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Lara

at the flea market.

About Me

Escribo la poesia en espanol y sueño de césped más verde en Europa.

My Interests

comfy nightbuses, sketchy street markets, dancing with my eyes closed, art, booking shows, traveling, coordinating plans, schmoozing, rolling around on the floor, craft brunch, choreography, printmaking, pretending my yoga mat is keeping me afloat, foreign sweets, Amy Sedaris, Eastern Europe, British culture and expressions, independent films, makeup, working out, sunsets and photo ops, sugarfree hot chocolate, foreign accents, jumping on hotel beds, showing off, champagne, gallery-hopping, dreaming about France, big boots, the free market, nice cats, lots of attention, thrift store finds, good karma, mango smoothies, tropical fruits(you've never heard of..ex-pomelos and fejoias), cd burning parties, hot new haircuts, xmas karaoke, avoiding awkward moments, watching HBO shows, creating awkward moments, getting caviar stuck in my teeth, smelling fragrances and cookies baking, double or triple booking myself-oops, rubbing elbows, anything fancy(Roger et Gallet), basing my life on fortune cookie fortunes, guitar hero, scrabble, talking shit, holding grudges, pimento cheese and avocado toast, pao de queijo, spending xmas on the beach in Brasil.

I'd like to meet:

French Tecktonic Battle Dancers. Otherwise, don't waste my time.

Music:

indie rock, electro, mashups, accordions, britpop, Sondre Lerche, Yelle, mirah, Bloc Party, Soulwax, Digitalism, Data, TEPR, Sebastien Tellier,Benji Ferree, Justice, Beirut, The Blow, Sean Lennon, The Knife, Jim Noir, Mosquitos, Camera Obscura, Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, Girl Talk, Sound Team, Tapes n Tapes, The Wrens, LCD Soundsystem, Voxtrot, The Rapture, Mum, RJD2, We Ragazzi, Grandaddy, Death Cab, Enon, Blonde Redhead, Spoon, Badly Drawn Boy, 2Many DJs, Les Savy Fav, Wolf Parade, Of Montreal, Tracy and the Plastics, Yann Tierson, Yo La Tengo, AIR, The Gossip, Le Tigre, T Rex, The Rosebuds, White Stripes, Beck, Clearlake, Beta Band, The Zombies, Belle and Sebastian, Arcade Fire, Franz, Ratatat, Vitalic, Morrissey, and anything dancey. Did I say Sondre?

Movies:

El Perro Bombon, Perfume, Paris J'Taime, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Secrets and Lies, Me Without You, Friends With Money, Heaven, Wet Hot American Summer, Valley Girl, Royal Tenenbaums, Virgin Suicides, Amelie, Stranger Than Fiction, L'Auberge Espagnole

Television:

Six Feet Under, Carnivale, The Office, Flight of the Conchords.

Books:

How To Be Good, Forbidden Flowers, A Year in the Merde, Tribes of Palos Verdes, Blankets, The Alchemist, Running with Scissors, The Other Boleyn Girl

My Blog

Backeroonies

So, I made it. I'm home. After a week in New York(and meeting my month old nephew, Henry), I've been back in Chapel Hill for two weeks now. Always super strange to come back after a big adventure...
Posted by Lara on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:08:00 PST

Sick Phobias and Sticky Hair

aka: New Years Eve in Rio. Not only just New Years Eve in Rio but in Copacabana, with 4 million other people. Yes, thats 4 million sticky drunken Brasilians and tourists crammed into one dirty, l...
Posted by Lara on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:19:00 PST

Sincerely, Rainy in Brasil

Dana came to BA and we had a week full of afternoon drinks, celebrity gossip, shopping, steak, ice cream, empanadas, wine, markets, and a few failed attempts at going out. But it was great. Absolutely...
Posted by Lara on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:08:00 PST

Mi vida en la ciudad!

After lovely Salta, I stopped in Cordoba only for a day. Got stuck at this Israeli hostel, Im talking all Israelis, and the city itself was fine but a bit too city for me. So after giving myself a hos...
Posted by Lara on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:34:00 PST

Estamos en Argentina!

Man oh man, Im so much better these days. Joel and I are in Salta, Argentina, in the North, and it is so nice. Way more modern and stylish and pretty freakin Euro if you ask me. Ive seen some ser...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:01:00 PST

Stuck in Chile? Youve gotta be fucking kidding me!?!?

Well, I definitely did my time in La Paz. It was a blast. I met up with my OZ friends and partied hard. Like London-style hard. Saw a couple of sunrises and a few seriously underground bars/afterparti...
Posted by Lara on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:18:00 PST

Peanut Butter Twix in Bolivia!

Aye aye aye! So much has happened since mi ultima blog. Thats partially because I wrote for like an hour and then lost it due to a shotty internet connection. How pissed was i? Anyways, I ended up st...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:54:00 PST

I just saw reruns of I LOVE NEW YORK on tv in Peru!

How funny is that? It was the one where New York and Whiteboy get some alone time on the ferris wheel. If you know what Im talking about, its hilarious. Anyways, the best part is that I saw it on tv i...
Posted by Lara on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:38:00 PST

I heart Bogota/Colombia Wrap Up

My oh my, what a month in Colombia can do to a girl... Lets see, after Cartagena, we headed to Tanganga(a small town outside of Santa Marta on the Coast), a trip that shouldve only taken about 4 ...
Posted by Lara on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:51:00 PST

Shocking News From the Coast: part 2

After a long and somewhat traumatic journey from Medellin, we are in the city of Cartagena. Have you ever seen Romancing the Stone? Well, I think it was filmed here. I had a blast in Medellin, even th...
Posted by Lara on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:06:00 PST