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My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Editorial Assistant |
| Location | Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | A fashion loving indie-rock grrrl, who hasn't figured out what she wants to be when she's "grown up"... |
| Interests | Music, going to gigs, laughing until I cry and my stomach hurts, reading, dancing, my friends, pretty clothes, drinking tea, philosophising, going out for dinner, my collection of musical instruments that I've never learned to play properly, make-up, 70%+ cocoa solids chocolate, being soppy about dogs, going to the cinema, sex, fading one song into another song, putting things in alphabetical order, tattoos, summer, huggles and snuggles, cartoon art, talking pretentiously, deciding to live a healthy lifestyle and never doing it, arty photography, being a drama queen, comedy, buying more books than I have time to read, baking cakes, becoming obsessive over Last.fm, kissing in the rain, rollercoasters, New York and New Zealand, spooning in bed, dyeing my hair, crying at films and books. |
| Favorite movies | Adaptation, Almost Famous, Amelie, American Beauty, A Very Long Engagement, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Being John Malkovich, Belleville Rendezvous, Big Lebowski, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Chopper, Clerks, Control, Dark Knight, Dead Man's Shoes, Donnie Darko, Eagle vs Shark, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ExistenZ, Fargo, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Female Agents, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fifth Element, Fight Club, The Game, Garden State, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hot Fuzz, Hudsucker Proxy, I Heart Huckabees, It's A Wonderful Life, Juno, Labyrinth, Lawn Dogs, Layer Cake, Leon, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost In Translation, Me You & Everyone We Know, Napoleon Dynamite, Pan's Labyrinth, Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Secretary, Shaun Of The Dead, Shawshank Redemption, Spinal Tap, Spirited Away, Tank Girl, Thumbsucker, The Truman Show, The Warriors, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Withnail and I, 9 Songs, 24 Hour Party People |
| Favorite music | Arab Strap, Bat for Lashes, Bearsuit, Beirut, Best Fwends, Bis, Black Kids, Bloc Party, Blood Red Shoes, Blow, Blur, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bonde Do Role, Cadallaca, Chapman Family, Crystal Castles, CSS, Cursive, Dananananaykroyd, Dandi Wind, Dartz!, Dead Disco, DFA 1979, Death Set, Die! Die! Die!, Digitalism, DIOYY?, The Do, Elastica, Elle Milano, Foals, Forget Cassettes, Forward Russia, Future of the Left, Graham Coxon, Haunts, HeartsREVOLUTION, Idlewild, Interpol, Joanna Newsom, Johnny Foreigner, Joy Division, Kap Bambino, Kings of Leon, Klaxons, Kubichek, Ladyfuzz, Ladyhawke, Land of Talk, Late of the Pier, Laura Marling, Les Savy Fav, Le Tigre, Lightspeed Champion, Long Blondes, Longpigs, Maccabees, Mae Shi, Matt & Kim, Maximo Park, Menomena, Menswear, MGMT, MIA, Minus The Bear, Mogwai, MSTRKRFT, New Young Pony Club, Noisettes, Oh No Ono, Patrick Wolf, Pavement, Peaches, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Q and not U, Radiohead, Reindeer Section, Revl9n, Rosa Mota, Santogold, Seafood, Shy Child, Simian Mobile Disco, Sky Larkin, Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Sufjan Stevens, Team Dresch, Teenagers, Those Dancing Days, Ting Tings, Tired Irie, Tori Amos, Van She, We Are The Physics, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, You Say Party! We Say Die! |
| Favorite books | Arcadia - Tom Stoppard, Behind The Scenes At The Museum - Kate Atkinson, Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn, Essays in Love - Alain de Botton, Ghostwritten - David Mitchell, High Fidelity - Nick Hornby, His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman, Love Is A Mixtape - Rob Sheffield, Mean Time - Carol-Ann Duffy, Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving, Princess Bride - William Goldman, Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger, We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver, White Teeth - Zadie Smith |
Lionesses have no manes. How do they know when they've grown up?
They're the queens of the animal-kingdom but lions get all the credit. Patriarchy bites. What's in a mane? Plus, do any of us ever truly grow-up?