MJ
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Literature Nerd |
| Location | Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Ditzy quirky nerdy type with a fondness for friendly people, essay plans, Red Bull and places with good jukeboxes. Severely dislikes arrogance, feeling unhappy and people playing their (99.9% of the time bad) music on their phone whilst riding a bus. |
| Interests | My record player, spending money on things I don't need, feeling clever, laughing until my stomach hurts, friends, Manchester, Sheffield, being in love, dancing until my shoes get wrecked, tire swings, camping, writing and reading poetry, reading stuff other than poetry as well, Desperado beer, Red Stripe, gin, fashion, Mods, people with funny laughs, really old couples, cats, listening to music on public transport, life-affirming gigs, things giving me goosebumps, days off, sunshine on cold days, sleeping in, shy boys with nice hair |
| Favorite Movies | Fight Club, 24 Hour Party People, Trainspotting, Taxi Driver, Leon, A Life Less Ordinary, Garden State, The Fifth Element, Vertigo, Amélie, Heavenly Creatures, Juno, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Cabaret, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, This Is England, I'm Not There, Lost In Translation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Control, Carry On films |
| Favorite Music | Jeff Buckley, Edith Piaf, The Yummy Fur, Orange Juice, Josef K, Belle and Sebastian, Acid House Kings, Serge Gainsbourg, Yelle, Kimya Dawson, Patti Smith, Poppy and the Jezebels, Bob Dylan, Arab Strap, The Velvet Underground, Theoretical Girl, The Brute Chorus, Nico, The Long Blondes, Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley, PJ Harvey, Marianne Faithfull, Vashti Bunyan, David Bowie, Late of the Pier, Los Campesinos, Manic Street Preachers, Joy Division, Bloc Party, Justice, Cat Power, Metric, Black Wire, The Cramps, The Shangri-Las, Denise & Company, Johnny Cash |
| Favorite Books | 'Nineteen Eighty Four' by George Orwell, 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley, 'Running With Scissors' by Augusten Burroughs, 'Last Exit To Brooklyn' by Hubert Selby Jr., 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tenessee Williams, 'The Traveller' by John Twelve Hawks, 'Divided Kingdom' by Rupert Thomson, 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson, 'Queer' by William Burroughs, 'A Clockwork Orange' by Antony Burgess, 'Nausea' by Jean Paul Sartre, 'The Unbearable Lightness Of Being' by Milan Kundera, 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde, 'The Little Friend' by Donna Tartt, 'Atonement' by Ian McEwan, 'The Cider House Rules' by John Irving, anything by Chuck Palahniuk |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
My science teacher was cool. He made baked alaska for us. If my science teacher had smashed a rose, I'd have smashed his face.