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My self-summary Propose an edit

I have been variously described as a 'sexy PVC-clad maiden', a 'very strange girl', 'quite simply exceptional' and 'that girl who lives up in room 29'; take your pick. (Incidentally, the latter is the coolest compliment ever, and if you get why I think that, you rock).

marital status: cohabiting with the bestest boy in the whole wide world... and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

known bugs: outrageous penis envy, seasonal affective disorder, epistaxiophobia (look it up), a tendency to be angry sometimes. possibly also superiority/inferiority/messiah complexes, i wouldn't know.

modifications and fakery: 11 piercings, 4 tattoos, half a false tooth because I fell off a seesaw aged 8. hair colour. 20/20 vision courtesy of plastic.

here for: procrastination, naked pictures of your mother

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I am a graduate of MA Linguistics at delightful Edinburgh. I work at places and work hard for the money but that isn't very interesting now is it. I also take a whole lot of photographs and also sometimes am featured in those taken by other people. I dream about going to Cuba, but simultaneously worry about the environment. I make myself feel better by getting involved in various protests and direct actions that may or may not stop the world going to hell in a handbasket.

I read and write and draw and watch and look and stare and touch.

I make love and listen to Death from Above.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

yeeesh... hmm... err... writing, possibly? baking. taking photographs, or having an 'eye' for shots with perspective and lines and colour and stuff. (I'm told). ooh yeah, looking 'deranged'! sex? discussing things? imagining. making people happy. I hope.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

piercings. that's lame, but true! my hair colour, sometimes (it varies). the slutty outfit I'm wearing, at clubs anyhow. my 'posh accent'. the fact that I'm not like all the other girls.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

(a). Selected Poems - Pablo Neruda. On Love - Alain de Botton. The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker. The Sirens of Titan (et al) - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller. FREAKS: Myths and Images of the Secret Self - Leslie Fiedler. The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O - James Thurber. Oryx and Crake (et al) - Margaret Atwood. Generation X (et al) - Douglas Coupland. The Hunting of the Snark (et al) - Lewis Carroll. Room Temperature (et al) - Nicholson Baker. Everything by Edward Gorey. Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman. Preacher - Garth Ennis. Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry. The Book of Babel - Nigel Lewis. The Elephant Vanishes (et al) - Haruki Murakami. all the Sherlock Holmes stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Monkey - Wu Ch'eng-En. The True History of the Elephant Man - Michael Howell & Peter Ford. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger. Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak.

(b). It's A Wonderful Life. Requiem For A Dream. The Elephant Man. A Clockwork Orange. Fight Club. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi. Memento. Evil Dead II. The Great Escape. The Silence of the Lambs. Magnolia. Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters). The Terminator. Identity. Donnie Darko. Edward Scissorhands. Happiness. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen). American Beauty. The Machinist.

(c). Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Tom Waits. Sigur Ros. Bob Dylan. Rico. The Cooper Temple Clause. Leonard Cohen. Wolfsheim. Eels. Massive Attack. Nina Simone. The Get Up Kids. Talking Heads. Primitive Radio Gods. Nine Inch Nails. Epoxies. VNV Nation. Tom McRae.

(d). Steak. Iceberg lettuce, weird as that undoubtedly is. Good, fresh bread. Peaches. Asparagus. Artichoke hearts. Mature Cheddar cheese.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

Sight. Sound. Sunlight. Intimacy. Lemons. Nick Cave.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

Life, the universe and everything.

Penes

Feelings and memories.

Photography - both sides of the camera.

Language (it's my subject).

Touching.

The sky.

Beliefs and religion (and incase it interests you, I am culturally Jewish, but Buddhism makes more sense).

The nature of space-time.

Fucken stupid creepy things I saw in my beloved horror movies which now haunt me... ghosts, zombies, curses, just general dead people, argh.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

happy. drunk. or watching a movie with the one I love. or all of the above.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I have nothing to be ashamed of.

You should message me if Propose an edit

you think I rule.

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