reading and procrastination and keeping up with my daily sustenence of tv goodness (mostly house md, sometimes scrubs (i've watched the box sets far too many times) and for some reason america's next top model. oh and ugly betty)
and of course READING ... extremely important, it's all i do, but check the other box for more details.
Music
let's see... *peruses cd's*
pearl jam, rage against the machine, foo fighters, audioslave, soundgarden, old offspring, old blink 182, tapping the vein, queen adreena, american head charge, system of a down, red hot chili peppers, soil, hed pe, chopin.
Movies
i've got so many though! ...
there are certain actors whose films i follow, for example Simon Pegg, Zach Braff and Adam Sandler, therefore films like Shaun of the Deadm Hot Fuzz, Garden State, Big Daddy, 50 First Dates...
i also love period dramas, but particularly if they're adaptations of books that i enjoyed, so most Austen adaptations (yes, i know they concentrate more on the pretty dresses than the underlying gender and sociological politics of Austen's times but they're still fun to just zone out and watch!)
i also enjoy the grit that is Mr Tarantino, in particularly Reservoir Dogs and especially Pulp Fiction
have you seen Juno yet? because it's such a great film, absolutely unique and the soundtrack is gorgeously innocent.
and now to turn all the above on its head i'm going to confess that i am a huge kid and i loved Ratatouille, Mulan, Lilo and Stitch (along with Scooby, Stitch is my most favourite character of all time) and both Ice Age(s).
Television
Again so many! (and Ken and i collect them in boxsets ^^)
Spaced
Qi
House M.D.
Black Books
Blackadder
Scrubs
Friends
Red Dwarf
Greenwing
Books
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Louisa M Alcott's Little Women
Fowles'The French Lieutenant's Woman (SO evoking!)
Authors who have numerous books that i thouroughly enjoyed include
Haruki Murakami (in particularly Kafka on the Shore, it would be amazing if Tabitha could speak)
Jasper Fforde (difficult to choose a favourite one, but i definitely prefer the Thursday Next series)
Angela Carter
David Eddings (in particular The Belgariad and The Mallorean)
Heroes
my better half, mr kenneth (or kenji as he prefers). would you be my, wont you be my, you are my everything....
my name is Bethan, and you'll find me more on facebook than here ... yes, i have succumbed...
what to write? i'm 21 years old, i live with my boyfriend in flat in a gorgeous georgian property in the town of carmarthen, south wales. we also have baby - she's fluffy and has a tail, most people call her a "kitten" but we dont like to judge... we just call her tabitha...
i'm doing the final year of an english degree at trinity college carmarthen... not much really to say there other than if your passion is reading, then this is certainy the course for you. if you dont like shakespeare, dont take it because common sense dictates that you will of course study him relentlessly in the first/second year (but not this one... possibly because we're focusing an aweful lot on modernism...and postmodernism).
if there anything else you want/need/MUST know about me, message/comment me and if you seem nice and not, y'kno, bloody odd i may just answer questions.
By the by...
If you're a writer and you're under thirty please please check out www.myspace.com/dylanthomasprize ; it's a young writers competition!
Who I'd like to meet: ok... this is a difficult question. of course you'd always want to meet your favourite authors (most of whom on my list are dead), comedians (eddie izzard), actors (simon pegg, hugh laurie, zach braff, edward norton), musicians (eddie vedder, chopin (difficult, i know))...
i would, however, like to have the opportunity to meet Terry Pratchett again... THIS time i wont grin inanely at the poor sod.
Hey, that photo is so old. I couldn't upload anymore because my old laptop wouldn't do it. I love that you've got bill bailey as one of your top friends. He's great isn't he? I saw him in hay-on-wye, he came and had coffee in the same coffee shop as us. My friend and I were mesmerized. See, that's another reason you need to go to hay this year xxx
to be honest... the recordings aren't great....done quickly in a day...but, will get you a cd if you really want... sorry i couldn't give you a lift today, feeling crap. how was it? life changing?
Yes, I do have two. I actually have three but I'll leave you to find that one... oooo mystery... Don't really use myspace anymore, only check it when i'm procrastinating, which right now, is alot. Will get my writing one back on track come June. June June, beautiful June when all will be happy and peacefull and free......
Well hello there strange lady [and man-friend, wherever he be lurking]. How the devil are we?! I have a boo-boo on my fingr [how classy am I; I cut it on a box of cham - pag - nee. =D. Also just burnt my leg on my exhaust pipe! yet still [scarilly] the best day I've had in 2007 =). Luffoo!
ye im not sure what on facebook just as i was searching summit...theres is dan yuds is on this aswell....guildford sorta just south outside london quite posh but nearly whole populations made up of either students or old people...theatre tech its working on musicals and rock concerts doing light operating, sound desks, managing people, directing, all stuff to do with theatre back stage.
kris is working near your col...thought he dissapeared of the planet..lol...if u speak to him again tell him to sign up to this.lol
i am very gd ta....you??hows uni?.....im finally in uni up in guildford doing theatre tech.
..im one step ahead lol been lookin for friends from school for while finally managed to find you on here because of facebook
Hey
My thing is well and truly posted on blackboard as requested - how efficient is that??!!
Hope your fabulous week of essaying is getting off to a cracking start... or something like that.
hmmm..x
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww i misssssssssssssssssssss uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
much lol : D
how goes it in the world of the hobo and her monkey ?
heeeeeeeeeeeyyyy beth!
long time no chat again!
thought id drop ya a line 2 say hellllo?!
whats news?? anything good 2 excite my borin little life?
how u keepin?
xxxxx
Why thankyou V much, I do believe that pillowcase was feeling a little left out this month [noone loveses me see]. But now i think everything is OK =D miss you missus,
x
I did indeed have this experience in a cafe... it was a couple of years ago now but I remember it vividly... it made me sad for months! It was horrible, this tiny frail woman being left by her husband (I presumed it was her husband) but the more I thought about it I can't just judge the guy - he has to deal with it day in day out, but still, it was one of the saddest things I ever did see...
I'm glad my writing makes you think, however uncanny that may be!
Thank you for taking the time to read it - means a lot.
