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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Writer. Journalist. Law Student. Breadloaf.
Location	Sydney
Introduction	writer, journalist (uts:law & freelance), entrepreneur. BA/LLB (First Class Hons.) Managing Editor: www.survivelaw.com.au Label Manager: www.catfoxdesign.com
Interests	People who secretly harbour odd and perverse quirks that, if made public, would render them social outcasts. Bending my morals. Singing with my eyes closed. Politics. Law. Italian soccer players, but not for the soccer. Writing. Swimming, it's so...visceral. Tea. Tea also makes me happy.
Favorite movies	Atonement, American Beauty, Across the Universe, Back to the Future trilogy, Before Sunrise/set, The Constant Gardener, Gattaca, Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Enchanted, Fracture, Children of Men, Sunshine, Stranger than Fiction, Bridget Jones Diary, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Donnie Darko, The Tailor of Panama, Thank You For Smoking ("It requires a moral flexibility beyond most people",) Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Becoming Jane, Ratatouille, Anchorman, Zoolander, Chicago, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monty Python. Esp The Holy Grail, Solaris, Sin City Indiana Jones, Star Wars ("Do, or do not. There is no try."), Rattle n Hum, Casino Royale The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, The Dreamers, Saved! My Neighbour Totoro, The English Patient, Fight Club, Match Point Scoop!, Se7en, Igby Goes Down, The Cat Returns, The Graduate, Secretary, The Incredibles, The Thin Blue Line, One Day in September, The Hours, Wes Anderson films - The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Express, When Harry Met Sally, Forget Paris, City Slickers, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Cars, Finding Nemo Happy Feet ("My feet are happy too."), All About Maryn, Quills ("Are your convictions so fragile they cannot stand in opposition to mine?") Lord of the Rings, The Faculty, Infernal Affairs, The Corporation, Legally Blonde, The Year of Living Dangerously.
Favorite music	New Order (crystal: 'you shock me to the core.') Elgar (thanks Iris!) Bob Dylan (I'm a fresh convert. Tangled Up In Blue rocks my world, slowly.) The Beatles (but to dislike the beatles would be heresy.) Brian Reitzell Gorrillaz (esp D sides.) Phillip Glass Moby Air The Who (Love Reign O'er Me, The Seeker, Baba O'Reilly) U2 Jazz Junkie XL Jeff Buckley ("and from your lips she drew a 'hallelujah.") Across the Universe soundtrack. Foo Fighters - everlong. Deep Blue Something - breakfast at tiffanys Crowded House Thomas Newman soundtracks The Devlins, 'The World Outside' 'Caramel' 'Mrs Robinson', Simon & Garfunkel (thanks Hannah!) Sofia Coppola soundtracks Elliot Goldenthal soundtracks Wes Anderson soundtracks Hans Zimmer soundtracks Sufjan Stevens Patrick Wolf Snow Patrol - Chocolate, and everything they made before becoming teen girl posterboys. And a few after. Recommendations from hip strangers
Favorite books	Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: True Stories from a War Zone South of the Border West of the Sun The English Patient Ariel Handwriting The Great Gatsby ("Oh Gatsby!") Slaughterhouse 5 Breakfast of Champions Blinding Light Dance Dance Dance 'Lovesong' (poem) by Ted Hughes Without Feathers - Woody Allen The Dhammapadda The Picture of Dorian Grey The Amores - Ovid The Virgin Suicides High Noon:20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them...acquired via a chance meeting with a french businessman. i must have had my burning idealist squint. Lolita. ('You can always count on a murderer for fancy prose style.') The Prophet, by Khalil Gibrain The God of Small Things Oscar Wilde anything Woody Allen anything Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Did I ever tell you how lucky you are? by Dr Seuss The Lorax by Dr Seuss Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss Anything Iris recommends Anything Priya recommends Anything Jules recommends On Chesil Beach Birthday Letters (Ted Hughes)