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Layla

NOTHING MAKES ONE SO VAIN AS BEING TOLD ONE IS A SINNER.

About Me


The best description of me, ever:

"She loved the sea only for its storms, and the green grass
only when it grew in patches among ruins."
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient trees, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
- Rilke

My Interests

Learning. Frankenstein. Photography. Dias De Los Muertos. Sleeping on the cool grass under the hot sun. Playing with my puppy.

I'd like to meet:


I'm pretty sure that Oscar Wilde is my soulmate. May I please meet him in another life.

"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures.
I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever
that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

"Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner."

"I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood."

"We are all in the gutter, just some of us are looking at the stars."

Music:

AC/DC. Blondie. Patti Smith. The Rolling Stones. X. Mickey Avalon. Th' Legendary Shack Shakers. David Bowie. Iggy and the Stooges.

Movies:

Pulp Fiction. Carnival of Souls. Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Boondock Saints.

Television:

Deadwood. The Girls Next Door. Sex and the City.

Books:

Fitzgerald and Camus. + Madame Bovary. Crime and Punishment. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Heroes:


Meaning both the fictional character and Boris Karloff.

Also, Nostradamus, because he's tight.

My Blog

Nic and Lauren's Wedding.

TONS OF PICTURES. Which makes sense because it was tons of fun. ...
Posted by Layla on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:11:00 PST

Spring Break 2007 Photos.

Disclaimer: Lots of photos.Now that you've been warned... The Ride to Prunedale NYCWashington Square Park Waiting to get on the ferry to the Statue of LibertyWalking in the rainBrooklyn BridgeSome pr...
Posted by Layla on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:27:00 PST

Success!

A lovely someone bought me a wonderful 35 mm camera for my birthday, and I guess I wasn't feeling particularly creative (though I'm still not really, but it'll come back to me soon - I hope!) and I di...
Posted by Layla on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:29:00 PST

ALL HALLOWS EVE

We get hyphy and go dumb. No really, we did. THURSDAY AFTERNOON This is what happens when you carve pumpkins with stoners. First, you get distracted and go to the beach to gather sand and to drink bee...
Posted by Layla on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:00:00 PST

Santa Barbara

It is truly great down here. I don't start class until Thursday and I've been here since Sunday just exploring the campus, chilling on the beach, hanging out with old friends, trying to make new ones,...
Posted by Layla on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:04:00 PST