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Rosemary Dun's Interests
Music
Bucky, Roxy Music, Tamla Motown, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Bush, Funk an' Disco, Otis Redding, The Clash, Bronski Beat, Ian Dury, Pulp, The Kinks, Bat Out Of Hell (oops, sorry), The Pretenders, Aretha Franklin, Stay With Me Baby by Lorraine Ellison, Hollywood Nights byBob Segar Band, The Temptations, Four Tops, Sam and Dave, reggae, ska, blue beat, Bananarama, Fun Boy Three, The Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs, Kirsty McColl, Massive Attack, Marvin Gaye, Amy Winehouse
Movies
Night Of The Hunter, Some Like It Hot, Untamed Heart, Heaven Can Wait, Casablanca, Play It Again Sam, Annie Hall, The Red Balloon, The Singing Ringing Tree, In The Heat Of The Night, Saturday Night Fever, Thelma and Louise, Top Hat, Carousel, Quadrophenia, Women In Love, A Taste Of Honey, Passport To Pimlico, Gone With The Wind, Little Women (with Katherine Hepburn), Breakfast At Tiffany's, Sabrina, The Big Sleep, Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, Blade Runner, Stranger On A Train, The Big Lebowski, The Last Of The Mohicans, Jules et Jim, A Muppets Christmas Carol, Great Expectations (David Lean), Ryan's Daughter ... oh, and a million others ... Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, All About Eve, True Grit
Television
Life On Mars, Queer As Folk, Sopronos, Question Time (for shouting at), Columbo, Diagnosis Murder, Flog It, Cracker, Prime Suspect, Clocking Off, Casualty, Skins, After Life, This Life, Thunder Cats, The Muppet Show, Ab Fab, ER (with George Cloony), early Sex And The City, Frasier (before the turn ...), Star Trek, Tiswas, The Tube, Dr. Who (with Tom Baker or Christopher Ecclestone)
Books
Books, books, I love you all ... ok, Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, Pride & Prejudice, The Lovely Bones, Raymond Carver (short stories, poetry, essays, scribblings on backs of bus tickets), Kate Atkinson novels (even though she keeps writing mine - stop it Kate!), The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates, Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis, and TONS MORE
Heroes
Jane Austen, my brother, Benjamin Zephaniah for turning down his OBE, Paula Yates, Muriel Grey, Jenny Eclair, Ian Dury
About me: Hi there you ginger poet lovers. Yep, am a performance poet and host of regular nights called Big Mouth Poetry, as well as monthly Folk House Open Mike Nights. Am listed in the lovely new Poetry Writers' Yearbook pub A & C Black 2007 and 2008. Catch some of my recordings on my music site www.myspace.com/big-mouth-poetry.co.uk. As well as doing, I also tutor and provide opportunities for writers and poets to perform, take master classes with top UK poets like Rosie Lugosi, Chloe Poems, Todd Swift, Philip Gross, Peter Finch and many others. I love words, words, words. I'm available as a performer and as a tutor. Check out my other sites www.rosemarydun.co.uk and www.big-mouth-poetry.co.uk. You can book me via rosemary.dun@virgin.net. Or why not leave me a lovely comment or visit my blog. Peace, love and poetry.
Cheers matey - it was you that put me onto the Diana Gould one - was trying to find something about the murder conspiracy that you mentioned too. I'll let you know if I post any more gems. xx
Ahhhh, why are you feeling rejected and dejected? Did you listen to Sandra Lester's new poem yet - it might chee as she's having a bit of a go at the poetry snots.
No, how do you turn an apple into a peach? If it involves eating it then shitting into a plant pot and planting a peach pit and waiting for a tree to grow, I really haven't got the time just now. That's nearly a poem.
I had a dream about you. You were living in this massive ramshackle old house and I was visiting. I kept asking you why you needed such a big house given that you don't have a big family but you just thought I was mad. "Why don't you live in a smaller house?" I enquired, "I don't think I'd like to live in such a big house; I prefer to live in a smaller house." But you just ignored me. Then your next door neighbour (who was the acress who plays Victor Meldrew's wife) came round with her husband (who wasn't Victor Meldrew, but someone else) and she was going on about how lovely and wonderful your pink bathroom suite was. Anyway, I eventually got to see this bathroom suite, but there wasn't anything special about it except that it had a sort of burgundy piping effect going on, like as if it was a tracksuit.
HELP HOLLY GET TO RADA COZ SHE AIN'T RICH AND POSH! I'm doing a favour for a friend, so please can you take a look at Holly's page. I've shuffled her into my top friend position so that she's easy for you to find. Can you add her as a friend and if you have any insider knowledge, hints, tips or surplus pennies that you think might assist her, please send her a message. I'm sure there are loads of obscure funds and bursaries for people in Holy's position, the trick is knowing where to look - so if you do know, get in touch.
And of course, if the bloody Tories hadn't done away with proper grant funding for students none of this would be necessary, mind you if Labour hadn't perpetuated the elitism that now exists in education....Oh blah, blah, blah, I'm preaching to the converted. Just check out Holly's site. And thanks again.
