Oh -just realised I haven't updated this since last year - I'm now 21! Wooo hoo! Meh - its still probably gonna be massive long - EVEN though there's not really that much to say about me.
Lets see how many words it takes to describe myself - or better yet - words used by others to describe me:
1. Movie Geek (lover of all types of films- silents, classics, modern - anything really. LOVE film noir and presently interested in French New Wave - hoping to FINALLY find Jean Luc Godard's "Breathless" tomorrow!)
2. (New) Doctor Who nerd (with my 2 new posters, the fact I never miss an episode (and usually rewatch the good ones within the week) my adoration of the lovely David Tennant - master actor, and the fact I just bought a 10 book box set)
3. Quiet, shy, polite etc (nuff said really)
4. Quirky, random, whimsical (haha "whimsical" love that word!)
5. Nuts on piano (that one goes back a bit - I've been playing piano for over a decade. Although I don't practice as much as I used to - I still love it. Go Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Percy Grainger!
6. Obsessive movie buff - (more for emphasis than anything. My walls really are covered with film posters)
Other than that - I'm from Australia, but i'd very much like to visit the UK one day - I think it'd be brilliant! Be nice if I picked up an accent! lol
Oh I know - for my 21st birthday I had my very first martini (after spending years saying "i'm gonna get a martini on my 21st!" - in all honesty i didn't like it very much - but hey - I got to say "shaken, not stirred" - so well worth it.
Oh - and I'm intersted in film making. Yep - i think that about covers it.
Not that you probably care, but here's a few (and when i say a few - I mean A LOT!) of personal dis/likes:
(In general) Loves:
FILM!
silent films -Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin,
film noir - a pet love of mine after I wrote and directed my own short little film noir (was a bit dodgy overall due to time restraints, but looks brilliant!)
The Goon Show
Pasta
the 1920s, 60s
Piano
Anything Scottish or Irish (especially guys! eg Ewan McGreggor, David Tennant, Cillian Murphy...)
getting good marks on my uni assignments!
my friends, family and pets.
Some of my Favourite actors (in no particular order)
David Tennant, John Simm, Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp, Cillian Murphy, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Tom Hanks, Tim Robbins, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, River Phoenix, Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jack Davenport
Fav TV Shows/mini series
(New) Doctor Who, Life on Mars, Spaced, State of Play, Prison Break, House M.D, Hogan's Heroes, Torchwood, Casanova with David Tennant, Blackpool, Coupling, Smallville, Unit 1, The Chaser's War on Everything.
Music I love
The Beatles are the bestest ever!!!
Other than that my "Top 5 bands" -
1. U2
2. Franz Ferdinant
3. ELO
4. T-Rex
5. Queen
And anything by Rachmaninoff, George Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald, Beethoven, Chopin, and Percy Grainger - Australian composer.
Fav Books
The Catcher In The Rye, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, and Fight Club.
(Some) Fav films
Hot Fuzz!!! (Awesomeness!), Harold and Maude, Hairspray, Casino Royale, Zodiac, Roman Holiday, Fight Club, Breakfast On Pluto, The Crying Game, V for Vendetta, Some Like it Hot, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ed Wood, Singin' in the Rain, The Hudsucker Proxy, Gallipoli, Sunrise: a song of two humans (a brilliant silent film from 1927!), Phantom of the Opera (2004), The professional, Stranger than Fiction, - theres loads more but my minds gone blank.
Fav directors
Billy Wilder, Jean Luc Godard, Tim Burton, Neil Jordan, Alfred Hitchcock, Ed Wood (!) & his crazy B-movies, Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill kicks ass, Robert Rodriguez
Favourite sayings (which I haven't actually used much this year) (and random things I (should) say(more often):
Jolly good, peachy (keen), the cat's meow, splendiferous, fantastical
Hates:
Majority of soapies, Teeny boppers, Missy Higgins! (her accent is damn AWFUL!), Mean/conceited/smug people, Singing, Sickness, Country music, Being bored, Writer's block, coloured rubber clogs shudder, Self doubt, Cockroachs/spiders behind my movie posters - eeeek, peas and corn ...
~Oh, and something I've noticed lately - FASHION SHEEP! I go shopping and see about 30 girls basically wearing the same outfit - except in different colours etc! Ok, I understand the desire to look fashionable- but it surely doesn't mean everyone has to wear THE EXACT SAME THING!
I thought fashion is to lead, not to follow! (or so they say on some tv ad)
~Come on people - try a little originality! Go wild!
So that's about it, more or less . Get it? Got it? Good!
Thanks for taking the time to read my sad babblings!
If any of you are REALLY bored, feel free to send me an email - the more the merrier!
Ah, I have decided to hop on the bandwagon and add a few of my favourite quotes - (i've shrunk it dramatically):
"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
~ Christina Aguilera
Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese.
~ Benny and Joon - Mary Stuart Masterson
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams? - Orson Wells (character) in Ed Wood (1994)
Louise: How did you get here?
Johnny: Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday.
~ Naked, 1993 (David Thewlis (aka Lupin from Harry Potter) movie)
Elwood P. Dowd: Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.
(Fom one of my favourite Jimmy Stewart films - Harvey (1950)
I reject your reality and substitute my own! - Adam from Mythbusters
Don't tease me about my hobbies. I don't tease you about being an a$$hole! - Garden State
And one of my personal favourites:
"Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much". - Harold and Maude (1971)
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