About me: It takes forever to write these, because I think of things and then I think naaaah, don't tell people that, and then I think well I will, but I just won't put it at the start, and then I think well that's strange, I wonder what you could tell someone about yourself in a little paragraph or two that would sound nicer ain the middle than at the beginning? And it's very intriguing isn't it, so here are my nice things:
I love music, like really really too much, and will analyse things to death, and cry at the drop of an F Sharp. That bit was just to make me sound clever, I know F sharps exist, but I wouldn't know it if I heard it.
I also love films too, although lately more in connection with music. My top 5 would be Velvet Goldmine, Cabaret, American Beauty, The Hours, and The Importance Of Being Earnest.
I'm not at all discriminatory with books and tv, children's stuff in particular I find absolutely fascinating, and very sad in some ways.
The only real guaranteed time I'm actually really truly happy is out in the countryside taking pictures of the sky because all day we (or I) are (am) thinking how does this look, did that sound stupid (yes it did), did they actually know what I meant (no), has my skirt risen up or does it just feel like it (no, it has), and I read that the average oerson has only 3 real friends, so that's makes you (me) feel a bit better, doesn't it (yes, it does), but when you're (I'm) looking at the sky, all you can think about is how peaceful and serene everything is, and how magnificent all the clouds are, and how beautiful the layers/texture/colour/size is (are) amd how stupid and significant everything else is. I should really have been a Romantic Poet, except I don't quite know what they did apart from sate in groves and use words I doubt even they understand. Maybe I'll be a Romantic photographer which is a poet but with a camera, and what I'll do is I'll skywrite Romantic poetry, and photograph it, and then make a slideshow with Adamt Ant in the background, and it'll be a wondefully flamboyant orgy of Romantricism, Romantic pictures, with New Romantics in the background.
As you might have guessed I talk (type) as I think, and if you know me in real life you'll know I don't do either very often.
I'm very camp but because I'm not a boy, or Alan Carr, people just think of it as showing off or being posh or sarcastic or whatever, but it isn't. Why use five words when you could use seventeen and round off with an obscure Oscar Wilde reference and a sardonic arch of the brow?
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