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Who Are You?: Jude Rogers, a young-ish Celt in love with the city
Where Are You?: East London, in a flat above the North London Line, looking out to Tower 42 and Centre Point as the day fades to dusk... What Are You?: A 25-year-old girl with her head in the clouds. What do you make?: A mess. Everwhere. I also make a magazine with my friend, Matt, called Smoke: A London Peculiar (www.smokelondon.co.uk). Try it. You might like it. What do you love?: Sunny mornings. Early autumn. My boyfriend's face when he is sleeping. London stories. Barcelona. Johnny Cash. Mindless pop journalism. What do you hate?: The usual - bigots, homophobes, the narrow-minded. Broad beans. Britney Spears. What do you listen to?: Music in all its guises. Currently Teenage Fanclub, Adult and Marlena Shaw. What do you watch?: Big Brother 4, far too much. It's like heroin. What do you drink?: Lager tops on sunny evenings. Strong, black coffee in the mornings. What do you smoke?: Marlboro Lights. Am down to about fifteen a week. What do you take?: No fools. What do you believe in?: The possibility of true, constant happiness. When We Were 16 Where were you?: Swansea.What were you?: A diligent and swotty teen, hoping desperately for a kiss. What did you wear?: Fixed braces. Band t-shirts. Navy Docs. What did you listen to?: The Smiths, Joy Division, early REM, Blur, Pulp and Kraftwerk. What did you watch?: The Chart Show. Repeatedly. What did you love?: Buying the NME and listening to Mark and Lard. What did you hate?: Not getting kisses. Until I did soon after. And then some. What did you drink?: Newcastle Browns. I have worked downwards. What did you smoke?: Nothing. I found smoking repulsive. What did you take?: Still no fools. What did you want to be?: The next Julie Burchill. Who did you fight?: My little (now not so little) brother. Who/What did you believe in?: That there might be something beyond it all. I soon grew up... Where did you go?: Barons and The Indie Thing, terrible clubs in Old Swansea Town. To friend's houses to watch Chart Show videos and drink illicit spirits. What did you learn?: How lovely it was to realise that each small, precious milestone met would become a happy memory, a memory that still stays pure and glorious. |