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laura

wearing the mask of olden times.

About Me

here is the church:
www.myspace.com/laurabalch
here is the steeple:
www.flickr.com/photos/laurabalch/

My Interests

atmospheric beasts, bastrop state park, campari, daydreams, eastern light, flotsam, glockenspiels, horsetails, intersecting sectors, jetsam, kinfolk, lemon custard, maps, nordic legends, optical illusions, packages in the mail, quasars, ramekins, small guitars, talking, undercurrents, viable solutions, whimsy, xylitol, yesteryear, zeppelins.

I'd like to meet:

simply, the best.

Music:

penguin cafe orchestra, harry nilsson, bill fay, bob dylan, tomorrow come someday, patron saints, magic surprise, can, cluster, the bachs, colin blunstone, glen miller, the zombies, nick drake, leonard cohen, benny goodman, caetano veloso, bridget st. john, francoise hardy, jens lekman, danny kulick, david bowie, jem targal, jonathan richman, the everly brothers, the kinks, belaire, dan deacon, arthur russell, yellow fever, pat gatti, r. stevie moore, ariel pink, stars as eyes, white williams, animal collective, heron, dino valente, pete dello, yo la tengo, brian eno, tom nehls, neil young, chopin, satie, beethoven, mussorgsky, bartok, etc.

Movies:

days of heaven, badlands, thin red line, the new world, fantastic planet, spirited away, radio days, the long goodbye, dementia 13, the night of the hunter, strangers on a train, the 400 blows, l'avventura, the life aquatic, hoosiers, the bad news bears.

Television:

freaks and geeks, arrested development, the cosby show, the office, barkley's barnyard critters, mr. show.

Books:

the once and future king, griffin and sabine, his dark materials, the lord of the rings, njal's saga, canterbury tales, black hole, cave in, ninja, teratoid heights, the adventures of tintin, hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world, the twenty-one balloons.

Heroes:

tintin, narwhals, and rainbows.

My Blog

what can i tell you about this and that?

i feel so awash in my life these days that sometimes i feel like i don't have much time to reflect on it. this is a very alien state for someone as self-obsessed as i am; someone who has always taken...
Posted by laura on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:37:00 PST

what i do

it's interesting making the internet. since moving to the bay area i have come to realize that about 100% of people residing here make the internet in some way shape or form. startling. even more s...
Posted by laura on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:26:00 PST

hello again.

hi everyone. i haven’t been very diligent about writing things in this blog, and as some people have pointed out recently, i haven’t been all that great about keeping in touch by phone or...
Posted by laura on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:40:00 PST

the ultimate cliché

to all who read this blog (i.e. the only important people) i pose the following question:should i go to austin during south by southwest and play a house show with a pre-supplied backing band stocked ...
Posted by laura on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:28:00 PST

what’s written in the light

hi hello.so, it has been a pretty long time since i have written in this blog, which prompted someone to ask me recently if i was avoiding writing in this blog. the answer? "no, not really." mixed w...
Posted by laura on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:10:00 PST

all i want for christmas...

is to not be constantly inconvenienced by christmas!!today defeated me a little bit. not totally, but a little bit.i have been very much looking forward to my solitary xmas. a time to hang out by my...
Posted by laura on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:20:00 PST

stood up

just like no one likes dick cheneyno one likes to be left hangingit's not so hard to call and say"regrets; i won't be by today"in fact it's simple as can beto text and say "i can't get free"or even se...
Posted by laura on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:41:00 PST

the long weekend

this weekend was cratzia.a thousand things.a few of them:1. a neat art show at a neat surf shop by the ocean that was filled with tree houses and fake stained glass windows.2. an amazing lady that san...
Posted by laura on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:38:00 PST

come sail away

so this weekend was super great for a couple of reasons.a. jason chronis was in san francisco and he is my absolute favorite! we drank campari, watched pete and pete, ate fantastic identical breakfas...
Posted by laura on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:22:00 PST

thankful givings

hi hello to everyone. it is the day after thanksgiving. this was a weird one for me, because normally, i am the generous host taking in all the orphans and making them multiple stuffings and pies an...
Posted by laura on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:32:00 PST