Kyra
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K was a Keepsake picked up from the gutter
Female
27 years old
London, London and South East
United Kingdom
Last Login: 12/10/2007
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Kyra's Interests
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| General | Making notes- lots of them.
Taking a train to somewhere new- travel, travel, travel is my drug.
Finally finding the genius in those books that were on my set text list at University that I hadn't read and I blagged my way through in seminars instead.
Being toasty warm, preferably with the sun in my eyes, curled up like a cat, reading.
Going to pretentious cinemas with leather seats and really big cupholders.
Going to really run-down cinemas where the guy next to you is just trying to keep warm for the evening.
Going to the cinema in general.
Being hideously competitive at Scrabble.
Making use of the London arts/ live music/ live comedy/ live everything scene.
Making, drawing, and painting things, especially at HungaMunga.
LSE lectures, especially the really depressing ones on climate change where even the most educated and well-informed professors resort to using "The Day After Tomorrow" as an indicator of the future for mankind.
University Challenge & the inevitable how-many-questions-right-envy.
Trawling through secondhand stores.
Cooking, especially making big pots of soup for many people whilst wearing a 70s flower-child apron.
Re-living teenage angst in its many forms and channelling it into writing awful poetry.
Asking lots of questions.
Reading, writing for, and handing out the fantastic short stories in LITRO. And so can you, at www.litro.co.uk | | Music | This week, I have been mostly massaging my eardrums with the sounds of the Trojan Roots Box Set, Howling Bells, and Freshly Ground. All of which I either discovered or re-discovered while in Cape Town. | | Movies | 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A Bout de Souffle.
The Abyss.
Adaptation.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
Amelie.
Amores Perros.
L'Appartement.
Barry Lyndon.
Before Sunrise.
Before Sunset.
Being John Malkovich.
Blade Runner.
Blue Velvet.
The Big Lebowski.
The Breakfast Club.
Brick.
The Bourne Identity.
Capote.
Carlito's Way.
Chinatown.
Cinema Paradiso.
City of God.
The Conversation.
Dark City.
Das Experiment.
Delicatessen.
Die Hard.
Don't Come Knocking.
The Dreamers.
Easy Rider.
Edward Scissorhands.
The Edukators.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Fargo.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Festen.
Fight Club.
Full Metal Jacket.
Garden State.
Ghostbusters.
Gladiator.
The Godfather.
Goodfellas.
The Goonies.
Heathers.
Indiana Jones- all of 'em.
The Insider.
Jaws.
Jules et Jim.
La Dolce Vita.
The Life Aquatic.
Leon.
Lola Rennt.
Magnolia.
Manhunter.
Me and You and Everyone We Know.
Metropolis.
Mona Lisa.
Napoleon Dynamite.
Oldboy.
Old School.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Paris, Texas.
Pi.
Pulp Fiction.
Punch-Drunk Love.
Les Quatres Cents Coups.
Reality Bites.
La Reine Margot.
Rosemary's Baby.
Scarface.
Scrooged.
Serpico.
The Shining.
Stealing Beauty.
The Squid and the Whale.
Taxi Driver.
This Is Spinal Tap.
Together.
Toto L'Heros.
Trading Places.
Trois Couleurs Trilogy.
Twelve Monkeys.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Withnail and I.
Y Tu Mama Tambien.
Zatoichi.
| | Television | I'm trying to give it up. | | Books | 1984.
The Age of Innocence.
Animal Farm.
Beloved.
Bonjour Tristesse.
Brave New World.
The Catcher In The Rye.
Civil Disobedience.
The Color Purple.
Crossing The River.
Daughter Of Fortune.
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.
Eva Luna.
Every Light In The House Burnin'.
Final Passage.
The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
The Great Gatsby.
The Handmaid's Tale.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
The House With A Clock In Its Walls.
The House Of The Spirits.
Hunger.
Howl.
The Idiot.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
Indigo.
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
The Lovely Bones.
Memoirs Of A Geisha.
Metamorphosis.
Moon Palace.
Of Mice & Men.
On The Road.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
The Poisonwood Bible.
Small Island.
Steppenwolf.
Strange Pilgrims.
Tales Of The DeCongested Vol 1.
Things Fall Apart.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Walden.
Ways Of Seeing.
Why I Write.
White Teeth.
Wide Sargasso Sea... | | Heroes | Jean Rhys, Shami Chakrabarti |
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Kyra's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Hometown: | Miami | | Ethnicity: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | Post grad | | Occupation: | Wordsmith |
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Kyra's Schools
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Southampton Institute
Southampton, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Media
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2003 to 2005 |
University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Humanities & English
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About me:
I love stories. Hearing them, telling them, writing them down so they aren't forgotten. Here's one for you. My grandparents were from Norway, India, Trinidad and England respectively. My parents were from Trinidad and England, met in London, then kind of eloped and got married in New York. Somehow they ended up in Florida, where they had me. After Hurricane Andrew, and my dad's death, we ended up in the UK.
So now I'm in London. I think movement is pretty important; I guess it's in my blood, so I love to travel. In Portugal they say I look Portuguese. In Spain, Morocco, Italy, similar scenarios. In Trinidad, they said I was too white. In England, I've been called a Paki. In every Turkish or Cypriot kebab shop, I get slighty quizzical looks- and extra chips.
Basically, I'm still looking for that sunny place where I can belong. My whole family history is based on that premise, so I'm following in comfortable footsteps. I'm writing a book which is basically the story above, give or take some 500 pages. So you have just had a preview. Aren't you lucky? Unless you're a publisher. In which case I guess I'm lucky, because you just read more of my book than most.
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Who I'd like to meet:
The Dude.
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