Languages--currently *trying* to study Japanese, have studied French and can survive. I have studied a little Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Italian, though I can only remember bits of Mandarin. Will eventually learn Spanish so I can watch the trashy soap operas!
I love sushi and sashimi, and all Asian food in general.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!! Caviar and pate, but I won't eat foie gras or veal because of how the animals are treated.
I can play guitar, drums, piano...though it's been a long time I've played any of them.
I love London and lived there for quite a few years.
I love animals and won't wear fur, and prefer vinyl and rubber to leather. My mum keeps buying me leather coats! I am a supporter of PETA, but I'm not psycho in that I won't throw paint on someone with a fur...as wrong as it is to wear it, it may have taken that person YEARS to save up and buy that coat, who am I to ruin it. I will talk loudly about how big the person's ass looks in fur though!!!
Music
Which Pulp Album Are You?
This is Hardcore (1998) A Pulp masterpiece. You are the last release on album. Well polished and expensive, you are a culmination of years of hard work leading to success, with a twist of disallusion associated with modern life. Your obsession with pornography and starring in film might get you in trouble, but don't let that stop you from being your sweet sexy self.
PULP
Art Brut
YELLE!
TEPR
Hadouken!
Lily Allen
Kate Nash
Terry Poison
Shitdisco
Geek Pie
Whitest Boy Alive
BROMHEADS JACKET
THE RAKES
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
Scroobius Pip
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Cansei De Sur Sexy (CSS)
THE MONKEES (of course, but never got into the Beatles?)
Robbers On High Street
Amy Wino (Winehouse! haha)
Hot Chip
Relaxed Muscle
Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson
Muse
Rob Zombie & White Zombie
Tool
Garbage
Jamiroquai
Sleeper
Suede
Air
The Strokes
The Libertines
Radiohead
Blur
Pizzicato 5
The Ramones
Sonic Youth
The Bravery
Jet
Aerosmith
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
The Streets
Kylie
The Violent Femmes
The Pixies
Nirvana
The Foo Fighters
Soundgarden
Green Day
The Monkees
Tony Bennett
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Louis Prima
Michael Buble
Jazzzzzzz
and cocktail lounge music ala: Julie London, Count Basie, Astrid Gilberto, Henri Mancini
oh, and Mozart...The Requiem is my favorite but I like it all
And I would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than listen to Country and/or Western, Folk, or Gospel
Movies
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Batman Begins (can we NOT delete Katie Holmes from the film? She sucks!!)
SHAUN OF THE DEAD
ANYTHING by Pedro Almodovar, esp Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Fight Club
The Devil Wears Prada
Rock n' Roll High School ('cmon, the RAMONES!!)
Asian films like:
John Woo HK films: The Killer, Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow 1 & 2
Oxide Pang Chung films: The Eye, The Tesseract, Bangkok Dangerous
Oldboy
Audition
Chung King Express
Battle Royale I & II
Tampopo
Infernal Affairs (you know, the film "The Departed" ripped off....I will probably never see that film as I so love the original...)
Happy Times
Heist films
Snatch
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Mafia films and anything with DeNiro in it...
Cypher
Swordfish
Hackers (Angelina AND Jonny Lee)
Antitrust
ANYTHING David Lynch, esp. Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway
Slacker by Linklater
The Matrix, but not ANY of the sequels (Though Monica Bellucci's breasts do deserve a mention! haha You really cannot miss them...)
bad Kung Fu from the 60's
Bruce Li flicks
James Bond films, but not with Timothy Dalton
innovative horror films like Saw, Hostel, and Final Destination, but not remakes of The Ring, Chainsaw Massacre, When a Stranger Calls, The Hitcher, Battle Royale (WHY??!!??)--get some new ideas Hollywood!!!
Marilyn Monroe films
Hugh Grant films
I HATE HATE HATE films like The English Patient..."Oh. No. I can't do this any more. I can't. It's too
long. (to the screen) Quit telling your stupid story, about the stupid
desert, and just die already! (louder) Die!!" Elaine on Seinfeld
I also HATE HATE HATE musicals (except MM's of course) like The Music Man, Oklahoma, etc.
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Television
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IT Crowd
Black Books - The Cleaner/Grapes of Wrath. One of the FUNNIESt episodes EVER.
See clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFEds1RJOss
THE BIG BANG THEORY!!
Ummm...I think I am actually Sheldon as I SO agree with him. The cheese is a necessary moisture barrier. And I know what Schrodinger's cat is! lol
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EL CARTEL
The Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Billie Piper looks AMAZING!
30 Rock
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
The Sarah Silverman Show
Testees
Sin Senos no hay Paraiso
The Minor Accomplishments Of Jackie Woodman
NATHAN BARLEY!!!!
SPACED
THE MIGHTY BOOSH!!!!!
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Soup! Joel McHale is adorable!
ROOM 101 w/ Paul Merton
Have I Got News For You w/Angus Deaton (I always fancied him...) though Paul Merton is brill as well
Father Ted
One Foot in the Grave
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Kath and Kim Australia, the US one was SHITE
The Royle Family
Bo Selecta!
Phoenix Nights
EL CARTEL
Max and Paddy
Little Britain
Alan Partridge
Project Runway
The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
The Sopranos--though last season was lame'
Flavor of Love
SWINGTOWN
The Real Housewives of Orange County/New York City/The Moon
Bad Girls Club
Work Out
LIFE ON MARS UK only, again US was SHITE
Being Bobby Brown--funny as all hell! Shame it's no more..."kiss my ass!"
BEST WEEK EVER!
Kathy Griffin: My life on the D-List...she really is funny!
RENO 911!
Entourage
Extras
The Office (British version please!!)
The IT CROWD
Peep Show
Wanda Does It
SUPER MILK CHAN
The Simpsons
Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi
J-Pop TV
Lewis Black's Root Of All Evil
The Girls Next Door
bad reality shows not already listed (I Wanna Be a Hilton, The Cut, Kept, etc.)
My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss (cancelled before we knew the conclusion--but I saw it ..!)
Ab Fab sweetie...
Unscripted (Boo cancelled!)
Film School
dare I say it, Frasier! I know it's pretentious, but I was hooked after the caviar episode!
the last 10 minutes of The O'Reilly Factor so I can laugh at Bill when the fake email promoting "The Factor" or "The Factor for Kids" comes up...what an idiot!
The BETTER McDonalds offerings available, like Cornetto McFlurries, Rodeo Burgers, etc.
The overall London vibe
Accidentally running into celebs and film stars(see below)
Cricket on a Saturday afternoon in the summer
Mad John!!
According to him, I look like Ginger Rogers, Diana Dors, Marilyn, Pamela Lee, Grace Kelly....anyone blonde really....
Wimbledon
cheque guarantee cards
Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury's, and Tesco
The ES Evening Standard supplement every Friday
cafes (pronounced caff)
Soho
XFM
listening to Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on a Sat. afternoon
cricket on the weekends
SMALL mobiles
News of the World
being able to buy ANYTHING from a corner shop, which is always just down the road
the fact that I didn't need a winter coat for 8 years!
mini cabs able to pick you up in 5 minutes
GOOOD TELLY!!!!!!!!!
Sylvester the Cat playing guitar in the tube
being able to buy all my groceries--including beer--for about 30 quid
the feeling of a pound coin in your hand
how I worked with people from all over the world in one office
being the only American wherever I worked
Soccer AM and Tim's catwalk strut
cheeky adverts
an overdraft
Pret a Manger's Yoga Bunny drink
Benjys
Kelly's pate sandwiches for 80p
HEAT magazine
Discount Designer store in the Trocadero
Portobello Road market
fruit and veg stands
Superdrug!!!
PANDA POPS in cool flavours like "icecream and jelly" (and only 25p!!)
Garlic Chicken Wings from Golden City (but my husband much more so than I, but they are pretty fucking gorgeous!)
Being called "love" by cabbies, off-license workers, and aged men selling the ES
Reading Loaded on the tube
Being able to do SO MUCH in a day, going from Wimbledon to Camden with stops on the way, and make it home for dinner at 6
Running into so MANY famous people
Having La Maison du Chocolate down the road from work, along with The Ritz, Fortnum & Mason, Bond Street, and the Japanese Centre at Piccadilly (good cheap sushi BTW in the lower level for take-away)
Saying Take-away instead of carry-out
Speaking the ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(yes fellow Americans, we speak "American", not English!), though I do still say lift, loo, wanker, arse, bollocks, bugger, nick, chat(ted) up, bloody (and bloody buggery bollocks collectively)....oh I could go on.....
Who I'd like to meet:
SIMON PEGG!!!! Ohhh, sexy... ....
A certain Lamb.... ..
BILL MAHER
CHRISTIAN BALE
JARVIS COCKER
SVENGOOLIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Larry David
Jerry Seinfeld
Jon Stewart
Ricky Gervais
Nick Frost
Christopher Walken
Jack Dee
Angus Deyton
Paul Merton
NATALIE PORTMAN!!
Dylan Moran
Jose' Mourinho
Bill O'Reilly to kick his ass
Sean Hannity to kick his ass as well
George Lamb
Hugh Grant
Pierce Brosnan
Darrell Hammond
Angelina Jolie
Chow Yun Fat
Tony Leung
Sho Kosugi
Penelope Cruz
Pedro Almodovar
Antonio Banderas
Trent Reznor
Marilyn Manson
Dita Von Teese (properly--only was able to say hello to her at the show at the Alexander Palace in London)
Kevin Mitnick
Darcy Woods, Kevin's girlfriend
Shirley Manson
I have already met:
Ben Elton (not funny at ALL in real life, kind of sulky!)
Dennis Rodman (phone number and drink)
Horace Grant
HRH Queen Elizabeth (!!!!!)Yes, I HAVE MET THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. What about that?
Prince Charles
Tony Blair
a pregnant Cherie Blair
Jack Nicholson (kind of--ok, he winked at me)
Brendan Fraser the day after 9/11 at the American Embassy in London (v sweet, gave me a kiss and a hug)
Derren Brown (gave me a kiss, hug, and autograph)
Peaches (kiss and autograph AND drawing!!)
Mikhail Gorbachev (shook hands twice and winked at him)
Raisa Gorbechev (shook hands)
George Bush Sr. (autograph lurking somewhere)
Al Gore (Well, actually I more like bumped into him, and then was frisked by the Secret Service...a second time for me as I was frisked before President Bush meeting...nice!)
Kate Moss at Oxford St. tube entrance in a pork pie hat. Minor chitchat.
Billy Zane at Caviar House, Piccadilly (ok, it was a double take and a smile more like)
Rhys Ifans in Camden Town markets this past Dec. (bumped into him as he was acting surly! Still very cute though...)
Lenny Kravitz...he's ickle! haha
Kim Wayans
the band Blind Melon (including the late Shannon Hoon. Glen the drummer asked me to go back to their hotel for a party...I didn't go.)
Sammy Sosa when he first joined the Cubs, at Eddie Rockets on Division/Rush Street!! V sweet, bought me a drink...
Chris Evans (English DJ/telly guy)
Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen (Changing Rooms) at a 7-ll at Tottenham Ct. Road tube
Bill Bailey (Black Books) on the escalator in the Old Street tube...didn't technically meet him as he was on the up escalator, I was going down, but I waved to him.
Chris Farley--WAY before he was famous, I used to work with him when he was a runner for Stotler (I think it was Stotler)...v nice, and so lovable! It's so awful that drugs ended it all... :(
"Puck" the bike courier from "The Real World San Francisco"-Met him at Fisherman's Wharf, asked me out, but I thought he was a weird homeless guy, so I declined...this was a year before the show aired...
Gabriel Byrne in O'Hare airport, was smirking at me after my luggage had to be opened and some naughty lingerie popped out. Said something like "interesting outfit" or sommat, much to the disdain of his blonde companion
Roberto Di Matteo when he was with Chelsea. I waited in a line for TWO HOURS so he would sign my boyfriend's (now husband)Chelsea shirt. Got autograph, kiss, and hug. We still have that shirt in our wardrobe.
MOST RECENT: TEPR, super sexy French DJ from Paris...chatted to him after the Yelle show, and got a hug and kiss from him!
Also, received an email reply from: NOAM CHOMSKY (it was about an award he had won), Eddie Argos of ART BRUT, an ongoing argument with Nick Simmons--Gene's son, and one from the hot guy who played "the boss", William August. See, I AM a geek, non?
CARE BEARS ON FIRE at Lollapalooza, autograph for Mimi and chatted with them
Perry Farrell grabbed my hand at Lolla as well (not really a meet and greet, but still cool)
more as I remember them!!!
"How do you meet so many famous people?? " I always get asked. Well, I NEVER have a camera on me as it's always by a weird circumstance that I meet them. I just have a knack for being in the right place at the right time. I met Derren Brown on my lunch when he was filming a new special, Kate Moss on my lunch, Tony Blair, the Queen, Prince Charles, and Cherie when I worked at the Royal Commonwealth Day in 2000 and had to present to the Queen the flower children, Lenny Kravitz (v short!) when I worked at a big nightclub, the only one planned was Di Matteo...and my camera was busted...I've met a few Z-list people as well whose names I can't remember.
Yes....the one by Yorktown, by The Patio restaurant....it's actually very good, has lots of veggies to put on the salad that you don't normally see, like jicama, and there are soups and foccacia bread stuff too, and baked potatoes...12:15 Wed. it is then, I will wait for you outside......
Have you ever been to Sweet Tomatoes? They have a killer salad bar, and other things that aren't too bad, and I have coupons.....let me know. At least with a salad, they have fat free dressings and I know the points of some of the other things they have by heart....lol. If lunch, then noon is good if good for you.....
Hey can you please log onto kickgen.com and vote a million times for me by Monday...I would greatly appreciate it and tell your friends too.....And then when I become famous you can tell everyone that it is because of me...lol
Hope you are doing excellent, This Wednesday, Sept 23rd The King Of House Music Farley Jackmaster Funk Djs at OHM Nightclub with Gene Hunt and Lady D. Would love to see you out. Have an excellent weekend. =)
Hey, D! We must get together one of these days....going on a short getaway in a few weeks, maybe the last week of Sept? I'm off all that week and home...boss is on vacation and was 'forced' to take off, and of course, Pat can't take off more then 2 days! Let me know! Hope all is well with you and Mimi and M......:-)
Hi doll! I love my new place. Its been soooo hot here though!! I adore the rakes, hopefully I can check them out!!! Hope you're well! Love and miss ya!!
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Pitchfork was so great. So wish you could have made it!!! Yes, I would love to have you come and stay a weekend in LA. There are so many places I want to take you. You will love them!!! There is this place called Bardot which you will adore! Hope you are well. Love and miss you!! xoxo
The car too? Oh, boy, what a birthday.....next Wed. the 22nd is good, Borders is great, about 1:30ish? Let me know. Feeling better, thanks! Oh, and Pat had a pretty crappy birthday a few years back....I threw a party for his birthday, invited all his relatives, and only Dan showed up!!! They all said they forgot, and it was on his actual birthday! But yours takes the cake (lol, get it???). Glad you enjoyed the Barbie cupcake at least..... Beth :-)
Hey D**, Happy Belated Birthday! I guess I am a day late and a dollar short (sorry!) I see by your profile that you just turned 99! wow! You are aging gracefully! What's new? What's your schedule like this week? Karyn
Well....just call me the biggest ASS of a friend.....I don't check my cellphone, so when I went to turn it off last night, I discovered your 3 texts from earlier...and I didn't see that you had commented about Bruno on my page, because I have been slacking on the MySpace front....SOOOO, just call me a big stupid ASS!!!! Hope your day got better....call me if you are not too mad at me if you want to get together Wed., and I PROMISE I will check my phone and MySpace a little more reguarly.....:-(
looked at my comments too late...lol! It's 9:10PM now on Fri....just got back from the library with Pat...sorry, would have liked to have gone....still, if you want to go Wed, let me know....hope your day got better! :-)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY D! Sorry you are having such a crap day...sounds like a "Sixteen Candles" kind of day...keep your head up, it can't get worse, right??? Sorry I've been kind of MIA lately, my Crohn's has been giving me a bit of grief, but I hope I'm on the mend. Hey, if you are available Wed....wanna do Bruno (now, that sounds wierd, although SBC is kinda cute when he is not in one of his characters)or at the least Borders, since they took Boudin away from us? Let me know!!! TRY to have a good one!!!!!!!! Beth
Hey D**, just read your comment... I do not list any real private info. on my web site, such as my "status", so I'm not sure where you read that, but my status is the same. Sounds like you've been busy... when do you have some free time? Want to do lunch sometime?
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