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Laurie

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Well, me... I have a great sense of humor. I am quick to recognize and deeply appreciate it anytime anything or anyone is any good at all! I tend to look for the evil in people right away. Saves a lot of grief.
I'm easy going, fairly high strung, fiercely loyal to people I love, and really value openness and honesty in myself and other people too. I enjoy all kinds of people,and I have friends who are wild and friends who are mellow because there's a lot to be said for anyone who's just good people.
I like adventures, getting lost on purpose, stuff like that.

I like books to a neurotic degree, but I can throw down and party like a banshee when the occasion calls!! So, I'm SO handy with tons of worthless facts about many and varied things that may amaze you if you had only heretofore been aware of my retarded drunk side.
I think of myself as timeless and hard to pin down and I like it. I dig getting carded. If only I could bottle that shit.
Bottom line, I am always just ME, and when I don't feel like me, I usually say "I feel weird... I mean, weirder than usual"


I'm a fine artist and my specialty is realism in various mediums.
I take commissions for landscapes or seascapes in oil...
watercolors...
or pastels...
I also work in graphic mediums including pencil, Pen & Ink and charcoal.
See my other photos for more samples.


My Interests

Art, Photography, Graphic Design, Music, Writing, Poetry, computer geek stuff, Web apps, E-bay, Antiques, Hiking, Biking, Camping, Gardening, Cooking, Nutrition, Fitness, Sustainability, Homesteading, Genealogy, Day Trading, Learning, Linguistics, Teaching, Helping People, Holding a course while navigating the waters where those with no conscience too often prevail...

I'd like to meet:

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and in the middle, you see the blue center-light pop, and everybody goes ahh..."

Music:

A list that goes on and on.... Latest: Ray LaMontagne, Til the Sun Turns Black

Movies:

Little Big Man; 7; Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, The Devil's Advocate; Practical Magic; Sin City, Alice's Restaurant; Chelsea Walls; Little MIss Sunshine, Fried Green Tomatoes, Office Space, The Spitfire Grill, Forrest Gump, White Oleander, Vanilla Sky, Natural Born Killers, Bram Stoker's Dracula; French Noir; La Femme de la Pont, Man Ray's 20's and 30's Avant Garde; The original Bad News Bears, Meatballs, Taxi Driver, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, You and Me and Everyone We Know, The Big Labowski, The Usual Suspects, Bourne "whatever", K-PAX, Contact, ANY FILM WITH: Gary Oldman, Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman; Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Jodi Foster, Meryl Streep

Television:

I watch PBS, the HIstory Channel, A&E, Cooking shows, comedy, that sort of stuff...

Books:

Mostly non-fiction and reference. Philosophy, Religion, Science, Psychology, Health, Metaphysics, Biographical, DIY, how-to, Identification Guides, etc.

Heroes:

My Grandparents