Eleanor

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Museum person
Location London, United Kingdom
Interests Music, Radio, Gigs, Interviews, Cassettes, Violins, Pianos, Journalism, Synths, Rock Photography, Nighttime, Buttons, Blazers, Mod Revivalists, J. Arthur Rank Films, Snap Crackle Bars, Milk, Playing with balls of wool, Teh Kittehs, Synchronised Luggage Dancing, Rambling, Stencil Graffiti, Diaries, The New Look, Wiki-whoring, Fambly, Regrets, Madchester, (Il)legal things, Inappropriate bouts of nostalgia, Dispensing hypocritical advice, Putting cats on yellow volvos, Merseybeat, Q Magazine, Ocelots, Classical Literature, Everything British, Everything Ancient Roman.
Favorite Movies Bread & Tulips, Music & Lyrics, Control, Becoming Jane, Donnie Darko, Roman Holiday, The Naked Truth, Amelie, A Hard Days Night, Love Actually, 24 Hour Party People, 16 Candles, Charade, What's Up Doc, Trouble in Store, Breakfast Club, Live Forever, National Lampoon's, School for Scoundrels, Ferris Bueller, Garden State, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Bridget Jones, Highly Dangerous, Night Train to Munich, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Green Man, Never Been Kissed, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Highlander, The Wedding Singer.
Favorite Music Queen, Depeche Mode, The Beatles, The Smiths, New Order, Erasure, Blur, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, Electronic, The Clash, Style Council, Oasis, Morrissey, Roxette, The Libertines, Gyllene Tider, Big Audio Dynamite II, Per Gessle, The Jam, Beirut, Postal Service, INXS, Protex, Vampire Weekend, Elastica, Joy Division, Joe Strummer, Franz Ferdinand, The Stills, The Faint, The Decemberists, Interpol, Direct Hits, 999, Suede, The Stems, The Verve, Richard Ashcroft, Sea Wolf, The Rakes, Modernaire, MGMT, The 101ers, The Popguns, Mood Six, Whitest Boy Alive, Elle Milano, Let's Wrestle, Paul Weller, The Zombies, The Lambrettas, Cause & Effect, The Sonics, Kate Bush, Royksopp, Feist, Au Pairs, Midnight Oil, Lily Allen, The Triffids, Inspiral Carpets, Yeti, Adem, France Gall, Ed Harcourt, Black Box Recorder, Cat Stevens, The Sequins, The Blow, Patrik Fitzgerald, The Carpenters, The Pipettes, Secret Affair, Art Brut, The Rapture, Battle, Ratatat, The Stranglers, Au Pairs, The Charlatans, Stone Roses, The Specials, English Beat, British Sea Power, The Kooks, New Rhodes, XTC, Prosaics, The Dears, Theoretical Girl, The Strokes, Sean Lennon, Moloko, RJD2, The Fakrays, Them, Sex Pistols, The Zutons, Supergrass, The Barracudas, The Good, Bad and the Queen, Damien Rice, Neave, Ladytron, Brendan Benson, The Chords, Detroit Cobras, The Kinks, Fischerspooner, The Spectors, Wheat, The Directions, Frou Frou, Travis, Yaz, Le Tigre, Kent, Prodigy, Thunderbirds are Now!, Space, Regina Spektor, Wire.
Favorite Books Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe), The Metamorphoses (Ovid), Lost in Music (Smith), The Aeneid (Virgil), Revolution in the Head (MacDonald), 24 Hour Party People (Wilson), The Last Party (Harris), '77-The Year of Punk & New Wave (Poulsen), Alternative London (Saunders), Anarchy in the UK (Wells), Depeche Mode: Strangers (Corbijn), England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (Savage), The English Imaginaries (Davey), The Great Indie Discography (Strong) Idle Worship (Roberts), Is This It? (Geldof), Love is the Drug (Aizlewood), The Pocket DJ (Lewitinn), Punk Diary: 1970-1979 (Gimarc), The Sweetness of Honey and the Sting of Bees: A Book of Love from the Ancient Mediterranean (Louvric), Take Me There: The Oasis Story (Mathier), This is a Modern Life: The 1980s Mod Scene (Verguren)