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| Ally Peirse |
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25 |
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Bradford |
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Film PhD student. My thesis is "Aberrant Male Bodies, Masculine Anxiety and Classic Horror Cinema, 1932-1935". Yeah! Who said academia has to be boring? Part time Film Studies lecturer and freelance film and music critic. When I have time to draw breath. |
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General maniacal obsession with film; while music offers many freebies and allows you to mix adjectives til they no longer make sense. And did I mention the freebies? |
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Fargo; Vertigo; Double Indemnity; Napoleon Dynamite; Its a Wonderful Life; The Shining; Near Dark; Some like It Hot; The Third Man; Night of the Demon; Sleepy Hollow; The Postman Always Rings Twice; The Lost Boys; Rebel Without a Cause; Fight Club; The Birds; Vampyr; Twelve Monkeys; Withnail and I; Donnie Darko; Terminator 2; Sexy Beast; The Others; Lost In Translation; Shadow of a Doubt; Trainspotting; Reservoir Dogs; Memento; Little Caesar; Gaslight; Alien; Goodfellas; Labyrinth; Cat People; Dirty Dancing; Kill Bill; The Big Lebowski; Ed Wood; Spirited Away; Key Largo; Arsenic and Old Lace; Flatliners; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; The Maltese Falcon; Total Recall; Heathers. |
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Has to be Corrie being a Northerner doesn't it?! |
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grrr, headscratcher here. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Roald Dahl's The Witches, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Hobbit, Tender is the Night, Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders and the 4:50 from Paddington, Martin Amis' Money, Stephen King's Misery, The Beetle by Richard Marsh; then (big breath) the LOTR trilogy, Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy, Garth Nix's Sabriel trilogy; the Harry Potter books and anything by Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin and Patricia Cornwell... |
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Now don't get me started here, look what happened with the film list!
Briefly: David Bowie,the Pixies, Billie Holiday, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Young Knives, The Jam, Supergrass, Echo & The Bunnymen, Blur, The Blood Arm, Hot Hot Heat, The Doors, Weezer, Radiohead, Nina Simone, Talking Heads, Maximo Park, Beastie Boys, Beck, The Futureheads, We Are Scientists, Cure. |
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| Game |
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Last time I was playing games the Megadrive was de'rigeur. And of course a megadrive was better than a SNES. |
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| Art |
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Edward Hopper, Magritte; Chuck Close; Giorgio de Chirico. |
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| Design |
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bit crap here. Can we go back to film? |
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| Weather |
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I hate snow when I'm driving in it. If I'm inside in front of a roaring fire, well that's a different story. |
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Autumn, cos the weather is sunnier than you remember and my birthday is September. |
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I'm reliably informed I'm rubbish at jokes so I won't inflict the pain upon you. My dad's quite good though. And he sounds like Fred Elliott from Corrie. |
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| Best thing ever |
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My evil cats Marla and Rigby who are plotting to take over the world. |
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| Anything else... |
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| Recommends |
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National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
Saul Bass
Leeds Music Scene
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