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julie lauren

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About Me

are you there blog? it's me, margaret

My Interests

academia. adorno. aesthetics. alienation. althusser. ambiguity. anthropology. art bell. art rock. awe (both with and without shock). bataille. benjamin. conet project. confession. cults. cultural theory. definitions. delusions of grandeur. divinity. downward spiraling. edie sedgwick. fanaticism. feral children. fetishism. film. foucault. fringe elements. gender confusion. gnosticism. heartsickness. hebdige. hegemony. heresy. hysteria. icons. literature. margins. mixtapes. modern tragedy. movements. pomophobia. poor personal decisions. pop culture. religion. sade. situationism. slippery sliding. things that grow out of soil. this american life. two hour baths. vaneigem. warhol (the movement not so much the man). sleeping through it...

I'd like to meet:

Nathaniel Buckner. Those adorable Welch's grape juice kids. The dude who invented motion-sensor paper towel dispensers so i can punch him in the face.

Movies:

The Comedians of Comedy. Tarnation. Network. Institute Benjamenta. La Jetee. The Royal Tenenbaums. The Big Lebowski. angels in America. Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains. Over the Edge. Lenny. Little Darlings. Heathers. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Showgirls. Breaking the Waves. The Conversation. Office Space. Anything Tennessee Williams. Chinatown. The Warriors. Fallen Angels. Blue Velvet. The Last Picture Show. Apocalypse Now. Anything starring Tori Spelling and/or appearing on Lifetime: Television for Women. Weekend at Bernie's (one, not two).

Television:

I've recently fallen in love with Mad Men on AMC. Wondershowzen. Buffy. The Office(s). The L Word (pardon its theme song, please). Motherfucking Cocksucking Deadwood. Fawlty Towers. Roseanne. The Office(s). Forensic Files. Cold Case Files. I Got Sick of My Wife So I Put Her Body Parts Into Fourteen Different Hefty Bags Files. Law and Order(s) but not that new one with Bebe Neuwirth, who bothers me for some reason. Arrested Development.Six Feet Under. old music videos on VH1 Classic. Carnivale. Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Fabulous Lives of Terrible People. Infomercials. Blue Screen. Spanish Variety Shows. QVC's Doll Show. Medium. Large. Snack-sized. Etc. I especially enjoy watching an entire season of a show in less than 24 hours.

Books:

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender. Shot in the Heart. Geek Love. Mother of Sorrows. The Rachel Papers. Two Serious Ladies. Another Country. Edie: An American Biography. Blindness. Please Kill Me. Women In Love. All things Carver. All things Salinger. All things O Connor. The Long Goodbye. Heart of Darkness. Winesburg Ohio. The Man Who Fell to Earth. City of Glass. Autobiography of Red. In Cold Blood. Cloud Atlas. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. The Moviegoer. The Hotel New Hampshire. Why Did I Ever? Pretty much everything Sarah Waters has ever written. Glossy sci-fi/ fantasy paperbacks. Too many magazines. Too much theory.

Heroes:

usually prove disappointing.

My Blog

i don’t like it.

i've been having horrific, incredibly detailed dreams again. they all involve being involuntarily detained  in one kind of institution or another (be it a mental hospital, boarding school, summer...
Posted by julie lauren on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:58:00 PST

oh, sweet jesus

i know i'm often a terrible person, but i swear to christ i found this one by accident... Thursday, July 26, 2007 ...
Posted by julie lauren on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:58:00 PST

i can waste hours looking at these

vintage snapshots- and some of them are dirty.  
Posted by julie lauren on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:42:00 PST

cirque du sogay

I'm actually going to a vegas show tonight. And it's not just any vegas show, it's cirque du soleil's naughty show- zumanity. There'll be boobs and clowns and acrobatics all at once! Adults only! No k...
Posted by julie lauren on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:11:00 PST

if you are planning on wearing a sexy halloween costume you are a douchebag.

that is all.
Posted by julie lauren on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:16:00 PST

the only proof i need that humanity is devolving...

is the fact that Walker, Texas Ranger lasted for EIGHT seasons and is aired in over ONE HUNDRED countries. I realize it was cancelled almost 6 years ago, but I hadn't ever seen an episode of it unti...
Posted by julie lauren on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:55:00 PST

BRAIN- EATING AMOEBAS ARE WORSE THAN HIPSTER-EMPLOYING AMOEBAS

 I am never swimming in a lake again. Granted, I've been in a lake less than three times in the past fifteen years so this declaration of intent is ultimately meaningless...but I really, really m...
Posted by julie lauren on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:20:00 PST

i hate the eagles. sometimes don henleys solo work touches a good spot, but even still...

"man, he's never going to climb down off that fence, is he? fuck." "well, that's what desperados do. they sit in the rain on fences." "okay sure, but for a desperado he sure does cry a lot." ...
Posted by julie lauren on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:50:00 PST

loud dreams

Last night my grandfather (long dead, and rightly so) was dealing crack out of the old folk's home, but he kept putting lumps of wet toilet paper into tiny ziploc bags and trying to pass them off as t...
Posted by julie lauren on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:44:00 PST

jay bakker article

or, julie goes to church
Posted by julie lauren on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:36:00 PST