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laura c l

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About Me



i like surprises and walking through building sites at night. i work and play too hard sometimes. i love little things and the gaps between the words. i curated a performance/art cabaret with the poet J L Williams... we called it SiLENCiO and it was a small legend of raging beauty. i make performances with Highway Diner, play in a band called Laura Lewis and the Tea Dance Orchestra. Sometimes I write, sometimes I teach, sometimes I just like to listen and watch. I produce live events and put on club nights called HERE with electro duo Swimmer One.Still feel like this some days:Lynne Ramsay's absobloodylutely amazing video for Doves 'Black and White Town'

My Interests

the beer, live music, adventures in urban landscapes, architechture, performance art, playing my guitar and writing songs, writing words down, walking, psychogeography, burlesque and cabaret, going out, staying in, eating!

I'd like to meet:

curious people who aren't afraid of getting things wrong. people who are afraid of getting things wrong.

Music:

ai ai ai... here we go: godspeed you black emperor, mogwai, boards of canada, wolf eyes, go team, nina nastasia, p j harvey, the breeders, fly pan am, errors, the magnificents, labradford, pansonic, jandek, scatter, the pixies, patti smith, tom vek, futureheads, sons and daughters, phoenix, shellac, kings of convenience, u.n.k.l.e, dj shadow, rjd2, melvitronica, like minded people, aberfeldy, cocorosie, tara j oniell, throbbing gristle, the pop group, chris and cosey, a certain ratio, the slits, tammy wynette, the yeah yeah yeahs, scissor sisters, the hornicator, dominic waxing lyrical, blondie, lcd soundsystem, kate bush, kate bush, kate bush, current 93, nurse with wound, wounded knee, prince, leonard cohen, four tet, devendra banhart, smog, bonnie prince billie, boom bip, blur, kraftwerk, dogs die in hot cars, biffy clyro, badly drawn boy, the cure, tv on the radio, kristin hersh, the longpigs, the dears, garbage (of old), nirvana, pavement, clinic, beethoven, john cage, philip glass, erik satie, my bloody valentine, bjork, elvis costello, jeff buckley, the clash, new order, go-betweens, add n to x, exias-j, r.e.m, the four tops, de la soul, del the funky homosapien, deltron, gorrilaz, antony and the johnsons, mylo, park attack, franz ferdinand, elo, leonard cohen, neil young, etc.. etc... etc.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XBabozrPGA

Movies:

www.danielwarren.tv Highway Diner and Swimmer Onemulholland drive, everything by david lynch, wings of desire, ratcatcher, nightmail, charlie chaplin movies, buster keaton movies, anything by lars von trier, anything by lukas moodyson, anything by hal hartley, kung fu movies, zombie movies, documentaries... i just watched 'capturing the friedmans' and am totally unearthed by it... garden state, harvey, les enfants du paradis, trois coleurs, solaris, er.. I cant be arsed typing anymore... lots... of... films...

Television:

I don't really watch t.v.But after a run of a show and after i finally get some sleep i like nothing more than to spend a whole day in my jammies watching back to back episodes of: Black Books, Weir's Way, Armando Iannuci Shows, The Simpsons, Buffy, Serenity, Alias, er... losing th power of memory... um... quantum leap??

Books:

j l williams, don paterson, e e cummings, j g ballard, phillip k dick, tim etchells, gilles deleuze and felix guattari, billy shakespeare, guy debord, sam beckett on and on and on... oh yeah... and that reprobate Jenny Lindsay (books that talk... incessantly :-D )

Heroes:

heroes are for people who need saved...losers save the heroes

My Blog

The Point

I didn't notice the clouds darkening above you violent so suddenly frommy side in our bed put your bare feet onto grass and stoodbrooding and empty gazing off out to sea the foam thickening below yout...
Posted by laura c l on Fri, 16 May 2008 09:15:00 PST

never again

stamp the evidence of your shame where kisses would fallmaking hammers of the same hands that know the achefor that place on the body of the beloved that should beis not under your palm but wretched n...
Posted by laura c l on Tue, 13 May 2008 06:23:00 PST

what im doing now

minds eyesand thirstof tonguedrawing a lineup the backof your legsyour bodya horizonsnaking hipbelly downgiven overyour nakedskin and thatperfect asswhose musclekneads beneathmy full handsand I climb ...
Posted by laura c l on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:05:00 PST

that thing you said stays with me all day

messages fly between these handsa carrier pigeon or broken spartannightmail train or tealeavesyesterday you were an old manon great junction streetyou told me i was a bastard andyou were going to kill...
Posted by laura c l on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:06:00 PST

Portobello Beach (before a sleepless night of warm skin against pains)

there is a camera this time its crude plastic eye floods withthe gloriousness of escape of plain spring in slanted light that excites the dogs and waves neds scuff branches stripped like bones ac...
Posted by laura c l on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:28:00 PST

Instal Review

Scotsman 19 Feb 2008MusicWANDELWEISER ***JOHN BAIN AND MARK BAIN ****LEE PATTERSON ****JOHN BUTCHER *****ACID/NYLON ****INSTAL, THE ARCHES, GLASGOWDEEP in the belly of the Arches on Friday evening, li...
Posted by laura c l on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:51:00 PST

Instal 2008 - The Scotsman 9th Feb 2008

FESTIVAL1. InstalImagine yourself on an abandoned railway track, hidden, or so you think,when suddenly two kids shout from a bridge above: "Hoi! Yous shouldnaebe doon there, ah'm callin the Polis!"Tak...
Posted by laura c l on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:20:00 PST

Glasgow/Edinburgh (for Alex)

Glasgow andEdinburghThey both wait.He for 3,600 She for one hourHe in good faithOf herShe oblivious to the slowness of the secondscreep Is somewhere else.is wrongthe wrong version of herselfshe didn't...
Posted by laura c l on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:37:00 PST

touchpaper

she thought they wereFire and Stone and Airand those things unties her scarf ghost fabric kisseshis neck and binds where cracks split the length of spineand what was dry crumples to the floor with the...
Posted by laura c l on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:03:00 PST

Laura does Dallas - Well, Edinburgh... in pants and cowboy boots

If you're out and about and you fancy such things...I'm reading some poems at Big Word this evening, 8pm Jazz Bar, Chambers St. It'll be bitchin', there's the Shellsuit Massacre, the X Men, the wonde...
Posted by laura c l on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:19:00 PST