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lauren

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About Me

Bright eyed and awestruck, I've got so much love to give.

My Interests

The universe!

I'd like to meet:

Vagabonds and happy degenerates. People who need a hug. Nihilists with good imaginations. Jean-Pierre Leaud. Kindness.

Fairy book creatures, epic heroes and heroines. On this sad world, let us unleash some MAGICCCCCCCC.

Music:

Acid House Kings, The Essex Green, The Bird And The Bee, Regina Spektor, Arrah and the Ferns, The Eames Era, The Triangles, Architecture in Helsinki, Kimya Dawson, The Violent Femmes, BEULAH, Dr. Dog, New Buffalo, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Jens Lekman, Destroyer, Cocorosie, The Softlightes, The Kinks, The Dears, Joanna Newsom, JOSEPHINE FOSTER, Four Tet, William Elliott Whitmore, Stars, Tullycraft, Emiliana Torrini, Explosions In The Sky, The Unicorns, CAMERA OBSCURA, The Notwist, The Decemberists, OF MONTREAL, The Ditty Bops, Tender Forever, Tilly And The Wall, Beck, Field Music, Gravy Train!!!!, Matson Jones, Get Him Eat Him, Mates Of State, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, The Fiery Furnaces, The Pipettes, The Dandy Warhols, Islands, Sigur Ros, Broken Social Scene, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Sufjan Stevens, Beulah, Rilo Kiley, Hot Chip, Hot Chip, HOT CHIP, David Bowie, THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, Devendra Banhart, The Magic Numbers, The Boy Least Likely To, The Arcade Fire, Andrew Bird, Imperial Teen, The New Pornographers, Jens Lekman, Belle And Sebastian, The Beach Boys, The Cure, Elf Power, The Ramones, (well, that's a few.)

Movies:

La Strada, Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, My Life To Live, Pan's Labyrinth, Les Enfants du Paradis, Shortbus, The Happiness Of The Katakuris, Brick, Alice in Wonderland, Velvet Goldmine, Breathless, Tank Girl, Love Actually, Annie Hall, A Clockwork Orange, 8 1/2, Me And You And Everyone We Know, Sleeper, Quadrophenia, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Through a Glass Darkly, Stolen Kisses, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Rock n' Roll High School, Scenes From A Marriage, any Fred and Ginger movie, anything with zombies, French new wave, Fellini, Godard, Truffaut. Oh ESPECIALLY Truffaut.

Television:

weeds, arrested development

Books:

Sometimes I feel like I'm a writer, and in these moments I will probably speak to you about books at great lengths. Catch me then, cowboy.

Heroes:

My big sister Courtney (my heart my heart my HEART) and Pam Houston.

My Blog

ADVENTURE TIME (but this time in real life and not on youtube.)

As you can probably tell because I work in front of a computer all day and have been so focused on my upcoming trip, I'm going to Africa (which I am saying because it seems nobody knows where Senegal,...
Posted by lauren on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:57:00 PST

hey there mr. happy squid, you move so psychedelically

Oh things oh things oh things.  They is a-changin'.One! I'm going to Africa! In a couple months I'm heading over to Senegal to work in an orphanage and teach kids for maybe two months. The details ...
Posted by lauren on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:00:00 PST

he knows about abc, 123, xyz--but he don't know about XTC!

hey, i'm a redhead.well, a blonde redhead.the internet:Tonight I ate the biggest pie I've ever seen in my life with some democratic political candidate who was having a campaign party and a steak dinn...
Posted by lauren on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:07:00 PST

"Did you realize how often we use the phrase 'plummeted to our death'?"

Holy shit I'm eighteen and I motherfucking went BUNGEE JUMPING today and I'm not going to stop talking about this for like eight years and I feel so goddamn accomplished I don't know what to do.Julian...
Posted by lauren on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:18:00 PST

cloudy with chance of BEAR!!!

So I guess some english-speaking guy teaching japanese schoolkids decided that a fun end-of-the-year project would be to give the students xeroxes of Penny Arcade comics with the words whited out and ...
Posted by lauren on Fri, 05 May 2006 02:38:00 PST

we don't have to be stars exploding in the night, or electric eels under the covers

This next week I'll do nothing but try to speak french and write poetry. The end of the semester's good when your classes are the swell kind. My final assignment for french: watch a French film and ...
Posted by lauren on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:29:00 PST

top secret letters from the tootsie pop man!

Ohhhh man. So two weeks ago I got really drunk and my friends and I were discussing the various legends we heard in childhood of the tootsie pop wrappers that had the Indian shooting a star from a bo...
Posted by lauren on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:54:00 PST

ghazal written at five am, nice amphetamine dawn

Never sleep! Never sleep! Read my shoddy poetry!(FORENOTE: ghazals are a form of urdu poetry and unlike western poetry they have no linear arc. they're simply couplets with subconscious connections...
Posted by lauren on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:53:00 PST

....hello from EAU CLAIRE? xiu xiu, we need to talk.

WTF Xiu Xiu!!!  Why is the first song on your album called "Hello From Eau Claire"???? When were you in Eau Claire?  Why was I not with you?  And for God's sake, if you were even in Eau...
Posted by lauren on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:13:00 PST

tanked on tanq, or: why i love my roommate

My roommate has a love affair, a love affair, a love affair. My roommate has a love affair, a love affair with gin. Wait, wait, rewind. Go back a couple martinis. We were much more, well, co...
Posted by lauren on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:20:00 PST