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Laura

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About Me

Book indexer (which means a writer of back-of-book indexes, not a librarian - I seem to have to explain this all the time), musician (synth and theremin, most recently of the alas-imploded Novellas ), perennial dabbler, premature/late bloomer, inveterate lie-abed, sometime polaroidist , lifelong secret science geek. I was born on Friday the 13th. I invented a language when I was about eight but it didn't really catch on and I threw away the dictionary for it. I work freelance at home, reading books, being a semi-recluse and taking an afternoon nap with my three cats. I have more teacups, teapots, and vintage aprons than one girl needs to have. I've appeared in National Geographic without having to take part in any tedious polar expeditions. I can't drive a car and don't want to. My Inner European is Russian, my Rock Star Name is Lux Velveteen, and my Star Trek Personality is Seven of Nine.

My Interests

Reading, dreaming, kitties, fashion, art, vintage stuff, coffee, the 1920s, guacamole, caesar salad, lolcats, animals of all kinds, staring at the moon and the stars, challenging scientific orthodoxy

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I'd like to meet:

Groovy guys and girls all over the world

Music:

Classical, ambient, new wave, postpunk, synthpop, big band, Bollywood, lounge, surf, opera, rai, AC Marias, Aimee Mann, Amy Winehouse, Andreas Scholl, Annie Lennox, Arvo Part, Au Pairs, B-52’s, Beastie Boys, Bill Nelson, Billy Cowie, Bjork, Blondie, Boswell Sisters, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Captain Sensible, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, Chills, Chopin, Church, Clinic, Cocteau Twins, Cramps, Cranes, Cure, Danielle Dax, David Bowie, David Byrne, David Sylvian, Debussy, Desmond Dekker, Devo, Donovan, Duke Ellington, Eartha Kitt, Edith Piaf, Elastica, Emmylou Harris, English Beat, Erik Satie, Eurythmics, the Fall, Gary Numan, Hank Williams, Henry Badowski, Henry Mancini, Iggy Pop, James Brown, Jethro Tull, Joan Armatrading, John Foxx, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Judy Garland, Kate Bush, Kimberley Rew, Klaus Nomi, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, Laika and the Cosmonauts, Laurie Anderson, Lene Lovich, Lora Logic, Marianne Faithfull, Marlene Dietrich, Martin Denny, Marty Willson-Piper, Marvin Gaye, Mazzy Star, Moody Blues, Morrissey, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nico, Nirvana, OMD, Paris Combo, Patsy Cline, Perez Prado, Peter Murphy, Plastic Bertrand, Portishead, Pretenders, Prokofiev, Radiohead, Robert Fripp, Robyn Hitchcock, Roches, Roger Miller, Roxy Music, Serge Gainsbourg, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie, Slapp Happy, Slits, Sly and the Family Stone, Smiths, Snail, Soft Boys, Specials, Stephin Merritt, Steve Kilbey, Suburban Lawns, Syd Barrett, Talking Heads, Thomas Dolby, Thomas Newman, Tipsy, Tom Tom Club, Trilok Gurtu, Ursula 1000, Yann Tiersen, Yma Sumac, 70's disco, 90's dance, very old jazz, foghorns, crickets, cicadas, trains, ATM machines, the Conet Project, VLF (very low frequency) Earth signals ("natural radio") , the brilliant wild parrots outside my window in the mornings ...

Movies:

Orlando, The Naked Civil Servant, Grey Gardens, The Beales of Grey Gardens, Oscar and Lucinda, Harold and Maude, Amelie, The Wizard of Oz, Wings of Desire, Run Lola Run, Betty Blue, Ghost World, La Belle et La Bete, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, The King and I, Big Fish, Photographing Fairies, Truly Madly Deeply, Pauline and Paulette, Cabaret, This Is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, Fitzcarraldo, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rear Window, Trainspotting, films by the Brothers Quay, Corpse Bride, Aelita Queen of Mars, Robot Monster, Iris, The Legend of Leigh Bowery

Television:

PROJECT RUNWAY!!, Law and Order, The Daily Show, all those shows on bizarre diseases and stuff on the Discovery 'Health' Channel (or, The Channel of Things That Can Go Horribly, Horribly Wrong), Dr. G Medical Examiner, Six Feet Under, The Office BBC, What Not to Wear, The Twilight Zone, The Avengers with Emma Peel

Books:

Denton Welch, Quentin Crisp, Nabokov, Jane Austen, Flannery O'Connor, James Herriott. Favorite Books: A Voice Through a Cloud, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, Lolita, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Heroes:

Quentin Crisp, Denton Welch, Jean Cocteau, Frida Kahlo, Nancy Cunard, Christine Maggiore, Peter Duesberg, Leigh Bowery

My Blog

dream diary

I was part of a group of people who needed to escape in a spaceship & unfortunately there was one fellow who was plotting to have only himself and his friends escape. There was a small silver device t...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:25:00 PST

hearing voices

So I just tried replacing an erm-that's-too-bright lightbulb while it was still a bit too hot, and of course I dropped the damn thing and it smashed into a zillion shards on the wood floor. (And then ...
Posted by Laura on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

dream diary - Invasion of the Japanese Pop Art Building-People

I'm walking in a city ... there are all these new buildings proliferating and gradually the realization comes that they are an alien life form taking over. Uniformly white, rounded, ceramic, Japanese ...
Posted by Laura on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:46:00 PST

dream diary - in the House of Lords

I'm in the House of Lords, which is actually a very long narrow white room containing a very long table at which all the Parliamentary Lords sit, facing the opposite blank wall. I wonder how they get ...
Posted by Laura on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:40:00 PST