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lara

Saving the world, one smile at a time.

About Me

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You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 75% Green Lantern 75% Superman 70% Iron Man 70% Supergirl 67% Wonder Woman 67% Robin 64% Batman 60% The Flash 55% Hulk 45% Catwoman 40% You are intelligent, witty,
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power and responsibility.
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My Interests

drinking water, over-thinking things, getting fancy, social fabric, general sassiness

I'd like to meet:

i love bloc party check it out bloc party - helicopter video

Music:

Includes: Morcheeba, Stereolab, PJ Harvey, The Chemical Brothers, Bloc Party, Amon Tobin, Broadcast, Shivaree, The New Pornographers, Autolux, David Bowie, Jamiroquai, Loop Guru, Shellyann Orphan, Venus Hum, An April March, Gorillaz, BEck, My Morning Jacket, Jason Collett, Olive, Spearhead/Michael Franti :), Pavement, Pink Floyd, any Back To Mine album, Radiohead, Suede ...and I have a weakness for cheesy 80's music.

Movies:

Run Lola Run, Amelie (sorry Cam), Dr Zhivago, Kung Fu Hustle, Como Agua Para Chocolate, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fifth Element, Crash, Buckaroo Banzai, High Fidelity, Love Actually. Recently seen & liked: Stranger Than Fiction. I yawned during: An American Haunting. I fell asleep during: always fall asleep during movies lately.

Television:

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (The Colbert Report), Blackadder, Waiting For God, Simpsons, Sopranos, Deadwood, NOVA. Latest guilty viewing habit: damn E! with their Girls Next Door and their Dog the Bounty Hunter, etc

Books:

I am reading Joe Hill, the first book by my new employer, and the one that started it all :) Also love Isabel Allende, and just gave the new Amy Tan to my mother-in-law for Xmas (she was stoked!!)

Heroes:

My sweetie. My super friends. Mine and my sweetie's family. (Can u blv his sibs are in a band together? I love that.) My new boss.

My Blog

travels

For the past two weeks, I've spent time in the bayou of Louisiana and New Orleans.  I've had plastic tubs of bright red boiled crawfish dumped on the table in front of me (come in 4 lbs - for one...
Posted by lara on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:18:00 PST

manifesting reality

A few months ago, Jason found a movie called The Secret, a totally cheesy representation of the idea that we manifest our own reality.  Duh. Those of us who have been doing this for yea...
Posted by lara on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:35:00 PST

Can't Bear It!

On Discovery right now... story about Timothy Treadwell, aka "Grizzly Man," an unbalanced bipolar washout actor who became obsessed with nature and bears, to the point of irrationality. Hours of vide...
Posted by lara on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:24:00 PST

A Scanner Lightly

Well, I'm a total hypocrite, huh? Months after posting the benefits of being single I'm living with my boyfriend.  Huh.  For those of you not caught up, my life is now pretty boring.  ...
Posted by lara on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:41:00 PST

mostly good things

I need sleep.  Sleep is overrated.  Boys are good.  Boys who smile at you with their whole hearts on their faces while they play Resident Evil 4 with you and threaten to keep you if you...
Posted by lara on Tue, 02 May 2006 10:53:00 PST

Being single - benefits vs drawbacks

Drawback: if you have to pee really bad, and you only have one bathroom, you can't just walk in on your roommate. Benefit: getting the whole bed to yourself. Benefit: don't have to check in with anybo...
Posted by lara on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:48:00 PST

Wierd but fascinating diseases

I'm morbidly fascinated by wierd diseases, especially at 3am when I can't sleep.  In this case, lymphatic filariasis.  It causes "swolen limbs and scrotums."  Caused by worms that invad...
Posted by lara on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:46:00 PST