Lawrence - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a "grown-up indie kid" with a dash of yuppie-ness from my preppy, suburban upbringing. That's the best description I've been able to piece together so far.

Please do not send me add friend requests without talking to me first. If your band is any good I will find you!

My Interests

Food, Wine, Friends
Modern and post-modern art as expressed through various mediums incl music, sculpture, architecture and furniture
Boutiques
Martinis
Metalworking
Cats and Dogs
Conspiracy Theories
Out of body experiences
Hot socks
Making it up as I go along

I'd like to meet:

Artists, musicians, and idiot savants. People to go shopping with. Random people make life interesting.

My life advisor, Courtney, has suggested that I should try to meet someone. The main qualifications are:

FemaleGood manners and honestyClean
Bonus points for cute shoes. :)

Music:

What's spinning (in my MP3 player, head):

The National Art Brut Lady Sovereign Cats on Fire Malajube Peter Bjorn and John Fujiya and Miyagi

Bands I can listen to more than ten times:

Magnetic Fields Lucksmiths Flaming Lips Weakerthans Wilco

Movies:

Recently: Breakfast @ Tiffany's, Grindhouse, Shortbus, Hedwig, Fellini's films, The Virgin Suicides, Squid and the Whale, Garden State, Sideways

Television:

yes, a great band. I've mostly stopped watching TV... but occasionally I succumb to Lost, Grey's Anatomy and BSG.

Books:

Klosterman's Killing yourself to Live, Emotional Design, Confederacy of Dunces, Freakonomics, Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking, Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation, Mix Tape, Fountainhead, Manners, Dressing the Man, welding books, a book on Color Photography.

Heroes:

Elise@SomaFM, Eddie Argos, Anna Oxygen, Facehunter, Manolo the shoeblogger , MasaManiA

My Blog

Went to the Ballet today

My friend had a free ticket to his performance so I joined him at the PNB. I'm slowly learning to appreciate form and movement. Although some pieces were way conservative and kinda boring,...
Posted by Lawrence on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:22:00 PST

New cat!

I just adopted a 8 month old kitty named Buzz from the shelter. (See pics)
Posted by Lawrence on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:53:00 PST

Back from Provo

I made it back from Provo, UT today with no new religious beliefs nor a thirst for a cold beer. (They actually serve booze there now!)LDS really does a good sell job when you're on their turf by...
Posted by Lawrence on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:57:00 PST

Need a place in QA

I want to try living in QA or denny triangle-ish this spring. If you spot a nice place, let me know!
Posted by Lawrence on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:11:00 PST

By popular demand...

I'm going by my given name again.-Lawrence
Posted by Lawrence on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:51:00 PST

Eddie Argos from Art Brut said I should start a band...

So let's all quit our jobs and start a band! Who is with me? Not all at once now.
Posted by Lawrence on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:45:00 PST

Vacation!

I finally got around to taking a verly long vacation that included:Bumbershoot weekend... 3 days of bands, comedy and fair foodTrip to vancity... couch surfing for 3 nights at sarah'sRecruiting trip t...
Posted by Lawrence on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:12:00 PST

Cats everywhere!

I spent hours at the humane society selling cats. I probably smell like 20 cats now! Anyone want to adopt a cat?
Posted by Lawrence on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:29:00 PST

Moving again

They hiked my rent so I'm moving again :(Any suggestions where?
Posted by Lawrence on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:34:00 PST

"drove to Chicago... all things go, all things go..."

I'm headed out to Chicago in a few weeks for SIGMOD 2006. This will be my first Sufjan state I've been to. I'm so stoked!
Posted by Lawrence on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:13:00 PST