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I love to write, to read, to listen and to talk. Human beings and the way they evolve and communicate fascinate me.

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Name: Maz (Marianne)

Age: 24

From: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Religion: Positive Agnostic

Interests: writing, British comedy, reading, travel, fire twirling, film, the film industry, music, world politics, photography, the media, theater, history, philosophy, etymology, the meaningless science of comedy, kayaking, singing, religion, painting, The French Revolution, anthropology, yoga, camping, live music, cooking, bush walking.

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Although it is not original for me to just list my favorite things, I do so because these musicians, films, television productions and writers have influenced and inspired me. We are nothing without example.


Music: Pixies, Madness, Devo, The Beatles, David Bowie, Janes Addiction, Queens of the Stone Age, The Kinks, Iggy Pop, The Buzzcocks, Infected Mushroom, Crowded House, Lou Reed, The Clash, The Eagles, Goldfrapp, The Jam, Rage Against the Machine, TISM, Frank Zappa, The Cure, Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, The Dandy Warhols, Portishead, Massive Attack, Harry Belafonte, Al Green, Faithless, Talking Heads, Louis XIV...so many more.


Films: Shaun of the Dead, Garden State, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Trainspotting, Being John Malcovich, Adaptation, The Birds, Four Rooms, Death to Smoochy, The Royal Tenenbaums, The People vs Larry Flint, Fight Club, Quills, Delicatessen, Shallow Grave, Dogma, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Almost Famous, I Heart Huckabees, The Darjeeling Limited...etc

TV: The Young Ones, Black Books, Arrested Development, The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, Alas Smith and Jones, Peep Show, The Adventures of Lano and Woodley, Red Dwarf, Family Guy,  ...etc etc!

Books: (ANYTHING BY:) Augusten Burroughs, Danny Wallace, Dave Gorman, Francine du Plessix Gray, Robert Llewellyn, David Sedaris, Douglas Adams, Patrica Melo, Leo Tolstoy, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuck, Gustave Glaubert, James St. James, Bret Easton Elis, Ben Elton, J.G. Ballad, John Birmingham, Stephen King, George Orwel, Hunter S. Thompson, Eric Idle, Edgar Alan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky...

Favorite quotes:

" What is popular is not always right and what is right is not always popular." ~ Aristotle

"Ice will melt, water will boil. You and i can shake off this mortal coil" ~ It's Only Natural, Crowded House

"Life is too important to be taken seriously" ~ Oscar Wilde

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start...and so on..." ~ Robert Byrne

"Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase?" ~ Wyanes World

"Emotions are universal, and art is emotion. Therefore, putting film together and making it have an effect on an audience is for me the main function of film. Otherwise, it's just a record of events." ~ Alfred Hitchcock

"If you place a thing into the center of your life that lacks the power to nourish, it will eventually poison everything that you are and destroy you." ~ Faithless (Liontamer)

"Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually..." ~ Jimi Hendrix

"You are what you love, not what loves you" ~ Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation)

Vince: "I like thick girls, who like bright colours, dancing and soft fabrics!"
Howard: "Dont you want an equal?"
Vince: "Yeah!!" ~ The Mighty Boosh

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