About me
I've just finished my A Levels and have a long summer before going off to university. I am not so much at a crossroad as I am in an open meadow: I am free to dance and prance like a naked nymph on narcotics on the dawn of the summer solstice until I land on a pile of poo. And then I wonder why I didn't stay on the well-trodden path and follow the rest of the rat race in chains.
About me
- Where I liveI look out from my window and all I see is fields and heathland. It's very, very pretty but as my friend Sam says, "there are only so many times you can get excited by a donkey". I'll probably end up back in a place like this when I'm 35 and "settled" but at my age, it's infuriating. It's not even so much that I long for the city (although that wouldn't be entirely false) but that I long for a different landscape than the one I'm presented with every day.
- Where are you originally from?Somewhere I'm thinking more and more fondly of with every day.
- What are your future plans?I'm currently studying German, Government and Politics and History at A Level and I am planning on going to University to study Hebrew and Israeli Studies. I can't wait to see what the future holds!
Stuff I like
- MusicI love music: everything from Joni Mitchell to Public Enemy, and a lot in between. I think Eva Cassidy/Katie Melua/James Blunt/&c. are bland and soulless, and I think there’s a great deal of fantastic rap music out there to which people sadly don’t get exposed.
- Your fav books/authorsI get freaked out that everyone is reading the same books (Memoirs Of A Bloody Geisha, Da Vinci Bloody Code, Time Traveller's Bloody Wife, excuse tmeses). I am reading (or rather, re-reading) Hanif Kureishi's Intimacy. Kureishi also wrote The Buddha Of Suburbia and The Black Album (yes, it's a Prince reference), among others. Intimacy is basically about a man's decision to leave his wife and children. It's an okay book, but difficult, as the protagonist is a git, but what really causes me problems is his Wildean tendency to need to insert snazzy quotable sentences at the end of paragraphs, like punchlines. You'll be reading a perfectly normal sentence, then-aha, look how clever he is!-he will finish with something he no doubt hopes will end up in The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations: "Any advance in wisdom requires a good deal of shamelessness." "One should masturbate before considering any woman seriously." "Patience is a virtue only in children and the imprisoned." Bloody STOP IT! Two other things: He refers to "DH Lawrence's remark that even animals feel sad after ejaculation". This is actually an old Latin phrase, and, again, he emulates a classic writer, this time Beckett, thus: In the first sentence of the book, he says "I am leaving and not coming back.". Well, I'm up to page 90 of 118, and he still hasn't bloody left! I'd throw it away, if it weren't a gift. :)
- What sort of movies do you like?I'm trying to watch more. Suggestions welcome.
- What kind of people do you find attractive? Adam Ant.
- FoodBy rights, I should be a vegetarian. Possibly. Oh, I don't know! I love the animals, but I also eat the animals, as someone once said. You'd think at least I'd avoid crap from supermarkets but, shamefully, no. Well, I make sure there are only free range eggs in the house but, you know, I should be doing more than that. Underlying this, of course, is a deep-seated and rather worrying nihilism which I have been struggling to ignore since I was very little.
- PetsI love animals. The only ones that I am not highly enamoured of are flies and slugs; apart from those, I will happy spend time with any animal you can think of, from a spider to a cow. Creatures are amazing.
- Fav PlaceBerlin; however, being there during the World Cup was horrific.
- What's your favourite radio station ?Bah!
My attitude
- PoliticsI'm a fierce, fierce Zionist and could probably be best described as conservative libertarian: I subscribe to traditional norms and values, but will not seek to impose those norms and values on others. I favor a minimal government whose role is to protect citizens from - and punish - deceit, fraud, theft, assault, and murder.
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you so beautiful