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About me

Gender	Female
Occupation	Lipstick, literature and human experience
Introduction	I'm not suffering from insanity... I'm enjoying every second of it!
Interests	Lipstick, tasteful pornography, writing till I'm incapable of functioning like a normal human being, staying up till dawn, going for effing long walks, reading really good books, cats, drawing and painting, playing piano and guitar, travelling, subversive humour, The Individual, freedom and equality, new ideas, innovation, quantum physics, developemental algorithms, IT, art, adventure, good movies, lifelong learning, teaching, cooking, Thai food, Italian food, Japanese food, Meditteranean food, life the universe and everything, publishing, developements in science, hats, google earth, caffeine, cherries, the colour purple, dancing around in my digs, talking in accents to myself at odd hours, revelling in my lunacy, frequenting my favourite local and drawing caricatures of the foxy barladies, getting married to Tori Amos, walking barefoot through autumn leaves, swimming in the ocean, finding all the best views to be seen on earth, pointing and laughing at people who take themselves too seriously, pointing and laughing at myself when I take myself too seriously, hanging out at 24hr petrol stations at weird hours, Calvin and Hobbes, http://xkcd.com, http://boingboing.net
Favorite movies	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lady in the Water, Amelie, Short Bus, Waking Life, Stranger Than Fiction, Life is Beautiful, {Proof}, Dancer in the Dark, ∏ (-Pi), The Wall, Hero, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, Corpse Bride, Big Fish, Mirrormask, Finding Neverland, Lady Hawke, Perfect Blue, Delicatessen, Finding Forrester, Mona Lisa Smile, Dead Poet's Society, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Addams Family I + II, Meet Joe Black, The Tiger and the Snow, The Animatrix, March of the Penguins, Contact, The Crow, Moulin Rouge, The Shawshank Redemption, Like Hot Water for Chocolate, Lost in Translation, Babel, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Quills,...
Favorite music	Tori Amos, A Perfect Circle, Counting Crows, Pink Floyd, Lacuna Coil, Sarah McLachlan, U2, The Beatles, Violet Rising, Fetish, Bush, Mozart, Live, Phillip Glass, Ani de Franco, The Breeders, The Cure, The Pixies, Pearl Jam, Chevelle, The Raconteurs, Filter, Stream of Passion, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, The White Stripes, Richard Cheese, Leonard Cohen, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, A-ha, Moby, Henryck Gorecki, Nick Cave, Type O Negative, Rob Zombie, Skunk Anansie, Queen, REM, jazz, kwaito, Radiohead, Staind, Smashing Pumpkins, Springbok Nude Girls, Southern Gypsey Queens, The Goo Goo Dolls, Queens of the Stone Age, Bach, Handel, Metallica, Dan Platansky, Tracy Chapman, Tool, Tom Waits, Sugardrive, Wonderboom, Hole, The Watts, Tenacious D, Alanis Morisette, Foo Fighters, Korn, Lark, James Newton Horner, Death Cab for Cutie, Bloc Party, Mogwai, Modest Mouse, The Teaparty... people, I have to stop here or I'll be typing all bloody day...and I'm sure you've all gotten the idea by now that I'm a bit of a freak.
Favorite books	Now you're asking for it... Everything by Neil Gaiman (particuarly fond of his short story, "Murder Mysteries"), "Snowcrash" - Neal Stephenson, "If on a winetr's night a traveller"- Italo Calvino (& all his other stuff), "The Little Prince"- Antoine Saint de-Euxpery, "Illusions: The Adventures of the Reluctant Messiah"- Richard S. Bach, "Life of Pi"- Yann Martel, anything by John Fowles, "My Name is Red"- Orhan Pamuk, "The Sound and the Fury"- William Faulkner, anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorges Louis Borges, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Margaret Atwood, Tenessee Williams, Martin Sherman, Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, Athol Fugard, JM Coetzee, "War of the Wrolds"- HG Wells, "1984"- George Orwell, "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a trilogy in five parts" & "Last Chance To See" (with Mark Laudam)- Douglas Adams, "The Colour of Magic" & "The Wyrd Sisters"- Terry Pratchett, "A Clockwork Orange"- Anthony Burgess, "Flowers for Algernon"- Daniel Keyes, anything by Russell Hoban, anything by Bill Watterson (especially Calvin & Hobbes", "The Watchmen" & "Lost Girls"- Alan Moore, "The Sandman" (the whole collection including the "Death" spin-offs)- Neil Gaiman, "The Selfish Gene" & "Climbing Mount Improbable"- Richard Dawkins, "Schroedinger's Kittens"- John Gribbin, anything by Doestoyevsky and Tolstoy, "The Left Hand of Darkness"- Ursula Le Guin, any short story by Ramsey Campbell, "Rose Madder"- Stephen King, the works of Kierkegraard, Nietzche, Sartre & Bertrand Russel and soooo much more, holy shit...