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About Me


"you have all of the qualities of a person who deserves a little peace of mind." -sp
solipsism n. Philosophy // The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified. // The theory or view that the self is the only reality. //
i'm a nerd. i like gratuitously pretty things. i like letters, and the spaces between the letters, sometimes the lines. i like sweaters. i have a lot of them. i spend a lot of time on my computer. i have some fixation issues. i have several control issues. i like cheese, a lot. i like my friends and watching television. i like being alone. i like pretending. i like lists. i like party dresses and evening gowns. i like champagne and karaoke, together or separately. i like like and i love love. um i think that's it.
more links of things that i do:
it's nothing but drivel and it just doesn't stop
sometimes i take pictures of things, and this is where i put them.
you're so jealous, don't even try to pretend like you're not
you keep it going man, you keep those books rolling, you pick up those books you're going to read and not remember and you roll man. you get that associates degree, okay, then you get your bachelors, then you get your masters then you get your master's masters, then you get your doctron, you go man, then when everybody says quit you show them those degree man, when everybody says hey, you're not working, you're not making in money, you say look at my degrees and you look at my life, yeah i'm 52, so what? hate all you want, but i'm smart, i'm so smart, and i'm in school, and these guys are out here making money all these ways, and i'm spended mine to be smart. you know why? because when i die, buddy, you know what's going to keep me warm? that's right, those degrees.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Laura
Birthday: September 28 1979
Birthplace: New York, NY
Current Location: Living in New Jersey/Workin in New York
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black/Brown
Height: 5'8"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right Handed
Your Heritage: Filipino
The Shoes You Wore Today: Flip Flops
Your Weakness: super cute, emotionally unavailable work-a-holic boys.
Your Fears: actually giving a fuck.
Your Perfect Pizza: rays, plain, 6th ave @ 11th.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: make one-hojillion dollars. move into manhattan.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: word.
Thoughts First Waking Up: please, stop, blackberry!
Your Best Physical Feature: the eye.
Your Bedtime: after 12a, before 5a.
Your Most Missed Memory: that night in the lake with geoff & james; watching tv with my dad
Pepsi or Coke: fountain coke, coke in a can, coke in a bottle - in that order
MacDonalds or Burger King: mc donalds
Single or Group Dates: single. i like to be the focus of attention
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: either.
Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate, if we're talking about actual food flavors. vanilla if we're using that as a euphemism for the kinds of boys i like.
Cappuccino or Coffee: white chocolate mocha.
Do you Smoke: yes
Do you Swear: yes
Do you Sing: yes
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: i just got out of my third college.
Do you want to get Married: what's the point?
Do you belive in yourself: hells yes.
Do you get Motion Sickness: sometimes.
Do you think you are Attractive: sometimes.
Are you a Health Freak: hells no.
Do you get along with your Parents: yes. yes.
Do you like Thunderstorms: sometimes.
Do you play an Instrument: does guitar hero count?
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes.
In the past month have you Smoked: cigarettes? yes.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: yes.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: i live in new jersey.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no. i don't really like cookies in mass quantity.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: YES.
In the past month have you been on Stage: no.
In the past month have you been Dumped: no, but often rejected!
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no.
Ever been Drunk: uh, yes.
Ever been called a Tease: no. i follow through.
Ever been Beaten up: no.
Ever Shoplifted: yes.
How do you want to Die: quickly.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: kind.
What country would you most like to Visit: netherlands, australia/new zealand ... japan again.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: a pretty color.
Favourite Hair Color: a pretty color.
Short or Long Hair: good hair.
Height: taller than me.
Weight: awesome.
Best Clothing Style: not gross.
Number of Drugs I have taken: a hojillion and four.
Number of CDs I own: a hojillion and fifty three.
Number of Piercings: two.
Number of Tattoos: zero.
Number of things in my Past I Regret: a hojillion seventy nine, but i'm working on it.
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My Interests

sexy macintosh gagetry. kisses. 'heretofore and wherewithall'. i used to think it was all about design, but right now it's everything. it's become an amalgam of everything i've been exposed to over the years. it's lovely and frightening, to get a little older, to figure out that all the things you thought were fundamentally true might not actually be true, or may only be true if you turn it up-side-down and stop trying. it's uncomfortable and new, and well, it's going to be awesome. i swear.

I'd like to meet:

my standards are too retarded for verbal quantification.

Music:

suburban/daytime urban hipster rock. i'm not ashamed! death cab for cutie, tegan & sara, m83, of montreal, ted leo & the pharmacists, bloc party, the killers, vhs or beta, interpol, hot hot heat, red house painters, azure ray, criteria, cursive (oh, cursive), dashboard, juliana hatfield, elvis costello, pedro the lion, iron & wine, band of horses, MEW, my bloody valentine, camera obscura, joshua radin, jose gonzales, stellastarr*, mobius band, doves, my chemical romance, coheed & cambria, codec & flexor, sigur ros, explosions in the sky, mogwai, mellowdrone, mates of state, built to spill, delays, tahiti 80, kings of convenience, phoenix depeche mode, pet shop boys, erasure, when in rome (evidently any gay late 80's early 90's), yo la tengo, kanye, justin, britney, christina, kelly, beyonce, missy, kylie - JUST LISTEN, i mean really. anything with hottt high hat usage. anything that invokes suicidal tendencies or overt self deprecation. bleepy music, but only when retardedly adorable, you know what i'm talking about. anything on the DFA label, all that super optimistic electro-pop.

Movies:

I have honestly failed to keep up with any cinematic novelty since 2004, so this list is old: la nouvelle vague (especially rififi, 400 blows, you know, truffaut, goddard, bunuel, et als). joe vs. the volcano. pretty in pink. fight club. requiem. ghost world. citizen kane. hudsucker proxy... any and all teensploitation movies about the president's daughter and how she wants more 'freedom' then the president deceives her by sending devastatingly handsome undercover secret service agent to protect her who, then, ends up inevitably falling in love with her, thus teaching her the truth about trust or some shit. yup. and ones with fantastic candy coated dance scenes.

Television:

24, six feet under, arrested development, family guy, huff, scrubs, sopranos, queer as folk, after school specials, merit-based elimination driven reality television.

Books:

yes, pleeeeze!! gary benchley, rock star, all families are psychotic, the corrections, perks of being a wallflower, augusten burroughs, david sedaris... (anything that has to do with family insanity, hideously tumultuous growing pains, or adolescent homosexuality with or without hard drug abuse).

Heroes:

juliana hatfield, anyone with the initials JH, elvis costello, jonathan franzen, robert bringhurst, josef muller-brockmann, emil ruder, rick poynor, m/m paris, zak smith, container, organic, pandarosa... a bunch of you architecture folks are growing on me, yeah, you are. hrm. joseph beuys...of course my mom, cuz she's the best, and my lil brother, nick, cuz he's the most hilarious geniusYour results:
You are Iron Man Iron Man 80% Spider-Man 80% Hulk 80% Catwoman 65% Green Lantern 60% The Flash 60% Supergirl 55% Wonder Woman 55% Robin 35% Batman 35% Superman 10% Inventor. Businessman. Genius.
Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...

My Blog

scared of thunderstorms

1. Who were you with friday night?Who else, Travis. 2. What woke you up this morning?Bladder.3. Where are you?Couch.4. Is tomorrow going to be a good day?It is the first actual day of SUMMER, as in, t...
Posted by laura. on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:16:00 PST

tiny giant killer pandas

hello peoples, this message is for the non-MCAD kids who would not yet be sick of looking at my work. there are new images of the thesis exhibition up on my flickr page. just click image above to get ...
Posted by laura. on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:06:00 PST

workey work.

">Recollection vs. The Good Life, Round One, FightRecollection, Part IIfor those of you interested in stuff like didactic artist statements -you can read below a statement i wrote for one. it has to d...
Posted by laura. on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:04:00 PST

2006 picks.

here is the list with a couple additions at the bottom.Camera Obscura  Let's Get Out of This CountryScottish indie-pop, a la Belle & Sebastian. Female singer (mainly).Terribly Cute. Super catchy, ver...
Posted by laura. on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:38:00 PST

i am the empress biotch!

You are The EmpressBeauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. ...
Posted by laura. on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:11:00 PST

finish this sentence (survey)

1. I've come to realize that my ex...is totally considered family now.3. I talk...a lot of shit.4. I love.....beer.5. My best friend...came to visit me in minneapolis on sunday!6. My first real kiss.....
Posted by laura. on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:54:00 PST

anything but thesis. (survey)

SECTION 1 : HAVE YOU EVER1. Cheated on someone?: yes.2. Fallen off the bed?: yes.3. Broken someone's heart?: yes. 4. Had your heart broken?: yes.5. Had a dream come true?: perhaps.6. Done something yo...
Posted by laura. on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:53:00 PST

some work n stuff.

some of you have been asking what i've been up to, and so i've posted it on my flickr page. you can view the work there, and read the statement thingy below. i am in the throws of thesis writing righ...
Posted by laura. on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:55:00 PST

don't cross the streams!

yes, sorry i put totally compelling titles for my blogs, when all you're getting is a lousy survey!1. Who was your first prom date?i never went to prom2. Who was your first roommate?i never had a room...
Posted by laura. on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:22:00 PST

i have a meeting with my mentor tomorrow, and i'd rather be doing this survey.

1. Who would you want to be tied to for 24 hours?jack bauer. let's see how he gets out of that shit with my slow lazy ass tied to his! ha! 2. Who do you blame for your mood today?matt. he's pretty muc...
Posted by laura. on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:25:00 PST