Five things you didn't know about Miss K
Blair Millen was 'kind' enough to tag me with this meme...
1. I was named after Karl Marx
My Japanese name, Kaoru, is the closest thing my dad could find phonetically to "Karl". I was named after the proponent of permanent revolution not because my father necessarily held to his ideals, but because he admired Marx's belief and intellect. Ironically, Kaoru is much more of a girl's name than a boy's name, though it can be used as both. Perhaps there was some foreshadowing going on there...
2. I once stuffed envelopes for a living
One of my first casual jobs as a student was stuffing envelopes for a Littlewoods pools agent who was running the weekly UK football pools game in Japan. As the hundreds of partcipants in Japan (by the addresses, it appeared to be mostly bored housewives) knew little about the beautiful game of footy, it was marketed as a rather complicated lottery game. I also ran the mail merge database that printed the sticky labels for the coupon envelopes. It was in that damp, freezing basement in Fitzrovia, London, that I caught bronchitis for the first time. Happy days.
3. I went to Tim Burton's first wedding
Before he met Lisa Marie and then Helena, the king of gloom first married a beautiful German girl whom I was at college with. He was over here directing a movie and they met at a party and fell in love. She was a good friend and I was invited to the wedding reception, though I actually met Tim first a few months before when we went to see The Manchurian Candidate in Notting Hill and Lena introduced him to me as "my boyfriend". I only worked out who he was over a pizza afterwards and blurted out embarrasingly "YOU'RE TIM BURTON!" Despite this, they still had me at their wedding, which was a low key affair. there was some talk that Jack Nicholson would be there, but in the event, the only celeb was Annie Lennox. Tim himself was very nice but he and Lena divorced not long afterwards.
4. I have a leaky right kidney
It apparently leaks calcium, leading to the the formation of stones. A few years ago, a small kidney stone about the size of a pea passed right down the ureter, into my bladder and out into the tip of my cock, where it became lodged. A surgical procedure you would not like to think about too hard was the only way it could be removed. Fortunately, it was a success and I am once again fully functional. Diet and drinking plenty of water has successfully controlled the stones since.
5. My hovercraft is full of eels
Not really, but I did learn an Eastern European language once. Russian, at O-Levels. It resulted in an exciting school trip to Moacow and St. Petersburg where I was sick from booze for the first time. I've never touched cherry brandy since.
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Spot the difference
Deathline at the Pool photographed by Eamon Lane. Deathline at The Bunker photographed by Kei Mars.
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Morning is broken
Falling asleep in your makeup is neither big, clever nor healthy but it is very rock n roll.
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Won't be dressing as Santas or Elves this Wednesday
However, we will be playing a gig. Yes, Deathline hit the road again (Curtain Road in Shoreditch to be precise) with our brand of dark rocking sounds this Wednesday 13th of December to play the excellent Rock n Roll Ain't Noise Pollution club with two other fantastic female-fronted groups, The Gemma Ray Ritual and CC & The Spades.
As it's the club's Christmas party, we can expect sleigh bells, eggnog, holly, mistletoe, mince pies and scary bearded men offering to have you on their laps.
We've been working on four or five new songs and we can promise that we'll play at least the easiest one of them that night, so come and laugh and point as we forget the words, chords, tune and even the direction we're meant to be facing!
Entry is a measly £3 with (↑) this flyer. Just print this page. Simplicity itself.
We'll be onstage first, sometime around 9pm. The doors open at 8. Be there early to buy us booze and confuse us!
As usual, we'd really appreciate you being there. Thanks and ho ho ho etc.
» Rock n Roll ain't Pollution Xmas party
» Wednesday 13th December 2006
» The Pool Bar, 104-108 Curtain Road, Shoreditch EC2
» Tube: Old Street or Liverpool Street
» Doors 8pm, Deathline onstage 9pm.
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Deathline / SL / BBC1 / Tonight
Too busy to blog about this properly (been working solidly since 6am Monday morning - almost dead now), so read about it here, here and here.
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I'm a Musician, writer, photographer, designer, transgendered z-list celebrity. Insomniac's boyfriend. Tragic glamour and sleepless nights are my fellow travellers. Skinny jeans and pointy shoes are my mode-us operandi. I like cats. Especially the ones who talk. Oh, and David Lynch.
