Me:
Grace McA. Kane, known as Gracey or Gracey-Lou
I live in two different places in Glasgow, Scotland, equal distances north and south of the Hyndland St. Paddington Bear.
Short, brown eyed, with no concentration whatsoever.
My most hated phrase is 'I used to love that band, then they got too popular.'
When I am older I plan to retire to the Kona coast in Hawai'i to sit around drinking cocktails, reading trashy novels and watching re-runs of'Frasier'.
I like...
Playing my bass and saxophone, writing (when I have the chance), posting endlessly and uselessly on my livejournal, Tae Kwon Do, making blueberry muffins, swimming and going to gigs (when I have the chance and the money).
Music - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Motown, Eminem, Franz Ferdinand, Tom Waits (esp. the Rain Dogs album), the whole Miles Davis/John Coltrane set and Charlie Parker.
Books- Artemis Fowl/The Wish List - Eoin Colfer, 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Sixth Day - Primo Levi, Harry Potter - JK Rowling, Exodus/The Spark Gap - Julie Bertagna, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, The Commitments - Roddy Doyle, His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman, Brick Lane - Monica Ali, On Broadway - Damon Runyon and (I am ashamed to say) The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot.
Films - Standing In The Shadows of Motown, Velvet Goldmine, The Motorcycle Diaries, Osama, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of The Rings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Misc. - Keith Haring, snakes, Norse mythology, geography, Calvin&Hobbes, Dr Who, Bosie and Frasier.
My writing
My favourite story (at the moment, anyway) is Operation Disneyland, so go read that one. I came up with it totally independently (I swear!) but I realise that later chapters might look like plagarism of either Alistair Gray or Julie Bertagna, so I'd like to say now that they are not. In fact, the post-apocalyptic Glasgows the Alistair Gray and Julie Bertagna wrote about are so good that if I manage to write this fic without looking as if I'm plagarising them I should get a medal.
The Coincidental Murder of Dolce Amareno is my second favourite, and I'm quite proud of the fact that I made it up during an English writing exam, which is usually the place where good writing and plot structure go to curl up and die. True, it has plot holes wide enough to swallow a ten-tonne truck, but the writing and characterisation are alright, and I like it. So mneh.
Asparagus and the Chicken Bomb is alright, read it if you want. It's not like Operation Disneyland in that OP has some plot/structure/credulity, while A&tCB does not.
All the others I wrote when I was pretty young, eleven or so, so they are probably really bad. Only read if you are very bored, you are an invalid who has not seen the sun for several years and livejournal has had a blackout.
Gracey xxx
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