Golly. Well. Isn't this tough? I like music (more later), art (see next bit)and books (all good ones, again more later) and people. Its all about the people. You very quickly realise that its no good sitting and cunningly planning in your room. You have to scare yourself and go and get stuff. I have only learnt this vital stuff in the last year though.

Slight hiatus currently (not sure one can have a slight hiatus but there you go) Have just started a company curating art exhibitions, having worked for other people doing this for a long time. First show went very well, and I am very excited about our prospects...however am facing the grim reality of taking an actual paying job to pay the bills. Ugh. Financial downturn and all that.

Um...not this. Self deprecation..ooh not a good start either. Um Drawing? Curating other people's work...being condescending about music? (not a cool one that), making connections with people. Meeting people essentially. OK perhaps there are more. TBC....

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No idea..stupid grin?

Books..Jane Eyre top of the list. Love Annie Proux, Iain Banks and Iain M Banks, Paul Auster, and his wife..can't spell her name though..ok Wikipedia.Siri Hustvedt hurrah! Um I read alot and very few get through to the re-reading stage. The above do - and I'm sure there are more - um Angela Carter, although she's a bit clever...Oscar Wilde, Um...well you probably get the picture. More info on demand.

Movies. Well. I like to think I'm a film buff, but its not remotely true. I studied early film at college, and made films myself briefly, but apart from Un Chien Andalou which I largely like only because there is a Pixies song about it and a couple of others, I mostly watch action stuff with fighting and fast cars. Oh dear!

Music. Right. The Pixies, Nirvana, REM, The Cure, pretty much any Delta Blues..music that makes me feel something. Um..Scott Walker (the good bits, mainly the Jacques Brel covers) Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, The Velvet Underground, The Breeders, PJ Harvey, and a little known alt country thing called The handsome family. And others of course. Too many to list.

Food? Well I have no food 'issues'. Pretty easy to please in that department. Can cook a bit, but its no fun cooking for one, so tend to subsist on pasta. When I can be arsed. Lots of toast-and-marmite-based meals otherwise. Really should eat better!

Eyeliner (sorry but 15 years of wearing it means I don't look myself without it - although I do have nightmares about being a scary old cat lady who still gets up every morning and plasters her ageing mug with the accoutrements of youth..blue eyeshadow and rouge etc)
Music
Moleskine notebook and proper inkpen with black ink (just in case..its a stereotype but it works)
Laptop
Black coffee
Alcohol (or access to same)

How exactly I'm going to make my business pay.
What my first novel will be about (yes yes I know)
Reconciling my urge to paint with the unnerving knowledge that painting roses is ultimately meaningless.

There's no typical Friday night. Ideally dinner with friends, but more commonly alone with my laptop.

I'm contemplating affecting a hat style thing. Unfortunately I have a really big head and hats don't suit me. I just really want one that I can wear every day and look silly/edgy ha ha!! What a fool.

You like to laugh more than almost anything else, and find the foibles that I seem to have unaccountably exposed on here, appealing.