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Music

  • Favorite Artists: 2PAC, 3 Colours Red, A, AC/DC, Adam Richman, Aerosmith, Alanis Morisette, All American Rejects, Amy Studt, Anberlin, A New Found Glory, Aretha Franklin, Atomic Fireballs, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Blondie, Blur, Bob Dylan, Bowling For Soup, Box Car Racer, Brand New, The Breeders, Carly Simon, Christina Aguilera, Counting Crows, Coyote Shivers, The Cranberries, Creed, The Cure, Disney, The Distillers, Dixie Chicks, The Doors, Dropkick Murphys, Duke Ellington, Elvis, Epic Hero, The Ettes, Fairground Attraction, Fall Out Boy, Fountains of Wayne, Four Letter Lie, Frank Sinatra, Funeral For A Friend, The Fuses (Stuffy/The Fuses), Garbage, Gavin DeGraw, The Goops, Graham Coxon, Head Automatica, Incubus, India.Arie, Iron Maiden, Kittie, Jack off Jill, Janis Joplin, Jay Z, Jeff Buckley, Jet, Kelly Clarkson, The Kinks, Korn, Letters To Cleo, Lillix, Linkin Park, Lou Reed, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Massive Attack, Matchbook Romance, Me First and The Gimmie Gimmies, Muse, My Chemical Romance, MxPx, Nat King Cole, Nikka Costa, Nine Days, Nitin Sawhney, Nouvelle Vague, Oasis, The Offspring, Outkast, P!NK, Pat Benatar, Phantom Planet, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Placebo, Pulp, The Ramones, Rufus Wainwright, Sarah DeShields, Seether, Sister Hazel, Stevie Nicks, Suede, Superchic(k), Take That, Tenacious D, Terrorvision, Tina Turner, Touch and Go, Trapt, The Used, Vanessa Carlton, Velvet Underground, Weezer Multiple film soundtracks. Multiple musical soundtracks. etc... etc... Only music I don't like: Franz Ferdinand and Coldplay. And some Coldplay is actually alright...
  • Favorite Genre: I try not to overthink music too much. I give everything a chance, way I see it, music suits your mood and there is good music in every genre if you are willing to look. Think Rock. Think Pop. Think Hip Hop. Think Emo. Think Jazz. Think Classical. Think Dance. Think Metal. Think RnB. Think Country. Think Rock and Roll. Think Eclectic. Think Everything. There lies me.
  • Favorite Songs: Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar Running Up That Hill by Placebo
  • Songs for Roadtrips: Bad Reputation by Halfcocked Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations (or The Goops version)
  • Songs I hate: Anything from 'Grease'. Gah. Bad memories.
  • Band I wish I was in: Paramore

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Virgin Suicides The Mall The Bell Jar The Princess Bride The Hobbit The Beach The Second Sex (La Deuxieme Sexe) Memoirs of A Geisha Mean Streets LOTR Trilogy The Lovely Bones The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories His Dark Materials trilogy Harry Potter Series The Vampire Chronicles The Georgina Nicholson series and others...
  • Favorite Authors: Andersen, Hans Christian Carter, Angela Dahl, Roald Dicks, Terrence Eugenides, Jeffrey Garland, Alex Goldman, William King, Stephen Pike, Christopher Plath, Sylvia Pullman, Phillip Rice, Anne Sebold, Alice ... and many more
  • Favorite Genres: Horror, romance, adventure, sci fi, fairy tales... I'll try anything!
  • Favorite Quotes: Too many to list, I'll get back to it.
  • Recent Reads: Gerald's Game by Stephen King

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Top: House, Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Caitlin's Way, Lost, Angel, Dark Angel, Tru Calling, One Tree Hill, Supernatural, Heroes Others: Friends, Joan of Arcadia, Joey, Mutant X, OZ, Roswell, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Stargate SG1, The Tenth Kingdom, That 70's Show, Third Watch, Two and a Half Men, Without a Trace, etc, etc, etc (I'm well aware that I'm a big dork, but I enjoy watching what my mother classifies as 'drivel'.)
  • Favorite Channels: Channel 4, Five, Sky One, Disney Channel, Trouble, Nickelodeon, Music Channels (Q, MTV, MTV2, VH1 Kerrang), Dave, E4
  • Most Addictive Show: House
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Friday Night With Jonathon Ross, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Mock The Week
  • Favorite Theme Song: One Tree Hill: I Don't Wanna Be by Gavin DeGraw
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Lizzie McGuire
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Buffy, Angel, Dark Angel, Roswell, Caitlin's Way, Mutant X and many more!

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Oh dear, we might be here a while... Ahem. Top 10: Lawn Dogs, The Notebook, Empire Records, Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet, The Princess Bride, Cruel Intentions, American History X, Rebel Without A Cause, The Virgin Suicides, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version) and many, many, many more. I am a self-confessed film geek who owns over 250 DVDs (also known as- far too many!)
  • Favorite Actors: Josh Hartnett, Robert Downey Jr, Sam Rockwell, Ryan Reynolds, Ewan McGregor, Claire Danes, James Dean, Majandra Delfino, Brittany Murphy, James Marsters, Robin Tunney, Glenn Quinn, Michael Pitt, Colin Farrell, Juliette Lewis, Fairuza Balk amongst others...
  • Favorite Directors: Baz Luhrman, Sophia Coppola, Wes Craven and others
  • Favorite Genre: Horror, Action and Romance
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Life IS pain princess. Anyone who says different is selling something." ~Westley, The Princess Bride
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet Lawn Dogs The Princess Bride Hook
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: I have no idea... you suggest someone.

Style

  • Where I shop: All Saints, Fenwick, USC, John Lewis, Warehouse, Topshop, Maverick, Period Clothing, Charity shops
  • Brands I love: All Saints, Stark, Freesoul, Tu Chuzy, Red or Dead, Firetrap
  • Prized Possessions: Leather jackets, SHOES!
  • Guilty Pleasure: Anything leather :)

Video Games

  • Consoles: SNES, PS2, Gamecube, PC
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Pacman, Snake

Travel

  • Places I love: Penang, Australia, Champs D'Elysee in Paris
  • Places I've been: USA: Florida (Disneyland!), San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Naples, Oregon, Washington (if others, can't remember them) UK: London, Newcastle, Cambridge, Bristol, Leeds, Cornwall, Edinburgh, Nottingham (amongst MANY others) Penang (Malaysian island) France: Paris, EuroDisney, Loire Valley, Vendee Italy: Pisa, Rome, Florence, Montacatini Czech Republic: Prague Germany: Frankfurt, Berlin Holland: Amsterdam Belgium Switzerland Malta Majorca Keffalonia (Greek island) Canada Hong Kong New Zealand Australia
  • Places to see before I die: Tibet, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Japan, Kenya
  • Dream Vacation: Atlantis resort. It's AMAZING.

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Italian, Chinese, Trad Brit
  • Favorite Desserts: Tarte au chocolate, chocolate cheese cake
  • Favorite Drinks: Lager (Fosters, Bud, Carling), Peach Archers and lemonade, fresh orange juice, mango snapple.
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Most of my everyday diet.
  • My Original Recipes: Cereal sandwiches. Take two pieces of bread. Add seedless raspberry jam, peanut butter and cornflakes.
  • Foods I hate: Cauliflower, fruitcake, raisins/sultanas/currants, pineapple. egg, cheese on meat, anything from the sea

abbibrodie

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    • Name: Abbi
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Metro: Newcastle
    • Birthday: 6/30/1988
    • Gender: Female
    • Member Since: 4/5/2004

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  • Flibikazoah
    omg, what the hell is this? xanga just keeps getting more and more stuff for me to ignore and never use =p