Ruby's favourite things are: Painting, singing at the top of her voice, playing guitar, collecting old sunglasses, crafts, recycling, drawing cute comics, buying hats, odd record covers, dusty old bookshops, pin-ups, wrestling boys, cocktails, baking cakes, dressing up, watching cartoons, making badges and comics, skipping, pop culture in general and vintage girls' annuals.
She has recently developed an interest in making keyrings..
niagara
jim flora
shag
vince ray
mitch o'connell
kirsten easthope
coop
camille rose garcia
todd schorr
Music
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Ruby loves girl groups and singers more than anything in this whole godforsaken world. Her favourites include:
Medway Girls (Headcoatees/Delmonas/Ludella/Holly Golightly and related)..
X-ray Spex..
Sharon Tandy..
The Ronettes..
Nico..
Girls in the Garage (Romulan Records)..
The 5678s..
Sandie Shaw..
Vashti Bunyan..
Kleenex/Liliput..
The Slits..
The Rezillos..
Margo Guryan..
Lulu..
Doris..
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas..
Nancy Sinatra..
The Shaggs..
The Rev-lons..
Mary Wells..
Francoise Hardy..
Wanda Jackson..
Rita Calypso..
The Runaways..
Dusty Springfield..
Ruby likes lots of other girl music and is always thrilled to hear about new girl groups spreading the gospel of thee GIRL sound!!
Ruby doesn't limit her musical taste to femmes only.. she's not sexist y'know!
Ruby loves listening to garage, psych, soul, beat, punk, bubblegum and surf! She especially loves...
The Sonics..
Pink Floyd..
The Mummies..
The Stooges..
The Temptations..
The Cramps..
John Cooper Clarke..
Elliot Smith..
The Beach Boys..
Jonathan Richman..
Pavement..
Slade..
Neil Young..
The Buzzcocks..
Devo..
Joy Division..
..oh too many to list..
Ruby always enjoys listening to novelty records, film and tv soundtracks and 'outsider' music.
My favourites, thee Headcoatees perform "Strychnine"
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Movies
Ruby has a million favourites, but at this moment in time they are: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls;
Ghostworld;
Dead Man's Shoes;
The Wicker Man;
Asylum;
Buffalo 66;
Theatre of Blood;
Hedwig and the Angry Inch;
Slade in Flame;
Bedazzled;
Dig!;
American Splendour;
The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield;
Whatever happened to Baby Jane?;
Maitresse;
The Girl Can't Help It;
Gummo;
She-Devils on Wheels;
Pink Flamingos;
Faster Pussycat;
A Hard Day's Night;
Desperate Living;
The Gruesome Twosome;
All You Need is Cash -- The Rutles;
Television
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The Outer Limits; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Doctor Who; Peep Show; The Powerpuff Girls; I'm Alan Partridge/Knowing Me Knowing You; Brass Eye; Nighty Night; Scooby Doo; Father Ted; Diff'rent Strokes; The Munsters; Captain Caveman; Family Guy; Bewitched; Josie and the Pussycats; Dexters Laboratry; Pete n Dud; Ready Steady Go; Pete and Pete; Jam; Pucca; Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show
Books
Eightball/Daniel Clowes books; Girls romance comics; old girls annuals like 'Trend Boyfriend', 'June', 'Bunty' 'Lady Penelope', 'Patsy Walker' etc etc; Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre; The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh; Guy Browning's funny little books; Mil Millington; Answer Me (3 issue book); Ruby and the Stone Age Diet and Lux the Poet by Martin Millar; Shock Value by John Waters; A Crack-up at the Race Riots by Harmony Korine; and generally anything that Taschen put out... Ruby's favourite magazines are Headpress, Juxtapoz, Private Eye and Psychotronic. Ruby still buys Mojo and Record Collector even though they are boring and starting to repeat themselves but cannot face buying the NME anymore because it is too DEPRESSING!
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Heroes
jayne mansfield
billy childish
john cooper clarke
edith massey
johnny eck..we have the same birthday too!
sister rosetta tharpe
fay fife
peter cook
russ meyer
Ruby Firecracker is a young voluptuous vixen. Ruby only surrounds herself with people and things that stimulate her, so she never has problems and she never gets bored.
When she is not making comic strips, zooming round town in the rubymobile, or dancing around to girl records, she occupies her time by reading old girls annuals, eating as many sweets as she can, making paper dolls, supping on exotic cocktails and twanging her new 'Hello Kitty' Fender guitar.
Who I'd like to meet:
Ruby likes meeting people who have good record collections, who like to share and discuss books or who have a special talent.
Ruby would also like to meet people who like collecting keyrings. Ruby would be thrilled to make a new keyring to add to your collection. All you gotta do is ask...
sweet betty or sassy veronica,who are you?(gurls only)
you are sassy veronica!you have an awesome fashion sense and you know how to get what you want!!!you are not very good at saving money(no offence).YOU ROCK!!! Take this quiz!
Fast Lass Look at you, you All-American Girl! Girls want to be you and boys want to date you. You're slightly competitive, but always a winner. Take this quiz!
How's it going? Digging your new pics. Ungawa! We need to get out for beer soon. It's ages since I seen you. Jeff Lewis and Pete Molinari in Northampton with yourself and the good Doctor were my two fabbest nights of last year.We gotta catch up!
Hello! Got your message, really looking forward to Friday! Bikki's already cut all the length off my hair! Will call you tomorrow, got Preety round tonight. Love ya Jitterbug x
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oh my god its my talent show buddy....where have you been??? i have looked on here for you a few times...hows tricks? you look amazing mate...my mom said you look like a movie star!
ah i always talk about our last school days you nutta xxxx
Ello! How have you been since Plantsbrook? I was very suprised when I got your add, I didn't recognize you at first, you have changed ALOT! You look stunning, very chic! And playing guitar too, I like that! Happy Birthday for 2moz!
Ah yes, another fine piece of weird shite from Ms Firecracker. Keep up the good work. I love the bashful parrot! Touring starts in Sept. Good line-up at the next Candybox (this bank holiday Monday). I do have the Jayne Mansfield film... bought it on video years ago... it's a cracker aint it?! Saw an excellent terrible film recently... "Gonks Go Beat". It's a 1965 British pile of shite. Fantastic! Looks like it was sponsored by Vox as they manage to get an amp or organ in nearly every scene. Crazy man crazy x
Hi ya Roobs, no worries, I'm very well thankyou and thanks for the compliment!! Love your new 'do' and your eyes are amazing lady! Hope all's well? have fun keeping busy, keep in touch Love Sue xxxx
Hey sweetheart. Im good thanks :) Loving your image so totally funky and unique. Seen you in Brum city a few times but you've always been to far away to get hold of. Will try grab you next time :)
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