Scarlett McQueen

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About me

Gender Female
Occupation Translator
Location London, United Kingdom
Interests avoiding housework, bdsm, beer, boots, black books, boozing, brass eye, buffy the vampire slayer, chris morris, corsetry, curry, ecology, femdom, feminism, french literature, gender politics, glastonbury, harpies, hysteria, idleness, italy, jackass, librarians, literature, marmite on toast, miso soup, monkey dust, mushrooms, paganism, phoenix nights, politics, psychedelia, psylocybin, quentin crisp, radio 4, second-hand bookshops, shouting at the radio, skater boys, tartex mushroom pate, tate modern, tea, the day today, translating, translation, vw campers, writing
Favorite Movies Tirez Sur Le Pianiste, La Haine, The Piano, The Company Of Wolves, Orlando, Naked, Billy Liar, The Hour of the Pig, Easy Riders, Blue Velvet, anything by John Waters
Favorite Music captain beefheart, dodgy 70s prog rock, jazz, funk, soul, black rebel motorcycle club, bob dylan, fela kuti, gong, jeffrey lewis, jimi hendrix, joni mitchell, led zeppelin, nick drake, ozric tentacles, pink floyd, robert wyatt, stevie wonder (early stuff!) roy harper, soft machine, syd barrett...
Favorite Books baudelaire, byron, dictionaries, tom wolfe, toni morrison, ee cummings, emily bronte, george orwell, georges perec, germaine greer, hunter s thompson, jeanette winterson, joe orton, john clare, john cooper clarke, ken kesey, marguerite duras, martha gellhorn, maya angelou, michel tournier, oscar wilde, primo levi, proust, raymond chandler, rimbaud, ryszard kapuscinski, samuel beckett, simone de beauvoir, w g sebald, gunter grass, hunter s thompson, will self

Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?

The Victory of Imagination over Reality. It will be made of lots of wondrous and beguiling sparkly things.