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lauren mari

i'm the operator with my pocket calculator

About Me

my fascination with animals hasn't changed since i was little. it's kind of ridiculous.

My Interests

music, shows, adventures, reading, travel, Spanish, sociology, art, film, friends, mod fashion, sarcasm, liberalism, feminism, activism, learning to cook, vintage clothing, alterations, long conversations, the aquarium

I'd like to meet:

old souls. huggers. androdgynous chicks.

Music:

the Raincoats, the Modern Lovers, the Slits, Radiohead, Les Savy Fav, Joy Division, Television, the Velvet Underground, Nico, Bob Dylan, Age of the Earth, Sonic Youth, the Clash, French Kicks, Doves, the Arcade Fire, Beestings, Other Ghost, Bjork, Blur, Built to Spill, TV on the Radio, the Cure, Metric, Bowie, TRex, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, the Stooges, the Stranglers, Deerhoof, Wire, Gang of Four, the Rapture, the Pixies, New York Dolls, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Animal Collective, Echo and the Bunnymen, Magazine, Silver Apples, Public Image Ltd., Broken Social Scene, Feist, Electrelane, Beach House

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, About a Boy, Amelie, Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Punch Drunk Love, Amores Perros, Dancer in the Dark, Ordinary People, Trainspotting,the Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Me Without You, Run Lola Run, Shattered Glass, Stranger Than Fiction, Bande à part, La Vie en Rose, No Country for Old Men, Los diarios de motocicleta

Television:

the Office (BBC), Project Runway, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, the Daily Show, the Wonder Years, Flight of the Concords, 30 Rock

Books:

Norweigan Wood, Naked, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Skipping Towards Gomorrah, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, About A Boy, Bridget Jones's Diary, the Virgin Suicides, High Fidelity, Please Kill Me, Catcher in the Rye, El ramo azul, the Perks of Being a Wallflower, Dos Palabras, La muñeca menor, Bodas de Sangre, Lorca, ...y no se lo trago la tierra, Love in the Time of Cholera, No One Belongs Here More Than You, Lolita

My Blog

a question of lameness/ resolutions

my first inclination when answering "how was your new years?" is to respond, "the party i went to was pretty lame."i pretty much kept to myself and the people i came with, having summed up in the firs...
Posted by lauren mari on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:33:00 PST

things you should know about cursive

1.Most importantly, (if this is the only thing that you read on what I am pre-emptively declaring to be a long post, i hope you take away this fact) They are assholes.okay, maybe not all of them, but ...
Posted by lauren mari on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:34:00 PST

LIFE IMPERATIVES (updated!)

Hopefully I accomplish these things sometime before I die....1. Live in Europe (esp. UK) not necessarily move there for the rest of my life, but live there for a good period of time.2. Get in a catfig...
Posted by lauren mari on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST