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Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30*

..when the light is brighter...

About Me



new bio. and begin....i was born and raised in annapolis. i played soccer and basketball. i painted. i went to school, skipped class to spend time in the art room and sometimes got caught. i ran to art school after high school, spent a year and a half in baltimore, living with my soulmate sister friend:) in an apartment that had a 30 pound beehive in the floor. the ceiling collapsed twice, i punched a window out, the wall shot sparks out at us, and a thief broke in and stole a little tv and took some jewelry and hid it under an orange street cone that was in our hallway. (who dOeSn't have an orange street cone in their hallway...duh) i dropped out of school because my art which once reflected me had turned into glittery green hand sculptures and paintings of medusa with gold spray painted animals marching around her head.(can't get a visual? that's a good thing) i then went to beauty school. why? don't really know. i was not a beauty school drop out. i moved out to jackson hole, wyoming and it was there that i lived in a tiny studio apartment....that was in an old motel called sleeping indian motel. i didn't have a kitchen and if i listened to my stereo with the lights on while drying my hair, i would blow the circuit and the entire motel would lose power. i spent most of my nights writing music while the snow covered world around me silenced everything else besides the coyotes. amazing. the mountains became my family. they were what i saw every morning when i woke up. every morning driving back and forth from home. never changing. everywhere i went in that town, they were the constant. i learned how to fall on ice, which i did so many a time. i also learned that it hurts. i travelled around the west, then i moved east.i write music. constantly. i actually can't stop. i'm okay with it...it's cheaper than a therapist, which i would need a lot of if i didn't play music. i'm in love with the movie amelie. i think she is me. i think i am her. i believe everyone should be a dreamer, living in their most absurd imaginations but keeping a toe in some reality so that you don't float away. i love big sunglasses. they make the world look funny. i feel drunk when i wear them sober. they make me laugh. i could live underneath a grand piano. i could also live on the edge of the ocean . i can stare at the horizon line for hours, watching waves. i don't actually know how to play the guitar. i don't know the names of the notes. i recently named my guitar felina. she's blue. and my soulmate sister friend bought her for me. i didn't have enough money. then i went to an atm and got cash out and handed her a pile of 20's. she said she felt like a prostitute. that was kind of sad for her. why am i even writing about this anymore? hmmm...top ten ...i'm doing it...
1 tom robbins....still life with woodpecker
2 pale yellow
3 standing on a mountain and remembering how to breathe
4 dramatic dance interpretations
5 singing songs about someone's sweatshirt or a plastic shark that eats toes
6 talking to ghosts that might not actually be there
7 existing in secret societies that are based on shooting stars
8 soy chai
9 not understanding how to grow up
10the feeling of my guitar resting on me...keeping me warm and safe.
:)i'm a dork.
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Member Since: 9/11/2005
Band Website: laurabrino.com
Band Members: LAURA BRINO...vocals, guitar, piano/ KEN CRAWN...drums/ AURELIE SHAPIRO...cello/ GEOFF GILL...bass
Influences: hmmm....so many...i'll list the musical influences first(no particular order)...joni mitchell, ani difranco, damien rice, elliott smith, jeff buckley, the weepies, ray lamontagne, rachael yamagata, the be good tanyas, the album leaf, sufjan stevens, bright eyes, fiona apple, tori amos, keren ann, cat power, bob dylan, death cab for cutie, sun kil moon, andrew bird...and other things like...the mountains, the ocean, sandcastles, books about the history of love, blankets that have stories in them, love letters, being barefoot, campfires, people...old, young, quiet, loud, happy, sad, lonely, popular, loved, wise, new...people....i love the people that you meet once...even if it is just for a few minutes...but somehow they leave their footprints on your soul, and no matter what you can't shake them. they inspire me...to write songs about them and their lives...in ways i can only imagine.................................................

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My Blog

new.songs.ideas.album.face.house.

i have a new house. i have lots of new songs. i have many new ideas. i don't technically have a new face, unless you're counting the everchanging myspace profile picture. i guess i do have some new fa...
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:08:00 PST

me and my mermaid

i've been at the beach for 6 days now. before then i had been up in maine...right on the coast. i've worked probably less than a week this whole summer...and i'm pretty poor right now. i don't really ...
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:18:00 PST

all i need is a back porch and a veggie sandwich

ahhh...i'm back home. i just spent the past two and a half weeks travelling around in my trusty car again. my dear friend and i went out west. i didn't play any shows. i just absorbed all of the sceni...
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Thu, 17 May 2007 09:34:00 PST

the blue eyed russian

yes. i fell in love with a blue eyed russian boy. i was on a boat in the middle of the sea, stranded by choice, with no guitar or song to ground me. i fell in love with the feeling of floating and i f...
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:12:00 PST

*A STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL TRIP AVAILABLE ON ITUNES*

yay!the full album "a strange and beautiful trip" is now available on itunes....also available through cdbaby.comwww.cdbaby.com/laurabrinoloveL*
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:04:00 PST

a thought on stress

i've had to cancel a few shows this past week. and it makes me very sad. i've been dealing and still dealing with some frusterating medical issues...and luckily i'll be fine...but it just forces me to...
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Tue, 16 May 2006 09:11:00 PST

my long lost cafe*

last night i played at the cafe. the cafe that held one of my first "real" shows. i had a great time...great crowd:) i was able to play a lot of new songs. and then i found myself at the piano. i have...
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:49:00 PST

***new CD available!!***

yay! i finally have gotten things together...and my cd is officially available online:) it seems like it's taken forever...but it's done...and available...and it even has a UPC code on the back:) .......
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 04:50:00 PST

*INDIE MUSIC SHOWCASE RADIO INTERVIEW*

hey everybody....last night i did an interview with the boys from monksmedia.com....Jeff, Dean and Aaron...i had a great time...played some songs live and spilled some embarassing facts thanks to an e...
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:40:00 PST

the lost songs...

...so about a year ago, i found out that mass amounts of poetry, song lyrics, streams of conciousness had been erased from my computer...it was very sad. i cried. i didn't back up. because i don't ...
Posted by Laura Brino*playing eastport-a-rockin6/21 at 2:30* on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:46:00 PST