 My favorite diaries:
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TheCritic profile - diary |
| comments: College student. The first blog I started following, for all-round humourousness. |
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TranceJen profile - diary |
| comments: What can I say? A good writer, she vents admirably. |
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twelvebeer profile - diary |
| comments: Collection of links to diarists of the funny kind. Good idea, for procrastination purposes… |
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Luvabeans profile - diary |
| comments: Long entries, very well-written, funny and smart. |
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Towelphaser profile - diary |
| comments: Sounds geeky + goodnatured, and likes gigging… I'll buy that. |
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groovy-decay profile - diary |
| comments: Young globe-trotter. Funny. Reads intelligent sounding books I'll probably never get around to. |
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smoog profile - diary |
| comments: Self-consciously unusual. Funny, in fact. |
My favorite music: |
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The White Stripes |
| comments: I've seen them live and they make more noise than I ever thought two people could… mostly on the guitar. Respect due. I also like the songs (just a little) :-D. |
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The Beta Band |
| comments: They're just ahhhhhh… They do their own thing, and it's just incredibly… deep. Like you hear the sound and you just feel they're doing it Right. And they've split up. Bastards. |
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Regina Spektor |
| comments: Not that she's a band, but she's brilliant. Just her and a piano… very inventive… quirky lyrics. Samson is my favourite song, which really says something cause i never thought I'd have one. |
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The Dandy Warhols |
| comments: Faves for a long time… first gig I went to. |
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The Kings of Leon |
| comments: Blues-tastic. |
My favorite movies: |
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| comments: Makes me smile and feel sad at the same time. And it ain't twee, or even particularly sappy, just… true. An original way of looking at a relationship. |
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Adaptation |
| comments: Makin with the Charlie Kauffman. Ooo, it's so clever… makes orchids interesting. |
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Together |
| comments: My ultimate feel-good film, in Swedish. It's about a family adjusting to life in a hippy commune, among other things… It's sweet, but (again) not cutesy. It's funny, and good-natured. |
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Festen |
| comments: Dutch (what is it with me and foreign films?). It's about a big family with a dark secret at the heart of it. Harsh, with a lot of black humour, and satisfyingly arty, with a powerful story in the middle of it all. |
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Amelie |
| comments: Satisfies the romantic side. It's so pretty… and French! Plus I love the music in it. |
My favorite authors: |
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Pat Barker |
| comments: I love her Regeneration trilogy (about WW1). Uncompromising, hard-hitting, historically accurate, with well-drawn characters, touches of humour… it's all there. Devastating, in an admirable way. |
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J.K. Rowling |
| comments: Stylistically not great, but the story is more-ish… and I guess that's why she's so rich now… :-) |
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George Orwell |
| comments: Get me some political commentary… |
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Jaclyn Moriarty |
| comments: Teen fiction with a lot of laughs and charm. |
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Phillip Pullman |
| comments: His Dark Materials is an old favourite. 'S good stuff. |
