Generally – I like enjoying myself in its many varied & strange forms – sliding sideways down steep snowy mountains, having adventures, making pretty Skullbaby things, reading literature and graphic novels, daydreaming, drinking cider, drawing funny patterns, learning to jive, laughing until my sides ache with my lovely friends, collecting geek toys, skimming stones on the sea, eating olives, picnics in the park & drinking in the sun, clubbing, wakeboarding, architecture, destroying myself with chilli, weight training/circuit training, making cartoon cats, kickboxing, jumping up and down, being naughty and getting a spanking, playing with chains, welding, spending time with my family back home, travelling, *meeping*, making jewellery, power tools, psychology, dressing up, stamping in puddles, snowflake tattoos, mountain biking, boys with quiffs, cosmology, writing erotic lesbian fiction, covering up my shyness by talking complete and utter toss, ranting at anything & everything and thinking up new words….. Boggergrips
Music
Can’t live without it and attend as many gigs as I can and I’m always happy to meet new gig buddies: Johnny Cash, Reverend Horton Heat, Smiths/Morrissey, Demented Are Go, The Meteors, Pixies, Elvis, The Quakes, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Horrorpops, 7 Shot Screamers, Air, Peacocks, Tori Amos, Jack Rabbit Slim, New Model Army, Tiger Army, Nekromantix, Patsy Cline, The Sonics, Gomez, VNV Nation, The Cramps, Front 242, Mercury Rev, Jeff Buckley, Ministry/RevCo, Sneaker Pimps, Alice in Chains, Mr Scruff, Reaching Quiet, DJ Shadow, Laibach, PJ Harvey, Ladytron, She Wants Revenge, Sonic Youth, Three Bad Jacks, Rezurex and loads more, but I can’t brain at the moment……Anything that isn’t Blandy McBland.
Movies
Yes please. But I have the attention span of a gnat, so I am more likely to settle and shut up in front of classic horror, japanese horror and other decent thrillers/arthouse/classic films that aren't rom-coms or rubbish teen comedies.
Television
No thanks.
Books
Well, I've got a degree in English (and my, how useful it is....) and I've always loved reading and I'm never without some form of reading matter....be it:
JG Ballard (my favourite author) - The Atrocity Exhibition, High Rise, War Fever, Cocaine Nights, Concrete Island.
Umberto Eco – Name of the Rose, Foucaults Pendulum, Island of the Time Before, Misreadings.
JRR Tolkein – Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit.
Jeanette Winterson – Written on the Body, Oranges are not the only Fruit, The Passion.
Classic detective fiction: Agatha Christie, PD James.
Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaids Tale
William Gibson & Bruce Stern: The Difference Engine
Edgar Allan Poe – Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Tibor Fischer - The Thought Gang.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
Neil Gaman & Terry Pratchett: Good Omens
Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass, Alices Adventures in Wonderland.
Iain M Banks: Excession, Use Of Weapons, The Algebraist, Feersum Endjinn & Against A Dark Background.
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock, the End of the Affair etc
DH Lawrence - Sons & Lovers, Lady Chatterleys Lover.
Thomas Pynchon - the Crying of Lot 49
CS Lewis - Narnia books.
GG Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
Dr Seuss - The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham.
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities etc, A Christmas Carol. I read it every Christmas Eve and have done since I was 16.
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'urbevilles, Return of the Native, Far from the Madding Crowd.
Oscar Wilde - all his plays & Picture of Dorian Gray, plus De Profundis.
Graphic novels/Comics -
Alan Moore: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta, Top 10 V1 and V2, From Hell, Lost Girls, Watchmen
Warren Ellis: Plantary V1-V3, City of Silence, Fell, Ministry of Space
Grant Miller: We3, Wanted, the Invisibles, the Filth, JLA Earth 2.
Bryan Talbot: Heart of Empire, One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland.
James O Barr: The Crow
Edington and D'israeli: War of the Worlds, Leviathan
Frank Miller: Sin City, 300
Johnen Vasquez: Johnny The Homicidal Maniac
Katsuhiro Otomo : Akira, Domu,
Shirow Masamune: Appleseed V1-V5, Ghost in the Shell V1, V1.5, V2
Deathnote - best manga ever written/drawn.
Jamie Smart: Bear, Bohda Te, Space Raoul
Also: Fillerbunny, I Feel Sick, ScaryGoRound webcomics, Lenore, Bone (of course!), Sandman, Tank Girl, Wet Moon.
Highbrow fiction, but not because it makes me look brainy. I'm a genius anyway. No chick-lit. Ever. Or Harry bloody Potter. Also enjoyed Death and the Penguin, but can't remember who wrote it, sorry.
Poetry: Stevie Smith, Don Paterson (Landing Light is an awesome collection of poems, especially 'The Unicorn'), TS Eliot - The Waste Land. Kipling - Old Possums, Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, Coleridge, Lord Byron, Pablo Neruda.
Philosophy and critical theory:
Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation, The Gulf War did Not Take Place, Conspiracy of Art, Passwords.
Michel Foucault (got to love Foucault, a genius, masochist and total pervert, my hero)- Madness & Civilisation, Discipline and punishment.
Jacques Derrida – Of Grammatology,
Psychoanalysis:
Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille (and Story of the Eye), Ferdinand de Saussure – semiotics and signs.
Heroes
Carmen (sweet dreams sister)....Clive....Looshkin...Tank Girl....Oscar Wilde....Maynard....My mum and dad.... You know who you are.
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Holy chuff! Scatterbrained blonde Shottinghamian-bred scoundrel finds herself in Brighton, wanders around *meeping* and consuming copious amounts of cider for 3 years, made some marvellous friends and acquired lots of lush snowflake tattoos. Loves snowboarding, but ends up thinking about it more than doing it these days due to the financial constraints of being a technical lackey instead of an all-conquering, globe straddling mega-nymph. Damn it. Learning to jive, has flashes of startling incompetence in this regard but greatly enjoys being whirled around the floor and flashing her knickers. Designer and founder of Skullbaby, bespoke skully malarkey available in all good records stores (well, in Ampwitch on Trafalgar Street and VS2 in Nottingham, the best shops in the world).
Other things of win include chilli, kickboxing, corsetry, my mum’s cooking, Jim, candles on pub tables, cheese, cats, gigs, polka dots, shiny things, spanking, architecture, adventures, red fluff, exploring, my family, skulls, Looshkin, adrenaline, X-Files, chains, burlesque, art, TUK shoes, curves, my fishies, squishing, pencil skirts, NeverSummer snowboards, sharp things, cherries, Collectif dresses, jellyfish, wakeboarding, Clive’s fireplace swan-dive, giggling ‘til I hiccup, pin-ups, Johnny Cash, customised jeans, fireworks, hip wiggling, dressing up, sublime anticipation, pinstripe, holey pebbles, JG Ballard, seamed stockings, psychology, Nottingham Forest, Marmite, alphabet fridge magnets, quiffs, shyness, Agent Provocateur perfume, Narnia, my redneck extended family, kindness, lazy mornings, wild nights and the feeling of being truly alive and comfy in my own skin.
Who I'd like to meet: Genuine, individual, uncomplicated, kind, interesting, random, intelligent people with no pretentions.
Who I WOULDN'T like to meet:
Strange men who sit at their computers all day rubbing their thighs. Pretentious sceney people - yes, my hair/shoes/makeup is probably wrong, but do I look like I care? Mind gamers: please don't try and interfere with my head, or I'll drop you like a bad habit. People who ask me if my lunchbox has sandwiches in?
Hello little darling. Yes, I'm doing ok... I did take a looooong break from everything social-networking wise after a *hideous* run of luck, what with getting dumped, going to hospital, getting porkyier again as a result of that and the full *month* I had off of due to recovery. I basically took the time to regroup and do all the meh head-stuff on my own without dragging lots of people into that [wouldn't be fair really], but thankfully everything's corrected itself pretty much now and I'm back to my squeaking idiotic normality once more :o) Only thing i'm struggling with is 6 months of messages to wade through pretty much everywhere I am online >_< D'oh!
Anyway, I hope you're ok - and if not at least know you're looking utterly bloody fantastic [you really are!] ;o) And I am SO sorry for being such a crap friend to you - Clivey too... haven't spoken to anyone full stop in too bloody long really :o( Will as usual have to fix that :o) I have some time off from work in August, so if you like I might pop over to visit or something - i'll have to double check when exactly but the offer is there. Would be good to hear what you've been up to :o)
still not better yawn :( Got another 3 months of strong abx whoooooo lovin those side effects but still.
Not been out at all really mostly just been visiting my smoking friends in there homes :) We'll catch up soon though glad you all settled anyway must be nice being out of portslade :) xxx
It's mastered, the art works done and the future is SONIC!!!! The first release from Duo-Sonic is available NOW! A 4 track self titled all original 7 inch red vinyl sonic sound coming to a record player near you!!! Only 500 pressed, so get online at deadbymono.com or see www.duo.sonic.co.uk for more information on how to get your hands on this hot wax!
A blonde bombshell bad-girl beats seven shades of hell out of rawhide and hickory, while her quick-draw, cocksure cowboy friend unloads his smouldering six strings straight into your gut. Four fine and feisty, untamed tracks of dusty barroom brawl and bluster, best served up neat with moonshine and good times. Fat riffs, black quiffs, southern fried style with a snarl and a smile; mariachi blues wearing dead man’s shoes, with a head full of cheap liquor and a hard rock heart.
quite like the sound of that!will need to find a different hotel this time tho-one that isnt full of fighty people and doesnt serve full english straight from the fridge xx
hey missus how ya doin-i keep threatening to come haunt your town again but just aint quite got round to it yet....wont be long now tho so beware lol xx
Thanks for the friendship, its rocks that you like my music! please spread the word, we have great gigs coming up and would love to see you there :) also email kenelis@mac.com for a free album track xxxxx
Holy chuff! Scatterbrained blonde Shottinghamian-bred scoundrel finds herself in Brighton, wanders around *meeping* and consuming copious amounts of cider for 3 years, made some marvellous friends and acquired lots of lush snowflake tattoos. Loves snowboarding, but ends up thinking about it more than doing it these days due to the financial constraints of being a technical lackey instead of an all-conquering, globe straddling mega-nymph. Damn it. Learning to jive, has flashes of startling incompetence in this regard but greatly enjoys being whirled around the floor and flashing her knickers. Designer and founder of Skullbaby, bespoke skully malarkey available in all good records stores (well, in Ampwitch on Trafalgar Street and VS2 in Nottingham, the best shops in the world).
Other things of win include chilli, kickboxing, corsetry, my mum’s cooking, Jim, candles on pub tables, cheese, cats, gigs, polka dots, shiny things, spanking, architecture, adventures, red fluff, exploring, my family, skulls, Looshkin, adrenaline, X-Files, chains, burlesque, art, TUK shoes, curves, my fishies, squishing, pencil skirts, NeverSummer snowboards, sharp things, cherries, Collectif dresses, jellyfish, wakeboarding, Clive’s fireplace swan-dive, giggling ‘til I hiccup, pin-ups, Johnny Cash, customised jeans, fireworks, hip wiggling, dressing up, sublime anticipation, pinstripe, holey pebbles, JG Ballard, seamed stockings, psychology, Nottingham Forest, Marmite, alphabet fridge magnets, quiffs, shyness, Agent Provocateur perfume, Narnia, my redneck extended family, kindness, lazy mornings, wild nights and the feeling of being truly alive and comfy in my own skin.
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