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Laurie

Everybody knows that NO means YES, just like glasses come free on the NHS

About Me

I need direction. I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

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My Interests

Knitting, red wine, black coffee, green tea, orange juice, polaroids, music, dancing, self-delusion, dressing up, dressing down, art, cutting my hair, general flamboyance, poncing around Berlin, cold baked beans with salad, cooking things from my Delia Smith cookbook, magazines, fab icelollies, playing my beautiful bass, cheesey mashed potato, buying nonsense from ebay, singing in the shower, making clothes, market shopping, sunshine, hats, minty peas, appologising for where I live, playing records in the park, market trading, wearing long skirts and dresses - it's a feeling you just can't beat!

I'd like to meet:

Boys that look like Davy Jones, Boys that sing like Davy Jones, Boys who dance like Davy Jones and Davy Jones - D'ya think he'd dance with me?! img src="http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/davy-jones.jpg"

Music:

Pulp, Jesus Licks, Judee Sil, Nico, TheCure, Nancy Boy, Au Pairs, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Kate Bush, Talking Heads, Yo La Tengo, Japan, TheMonkees, Magazine, Electralane, TheSmiths, TheGo-Betweens, TheMagnetic Fields, Suede, TheBeatles, Adam Ant, TheBangles, Jack, 2Raumwohnung, Hefner, Gravy Train, TheKoreans, Zoot Woman, David Devant, Mount Sims, Bumblebeez, Fox, Josef K, Cud, Cocteau Twins, TheVelvet Underground, Lee Hazlewood, Bob Dylan, TheFall, David Bowie, Julian Cope, Killing Joke, Chet Baker, Amy Winehouse, Gang of Four, Trademark, TheClash, Bauhaus, Tim & Jeff Buckley, LCD Soundsystem, Neu!, The Associates, ESG, Prince, B-52s, Devo, TheZombies, Swell Maps, Small Faces, 13th Floor Elevators, Kleenex/Liliput, Television Personalities, StrangeIdols, Love, RoxyMusic, Sparks, LifeWithoutBuildings, OtisRedding, Jesus+MaryChain, Blondie, Television, LeonardCohen, SpankRock, A.R.E.Weapons, BirthdayParty, Primitives, RichardHell, RickJames, Architecture In Helsinki, Joni Mitchel, Billy Bragg, Iron & Wine, brilliant Corners, Nina Simone, Fleetwood Mac, Artery, 2.3, Concretes...phew!

Movies:

Me Without You, Empire Records, Donnie Darko, Labyrinth, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Goonies, A Clockwork Orange, Heathers, Little Voice. Abigails Party, Dance Till Dawn, Amelie, Pretty in Pink, Shallow Grave, leon, Spinal Tap, Back to the Future, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Secret Of My Success, Hard Days Night, Wierd Science, Metropolitan

Television:

Jason King, Pugwall's Summer, The Monkees, Sex and the City, Teachers, Round the Twist, This Life, Game on, The High Life, The Day Today, Brass Eye, My So-Called Life, Steve Coogan (in all guises), Dark Place, Peep Show, The Wonder Years, Spaced, Absolute Power, The Mighty Boosh, Saved By the Bell, Pheonix Nights, Spin City, Postman Pat, The Riches, OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"


Books:

Strangeland - Tracey Emin, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Sean's Book, Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner - Warning this is not an A-Z of Leeds!

Heroes:

Sean Kimber, Julie Verhoeven, Stuart Sutcliffe A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it. All I ever really want is sugar. The rest is strictly for appearances. People expect you to eat protein and you do so they won't talk. (If you decided to be stubborn and order the cookie, you'd wind up having to talk about why you want it and your philosophy of eating a cookie for dinner. And that would be too much trouble, so you order lamb and forget about what you really want.)

My Blog

Hair - the conclusion

I've decided. I'm going for the bob. If i end up looking like eithera - Joan of Arcb - Henry Vorc - Rory circa 2003please will one of you shoot me? x
Posted by Laurie on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:27:00 PST

Going for the chop

Right it's been decided - i have to tame this unruly mop.  But the question is how?  Do I - a) get the bog-standard indie girl bob b) get the twiggy 'do again or c) get a bowl cut ala erin ...
Posted by Laurie on Sun, 06 May 2007 04:46:00 PST

Homework avoidance tactics

I need some new more inventive ideas. Yesterday all I managed was to sit on the net all day buying cds and chatting to boys. Oh and I made a hat. It was dull though. How else can I fill the time t...
Posted by Laurie on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:04:00 PST

B-Side Baby

First there was me, then there was a song, now there is a record.  I've been immortalised on vinyl.  I have a copy - you should have one too. It's white. Oh and pretty darn great too!
Posted by Laurie on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:32:00 PST

Time to stop buying cds?

I left my itunes on by accident when I left the house this morning, I was listening to artery.  When I returned home 14 odd hours later it was still merrily making it's way through the B's - and ...
Posted by Laurie on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:21:00 PST

Mr Bump Plaster

Some people say that time is a great healer.  Over the last few months I have come to realise that some feelings we experience in our lives are written in indelible ink.  The best we can hop...
Posted by Laurie on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:12:00 PST

A rant about pop music, kids and thongs

I used to be able to cheer myself up by singing along to the radio non-stop until my head was so full of words and tunes that nothing else could squueze in there and make me sad. What happened? Why do...
Posted by Laurie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST