Nana
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| Interests | Music, dancing, drinking and mixing coctails. Shopping. Lingerie. Collecting Edwardian dresses and 80s keyboards. Playing drums and my amazing new microkorg synth. Old Fashioned cameras. Watching bands and finding one that blows me away. Summer festivals. History. Berlin - the city of my dreams. |
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| Favorite movies | Eyes Wide Shut. City of Lost Children. Lost In Translation. Mullholland Drive. Spirited Away. Pretty Woman. The Ghost In The Shell. The Mother and the Whore. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Quadrophenia. Sleepy Hollow. Cruel Intentions. Vivre sa Vie. Requiem for a Dream. Letter from an Unknown Woman. Lolita. High Fidelity. Ten things I Hate about You. Harold and Maude, Withnail and I. Amelie. Lolita. LA Confidential. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Chungking Express. Strictly Ballroom. Brick. The Lives of Others. Hallam Foe. Bright Young Things. Garden State and Control. |
| Favorite music | The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Passion Pit, Ra Ra Riot, Franz Ferdinand, White Lies, The Wave Pictures, Au Revoir Simone, MGMT. Fleet Foxes. Patrick Wolf. Echo And The Bunnymen, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Joy Division, Pulp, Hot Chip, The Knife, The Ronettes, The Crystals, The Cure, the Libertines, Simon And Garfunkel, Absenteed, ladyhawke, Santogold, Ash, Brighteyes, Bat For Lashes, Cadi Staton, Kim Wilde, The Cribs, Bowie, Blondie, The Long Blondes, Orange Juice, The Shop Assistants, Dolly Parton, Interpol, Tim Buckley, to name just a few... |
| Favorite books | Lolita is my all time favourite. I am still convinced that that it has the most beautiful opening paragraph in the English language and it never fails to blow me away that it wasn't even Nabakov's first language. What a genius. Also The Virgin Suicides, The Secret History, The Little Friend, The Wrong Boy, To Kill A Mocking Bird, In The Shadow of The Wind, Czardas, Winter In Madrid, Junkie Love, Brideshead Revisisted, Tender Is The Night, Salome, Arcadia (I know its a play but its so magical I had to include it). A Picture Of Dorian Gray, Vile Bodies, Pnin... and so many more |