CURRENT MISSION

Flanerie

ABOUT ME

I'm miscellaneous in most things. I have been a professional student for most of my adult life, and therefore haven't had much of an "adult" life. Last year I fell arse backwards into a Government job working for two of the first Green Party Ministers in Tasmania (or the country for that matter). I'm generally more interested in observing the world than participating in it (hence the 10 long years in academia). I don't like the word "mission" but as I get older I am becoming more interested in integrating my imaginary or cerebral world with experiences of the world around me.

PHILOSOPHY

To have no single philosophy.

Interests

Activism, animals, architecture, books, politics, post-modernism, public transport, Roller Derby, words, the underground and all the stuff you find in gutters.

• animals
• books
• architecture
• partying
• politics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Breakfast Club and everything else By John Hughes. Tank Girl, The Science of Sleep, Thumbsucker, Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees, The Big Lebowski, Withnail and I, The Station Agent.

Music: Neko Case, Jenny Lewis, Feist, Joan as Policewoman, everyone in the Wainwright family (Rufus, Martha, Loudon, Lucy), Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Teddy and his dad Richard Thompson, The Unthanks, Cowboy Junkies, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Magic Dirt, The Pogues, Tom Waits.

Books: Everything by Jeanette Winterson, Neil Gaiman, Martin Millar, Jeff Noon, Margaret Atwood, Poppy Z. Brite, Italo Calvino, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Angela Carter. Also love The Rehearsal by Eleanour Catton, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Giraffe by JM Ledgard. That's the short list.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United Kingdom

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