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laurenmargaret

never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit

About Me



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My Interests

poetry, strange art, Shakespeare, writing workshops, comedy, new music, sexy guitars, mint tea, driving with the windows down, snow, warm pears with cinnamon, peppermint bark, Williams Sonoma, J Crew, dresses, having a reason to dress up, New York City, tiramisu, Convent Avenue, Little Ukraine, 9th Avenue, Central Park, interesting conversation, meeting people randomly, cappucino, hawks, waterfalls, good books, eye contact, trains, chocolate cream pie, firefighters, car shows, ties, old towne alexandria, cookie dough, biscuits, dogs, dressing up for no reason, drinking with strangers, dive bars, London, driving for the hell of driving, songs on the radio, new technology, air shows, NASA, space, airplanes, knowing all the words to songs i haven't heard in several years, snow, text messages, double entendres, foreign phrases, fancy gloves, being a groupie to my friends' bands, the dictionary, New York magazine, parallelism, foreign films, dancing to no music, albums with a theme, robotics, watching diving competitions, ice skating, cooking classes, running, watching people, stories from old ladies, windchimes, dreamcatchers, holding hands, libraries, America's Funniest Videos (especially the ones where people get hit by baseballs and/or bats), cookie batter

I'd like to meet:

Carl Sagan, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofolo, Martin Sheen, Mike Birbiglia, Billy Collins, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Hacker, Bradley Whitford, Jon Stewart, Prince William, James Hetfield, Jason Mantzoukas, Jesse Falcon, Francine Nolan, Neely Nolan, Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda, Betty Smith, Lauren Bacall, Petrarch, Laura, George Harrison, Nietzsche, Alison Goldfrapp, Carlos Santana, Michael Delaney, Denis Leary, Stephen Fry, Natalie Portman, Johnny Depp, Toni Morrison, Dave Eggers, Matt Groening, Adrian Tomine, Italo Calvino, Tucker Max, Regina Spektor, Mary-Louise Parker, Tricky, Janis Joplin, Dave Brubeck, Ilia Kulik, Dave Matthews, Milla Jovovich, Peaches, Joseph Campbell, Outkast, David Bowie, Willem Dafoe, Mike Patton, David Ford, Squeeze, Brian May, C. S. Lewis, Zlata, Lonelygirl15, Rachael Ray, Philip Glass, Margaret Cho, Jacqueline Novak, Leo Allen, Chuck Berry, Frank Warren, Lily Allen, Tony Kushner, Julia Sweeney, Emma Thompson, Robert Lang, Michael Jordan, JAY LUTHER (haha), REginaSPEKTor

Everyone.
New people.
New friends.
Surprise me.

Music:

The Beatles, Okean Elzy, Coldplay, Beethoven, Metallica, Tchaikovsky, Arctic Monkeys, The Beach Boys, Ben Folds Five, Billy Joel, Goldfrapp, Tricky, Massive Attack, The Dave Matthews Band, Natalie Merchant, A Perfect Circle, Groove Armada, Marvin Gaye, Fiona Apple, Lovage, Louis Prima, Frank Sinatra, Genesis, Citizen Cope, Treble Charger, Semisonic, Dispatch, Otis Redding, The Monkees, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, old Radiohead, Ray LaMontagne, The Dandy Warhols, Okkervil River, Gorillaz, Joni Mitchell, Pete Yorn, Lily Allen, Calla, REginaSPEKTor

Movies:

Better Off Dead, The Outsiders, The Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, The Wall, Waking Life, The Notebook, Jump Tomorrow, Run Lola Run, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, The Lord of the Rings, 10 Things I Hate About You, Spanglish, The Fifth Element, Love Actually, Angels in America, V For Vendetta, My Cousin Vinny, Twelfth Night, Fight Club, SLC Punk!, A Very Long Engagement, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Lucia y El Sexo, A Hard Day's Night, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Addicted to Love, Four Brothers, The Italian Job, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, American Beauty, Hot Fuzz

Television:

Studio 60, West Wing, Family Guy, Rescue Me, Six Feet Under, My Boys, Men In Trees, Sex and the City, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, The Office

Books:

Lamb, Hypocrite In A Pouffy White Dress, He's Just Not That Into You, The Mystery of Flight 427, The Devil In The White City, On The Road, The Lost Continent, A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius, Heaven and Hell, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Blankets, Maus, Born Confused, Catch-22, The Doors of Perception, Lit Riffs, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Awakening, Heart of Darkness, Cannery Row, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, All's Well That Ends Well, "The Scottish Play," As You Like It, The Lost Painting, Jazz, 102 Minutes, The Count of Monte Cristo, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, Summer Sisters, The Mating Mind, The Ode Less Travelled, PostSecret, The Secret Lives of Men and Women, Mysteries of the Middle Ages, City of Glass

Heroes:

my Dad, Francine Nolan, Lauren Bacall, my Mom, Michael Jordan, The Boondock Saints, Rhiannon Lynne Smith, Carlos Santana, Rosa Parks

My Blog

Favourite Poems: Adrienne Rich, For an Album

Adrienne Rich, For an Album Our story isn't a file of photographs faces laughing under green leaves or snowlit doorways, on the verge of driving away, our story is not about women victoriously pe...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:13:00 PST

Favourite Poems: E. Ward Herlands, When Edward Hopper Was Painting

E. Ward Herlands, When Edward Hopper Was Painting   I like to think that on a Sunday afternoon when Edward Hopper was painting his lone man seated on a street curb, with shaft of light warming ...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:13:00 PST

Favourite Poems: Carl Phillips, Revision

Carl Phillips, Revision   Which is worsenot being myself, for long hours, able to   account for my own absence; or not having been, by anyone,   asked toI can't say. As when ...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:12:00 PST

Favourite Poems: John Donne, Song

John Donne, Song   Go, and catch a falling star,       Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are,       Or who cleft...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:10:00 PST

Favourite Poems: Li-Young Lee, One Heart

Li-Young Lee, One Heart Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, friend, open at either end of day. The work of wings was always freedom, fastening one h...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:08:00 PST

Favourite Poems: Jorie Graham, Orpheus and Eurydice

Jorie Graham, Orpheus and Eurydice   Up ahead, I know, he felt it stirring in himself already, the glance, the darting thing in the pile of rocks, already in him, there, shiny in the rubble, h...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:09:00 PST

Favourite Poems: Rosario Castellanos, Ajedrez

Rosario Castellanos, Ajedrez Porque éramos amigos y, a ratos, nos amábamos; quizá para añadir otro interés a los muchos que ya nos obligaban decidimos jugar juegos de inteligencia. Pusimos un tabler...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:07:00 PST

Favourite Poems: Seamus Heaney, Digging

Seamus Heaney, Digging   Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.   Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My fath...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:05:00 PST

Favourite Poems: W.D. Snodgrass, Mementos, 1

W.D. Snodgrass, Mementos, 1   Sorting out letters and piles of my old Canceled checks, old clippings, and yellow note cards That meant something once, I happened to find Your picture. That p...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:58:00 PST

Favourite Poems: Yusef Komunyakaa, Blue Light Lounge Sutra

Yusef Komunyakaa, Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotel the need gotta be so deep words can't answer simple questions all night long notes stumble off the tongu...
Posted by laurenmargaret on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:54:00 PST