Emily.
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Female
22 years old
Oxford / Winchester
United Kingdom
Last Login: 8/5/2009
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Emily.'s Interests
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| General | buying stuff for which I have no use
tea
cake
big blankets
libraries
Oxford
nostalgia | | Music | "i agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like... books, records, films - these things matter. call me shallow but it's the fucking truth" - high fidelity.
the smiths, patrick wolf and radiohead are the stalwart standards. others: others: adam & the ants, animal collective, the arcade fire, the auteurs, the beatles, beirut, belle & sebastian, bishi, blondie, blur, brakes, bright eyes (but only digital ash in a digital urn), camille, casiotone for the painfully alone, c86 in general (eg fat tulips, the field mice, heavenly, talulah gosh), clap your hands say yeah, the clash, the cure, david bowie, the decemberists, the durutti column, emmy the great, field music, fields, final fantasy, gang of four, girls aloud, interpol, iron & wine, jeff buckley, jeremy warmsley, joanna newsom, johnny flynn, joy division, lightspeed champion, the long blondes, the lucksmiths, the magnetic fields, manic street preachers (preferably with richey), the mountain goats, the national, neutral milk hotel, noah & the whale, nouvelle vague, of montreal, peter bjorn & john, pj harvey, primal scream (but not riot city blues), pulp, rufus wainwright, simon & garfunkel, the stone roses, the strokes (but only really the first album), suede (preferably with bernard), talking heads, television personalities, tilly & the wall, tompaulin, the velvet underground, wire, yeah yeah yeahs, yann tiersen. | | Movies | withnail & i, the three colours trilogy, 80s brat pack films, some like it hot, edward scissorhands, rocky horror picture show, the monty python films, a fish called wanda, stuff with fit 60s michael caine in (eg alfie, the ipcress file), anything directed by christopher guest (eg this is spinal tap, best in show, a mighty wind), babel, back to the future, manhattan, hannah and her sisters, husbands and wives, annie hall, everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask (essentially, lots of woody allen), the apartment, high fidelity, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, lost in translation, paris je t'aime, the harry potter films but only when alan rickman is on screen. | | Television | daytime tv (particularly ones involving antiques or chat shows with fat people), peep show, black books, seinfeld, family guy, university challenge, frasier, the adam & joe show. | | Books | alphabetically: W.H. Auden, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett, Alan Bennett, Mikhail Bulgakov, Angela Carter, Italo Calvino, Chaucer (particularly the Canterbury Tales, obviously), e.e. cummings, Shelagh Delaney, T.S. Eliot, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Safran Foer, E.M. Forster, John Fowles, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, bits of Kafka, Philip Larkin, Marvell (the lyrics), Milton, George Orwell, Rochester, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Wordsworth.
others (unsorted): Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh, Madame Bovary - Flaubert, Lolita - Nabokov, The Secret History - Donna Tartt, The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera, that old classic Beowulf (also Kingsley Amis's poem about it), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Book I of the Faerie Queene, Penguin Modern Stories, various columnists in various Times supplements (most notably A.A. Gill), histories of the English language. | | Heroes | i don't know. |
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A Word of Advice, Live and Loud, The New Sensualists, Smiths & Morrissey Fans, In Tennant We Trust, Oxford Is Soo Hott Right Now, ateaseweb.com, PSC, 2006 u6th
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Emily.'s Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Hometown: | Chandlers Ford, aka boredom central | | Body type: | 5' 2" | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Education: | In college | | Occupation: | Book and/or music snob |
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Emily.'s Schools
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Oxford University
Oxford, S
Graduated: N/A
Major: English Language & Literature
Clubs: the oxstu, general imsoc stuff
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About me:
i talk in quotations almost constantly, usually convoluted ones with little reference to the subject being discussed. in this way, i often resemble a victorian novel. however, i am not made of paper, nor 100+ years old.
but as roland barthes would say, any work is a tissue of quotations, anyway.
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Who I'd like to meet:
people with good hair, glasses preferred, obsessive interest in books mandatory.
none of my heroes for fear of being truly, truly disappointed.
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