1. General Guidelines: (1) Don't do dates. Really, they're just bad bad bad. Start off by being friends and hang out, don't suggest a date because there is just no good way to turn one down. (2) Dont try hard to impress, if you don't naturally then it's just not going to happen. (3) Start off slow. Being over-eager says a lot about you, and not much of it is positive. (4) Don't get 'hot and heavy' in public. Eww. Have some discretion. (5) Don't suggest finding a place so as to...

There comes a point in your life where you need to grow up. It may be somewhat early for me to feel this considering that I'm now only just turning 18, but in that peculiar way that life works, it has presented me with the change and I'm finally ready to take it. To make it. Anyone who read Bad Timing and a Bad Idea Link will know that I had managed to get myself into quite a mess. I thought I knew what I wanted and was quite willing to risk a lot for the slightest of possibilities. I kn...

So you wait all your life for somebody to come along: someone with those eyes, those lips and the personality to match. Obvously, on the way to this reunion you've made plenty of stupid mistakes, settled and resettled on numerous occassions so that just as you're gripped in that singularly most momentous passionate embrace you can't breathe for the sheer joy that you are experiencing. What's meant to happen after that is clear... evidently he (or she) wants you too, the last twenty minut...

Cat on a Got Tin Roof presents an audience with three main themes: sex, desire, the American Dream, and deception or “mendacity”. Tennessee Williams’ characters are presented as somewhat two-dimensional stereotypes; Margaret and Brick are both examples ‘the American Dream’, both are beautiful, Maggie with her long neck and graceful arms, and Brick, the glorious All-American sports hero. Their ‘in-laws’, Mae and Gooper seem farcical copies of this perfect couple, with their five “no-neck mon...

The Question of Ugly-Sexy Ugly-Sexy (U-S) is, by no means, a modern phenomenon. In fact, so many years of wondering if such a thing exists should be reason enough to prove that U-S, as it is known in certain cliques, is a reality. Firstly, however, what is Ugly-Sexy? U-S can only be described as a condition that causes a person to be both unappealing (ugly is far too harsh a word, in my opinion), and oddly attractive at the same time. U-S people make you lust after them with geneti...

A Teacher's Allure No matter how great a feminist a woman may claim to be, I assure you that deep down, at least 99% of all women have a desire to be dominated: spiritually, sexually, and intellectually. The wish to dominate is a part of human nature, and peop0le are fascinated by the idea of relinquishing this dominance to another’s control. The legacy of boss/employee and teacher/student ‘fixations’ is not a new one, and has long been questioned by the relevant authorities – when does ...

Recently a friend of mine told me that having seen me off (with a certain un-named individual), she had been thinking about the old movies in which the right walk home as it is refered to by Carol Ann Duffy, was the backdrop for many a romantic encounter. With various new programmes based almost solely on the possibility of romance, I began to wonder just what was espected in 21st century England. Being many things, I am, above all, a cynic, and therefore dare to ask, if traditional...

Fama&Calliope - Watership Down, by Richard Adams Apart from perhaps, LoTR and Tracy Chevalier's marvellous books, there cannot possibly be a better book than this. The story of Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, Dandelion and the rest of the travelling rabbits touched my heart from the very first page I read, all of five years ago. I simply couldn't put it down, and read it seven times in a row, not wanting the story to be over. Now, after such a long time, I finally found the time to give the book...

Fama&Calliope - The Bell, by Iris Murdoch Never before have I been so captivated by the characters of a story. They are vibrant, splendid, shimmering with life and an almost tangible vitality. We first experience the lay community at Imber through the eyes of Dora Greenfield, an "erring wife" returning to her tyrranical husbad. Murdoch captures the very aura of the countryside, with its lush grasses and dense trees. With water that trickles through streams, and with the thick glassy ...

Thalia&Calliope - Finding Nemo, directed by Lee Unkrich It's not often that'll I will willingly go to the cinema to watch a cartoon. I can safely say, however, that Disney Pixar's smashing new movie, Finding Nemo must be one of the best films this year. For starters, I think that I should mention that Disney's warning that the film contained "mild peril" cannot in any way begin to convey the terror that I experienced throughout the film ~ if I were a five year old I think that I would ne...

Calliope,Erato&Polyhymnia - The Fire and the Rose, by Abby and Anne On fanfiction.net (FFN), they are known as Rhosmedre and MetroVampire, the authors of various Harry Potter based fanfics: Abby's The Other Side of Darkness and its sequel Survivals and Remembrances, as well as the lemony The Fourth Unforgivable and her latest story, Rondo Veneziano. Anne's two offerings are the Midnight series: Around Midnight and After Midnight . Together, having teamed up in 2002, they wrote one of t...

When a film is made, the director aims to capture a series of moments on camera, and to preserve them for later viewing. In Girl with a Pearl Earring, Webber has achieved a certain mastery of the art of communication that rivals the topical art of the film itself. How do you capture, not merely the standard movie moment, but a lifetime in the space of 99minutes alone? This is the exact impression that Girl… gives, the undeniable sensation that although what you see is those character’s realit...