CURRENT MISSION

write my thesis, dance till my feet fall off

ABOUT ME

Aspiring Motown backup singer

Interests

music, art, trivia, live music, sporting masochism (England, Port Vale, Melbourne Football Club - say no more), poetry, the smell of new books, raspberries, politics, good scotch, wine, history, tequila, cricket, cocktails, sun on the back of my feet, musicals, bargains, tea, baths, dad jokes, bingo, comedy

• arts
• books
• poetry
• dancing
• wine
• cocktails
• clubbing
• politics
• trivia
• music
• live music
• cricket
• soccer
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, the Temptations and all things Motown, Curtis Mayfield, Sharon Jones, Betty Harris, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Paul Simon, Roxy Music, Pet Shop Boys; Outkast, De La Soul, Grandmaster Flash, A Tribe Called Quest, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, M.I.A., DJ Shadow, Faithless, DJ Dangermouse, DJ Bacon, Public Enemy, The Streets, Immortal Technique (when he takes it upon himself not to be a misogynist), Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Daft Punk; Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone; Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Count Basie, Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Hugh Masekela, Abdullah Ibrahim, African Jazz Pioneers, Salif Keita, Manu Dibango; The Darkness, Led Zeppelin, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix, Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, Blur, Janis Joplin, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Convenience, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Specials, The Beatles, The Doors, Iggy Pop and The Stooges; Sonny Terry and Browny McGee, Buddy Guy, Tony Joe White, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim, Bettye Lavette; Caetano Veloso, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Daddy Yankee, Calle 13; Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Jay-Z, JT, MJ; Narbalek, Saltwater Band, Letterstick Band, Geoffrey Gumurrul Yunupingu

Movies: West Side Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, A Streetcar Named Desire, Some Like it Hot, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Duck Soup, A Day at the Races, Dreamgirls, Beauty and the Beast, Spiderman 1, 2, 3, Batman Begins, King of Kong, Teo's Journey.

Books: Shakespeare, Graham Greene - the End of the Affair, Henry James - A Portrait of a Lady, Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White, Truman Capote - In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty, Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City, Zadie Smith - On Beauty, Joseph Heller - Catch 22, Spike Milligan - Puckoon, Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack, Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre, Patrick White - the Solid Mandala, John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga, E.M. Forster - Passage to India, Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland, Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns, Peter Carey - Theft, Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley, anything by Anton Chekov, Jane Austen or W. Somerset Maugham.

Poetry: W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, Pablo Neruda, William Blake, Philip Larkin, Shakespeare

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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