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Food
I love Gyoza!! They are dumplings that are served with ponzu (like a citrus vinigar) and Shoyu (soy sauce) I just made some that are stuffed with chinese cabbage, spring onions and shrimp. mmmmmm!
I love Jamie Olivers cookbook " Jamies Dinners" ok I'll admit it.. I have all of his cookbooks (except his newest one) but this is the one that I keep making stuff out of. It's so easy. There are so many different ideas and it makes me get experimental
I love Mama Cherie's Soul Food down in Brighton.
I love Oysters and Loch Fyne is a yummy place to get them.
The Drunken Duck in Ambleside has got to be one of the Best meals I've had in England. They have their own microbrewry and their ales are tastey. The Inn is cool too. Get out the satnav though because it's in the middle of nowhere.
Now that it's finally looking like summer I thought I'd just say that my favorite ice cream is butter pecan from haagen dazs and mango sorbet

Music

The "Death of the Neighborhood" Album is amazing. "Cokeholes" is great and the remixes are hot. I can't wait for it to be released! I think my favorite song at the moment is "Bruised Brain"
I like Jill Scott's "Hate on Me" and Amarie "Gotta Work"
I bought Arcade Fires 'Funeral ' album and I like to sing along to that in the car. I like Kanye West and the Go Team. I'm always pulling out my old favorites like Sam Cooke, Nina Simone, and Sterolab 'Dots and Loops'
Right now all I'm listening to is the Aim "Flight 602 album. QUALITY! Andy has taped it all off and it seems like the test CD's have found their ways into every CD player and ipod in the house and car.
Push by Pharoahe Monche is a wicked tune
so is You only live once by The Strokes

Gear

I got a new 54 key rhodes and ooh boy do i like it! I like Orla Kiely bags. I like topshop. I like J brand jeans.
Places
I really loved visiting Anglesey in Norht Wles. It was absolutly beautiful. I went swimming in the ocean, it was so hot all week. It's been ages since I've swam in the ocean. I love seafood. I ate lobster, crab, oysters, mussles and king prawns. yum yum.
Bahrian was lovelly! The people were so lovely and we had a great beach party!Thank you guys!
Sleep
I like sleeping. I wish I could do more of this... I like breakfast in bed.
Films

I finally saw Casino royal... well what can I say? You gotta love that beach scene...
Check out www.infowars.com Alex Jones has made some really good films like my favorite "Martial Law, Rise of the Police State". It's about the rise of the neo nazi facists in the US government and how they are in the process of bringing a new world order through fear, war and mis-information to enlave the entire global poputation. A MUST SEE!!!
I liked the movie "Dig" about The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. It's a documentary following the bands around for like seven years or so.... it's really funny.
Napoleon Dynamite-Jared Hess, very funny. he'd say "frigin' sweet!" The Life Aquatic- Wes Anderson -weird and funny same style as his other movies
Seven Samurai- Akira Kurosawa- It's black and white and kinda old but i love this movie, it's over dramatic and funny with bloody battles. I also liked the new Batman Begins movie
I saw "Memoirs of a Geisha" I really liked it. I read the book ages ago and thougt they did a really good job. At least they shot the film on location in Japan.
"The devil and Daniel Johnston" is a great documentary film I just saw. It's about the life and work of Daniel Johnston, a big character with a manic depressive condition. he records his homemade songs to cassete tape and draws strange and sometimes moving comics. It's very entertaining with odd film clips, homemade films and performance footage.
Books & Magazines

Right now I'm reading "Planet Earth- The Latest Weapon of War- A critical study into the military and the enviroment" by Rosalie Bertell This book is really good. It's shocking but not suprising what the global war machine is doing to the health of this planet. I'm reading it slowly though cause there is a lot of information to digest.
I also just got sent a magazine called "Another Late Night" (march/april 06) I think it's really cool... strange topics, colorful art & design, music... and it's free!
okay I like Grazia.