Making out in Bedford

It was behind a van because I'm a classy bird! His sister was egging us on which thinking about it now, is actually quite weird. We didn't clash teeth or bump noses but there weren't fireworks either. I think he's gay now.

Follow Jeffrey Lewis's Advice

Knowing me I'll probably be asleep at the time, but on the off-chance that I am conscious I will follow the good advice put forward by Jeffrey Lewis in his song "If you shoot the head you kill the ghoul" and I will cause disruptive trauma to the zombie's brain whilst humming along in my head. If all else fails, if you can't beat them you might as well join them! *lets out a tortured moan and shuffles forward with arms aloft*

Why I gave up on "Robinson Crusoe"

I hate giving up on books but I just couldn't help it with this one. Maybe I was too young to truly appreciate it as I was about 9 at the time, I don't know. To be honest there isn't much that could persuade me to pick this up again- there are many more books worthy of my attention!

I wish I could domesticate my housemate

Meet the Sophster!

I love Sophie to bits but I wish she would stop 1. Buttering her toast on the work surfaces and getting jam everywhere, 2. Dropping cheerios all over the kitchen floor and 3. Defend her eating of out of date food by saying "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger". Drives me mental!

Generally bum around

I am a psychology student so this mainly involves watching day time television, sleeping, messing around on the internet and occasionally drinking copious amounts of alcohol. Oh, and we have lectures sometimes. I love my life!

My favorite lines from 'Withnail and I'

Withnail and I is in my top 10 films of all time, if not my top 3 so I can get quite precious about it. I have seen it probably 50 times! Go watch it!

I have multiple favourite lines and can virtually recite the entire script from beginning to end. Impressive or just plain sad? Here is a selection of the best ones:

We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now.

I feel like a pig s**t in my head.

We've gone on holiday by mistake!

Get anymore masculine than him, you have to live up a tree!

Cool your boots man!

Withnail: [having just drunk a bottle of lighter fluid] Got any more?
Marwood: No. I have nothing.
Withnail: Liar. What's in your toolbox?
Marwood: Nothing.
Withnail: Liar! You've got antifreeze
Marwood: You bloody fool. You should never mix your drinks.

Don't threaten me with a dead fish!

Thanks for indulging me. I'm done now!

Boxer bear

It could punch the shark on the nose. I heard that's what you're supposed to do when under shark attack...maybe why I only have one arm now. Joking!
The real question is monkey butler or attack panther?

Cat+whistle=catwhistle

Cat with turquoise eyes by Tambako the Jaguar

My friend Owen travelled round Thailand and Vietnam last Summer and he very kindly bought me back a whistle in the shape of a cat. He said I should use it if I ever get in any trouble. Maybe my attacker would laugh so hard they rolled on the floor and then I could make my escape!

Watch "Garden State" next time you're home sick

Although it is sentimental at times, it is a very humorous film which never fails to make me laugh and cry even though I have seen it more than 5 times. It has a brilliant soundtrack too. Oh, and Zach Braff is just lovely!

I need a bigger purse!

My purse is full of mementos and odd bits and bobs. I'm very attached to it!

House keys
Because I need to get into my house, duh! The key ring is an Edward Monkton picture of a chicken saying "s**t!". It says "we can all fly as high as the dreams we dare to live unless we are a chicken"

First class stamps
I am one of the few people I know who still uses snail mail. I think hand written letters are so much more heart-felt than emails. That is if the writing is legible of course!

A packet of sugar
I got it in a cafe in Oxford. It says "White sugar- for commoners" then "Put a grain under the mattress of your enemy". I keep it because it's funny and it reminds me of a sunny day with my family.

Cards
Including bank cards, student card, driving license, organ donor card, library card, Nectar and Tesco card (what a whore!)

Random bits
A fortune cookie fortune saying "courage is the master of fear"
A scrap of newspaper of a Kafka quote- "A book should serve as an axe for the frozen seas within us"
2 Momiji "Little tickets to happy times". Very cute!
2 angel quotes- "Being positive makes you shine bright" and "Love always brings more love. Why choose anything else?"
My library pin number in case I get amnesia
A picture of my best friend because she reminds me to be brave
A photo booth picture of my other best friend with our Dutch friend who we don't see very often. Happy memories!

Money
Because unfortunately money makes the world go round (a la Cabaret)

Strange vocabulary and sarcasm, duh!

I always liked to think that it wouldn't happen, but as I've got older it has dawned on me that I am actually turning into my dear old Mama. Don't get me wrong, I love her to bits but whenever I catch myself doing or saying something she would, it gives me a shock. Only today I used the phrase "Foghorn Leghorn" to describe my rowdy house mate and regretted it immediately when I was met with blank stares. I seem to have picked up many of her bizarre sayings which often attract choruses of "what the hell?!". Other prime examples are "grumpy gristle" and "booby bear". Better traits I have inherited from my Mum are my love of reading and libraries. Turning into my Mother wouldn't be the worst thing that could possibly happen. She's a fantastic role model, a strong, amazing and hilarious person, and has been there for me everyday of my life. As long as I don't inherit her confused mole face (so called because it happens when she doesn't understand something and resembles a rodent) I don't care!
Traits I have inherited from my Dad are my sarcasm which irritates even me sometimes and my stubbornness, both of which can lead to difficulties. A good trait I got from my Dad, is my passion for music. He has really good taste for an oldie and has introduced me to some of my favourite bands. Without him I wouldn't have discovered gems like the Modern Lovers or Nitin Sawhney.

All the bands that I have seen

I was really bored on the train home the other day and so decided to list all the bands I had seen so here is the list (in no particular order):
Robbie Williams x2
The Darkness
Kelly Osbourne
Moby
Basement Jaxx
REM x2
Jonathan Rice
Idlewild x2
Patti Smith
Foals
Duke Spirit
Devendra Banhart
Dirty Three
Akron Family
We are scientists x2
Arctic Monkeys
Mystery Jets
Maximo Park
Emmy the Great
Lightspeed Champion x3
Bright Eyes
Jeffrey Lewis x2
Frank Turner x2
Kings of Leon
The Features
Take That
Venga Boys
Seth Lakeman x3
Martha Wainwright
Billy Bragg
Teddy Thompson
Richard Thompson
Amidou and Mariam
Emmylou Harris
Kate Rusby x2
Hot club de Paris
Pendulum
Scouting for girls
Cold War Kids x2
The Thrills
RHCP
Bad Religion
Blackbud
Brakes x3
Los de Abajo
Do me bad things
Eels
Emanuel
Jose Gonsalez
Noah and the Whale
Laura Marling
Mary Gauthier
Newton Faulkner x2
Lykke Li
Rodrigo y Gabriella
Scroobius Pip
Seasick Steve
Stellastarr*
The Duhks
John Butler Trio
The Shivers
The Waterboys
Tiny Dancers
William Elliot Whitmore
James Yorkston
kd Lang
Levellers
The Imagined Village
Tunng
Devon Sproule
Steve Earle
Bellowhead
Alabama 3
The ukulele orchestra of Great Britain
Nina Nastasia
Chumbawumba
Broken family band
The agnostic mountain gospel choir

So there you go!