If you’re already familiar with my work, here’s a few fun facts for trivia’s sake. If you don’t know who I am, shame on you, but here’s your chance to get to know me (not that you truly deserve such kind considerations).

Occupation

Post-graduate student, promotions writer

Residence

Liverpool, U.K.

D.O.B

January 8, 1980 (note birthday shared with Elvis Presley and David Bowie)

Place of Birth

Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Nickname

Eva

Sees Herself As

An intriguing blend of an early 19th century courtesan and a 1950’s gamine with punk sensibilities and a taste for Modernist literature.

Others See Her As

decorative but pointless

Fave Writers

Samuel Beckett, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Ian Rankin, Shakespeare

Fave Music

ABBA, The Beatles, Crowded House, David Gray, Dionne Warwick, Gin Blossoms, Frank Sinatra, and Robbie Williams.  Caitlyn is also an authority on boy bands.

Fave Films

That Thing You Do!’, ‘Moulin Rouge’, ‘Roman Holiday’

Fave T.V. Series

Friends’ and ‘The Monkees’

Fave Food

ice cream and chocolate

Signature Drink

spiked hot chocolate

Fave Quotes

‘What’s Past is Prologue.’
— Shakespeare, The Tempest

‘To think that I’ve wasted years of my life, that I’ve longed to die, that I’ve experienced my greatest love, all for a women who didn’t appeal to me, who wasn’t even my type!’
— Marcel Proust, In Remembrance of Things Past

Lyrics that Best Describe Her

‘She came all the way from America
She had a blind date with Destiny’
And the sound of the Hour of Doom had a truly sacred ring.’
— 'Means to Me' (Crowded House)

Defining Moments

appearing in German Vogue (January 2001 page 26), living in Stockholm for six months, realising pink goes with everything

Leading Ladies

Audrey Hepburn, Kate Winslet, Eva Peron, J.Lo, Empress Josephine

Leading Men

Cary Grant, Colin Firth, Ewan McGregor

Hobbies and Interests

acting - playing the piano – Shakespeare – the Napoleonic era – Christmas - Queer Theory - pretty clothes – make-up – film studies – Modernist literature – myself - Victorian novels – world domination - BOYS

Dislikes

Techno – spiders – those with no pride in their personal appearance –country music - Jennifer Love Hewitt – poor dental hygiene - the music of Michael Bolton – people with no ambitions in life - pop music with ideas - the French

Current Projects

Currently completing M.A in Popular Music Studies and working on her groundbreaking dissertation on sexual construction in boy bands.

Long Term Goals

To take over Paraguay and have her own Channel 4 chat show.

Most Attractive Quality

Surprisingly patient and attentive listener.

Least Attractive Quality

Rampant megalomania.

Personal Philosophy

To be hip means not to be up to date with the latest trend but to already looking ahead to what’s coming next.

For an interview with Caitlyn Hallman, click here!