Being with my hubbie and dogs, watching movies from netflix, painting, hanging out and being mellow with my closest friends, listening to audio books and podcasts -( if you haven't heard Ricky Gervais podcast check it out), trying to garden and tending my pond, nature documentaries, yummy foody things.
Music
Radiohead, Muse, Michael Buble, Philip Glass, Sigur Ros, Barry Adamson, Edith Piaf, The Veils, Placebo, David Holmes, Kasabian, Amy Winehouse, Keane, Koop, Feist, Air, Zero 7, AFI, The Egg, The Jam, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Scissor Sisters, Moby, Mozart, Lemon Jelly, Juno Reactor, Flaming Lips, Queen, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, Unkle, Paul Oakenfold, Air, Bent, The Beatles, The Police, Stevie Wonder, Dean Martin, Tears for Fears, Sia, Karminsky Experience, Goldfrapp, Etta James, Underworld, Astrid Gilberto, Bill Withers, Peggy Lee, Bernard Herrmann, Scott Joplin, Raymond Scott, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus
Movies
Jaws, Napoleon Dynamite, The Thing (1954), Shaun of the Dead, La Vie en Rose, Shine, Clockwork Orange, American Werewolf in London, Best in Show, Fargo, The Devils, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Shortbus, The Birdcage, Tarantula, Amelie, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Darjeeling Limited, 40 Year Old Virgin, Exorcist, Oliver! (1968), Dawn of the Dead, In the Mood for Love, Pretty much ALL Hitchcock, Harry Potter, The Graduate, 300, Children of Men, Quiz Show, The Triplets of Belleville, Groundhog Day, Casino Royale, Kamikaze Girls, Grease, Koyaanisqatsi, The Fog(1980), The Third Man, Forbidden Planet, Goldfinger, Harold and Maude, Secretary, Sexy Beast, Lake Placid, Lost in Translation, The Night of the Hunter, Microcosmos, Marathon Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Poltergeist, Snatch, Spirited Away, Lars and the Real Girl, Sin City, The Innocents, Andromeda Strain, Monster House, Trading Places, Quatermass and the Pit, All the Presidents Men, American Splendour, Diabolique, Takashi Miike films, Bourne Identity, All about Eve, Arachnophobia, You've got Mail, Battle Royale, Danger Diabolik, God of Cookery, Cape Fear (1962), Curse of the Demon, Deliverance, The Sting, Shaolin Soccer, Run Lola Run, Everything is Illuminated, any Cary Grant movie. . . . .Oh and Bedazzled-1967 (the ORIGINAL not the the remake with Elizabeth Hurley which was totally shit). Peter Cook just had all the petty, snivelling, juvenile, selfish qualities one would expect from your run-of-the-mill devil. In my opinion best devil ever.
Television
Battlestar Galactica (new), Flight of the Conchords, Mad Men, True Blood, Extras, Deadliest Catch, Colbert Report, Going Tribal, Bill Maher, Rome, Antiques Roadshow, 30 Rock, Dirty Jobs, Simpsons, Entourage, Planet Earth. Discovery Channel, Science and National Geographic channels.
Books
All sorts really - I listen to audio books mainly, whilst I'm working. After a day of painting my eyes can get kinda tired so I don't sit down and read as often as I'd like/should. I'm a big fan of J.K Rowling, can't help myself I love the Harry Potter series and the audio books are excellent. H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds", George Orwell "Animal Farm/1984", Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange", William Golding "Lord of the Flies". I like psychological thrillers and mystery stuff. Actually have a taste for American History - it has to be presented a certain way -like Sarah Vowells "Assassination Vacation". "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini is a personal favorite, "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America "by Erik Larson, almost anything by David Sedaris.
Oh, and cookery books...so many cookery books (my version of porn I think!)
Heroes
Colin Christian, Darwin, William A. Bouguereau, Tamara De Lempika, Ingres, J.K. Rowling, Mark Ryden, Karim Rashid, Bruce Parry, Sir David Attenborough, Nigella Lawson and pretty much any french pastry chef.
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UPCOMING LONDON SHOW I'm busy working on paintings for a large show at Opera Gallery London, along with my husband Colin Christian. It's so exciting to be showing in my hometown for the first time ever....I've just been given the date of February 3rd 2010 - whoo hoo!!!etc.
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Who I'd like to meet: Trying to think, mmm. The trouble is when I meet people I admire I get all embarrassed and awkward. Would love to have a cup of tea with Sir David Attenborough. To sit down and listen to Werner Herzog would be incredible. Lots of artists that I look up to I've already met (lucky me!) and when I do meet them I get all nervous and just stand there mute. Which sucks. JK Rowling would be a marvelous fascinating person to be able to chat with.
RIP. Would have loved to have met Oliver Reed - he was my first crush! Tamara De Lempicka, what an amazing woman. Alfred Hitchcock would have been a laugh. And of course Cary Grant - he did LSD and went on Carson, you gotta admire his chutzpah...
phoenix/NEBULIN will be performing some great shows this month!
Saturday July 11th, 2009 at Pulp Live located at 2674 E. Oakland Park Blvd. Ft. Lauderdale FL 33306. Show starts at 7pm and phoenix/NEBULIN goes onstage at 8pm. Cover is only $10...Purchase tickets in advance for only $5!!! Contact Phoenix via email at medicatedinsanity@gmail.com for info.
Saturday July 25th 2009 at Brickell Irish Pub located at 1451 S. Miami Ave Miami FL 33136 Show starts at 8pm and we will be performing 2 sets this evening!
Friday July 31st 2009 at Tobacco Road located at 626 S. Miami Ave Miami FL 33130 Show starts at 7pm and phoenix/NEBULIN goes onstage at 10pm. Cover is only $10...Purchase tickets in advance for only $5!!! Contact Phoenix via email at medicatedinsanity@gmail.com for info.
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Hands reach out tentatively to touch the wonder of your face, your skin translucent like spun glass, only more beautiful. I could stare into your crystalline eyes for centuries, bask in the afterglow of your smile until I am dust.
I worry you are oblivious to my feelings – or worse – uncaring. You seem unaware of the cyclone of emotions roiling beneath my surface or perhaps too concerned with your own inner storms, your own demons.
I see a darkness in your eyes sometimes when you think I am not looking. There is a quality of restlessness about you that makes me want to reach out to you, try and comfort you.
Is it possible to be both frightened and fascinated by you? I sense a storm in your soul, the lightning flash of which I sometimes catch reflected in your eyes. I see a question on your lips which I long to answer.
But I know that you and I can never be. This burgeoning flower of feeling must and will be stopped before it can open, petal by petal, and reveal that which I’ve tried so hard to conceal. ..
Hands reach out tentatively to touch the wonder of your face, your skin translucent like spun glass, only more beautiful. I could stare into your crystalline eyes for centuries, bask in the afterglow of your smile until I am dust.
I worry you are oblivious to my feelings – or worse – uncaring. You seem unaware of the cyclone of emotions roiling beneath my surface or perhaps too concerned with your own inner storms, your own demons.
I see a darkness in your eyes sometimes when you think I am not looking. There is a quality of restlessness about you that makes me want to reach out to you, try and comfort you.
Is it possible to be both frightened and fascinated by you? I sense a storm in your soul, the lightning flash of which I sometimes catch reflected in your eyes. I see a question on your lips which I long to answer.
But I know that you and I can never be. This burgeoning flower of feeling must and will be stopped before it can open, petal by petal, and reveal that which I’ve tried so hard to conceal. ..
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