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Laura

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About Me

My name is Laura and I'm an english student at Bristol. I'm originally from Chichester.

My Interests

literature, indie music, Audrey, cranberry juice, politics, Daniel Bruhl, kitsch things, jack daniels, YBA, pottery, strawberry bon bons, Sylvia Plath, Miffy, indie nights, pugs, sweets in general, photography, independent cinema, Fishbourne Roman Palace, Jimmy Stewart, 80s POP, origami, painting, Lithuania, star cake eyes, gladioli....and more!

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Fry/Oscar Wilde/Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde

Music:

80s POP (not Bros!), Soulwax, Smiths, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Clash, Belle and Sebastian, Morrissey, Tom Vek, The Chalets, Beck, Marcus Hessenberg and the tulips , The Velvet Underground, Bjork, Goldfrapp, Kings of convenience, Talking Heads, Le Tigre, The Rapture, Joanna Newsom, Lou Reed, Postal Service, The Shins, Howling Bells, Forward Russia, David Bowie, Pixies...

Movies:

O Brother where art thou (+ anything Cohen Brothers), Heathers, The Royal Tennenbaums, Fight Club, North by Northwest, Amelie, He loves me he loves me not, Garden State, Bad Education, Zatoich, The Edukators, Footloose, Pretty in Pink (dare I admit!!), Lost in Translation, Virgin Suicides, Breakfast at tiffanys, Life Aquatic...

Television:

I miss TV!! I used to watch Spaced, Teachers, Jools Holland, Channel 4 news, QI, NEIGHBOURS, Boosh, Peep Show. Cry :(

Books:

LCL- D. H. Lawrence, Lolita- Nabakov, Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger, Collected works- Oscar Wilde, The Aeneid, The Idiot/Crime and punishment- Dostoyevsky, Enduring Love- Ian McEwan, Norwegian Wood, Evelyn Waugh, The Stranger- Camus, Straight(narrow) is the gate- Andre Gide, Ovid, anything Virginia Woolf, Kid- Simon Armitage, Thomas Hardy, Virgin and the Gypsy, The Bell Jar, Pablo Neruda, Stephen Fry, Homage to Catalonia- George Orwell, Fury/The Ground beneath her feet/Midnights Children/Satanic Verses/Shame/The Moors last sigh- Salman Rushdie, The sheltering shy- Paul Bowles, Mythologies- Roland Barthes, Philip Larkin, Wordsworth, Vindication of the rights of women- Mary Wolstencraft, Kit Marlowe, Seamus Heany, Paul Muldoon, Anna Karenina- Tolstoy, Motorcycle Diaries- Ernesto Guevara, Bonjour Tristesse- Francoise Sagan, Rebecca- Daphne du Maurier...

Heroes:

Pablo Neruda..