Interests
General
I am a writer, broadcaster and poet.
You can read my blog here: http://madammiaow.blogspot.com/Music
Currently mastering my iPod and loving swanning around to my own soundtrack. Everything from the Stones to blues to classical. Specifically, f'rinstance, Pulp's Common People, Dr John's Gris Gris, Oasis's Wonderwall, Iggy Pop's Lust For Life, Eminem's Fack and Lose Yourself, George Thorogood's Who Do You Love (must stop strutting in Sainsbury's when that's playing ...), various classic soul, Ray Charles, Hendrix, 60's movie and TV themes like The Avengers, Mission Impossible, The Saint, loads from Kill Bill ... Oh, you know the score.And a good blast of punk/thrash/metal to freshen the palate and pump up the adrenals. If anyone wants to recommend great new bands, please get in touch. I'm all ears. As you can see.
Movies
Sweeney Todd, A Matter of Life and Death, Wizard of Oz, Dr Strangelove, Pan's Labyrinth, Some Like It Hot, Ridicule, Onibaba - the grandma of all Japanese horror movies, Spartacus (I yam Spartacus ...).Garbo, Monroe and the whole pantheon of Hollywood screen goddesses.
Television
Battlestar Galactica, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel, Curb Your Enthusiasm, C4 News, 1960s series like The Prisoner and The Avengers (I yam Emma Peel ...). I wanted to like The West Wing but the way it flattered and sucked up to the political class was pretty creepy.Watching Heroes and liking what I'm seeing ...
Theatre: Harold Pinter, Eric Bogosian
Books
Lolita, Animal Farm, 1984, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu), Fight Club, Dorothy ParkerTeenage infatuations: RD Laing's Knots, John Fowles's The Magus, and the Liverpool Poets collection.
I just read Vernon God Little. Don't be put off just coz it won the Booker Prize. If you liked The Catcher In The Rye (I yam Holden Caulfield ...), you'll love this.
Special honours go to William Gibson, Jack Womack, Geoff Ryman, Pat Cadigan, Roz Kaveney, and Adi Tantimedh (check out La Muse online comic series).
Visionaries Hall of Fame: JG Ballard, Philip K Dick, William S Burroughs, Alan Moore, and (again!) William Gibson.
Preacher, Transmetropolitan, The Invisibles, From Hell, Watchmen. However, despite my perfect taste in the classics, heretical as it sounds, I'm a DC gal rather than Marvel.
A special mention for Waiting for Kate Bush by John Mendelssohn. Crosstown Traffic by Charles Shaar Murray, the definitive book on Hendrix. And ditto on John Lee Hooker: Boogie Man.
Heroes
Anyone with a backbone. Not to be confused with an excess of testosterone.Just read Joe Queenan's hilarious NYT review of Joe Eszterhas's The Devil Wears Prada or Guide to Hollywood or whatever it's called. I think I want to have Joe Q's babies. (As opposed to Joe E's rabies ...) http://www.nytimes.com/ 2006/09/17/ books/review/Queenan.t.html?ex= 1316145600&en= 2a33924f05477d10&ei=5088...
Oh, and Rosa Parks
Latest Blog Entries
- Jul 5, 2007 5:40 PM Comedy review - Chinatown: 1, Pam Ann: 0
- Jul 5, 2007 3:50 PM Racism in comedy
- Jun 26, 2007 1:06 AM Jeb 'n' George Go Hunting, Pt 2
- Jun 22, 2007 12:10 AM Jeb 'n' George Go Hunting, 1
- Mar 20, 2007 4:31 PM Axis of Evil Comedy Tour - US
Blurbs
About me:
MADAM MIAOW SAYS ...
Check out writer/comic/performer Anna Chen's website: http://www.annachen.co.uk/
Anna's YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MadamMiaow
Anna's blogspot:
http://madammiaow.blogspot.com/
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Comments
Feb 6 2008 4:19 PM
Oct 31 2007 3:47 AM
"B"
Nov 2 2007 11:47 AM
love love love!!!
Nov 5 2007 10:42 PM
Love love love
all the way over
the Tourquise Rainbow!!!
Nov 6 2007 5:20 PM
M
Nov 29 2007 9:23 PM
Oliver says we should all meet up when he's next in London.
Sounds like a plan to me!
Hope you're well.
xx
Oct 19 2007 10:35 AM
Heard you're comng back down in May, look forward to seeing you. Got any gigs planned for when you're down here?
xx
Sep 30 2007 2:30 PM
Thanks!
It was lovely meeting/seeing you too.
Hopefully next time we gig together we'll have an audience.
God knows how they judged the gong show!
x
Sep 28 2007 6:40 PM
xx
Sep 29 2007 12:23 AM
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Aug 30 2007 1:02 PM
Send you a postcard from St Ives..
Irene xx
Jul 27 2007 3:13 PM
Jul 23 2007 7:46 PM
May this week be a week of Great Accomplishments for You, Productivity in Your Endeavors, Laughter & Peace for YOU Gorgeous !
hugz
DreStarr
Jul 22 2007 10:38 PM
Great stuff at The Lions Den the other week Ms. Get your gig list up so I can catch you again on the circuit !!
inel
Jul 21 2007 6:50 AM
Hope you'll have a great weekend!
See ya ;)
(ps: I didn't remember the last message so I wrote another one, let's see if this one will appear on your page :))
Jul 20 2007 5:31 PM
Jul 9 2007 5:38 PM
pleasure to meet you even if only in the virtual sense.
x
Jul 5 2007 9:58 PM
Thanks for adding me - and the comments too :o) I love the background picture on your page - I'm still trying to work out how to do this on my camera - is it that all the other roses are not red? w xx
Jul 5 2007 10:36 AM
Hola Madam Miaow . . . . Como esta usted ? Just popping in to say hello and welcome to my My Space friends.
Keep on smiling !
BIG LOVE & POSITIVE VIBES
Burt *:O)
Jul 4 2007 1:44 PM
Jun 26 2007 11:37 PM
WE'VE JUST POSTED UP A NEW BLOG WITH ALL THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS FOR THE NEW CULT VAMPIRE FILM "THE VAMPIRES OF BLOODY ISLAND".
COME BY RIGHT NOW AND HAVE A LOOK.
DON'T BE LEFT IN THE DARK. TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN IN THE DARK!
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