My name’s Emily and I’m pleased to welcome you to my small corner of the internet.

I’m an eighteen year old student currently living in Australia. I’m a bit of a hermit and completely nostalgic.


Things that make my heart sing:

Films:
Lord of the Rings, Jane Eyre, X-Men, Closer, Cry Baby, Pulp Fiction, This Is England, Midnight in Paris, Trainspotting, The Other Boleyn Girl, 500 Days of Summer, Wanted, Thor, The Town, Pride and Prejudice, Scott Pilgrim, Inception, The Matrix, Inglourious Basterds, Fight Club, Atonement, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Memoirs of a Geisha, V for Vendetta, Hard Candy.

Music:
Amy Winehouse, Smashing Pumpkins, Kings of Leon, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Coldplay, Ulrich Schnauss, Foo Fighters, Billy Idol, Soundgarden, Snow Patrol, Yann Tiersen, Elvis Presley, Hans Zimmer, Florence + the Machine .

Literature:
Memoirs of a Geisha, The Secret History, anything by F. Scott. Fitzgerald, Lord of the Rings, To Kill A Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, Lolita, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Catcher in the Rye, Sandra Gulland’s ‘Josephine B’ series, War and Peace, The Iliad, Marie Antoinette, The Hunger Games series, A Tale of Two Cities, historical biographies and religious texts.

Other:
Herbal tea, Tom Hiddleston, mangoes, meditation, second-hand books, 40s and 50s fashion, Eastern philosophies, Rembrandt, coin collections, keeping journals, Napoléon Bonaparte.