this, from 2005, pre-TRMS. by Alix Olson of Velvet Park. an extract:
RM: Yeah, I lived in London with the Trannie photographer, and had a bar life… crazy, like Shane on The L Word.
Vp: Did you leave a trail of broken hearts like Shane?
RM: No, a trail of happy hearts, hopefully! Then I decided the only way to finish my dissertation was to live somewhere I’d be unhappy so I could focus. It was between living in an Orange County, CA room of one of my dad’s Air Force friends or moving to the Massachusetts countryside. Finally, I moved into a hovel in Northampton with a friend, where we lived like monks and our apartment was full of skunk cabbage. Our heating system was an open flame in one room and we had to sleep in hats. I finished my dissertation.
