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About Me

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Old GamesIt's never too late to stop killing people.
pain but not damage,
dissonance but not assonance,
waiting but not waiting upon
I'm INFJ .
Erik and Laura-Marie Magazine is a free, text-heavy, digest-sized perzine that includes book reviews, poems, childhood memories, non-fiction, excerpts from letters, provocative quotes. Issue 43 is out and new. Tell me if you would like to trade or just get one for nothing. I love to share.
http://erikandlauramarie.blogspot.com
What old issues stated well.
I have a mental health zine. It's called functionally ill , and it's free too. Ask you ye shall receive.
http://dangerouscompassions.blogspot.com
My blog is if you would like to see what in the world I'm up to.
I'll listen to you with intelligence--I'll tell you what I'm thinking and what I'm up to. That should be enough.
I like long letters on paper, learning a friend's handwriting, memorizing secrets,
thinking, understanding, waiting to understand, context,
flowers, pollen, the color of flowers, leaves, how it feels to need water,
learning, listening, growing up, becoming more solidly myself, feeling tension loosen and leave.
I hold onto memories and feelings for a long time.
I need a lot of time by myself and a lot of quiet.
I really love people.
very favorite zines:
* Return the Gift
* Doris
* You Don't Get There from Here
* 28 Pages Lovingly Bound with Twine
* new to everything
* the work of Teeny Tiny Press
* chapbooks by Katie H
* authentic experience
* functionally ill
* Erik and Laura-Marie Magazine
* Pocket Trick
I thrive on independent media because it connects me to real people as opposed to corporate interests and the self-esteem-destruction of adverts. It stimulates me and heals me, which is my favorite combination.

My Interests

not buying things, just going places.

trying to figure out what god's like.

food, plants, people.

feelings and what to do with them.

death and illness.

zines, how we talk to one another, how we really learn.

conversations, letters, laughing.

bees
flowers
god
soap
goats
ants
culture
learning
feminism
gender
sex
sexuality
art
religion
cemeteries
Vedanta
Holy Mother Sarada Devi
daydreaming
friendship
experiments
vegetables
letters
thick stationary
meaning
listening
waiting
maps
childlessness
travel
Berkeley, California
Portland, Oregon
Wales
fruit
noodles
vegan Japanese
Indian food
Mexican food
people
truth
beauty
Day of the Dead
ceremonies
ritual
incense
peace
actual cats
They Might Be Giants
Virginia Woolf
garlic
child development
adult development
trees
the moon
the desert
succulents
ideas of illness
human rights
poverty
socialism
anarchy
sleep
dreams

I belong to the Sri Sarada Mahila Samiti of Northern California .

I'd like to meet:

Old friends, new friends. Zine-makers, artists, locals. Anyone who has time for me or will make time for me.

Good listeners, people who do what they say they will, people who are adventuresome about food and like intimacy.

Kind-hearted readers, people who didn't stop growing up when they grew up. If you're not really smart, I'm not really interested.

Lambs in sheep's clothing. Lambs in wolf's clothing. Goats are good too.

friendship application

Music:

They Might Be Giants, The Smiths, Morrissey, Innocence Mission, Antony and the Johnsons, David Bowie, Bach, The Sundays, Sufjan Stevens, Sviatoslav Richter, the Hindu devotional music that I sing in choir

unknowns with a lot of heart, singing in the shower, singing in the grocery store, people who make music at night instead of watching TV together

Here's my To Be Heard pile.

* Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis
* Vauxhall and I by Morrissey
* Your Arsenal by Morrissey
* They Got Lost by They Might Be Giants

I would like to invite you to make me a tape or CD and contribute to my musical education. But it might take me one year to listen to it.

Movies:

Movies either bore me or overwhelm me. It's rare to find one that does neither.The last movie I saw was a documentary about astronomer John Dobson and his cosmology--it's called A Sidewalk Astronomer.

Television:

TV has no place in my life.

Books:

There are about 40 zines in my To Be Read zine pile. I did too many trades.

But here's a list of some all-time favorite books.

* Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
* No Other Life by Gary Young
* Toast by Nigel Slater
* The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
* Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
* Cherie by Colette
* The Haunted Pool by George Sand
* Grapefruit by Yoko Ono
* Cathleen Tramutolo's trailer park stories.

I like non-fiction about gender and sexuality. I read a lot of blogs.

Heroes:

my husband for being supremely patient and pure of heart, repeating to me over and over the things I need to hear, and giving me everything beyond the bounds of what seems to be human capability

cows for being beautiful and entirely themselves while giving us their milk and bodies for such thankless consumption

Holy Mother for the steadfastness of her transformative love

Frida Kahlo for being the best painter ever and giving us all the example of how to be deeply ourselves

those who do something heartfelt that culture can't approve or understand, braving the glares and confusion of others

true lovers everywhere

My Blog

equal

There are certain rules we learned on television about matches of force. One will be superior. If not, both may die in mutual homicide. But more likely, there will be a standstill standoff....
Posted by Laura-Marie on Mon, 12 May 2008 12:35:00 PST

road trip

I The subtle distinctions made by locals. A perfect example of how a woman and man can be friends. II So-so friends on a road trip. III A vampire on an atrocious hunt, a masterful ba...
Posted by Laura-Marie on Thu, 08 May 2008 09:46:00 PST

ELM 43, functionally ill 3

Hi, friends. I have two new zines. The first is Erik and Laura-Marie Magazine 43. It features lots of poems, reviews of all the books I read during the past six months, some recipes (broccoli soup, ...
Posted by Laura-Marie on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:49:00 PST

learn

I People afraid of memory. Some afraid of bad memories. Some afraid to lose good memories. These are what all scientists believe. II On the other hand, many people are homeless and about...
Posted by Laura-Marie on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:28:00 PST

rain

I reach over and turn on the wind- shield wipers myself....
Posted by Laura-Marie on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:41:00 PST

the search for community

Do you want to meet her? A day, maybe, before it fades. Say "I can have sex all night long!" Is my DVD naughty? Get your eyes fixed. Tell whether you like that. We buy houses fast. Nothin...
Posted by Laura-Marie on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:13:00 PST

vacation

four bikes,three surfboards
Posted by Laura-Marie on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:32:00 PST

trip

I motorcyclist broken down on a bridge II our reflection on the tanker truck III fieldworkers' cars...
Posted by Laura-Marie on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:08:00 PST

a letter

Everything's okay here, and fall has come to Sacramento pretty much. I cling to what's considered sanity and try to be a good person I make choices and watch their consequences. The days are f...
Posted by Laura-Marie on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:03:00 PST

Halloween

The year before the riots the year after the riots? We went there looking for trouble. Oh, bored kids. I tried to light a hay bale on fire. My lighter was inadequate. We were wearing cost...
Posted by Laura-Marie on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:28:00 PST