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Lauren

It's like Deliverance, but with opera singers

About Me

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My Interests

Music Therapy Extreme night walking Living room dance parties Scotch

I'd like to meet:

....and really anybody who wants to play some good music for me.

Music:

!!!, Appleseed Cast, Arcade Fire, Samuel Barber, Beirut, Pat Benetar, David Bowie, Brahms, Broken Social Scene, James Brown, Built to Spill, Byrds, Johnny Cash, The Cars, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Debussy, Bob Dylan, Enon, Final Fantasy, Firey Furnaces, Feist, Ella Fitzgerald, Fleet Foxes, Ben Folds, Guided By Voices, Hawk and a Hacksaw, Heavy Birds, Hem, Billie Holiday, Love, M. Ward, Mahler, Thelonius Monk, Modest Mouse, Joanna Newsom, Nouvelle Vague, Charlie Parker, Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux, Pixies, Poulenc, Queen, Rancid, Otis Redding, Buddy Rich, Saint Saens, The Shins, Nina Simone, Sleater Kinney, Regina Spektor, Spoon, Dusty Springfield, The Staples Singers, Stereo Total, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Tapes n Tapes, Caetano Veloso, Violent Femmes, Weezer, Wilco, Wolf Parade

Movies:

Breathless The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Buffalo '66, Bleu, Blues Brothers, The Good the Bad and the Ugly (I just have a penchant for westerns), all the Muppet movies, Empire Records, Mad Hot Ballroom, Blue Velvet, anything scary, An American in Paris, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sound of Music, Monty Python everything, Amelie, Reality Bites, High Fidelity, The Princess Bride, Broken Flowers, Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, The Triplets of Bellevue, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Napoleon Dynamite, Lost in Translation, Waiting for Guffman, Wet Hot American Summer, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Me, You, and Everyone We Know (one of the best movies I've seen in a long time).

Television:

Fraggle Rock, AquaTeen Hunger Force, Reno 911, Family Guy, House, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Twin Peaks, Jem (truely outrageous), and the Simpsons

Books:

Anything by: Murukami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Orwell, Bukowski, Ayn Rand, Jack Kerouac, ee cummings, Camus, Sartre, Wallace Stevens, Foucault, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Chekov, Rousseau, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs

Heroes:

My parents People who question and challenge their existence

My Blog

Guns of Brixton

Ok, so I just realised that the song "Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant is about the street a few blocks away where I buy my weekly veggies. Never fear though Mama Briner, Brixton has cleaned u...
Posted by Lauren on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:47:00 PST

I handstitched some pillowcases tonight...

So sometimes MySpace doesn't let you put up pics that are huge and I'm too lazy to size them down. So, here are a few for the kids. They're not great pictures, but I'm not a great photographer. Outsid...
Posted by Lauren on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:10:00 PST

Cheers

A couple people have asked me why I haven't posted a blog about London. Maybe it's laziness. Maybe neglect of my myspace family. Nevertheless I realized, when asked this, that I haven't done hardly ...
Posted by Lauren on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:35:00 PST

reunited and it feels so good

Since I've been living in Mass, I go home about 3 times each year and it blows my mind how completely different each trip is. Some are filled with family drama, and others with 40ozs and fluffernutter...
Posted by Lauren on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:24:00 PST

Addiction

It has come to my attention that I have an addiction--to my ipod. "What?!" You cry in angered confusion. "How can a convient, compact musical device cause physical addiction?" When I left the thi...
Posted by Lauren on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:12:00 PST