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Laura

Living is easy with your eyes closed

About Me

My name is Laura, I'm 22 years old, I'm currently working for Cancer Research UK and loving life with my lovely lovely fiance! Alongside my job, I'd like to work in the music industry, but just with nice, talented artists, co-writing on songs - maybe in promoting them, reviewing etc etc - but in folk and acoustic genres. I write lots, fiction sometimes, but mainly I write songs. I love my friends and my family and my cats, and like nothing better than to spend time with any of the aforementioned, doing pretty much anything!

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My Interests

I love to write, read, socialise and dance about a lot to a variety of music. I follow the footy, and am proud to be a Canaries fan... ahem.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone and everyone - mainly anyway! :)

Music:

A somewhat eclectic mix... My main interest is in folk (which is what I wrote my dissertation on), some country-folk (ok, some plain country, but the good stuff I swear), but I love my rock and roll, blues, soul, reggae... And pop actually. My favourite band are the Beatles, and I have a tattoo of 'let it be' on my back. If I start to list my favourite artists we'll be here forever, but John Stewart (for he be THE man), Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Richard Thompson and all the Fairport Convention stuff, Jackson Browne, Sarah McLachlan, Leonard Cohen, Nanci Griffiths, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Carole King, Stephen Fretwell, Edwina Hayes, Blue, Oasis, Radiohead, Portishead, Pendulum, Prodigy, The Pretenders, Snow Patrol. Razorlight, the Editors, Kooks... there's so many more it's silly.

Movies:

I have baaaaaaaad taste in films, I love the romcoms, I love anything that makes you feel all warm inside ;) 10 Things I Hate About You, Dirty Dancing, P&P, Notting Hill, ah yes. And childlishly funny films, like Austin Powers and American Pie. In terms of something of masterpiece merit, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an amazing film. And copious amounts of pornography.

Television:

Friends, Ally McBeal, Peep Show, the mighty boosh, the Office, Scrubs, Black Books! And Neighbours... obsessively.(There would appear to be no radio slot... How times move on. However I love Just a Minute and Home Truths, I used to love the Archers-but have seen the error of my ways. I feel I may have been brainashed as a child into loving Radio Four)

Books:

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte, weirdly everyone loves a bit of Heathcliffe. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, The Wrong Boy - Willy Russell, and I love Ben Elton, though he lost his 'fingers up' appeal lately. Ooh, The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - legend. George Orwell in general. Oscar Wilde... the list goes on...

Heroes:

My Grandparents - all four of them. My parents too. In terms of famous people, there'd be an obvious answer, George Harrison is a genius and a legend.

My Blog

Material Girls (last luxury blog, oooh)

In Living It Up  Our Love Affair with Luxury, James Twitchell talks about Fitzgerald's ideas on the concept of luxury consumerism, as portrayed in The Great Gatsby. The characters he creates personif...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:59:00 PST

walking blind...

the wonderfully erm, luxury marketing orientated, blogs i've stuck up of late are ones i was asked to research and write for a client at work. thought i'd stick them up on here as well, you know,...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:25:00 PST

Subjective Luxury

To me luxury is new brushed cotton pyjama trousers and my aunt's bedding (the pillows are feather and yet springy). To my aunt, luxury is a 5* hotel in the Maldives with great room service. To the man...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:57:00 PST

"Doing Good" - the shift in the luxury consumer experience

A luxury product has most frequently been described as something to dream of or desire  for pure want, not for need. But as the luxury market has grown and developed, the psychology of the luxury con...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:26:00 PST