about moi
anna. twenty-four. australian.
anglophile & francophone.
over-time phd student,
full-time pop enthusiast,
part-time cancer researcher.
geeky, apathetic, procastinator, outsider,
amongst other things.
current loves.
the whedonverse (buffy, firefly, dollhouse), bryan fuller (dead like me, wonderfalls, pushing daisies), marvel/the avengers, doctor who, the mighty boosh, flight of the conchords, arrested development, parks and recreation, haven, science fiction, wes anderson, christopher nolan, rian johnson, team pegg/frost/wright, blur, owen pallett, andrew bird, sufjan stevens, beirut, radiohead
i enjoy.
suduko, wordplay, reading, geeking out, making mixed cds, speaking french, being pseudo-musically able, cooking & baking like a 50's housewife, being capitalism's bitch, gigging, making inappropriate snarky comments, being immature, rambling, indie films with/without plot, stylised dialogue & witty comebacks & pop culture references, transgressive literature, world war 2 history
music.
andrew bird, animal collective, annuals, arctic monkeys, bat for lashes, bear in heaven, beck, beirut, belle and sebastian, black kids, bloc party, blur, bon iver, born ruffians, broken social scene, cat power, cold war kids, css, cut copy, cut off your hands, david bowie, feist, final fantasy/owen pallett, fleet foxes, foals, franz ferdinand, gotye, grizzly bear, hot chip, interpol, jarvis cocker, jens lekman, joy division, kasabian, kate bush, kings of leon, klaxons, lcd soundsystem, maximo park, metronomy, mgmt, midnight juggernauts, muse, mystery jets, new order, noah and the whale, patrick wolf, pavement, pulp, radiohead, scissor sisters, sonic youth, sons and daughters, spoon, suede, sufjan stevens, tapes'n tapes, the arcade fire, the black keys, the cure, the decemberists, the futureheads, the hives, the horrors, the kills, the kinks, the libertines, the national, the presets, the rakes, the rapture, the shins, the smiths, the strokes, tv on the radio, vampire weekend, we are scientists, white rose movement, yeah yeah yeahs
film.
3:10 to yuma, amélie, american beauty, american psycho, atonement, back to the future, batman begins, bladerunner, bottle rocket, casablanca, chicago, children of men, control, death at a funeral, donnie darko, dr strangelove, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, everything is illuminated, fantastic mr fox, fight club, gladiator, godsford park, goodbye lenin, hallam foe, harry potter, hot fuzz, howl's moving castle, indiana jones, inglourious basterds, juno, lars and the real girl, little miss sunshine, looper, lord of the rings, moonrise kingdom, memento, pan's labyrinth, paris je t'aime, pirates of the carribean, rushmore, saving private ryan, schindler's list, shaun of the dead, spirited away, star wars, the avengers, the brothers bloom, the cabin in the woods, the chumscrubber, the darjeeling limited, the dark knight, the fall, the history boys, the matrix, the pianist, the royal tenenbaums, the prestige, the science of sleep, the shawshank redemption, the sixth sense, the thin red line, v for vendetta, the virgin suicides
television.
30 rock, alias, archer, arrested development, band of brothers, battlestar galactica, blackadder, black books, blackpool, bob's burgers, buffy the vampire slayer, carnivàle, casanova, community, dead like me, dexter, doctor who, dr horrible's sing-a-long blog, extras, fawlty towers, firefly, flight of the conchords, freaks and geeks, haven, important things with demetri martin, life on mars, mad men, never mind the buzzcocks, north and south, parks and recreation, pride and prejudice, pushing daisies, red dwarf, scrubs, sherlock, the it crowd, the middleman, the mighty boosh, the sarah connor chronicles, six feet under, spaced, torchwood, triple jtv, veronica mars, wire in the blood, wonderfalls
books.
1984, a clockwork orange, a confederacy of dunces, angela's ashes, a single man, a streetcar named desire, band of brothers, brideshead revisited, catch-22, cat's cradle, east of eden, everything is illuminated, extremely loud and incredibly close, fight club, franny and zooey, jane eyre, harry potter, his dark materials, les misérables, lord of the rings, master and margarita, north and south, persuasion, picture of dorian gray, pride and prejudice, of mice and men, slaughterhouse five, sense and sensibility, stardust, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, the bell jar, the bus driver who wanted to be god and other stories, the catcher in the rye, the grapes of wrath, the great gatsby, the hobbit, the line of beauty, the quiet american, the virgin suicides, to kill a mockingbird, touching from a distance, watchmen, wuthering heights
anglophile & francophone.
over-time phd student,
full-time pop enthusiast,
part-time cancer researcher.
geeky, apathetic, procastinator, outsider,
amongst other things.
current loves.
the whedonverse (buffy, firefly, dollhouse), bryan fuller (dead like me, wonderfalls, pushing daisies), marvel/the avengers, doctor who, the mighty boosh, flight of the conchords, arrested development, parks and recreation, haven, science fiction, wes anderson, christopher nolan, rian johnson, team pegg/frost/wright, blur, owen pallett, andrew bird, sufjan stevens, beirut, radiohead
i enjoy.
suduko, wordplay, reading, geeking out, making mixed cds, speaking french, being pseudo-musically able, cooking & baking like a 50's housewife, being capitalism's bitch, gigging, making inappropriate snarky comments, being immature, rambling, indie films with/without plot, stylised dialogue & witty comebacks & pop culture references, transgressive literature, world war 2 history
music.
andrew bird, animal collective, annuals, arctic monkeys, bat for lashes, bear in heaven, beck, beirut, belle and sebastian, black kids, bloc party, blur, bon iver, born ruffians, broken social scene, cat power, cold war kids, css, cut copy, cut off your hands, david bowie, feist, final fantasy/owen pallett, fleet foxes, foals, franz ferdinand, gotye, grizzly bear, hot chip, interpol, jarvis cocker, jens lekman, joy division, kasabian, kate bush, kings of leon, klaxons, lcd soundsystem, maximo park, metronomy, mgmt, midnight juggernauts, muse, mystery jets, new order, noah and the whale, patrick wolf, pavement, pulp, radiohead, scissor sisters, sonic youth, sons and daughters, spoon, suede, sufjan stevens, tapes'n tapes, the arcade fire, the black keys, the cure, the decemberists, the futureheads, the hives, the horrors, the kills, the kinks, the libertines, the national, the presets, the rakes, the rapture, the shins, the smiths, the strokes, tv on the radio, vampire weekend, we are scientists, white rose movement, yeah yeah yeahs
film.
3:10 to yuma, amélie, american beauty, american psycho, atonement, back to the future, batman begins, bladerunner, bottle rocket, casablanca, chicago, children of men, control, death at a funeral, donnie darko, dr strangelove, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, everything is illuminated, fantastic mr fox, fight club, gladiator, godsford park, goodbye lenin, hallam foe, harry potter, hot fuzz, howl's moving castle, indiana jones, inglourious basterds, juno, lars and the real girl, little miss sunshine, looper, lord of the rings, moonrise kingdom, memento, pan's labyrinth, paris je t'aime, pirates of the carribean, rushmore, saving private ryan, schindler's list, shaun of the dead, spirited away, star wars, the avengers, the brothers bloom, the cabin in the woods, the chumscrubber, the darjeeling limited, the dark knight, the fall, the history boys, the matrix, the pianist, the royal tenenbaums, the prestige, the science of sleep, the shawshank redemption, the sixth sense, the thin red line, v for vendetta, the virgin suicides
television.
30 rock, alias, archer, arrested development, band of brothers, battlestar galactica, blackadder, black books, blackpool, bob's burgers, buffy the vampire slayer, carnivàle, casanova, community, dead like me, dexter, doctor who, dr horrible's sing-a-long blog, extras, fawlty towers, firefly, flight of the conchords, freaks and geeks, haven, important things with demetri martin, life on mars, mad men, never mind the buzzcocks, north and south, parks and recreation, pride and prejudice, pushing daisies, red dwarf, scrubs, sherlock, the it crowd, the middleman, the mighty boosh, the sarah connor chronicles, six feet under, spaced, torchwood, triple jtv, veronica mars, wire in the blood, wonderfalls
books.
1984, a clockwork orange, a confederacy of dunces, angela's ashes, a single man, a streetcar named desire, band of brothers, brideshead revisited, catch-22, cat's cradle, east of eden, everything is illuminated, extremely loud and incredibly close, fight club, franny and zooey, jane eyre, harry potter, his dark materials, les misérables, lord of the rings, master and margarita, north and south, persuasion, picture of dorian gray, pride and prejudice, of mice and men, slaughterhouse five, sense and sensibility, stardust, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, the bell jar, the bus driver who wanted to be god and other stories, the catcher in the rye, the grapes of wrath, the great gatsby, the hobbit, the line of beauty, the quiet american, the virgin suicides, to kill a mockingbird, touching from a distance, watchmen, wuthering heights