"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
Female
21 years old
Auckland, Auckland
New Zealand
life... philosophy, reading, music, people, theatre, writing, rock climbing...
Music
Green Day, Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Simon & Garfunkel, America, The Beach Boys, Elemeno P, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mozart, Carla Bruni, Chuck Berry, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter Tschaikowsky, Cliff Richard, Comedian Harmonists, David Bowie, Don McLean, Ekseption, Elton John, The Exponents, Furthermore, Gary Moore, Gloria Gaynor, Goodnight Nurse, Hannes Wader, Herbert Grönemeyer, Jacques Brel, James Blunt (i hate most of his music and only really like "tears and rain" and that i only listen to in particular moods, so don't get the wrong idea!), The Lads, Lifehouse, The Living End, Michael Jackson, Monty Python, Nimmzwei, P.O.D., Panic! At the Disco, Peter Paul & Mary, Queen, Reinhard Mey, Relient K, Marlene Dietrich, Mika, Rammstein, t.a.t.u., avril lavigne, the tutts. Musicals: Cabaret, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof
Movies
Ever After, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Gloomy Sunday, The Notebook, Blueprint, Braveheart, 10 Things I Hate About You, Princess Diaries, Princess Diaries 2, A Knight's Tale, Brokeback Mountain, Chocolat, Emma, Amelie, Dead Poet's Society, Back to the Future (all 3), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, American Beauty, The Phantom of the Opera, Shrek, Shrek 2, Run Lola Run, Comedian Harmonists, Sams, Sams in Gefahr, Sissi (all three), Legally Blonde, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cabaret, An Angel At My Table, Fiddler on the Roof, The Notorious Betty Page, Mean Girls, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Mrs Henderson Presents, About a Boy, Notting Hill, Adaptation, My Best Friend's Wedding, Kinky Boots, The World's Fastest Indian, The Prestige, Marie Antoinette, 50 First Dates, Short Circuit, Short Circuit 2, I Am Sam, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Finding Neverland, The Secret Garden, The Wizard of Oz, Moulin Rouge!, Maid in Manhattan, Bend it Like Beckham, Lost and Delirious, The Life Aquatic, Donnie Darko, Zoolander and absolutely NO HORROR MOVIES!!!!!!
Television
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
i have discovered that television programmes aren't all as shit as i assumed. but i still don't watch them on tv... mostly.
here goes:
third rock from the sun, family guy, the simpsons, weeds, and i currently can't remember what else...
Books
"blueprint blaupause" by Charlotte Kerner, "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë, "Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova, "Charlotte" by Axel Brüggemann, "Das Kleine Gespenst" by Otfried Preussler, "Song of the Lioness" quartet by Tamora Pierce, "The Immortals" quartet by Tamora Pierce, "The Protector of the Small" quartet by Tamora Pierce, "Harry Potter" by J.K. Rowling, "Narnia" series by C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, "Griffin & Sabine: Briefen und Postkarten der Liebe" by Nick Bantock, "Sisters of the Quantock Hills" quartet by Ruth Elwin Harris, "The Third Secret" by Steve Berry, "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, "Arden of Faversham" (playwright unknown), "The Triumph of Love" by Geoffrey Hill, "Princess" trilogy by Jean Sasson, Euripides' plays, "The Vintner's Luck" by Elizabeth Knox, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams, "for coloured girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf" by Ntozake Shange, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo, "Ubu Roi" by Alfred Jarry, "La Mandragola" by Nicolo Machiavelli, "Pope Joan" by Donna W Cross, "walking naked" by Alyssa Brugman, "Catherine, Called Birdy" by Karen Cushman, "Auschwitz" by Pascal Croci, "Elske" by Cynthia Voigt", "The Tower Room" by Adele Geras, "Watching the Roses" by Adele Geras, "Pictures of the Night" by Adele Geras, Dr Seuss, "Maus I" and "Maus II" by Art Spiegelmann, "Beauty" by Robin McKinley, "The Black Swan" by Mercedes Lackey, "The Fire Rose" by Mercedes Lackey, "Deerskin" by Robin McKinley, "Rose Daughter" by Robin McKinley, "A Knot in the Grain and other stories" by Robin McKinley, "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde, "The Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, "Momo" by Michael Ende, "Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer" by Michael Ende, "Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13" by Michael Ende, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry, Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More" by Roald Dahl, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl, "Fantastic Mr Fox" by Roald Dahl, "Danny the Champion of the World" by Roald Dahl, almost anything else by Roald Dahl, "The Serpent's Shadow" by Mercedes Lackey, "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "Trickster's Choice" and "Trickster's Queen" by Tamora Pierce, "The Raging Quiet" by Sherryl Jordan, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant, William Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, "i am not esther" by Fleur Beale, "Dr Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe, "Switch Bitch" by Roald Dahl, "Ariel", "The Bell Jar" and "The Colossus and other poems" by Sylvia Plath, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T.S. Eliot, "Götz and Meyer" by David Albahari, "Goodbye to Berlin" by Christopher Ischerwood, "Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America" by Mel White, "Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality" by Pat Califia. This isn't a complete list of everything I have ever read, of course, but a relatively decent list of what I would recommend others to read, that I can think of off the top of my head.
Heroes
Friedrich Hruschka, Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Christopher Marlowe, Emily Brontë, Reinhard Mey, Ruth Elwin Harris, Thomas Hobbes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Socrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vincent van Gogh, Hieronymus Bosch, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Roald Dahl, Charles Bernstein. i may be able to think of others eventually, and most of them would be philosophers or poets/other writers or artists in another craft whose work i admire.
The University of Auckland
Auckland, All
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English
Minor: Philosophy
Clubs: German Drama Group, The Dessert Club & Stage 2
2005 to 2008
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About me: about me... i'm a person who generally considers complete sanity to be a boring (and therefore not worthwhile) state of existence. i aim to live life to the full (and have lots of fun along the way). i'm an obsessive person, though my obsessions tend to change quickly and easily. i mostly just get obsessed with my current fav artist (renoir), music (kaiser chiefs), writer of: poetry (sylvia plath), short stories (roald dahl), blogs (greta christina), philosophy (friedrich nietzsche).
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Who I'd like to meet: people, i suppose... still not too fond of the animal species, save for the dog who adopted me, which, i suppose, is why i am called his "mummy"...
people can be interesting though....
Wow sorry I just logged on and found your message! Haven't used msp for yonks, since conversion to the book of faces!! How are you? Where are you? What's happening? :)
well its this weekend but i cant do it anymore. got too much shit going on at the mo with family and then assignments on top of that. sorry. ask me again after nov 16 at which i am free again until dec 12 unless i go back to wellington in that time which i might but only for a few days to a week tho
oh k cool. i have assignments due every week but i reckon the friday on the labour weekend would be better cos at least i have an extra day to do that assignment
um what do you mean by head to family? where would that be? im not 100% sure yet cos im goin to a concert on thurs night and have assignments to do but tis always fun to go out.
err sorry to be useless but i dont really know right now it all depends on a whole lot of crap like essay and blah blah blah i might decide to stay at uni all day or might need to go straight home should know more tomorrow night. what time finish?
wow u r buisy arnt u...... well i havnt been up 2 much except for plaing lots of hockey and practicing for a tournament cuming up so iv been really tired as well and im sick so yea dats about it
Hey, sorry for not being in touch for so long, hope you’re doing well. I have FINALLY managed to move into a place of my own with Josh and Amber, our somewhat belated flat-warming will be tomorrow night (Sat 28th July). Sorry for the last minute-ness of it all, I didn’t think of contacting people on myspace until just now. Let me know if you want to come, friends and partners are also welcome :-)
im back. and caught up on your blogs. we have much to talk about. i have news also. so when can you catch up? i'm now free all the time these holidays pretty much. so let us know when and where and we shall meet if you have a spare moment. the only times i have plans is this friday day and night and next thursday and friday nights. text or myspace :)
yeah iv got one tomo for management and another the next day (thursday) for business. then im finished. haven't studied for either. gonna be drinking on thursday night for sure. then got that darn dentist appt on friday morning. the morning for gods sake. then im going to hamilton, just for the night. theres a gig and i'll stay at my cousins afterwards which should be good. mini roadtrips are fun. and i might have a loaded car too which would be fun
yay good on ya! looks like i got some reading of your blogs to catch up on. i also got sleep to catch up on. and study to catch up on real bad. cant wait till these exams are over. i prob wont be on here again til the end of the week unless i procrastinate further. and there is a chance of that too so who knows
yes but also remember that half the crew on alinghi are kiwis. so its doesnt matter. anyways i hope you do get better. snuggle up in bed with a wheatbag. thats what im doing just cos im cold. take care. and yeah i should study too. i will in a bit. just gotta do some catchin up with people first cos i haven't had much time for that lately
hey that is evil and annoying. i want team nz to do well in americas cup. im not too bothered who wins, as long as its close so it keeps interesting. and yes the cat catching mice aint fun but at least they're being caught cos i dont like traps. at least its more natural this way. yeah your opinion there is rather odd for someone who doesnt like animals. lol. hope you caught up on your sleep last night. hope the essay and exam are all good. i didn't get any more sleep last night, i just started falling asleep and was in that weird dozey mode when my alarm went off and i had to get up. but i did a reasonable amount of study for the little sleep i got. then this mornin i took my olds to the airport and was gonna study when i got back but you can see how that has turned out. i will study at some point today tho, otherwise i'll beat myself up sooner or later