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Laura

About Me

I absolutely adore rejection. I refuse to tell you how rad my pet is. Perhaps I'll tell you about my couch instead. My couch is sooo comfortable.I tend to fall in love with ideas. A work is never finished, you simply must abandon it.

My Interests

True conflict.Vigilantes. Bikram Yoga.My new long boards!! Scars. Hot Rods. Mechanics. Metal Documentaries. Metal. Punishing Riffs. Sagan. Old country. My father. Not lying. Swimming.Keeping the nose clean. Meaning business.Anal Cunt song titles. Judas Priest. Bushy, unkept eyebrows. Confidence.Red Heads.Jane Fonda in Coming Home.Grape jelly. Creatures.Character. Class.Going to shows ALONE. Not staying up for days on stimulants. Reason. Chrisopher Walken's face in the Russian Roulette scene of Deer Hunter.Music that makes me cry. Pale Skin. Chipped teeth. Gray Hair.Understated conduct.Tolerance.Thunder.Traveling alone.Long Hair.Wind.Good posture.Those who don't cheat.The pop of Jeremy Wray. The old Thrasher Mag. Steve Berra in '94. Doing what you can. Trying harder. The old Juxtapoz!! Humility. Toes.Stars.Galaxies.Refuting claims. Laughing at overly paranoid conspiracy theories.Giving the finger to my boss.Fine clothing and wine.Getting in your face.Writing. Breathing Hard.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with superior music taste.

Music:

Quicksand, Faith No More, Sleep,Fugazi, Iron Maiden, The Melvins, 90 Day Men,TITBAG,Grave,Cheap Trick,Diamond Head,Torche,(LISTEN to Torche)The Cars, Kreator, Brutal Juice, Trans Am, Dinosaur Jr, Disrupt,Bowie, Jesus and Mary Chain,Neurosis, helmet, Soilent Green, PANTERA, Motley Crue,Fudgetunnel, Electric Wizard,The Beta Band,Echo and the Bunnymen, Fleetwood Mac,Judas Fucking Priest,THOR,The Cult,Brutal Juice,Neil Young, S.O.D.,Burn,Unwound,Fireside,Mogwai, Dead Milkmen, Cure, High on Fire, Possessed,Cat Stevens (Muhammed Stevens??) Death,Nebula,Napalm Death, Suplecs,Slayer,Macabre, Kyuss!!Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Idiotflesh, EyehateGod, Vader,Brutal Truth, Terrorizer, Yes, King Crimson,Celtic Frost,Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin,Chet Atkins,The Jesus Lizard,Wes Montgomery,Wagner, Slayer, ATDI, old Verve,GvsB, Trouble, UNSANE, and many many more...I refuse to sit here for six hours listing all of the bands that make me cry.

Movies:

Annie Hall,Midnight Cowboy,Hannah and her Sisters,Crimes and Misdemeanors,Rad, Deer Hunter,TransAmerica, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,(the best movie I've seen in years, along with TransAmerica) Full Metal Jacket and just about every WAR movie ever made,(I have brothers to thank for this)Schindler's List,(SO in love with Liam Neeson in this film...unbelievable) The Toy,Marked for Death, Hard to Kill,Pretty much all Old Segal Stuff, (the new stuff is horrible) The Last Dragon,It's all gone Pete Tong, Dead-Alive, Bloodsport,Naked Lunch, Fists of Fury, Instrument, Sweet and Lowdown, Gleaming the Cube, Eternal Sunshine, Coming Home,PREDATOR,Commando, The Punisher,Rambo,Running Man, Goodfellas,Gia, Harold and Maude.

Television:

Trauma-Life in the E.R. Discovery and Discovery Health (only when pregnancy shows are not on)

Books:

The Beauty Myth, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Naked, Promiscuities, Cunt, (most of these fall into "Women's Studies" and issues)Wasted, Hating Women, Stone Butch Blues, Valencia, Female Chauvinist Pigs,Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates,The Jungle,Metamorphosis,The Trial,(love Kafka)Catch 22,Ape and Essence,Brave NEw World,Animal Farm, 1984 and most Negative Utopia material, All things Sartre... "Hell is OTHER PEOPLE" (a favorite quote from No Exit, Masterpiece!!Me talk Pretty one Day, Autobiography of a Yogi,You Shall Know our Velocity,I HOPE THERE IS BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. Go get it, right now. It is ridiculous. And please don't question how I can possibly enjoy this book and still be a "feminist."

Heroes:

Woody Allen, Walter Schreifels,Page Hamilton, the writers of Vice Magazine and the Onion, Naomi Wolff, Dave Eggers, Peter Fonda in Easyrider, Ozzy,Cru Jones in Rad, Steve McQueen, Jeremy Wray god-bless-him, Kris Markovich, Alan Peterson, Josh Kalis,Danny Montoya,Eric Koston,Sal Barbier, and Ed Templeton.

My Blog

Dancing with the Dead, but not in my Dreams

As many of you know, I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. I bolted from this organization when I was 13 because : A. I am a thinking person. B. I like to have, um, what's that one thing called? U...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:31:00 PST

Gaze the little Heartbreaker

I've been gone for a few days. I went to Fort Worth and then Austin to follow Torche because they are the best thing that's happened to me in years. Ridiculous. I cannot say enough about these musici...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:38:00 PST

Skin on Skin, Makin Love again

I just got home from New York City. What...a...ride. If you need me I will be lost in a sea of covers and mega-fluff pillows for the next five days. I am worn out. What intrigues me the most about New...
Posted by Laura on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:27:00 PST

Melvins and Other Mumblings

So after the Melvins/Business show in Houston, I decided to go to a couple of other Texas shows. I made this decision with some hesitation, after listening to my father spout off words like "irrespons...
Posted by Laura on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:34:00 PST

Beautifully Arrogant??

I spent the evening with one of my girlfriends last night, and towards the end of our outing, she began to whine about how difficult it is to be so beautiful, and how she wished that she hadn't turned...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:00:00 PST

A Gravitation to the DARK

The Dark Side... I have had every intention of writing about this, but I have put it off because it is so incredibly involved, and I take it very, very seriously. However, I f...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:54:00 PST

Disappointments and Bunkness in NYC

Sooo...I went to New York last week to see a few shows, and I really just wanted to get out of town because I needed something to HAPPEN for God's sake.(You know, when the mundane day-to-day...
Posted by Laura on Mon, 22 May 2006 04:30:00 PST

PVC pipe...up the tailpipe

Anyone read the paper today? Prepare to be nauseous. Two 17 year-old "skinheads" brutally attacked a fellow classmate, apparently because he tried to kiss a 12 year old girl. What I mean by bruta...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:02:00 PST

A society is best judged by the way they treat their animals

Who said this? Someone help me out. Was is C.S. Lewis, perhaps? I can't remember, but to me, this statement is beyond profound. I was sitting at Catbirds the other night having a glass, and whenever I...
Posted by Laura on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 10:42:00 PST

the new hardcore

So I found myself at a show last night at Walter's on Washington. I'd never heard of any of the bands, and I'd never seen any of the people in the crowd before. (mostly because they were all much, muc...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:02:00 PST