbaud (pronounced Rambo btw!) wrote this exquisite poem a little before his 16th birthday. He was brilliant, wild and tragic. Apparently he stopped wri...
Posted by Marjie on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:47:00 PST

Groucho Marxs letter to Warner Brothers

I have always loved this: Groucho's letter to Warner Brothers, regarding "A Night in Casablanca"  During the filming of the Marx Brothers' "A Night in Casablanca," the legal department of the Wa...
Posted by Marjie on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:23:00 PST

Are you really selfish?

I've read that constant exposure to computer games leads to the underdevelopment of the brain which leads to an inability to see beyond the 'here and now' either for yourself or for other people. Some...
Posted by Marjie on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:46:00 PST

Love

It's not Valentine's Day and this doesn't include the greatest 'love' quotation of all from St Paul (next blog), but here are some random quotations that came up when I did a bit of googling abou...
Posted by Marjie on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:47:00 PST

’Shot Down’ (spreading rumours and gossip is a real bad game...)

Larry Norman had a song called 'Shot Down'. People said all sorts of thing about Larry, some of which were true and some of which were downright lies. It must have been especially hurtful wh...
Posted by Marjie on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:12:00 PST

Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, Sam Phillips and Sister Rosetta

So I’m finally getting round to paying some attention to the album Alison Krauss and Robert Plant brought out a while back ’Raising Sand’, and it dawns on me that there is a tra...
Posted by Marjie on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:57:00 PST

It’s not fair

Know what? Being a Christian is bloody hard sometimes........... and what it asks us to do - well sometimes it really doesn’t seem fair.......... then you think about it again...........and it&r...
Posted by Marjie on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:35:00 PST