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Laika

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About Me


"...he tried to think of something to say to comfort her, something to stop the hurt from spilling out of her eyes. So he had said 'always,' so she would not have to be afraid of the change...He had said 'always' to convince her, assure her, of permanency" (Toni Morrison)

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My Interests

coffee and cigarettes, books, the home and garden channel, eyeliner, tennis, looking up words on a thesaurus, french, psychology, the color green, balance (rather, the attempt to attain it), my bed, artsy fartsy things/people...

I'd like to meet:

the cool kids

Music:

anything i can dance to- which is just about everything ;) electro, nu rave, trance, dance, house, rock, alternative, indie-pop, lounge, electronica, trip-hop... to name a few: radiohead, thom yorke, incubus, muse, pearl jam, nirvana, pete doherty, red hot chili peppers, weezer, the killers, the stills, the shins, the postal service, death cab for cutie, charlotte gainsbourg, pinback, the arcade fire, the unicorns, metric, stars, morcheeba, dntel, modest mouse, bright eyes, belle+sebastian, cursive, brand new, ivy, razorlight, air, justice, simian mobile disco, erlend oye, daft punk, royksopp, tiesto, infected mushroom, orbital, massive attack, sneaker pimps, moby, paul van dyk, armin van buuren, benassi, cafe del mar, mylo, paul oakenfold, ferry corsten, james holden, sander kleinenberg, carl cox, gabriel and dresden, mauro picotto, markus schulz, junkie xl, above and beyond, starkillers, nick terranova, coldplay, arctic monkeys, rachmaninoff, chopin, beethoven, tchaikovsky

Movies:

moulin rouge, chocolat, edward scissorhands, benny and joon, being john malkovich, donnie darko, amelie, hero, big fish, garden state, farewell my concubine, american beauty, romeo+juliet, pulp fiction, almost famous, kill bill vol.1+2, ed wood, motorcycle diaries, royal tenenbaums, i heart huckabees, life is beautiful, the pianist, turtles can fly, boondock saints, breakfast at tiffany's, scarface

Television:

i have a weakness for trashy/celeb reality series. its garbage, i know.

Books:

i devour them. inhale them. live off of them
my list:
anything murakami-
norwegian wood,
south of the border west of the sun,
the elephant vanishes,
wild sheep chase,
hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world,
dance dance dance
anything anne rice-
pandora,
the vampire lestat,
blood and gold,
blackwood farm,
queen of the damned.
EVERYTHING existential-
sartre,
camus,
nietzsche,
kafka,
beckett,
auster
lets not forget the classics-
pride and prejudice
tale of two cities
anna karenina
old man and the sea
tom sawyer
great gatsby (most of Fitzgerald actually)
PG Wodehouse
kurt vonnegut
atlas shrugged (and other ayn rand novels..)
dostoyevsky (that russian fatalism really gets me going :P)
so many more...

My Blog

Sodome et Gomorrhe

sodom and gomorrah...two cities destroyed because of their sins.the story goes something like this. god decides that the two cities would be destroyed because the sins of their people were beyond savi...
Posted by Laika on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:22:00 PST

Le Théâtre de l'Absurde

Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in t...
Posted by Laika on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:54:00 PST

soundtrack of my life

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?So, here's how it works:1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)2. Put it on shuffle3. Press play4. For every question, typ...
Posted by Laika on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:50:00 PST

je voudrais savoir...

what you are listening to at the moment...what song gets you to stop whatever you're doing and just listen...which lyrics make you pause and think...which playlist is on repeat........*//incubus- pend...
Posted by Laika on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:38:00 PST

existentialist

For the first time in my life, I realized that I was nothing, absolutely nothing... I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It ...
Posted by Laika on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:37:00 PST

blurb

screaming my lungs out to understand the complexities of being and nothingness, finding the neverland that exists only in my mind, reading stranger(s) and the end of the world, crawling into my own pa...
Posted by Laika on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:17:00 PST