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Laurie Garrison

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About Me

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www.lauriegarrison.comI'm an artist/architect. I'm currently going through the M.F.A. program at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco where I have the pleasure of exploring both Figurative and Abstract Arts. My favorite instructors so far have been Paul Lorenz, Biopeng, and Zhaoming Wu.PLEASE PROTEST THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT FRIEND JOHN CUSAK AND REVOLT!!.... HTML code to insert into your blog or website
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My Interests

Fine Art: Oil Painting, Pastels, Watercolor, Gouache, Drawing, Photography. Hiking, Biking, Swimming, Touring, Museums & Art Galleries, Family, Cooking, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Architectural Design, Friends, Parties, See Music

I'd like to meet:

I like meeting people at art galleries and museums, cafes, out walking in nature...Who I'd like to meet? Surprise me!

Music:

Kyle Taylor, The Church, Steve Kilbey, Sonny, David Bowie, Donovan, House of Love, Peter Murphy, Isadore, Brett Anderson, Never Body, The London Suede, Jimi Hendrix, Mimesis, Magrugada, The Clientele, The Duke Spirit, Mark Lanegan, Ian Collins, The High Violets, The Turn Ons, Mono in VCF, Richard Butler, Kings & Queens, Air, Sigur Ros, Mum, Ride, Swervedriver, Mark Moldre, Hitchcock's Regret, Astral, Chris Lewis, Jeff Buckley, The White Birch, God is an Astronaut, Andrew Bird, The Go-Betweens, Eric Satie, The National, Viva Saturn, Rain Parade, Mellow Drunk, Calla, Bonobo, Gotye, Pink Martini, Levellers, The Real Tuesday Weld, The Nits, String Cheese Incident, Roxy Music, Keane, My Morning Jacket, Psychadelic Furs, Love Spit Love, Muse, Kasabian, My Bloody Valentine, Jack Frost, Marty Willson-Piper, Magnetic Fields, Laika, Brian Eno, Blur, James, Talk Talk, Morphine, The Byrds, Durutti Column, Lisa Gerrard, Eels, Cake, Swell, Zero 7, Doves, David Sullivan, The Charlatans, Crowded House, Elbow, Love & Rockets, Harry Nilsson, Stone Roses, Ian Brown, The Chameleons, Clinic, Swell, Black Rebel Motorcylce Club, Porcupine Tree, I Am Kloot, Bauhaus, Radiohead, Rachel's, Curt Cobain, Elliot Smith, Drunken Boat, Blonde Redhead, The Devics, Elastica, Jem, Left Banke, Jaco Pastorius, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Cash, Alka Bhatnagar, Altres, Silver Sun Pickups, Vienna Teng, Laurie Anderson, Kate Bush, Avril Lavigne, Traffic, The Small Faces, Andy Kim, The Bee Gees, Sarah Brightman, William Basinski, Ray LaMontagne, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Listen to Radio Paradise @ ITunes in the Alternative Section, I sometimes listen to Cool Waves Radio....

Movies:

Crash, Harold & Maude, Elizabeth, Blade Runner, Eros, American Beauty, La Vie en Rose, Life as a House, Grosse Pointe Blanc, Legends of the Fall, Water, The Partition, Juno, Thanks for Smoking, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Edward Scissor Hands, Chocolat, Benny & Joon, Dead Man, Surviving Picasso, Frida, Klimt, The Girl with the Pearl Earing, Modigliani, Pollack, Facorty Girl, Max, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hunger, Basquiat, What Dreams May Come, Donnie Darko, The Red Violin,

Television:

Gray's Anatomy, Boston Legal, 30 Rock, Cavemen, Saturday Night Live, David Letterman, Big Brother, Brothers and Sisters, That '70's Show, Sixty Minutes, Amazing Race,....

Books:

Gerhard Richter "Landscapes". "Gustav Klimt" Godfried Fliedl John Singer Sargeant "Figures and Landscapes". Odd Nerdrum "Themes". Joseph Cornell "Shadowplay Eterniday". John Saladino "Style". Claude Monet "The Gardens of Giverney". "Judy Pfaff". John Ruskin: "Seven Lamps of Architecture" Georges Seurat "The Drawings" Georgia O'Keeffe "Georgia O'Keeffe, The Museum Collections"

Heroes:

Me, Kyle Garrison (Taylor), Garri Garrison, George Garrison, Lon Garrison, Mike Garrison, M. Garrison, H.Z., Stan Garrison, Christopher Garrison, Elise Ausman, Abby, Sarah, S.K., Leonardo Da Vinci, Turner, Claude Monet, Cy Twombly, Callibotte, Whistler, Joseph Albers, John Singer-Sargeant, Gustave Klimt, Egon Schiele, Odd Nerdrum, Zhaoming Wu, Brice Marden, Shazia Sikander, Louise Nevelson, Jospeph Cornell, Martin Johnson Heade, Tae Rhea, Rafal Oblinski....

My Blog

Christmas Eve, 1984 + 2007

On this Eve, Christmas Eve 1984It was the last time we were together as a familyour father was taken from us the next dayChristmas morning he woke to a terrible back acheAnd had Mike & Garri drive him...
Posted by Laurie Garrison on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:23:00 PST

Talk about the weather

Thanks Giving EveHow do you say: "Excellent Weather"?In any languageIt's the time of yearThat I disbelieve it's cold elsewhereYou should visit me to shareHow I don't know the seasonsThe fallen leaves ...
Posted by Laurie Garrison on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:00:00 PST

Ouch, not funny

The dates are obviously wrong hereI didn't write a blog entry in advance!!Anyway, I have this significant neckpainDeltoid is peeling off my backBone Spur sticking in my spinal cordBetween C4 & C5Overu...
Posted by Laurie Garrison on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:01:00 PST

October ’07 to Idaho

So, what's new?We hadda great time up thereIn N. IdahoState of MindFly, Fly, Fly so highThe airports are now finished:Portland, Boise, SeattleLewiston never gotta startIt was supposed to be an Interna...
Posted by Laurie Garrison on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:36:00 PST

Virtual Reception

Hello and Welcome to my virtual studioThe reception is on goingDrop in anytime and make a comment on my artworkI suppose there's some schmoozing going onThe drinking of whatever you likeThe Manging on...
Posted by Laurie Garrison on Thu, 22 May 2008 07:41:00 PST

Then & Now

In some ways, Marin County and San Fran Measure up and surpassMy home town of MoscowWhere I was bornIt was the thing to do back thenMove up in the worldThe hippy cultureFull of psychadelic be-insMy pa...
Posted by Laurie Garrison on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:18:00 PST

Strangler

Such is lifeThe wear and tear on the frameThe health...as if I didn't go all outNow this, the strain and pain On the areas I've already over-usedHow much is a new back and neck?Oh, you cannot buy a ne...
Posted by Laurie Garrison on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:03:00 PST