Completely neurotic, better at sounding intelligent than actually
being intelligent, not even very good at sounding intelligent most
of the time, socially backward, caffeine-addicted, shoe-obsessed...
Christ on a bike, even I want to punch myself.
But I am a kind person with a good heart. Whether this in any way
compensates for the above is highly debatable.
Professional
musician and
classical music journalist.
Seriously.
Not as glamorous as it sounds - mostly it involves driving my
housemates bats by practising
Ligeti at all hours, going to press
events just for the free food and trying to get papped at the
Classical Brits.
And, of course, lashings of self-doubt and masochistic despair.
Probably that I'm very small with very big hair.
Books:
Catch 22,
One Hundred Years of
Solitude,
Orlando,
Beowulf,
Midnight's Children,
Animal Farm,
Wild Swans,
Lolita,
Anna Karenina,
Harry Potter,
501 Spanish
Verbs
Movies:
American Beauty,
Willy Wonka
and the Chocolate Factory,
All About My Mother,
Monty Python and
the Holy Grail,
The Ladykillers (the original
version!),
Fried Green Tomatoes,
Four Weddings and a
Funeral,
Mean
Girls (but why would Regina refer to herself as a "fugly
slut?"),
Little Shop of Horrors,
Clueless...yeah,
mostly I have terrible taste in films.
Music:
Bach,
Schubert,
Messiaen,
Nick Drake,
Queen Stravinsky,
Radiohead,
Bjork,
Simon and Garfunkel,
Shostakovich,
The Beach
Boys,
Shostakovich,
Turnage,
Britten,
Gogol Bordello,
Apocalyptica,
Prokofiev,
Debussy,
Ravel,
Tchaikovsky, also lots of cheesy
pop music, especially
Latin stuff cos then
I can pretend that I'm practising my
Spanish by singing along.
Food: Far too many to list here. I'm a girl who loves my food. In
the words of
Garfield,
Diet is just die with a
T.
Music, friends, horses, time to myself, challenges,
green tea.
sex. Oh come on, who doesn't?
rehearsing chamber music, drinking myself silly, or more often both
at the same time.
I hate clubbing. I'd rather be at home with a cup of
tea.
this makes you
laugh. Or if you hate James Blunt. Or if you
prom rather than getting seats. Or if you
understood that last sentence.