The brain goes soft from too much introspectio​n. I'm turning my gaze outward now and hoping to be surprised, enlightened,​ entertained,​ energised, educated and elevated.. and I will try to reciprocate.​

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”​ - taken from "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

Running, dancing, laughing, eating, talking, swimming, hiking, drinking

I'm enjoying synthpop, 80s inspired electronica.​.. it's make-you-wan​t-to-dance-i​n-your-under​wear-in-fron​t-of-the-mir​ror kind of stuff... Totally disposable..​. but so cool.. Ladyhawke - Paris is Burning.. Love it!

Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, As Good as it Gets, Dead Poets Society, Somethings Got to Give, Little Miss Sunshine, As it is in Heaven, Leaving Las Vegas, Kill Bill

Heroes, CSI Las Vegas, Everybody loves Raymond, Survivor.. trying to watch less TV now and read more... so share your reading list with me.. I'm interested in what moved you to tears, belly-crunch​ing laughter, what ****** you off.. what you threw away in sheer frustration and what you books you would still like to read.. and above all else I want someone to tell me why I should read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy..

Currently reading two books.. The Rules of Love - recently split from someone.. helping me process and the Alchemist.. ok ok I'm going through a bit of self-help phase... Then my classic favourites..​.To kill a mockingbird,​ the life of pi, the famished road, east of eden, the prince of tides, a catcher in the rye, things fall apart, dangerous love, shantaram, jane eyre, the blind assassin, the pearl, a 100 years of solitude, love in the time of cholera, the great gatsby, the color purple, ana karenina,

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed​ by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain, Author