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Laura

islandcoconut

About Me



You Are Fozzie Bear
"Wocka! Wocka!"
You're the life of the party, and you love making people crack up.
If only your routine didn't always bomb!
You may find more groans than laughs, but always keep the jokes coming. The Muppet Personality Test

My Interests

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Chuckling; Music; Chess; Smart money management; Proper dental hygiene; Time in / Time out; Valerie; Rufus and Myrna; Reading; Writing; Art and the pursuit of happiness; Fingers; Things that go pop; Idle tasks to forget the crimes by; Daydreaming; Focusing; Accepting the specious; Buying records; Buying clothes; Finding my distant relatives; Distant lands; Board games; Card games; Soft socks; Kittens, puppies and baby ducks; Pie; Dominos; Arrival and departure; Driving like a pimp, I'm sorry that should be P-I-M-P; Movies, Books and Pictures; Chocolate; Discovering what Nicolas Cage means to me; Checking it out; Not touching it; Poking it with a stick; Living life as an AppleBottom'd Freak; Keeping the Crossover Away From the Underground; Saying, "Thank You"; Dotting P's and Q's; Not grumbling; Small time shoe habits; Coffee and what it does to me; Running while listening to music whilst high on caffeine; Running while listening to music and watching football...caffeine; Football; Flowers; Peanut Butter and Jelly; Cheese; Broccoli and Chewing Broccoli. I really do. I USED to love broccoli so much I could cry; Hostess Cupcakes...so moist - wetted with preservatives I'm sure; PANCAKES; Good; Dissecting evil; I share my birthday with Ray Davies, Jean Paul Sartre, the Royal Babe himself, Prince William and summer; Endorphins / Pronunciation Key (n-dôrfn) n.: Any of a group of peptide hormones that bind to opiate receptors and are found mainly in the brain. Endorphins reduce the sensation of pain and affect emotions / [endo(genous) + (mo)rphin(e).] You Are A: Pony !
Who doesn't love a pony? You are one of these miniature horses, renown for your beauty and desired by many. Full of grace, you are a beautiful and very special animal, with a long, flowing mane that blows in the breeze.

You were almost a: Puppy or a Duckling
You are least like a: Turtle or a Bear Cub The Cute Animals Quiz

Music:

Just make it sound good. Here are some of the examples I can think of...

...the songs: So Nice, She Belongs To Me, Moon River, Like A Rolling Stone; songs sung in Portuguese and French - but we all love those; beats. warm, delicious, hard, cold, crisp and psychedelic ones; all the things and all the sounds that go POP; sun; rain; space; all that I've left out, and the rest that's just to come...

Movies:

Point Break; Blow-Up; Masculin Feminin; The Science of Sleep; Criminal Woman: Killing Melody; Wild Style; Betty Blue; the chick flick that made me cry last night; Buffalo 66; City of God; Monty Python; The Life Aquatic; Rushmore; Fellini; Breakfast At Tiffany's; Annie Hall; the bittersweet aftertaste of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Performance; Drugstore Cowboy; Midnight Cowboy; The Graduate; Quadrophenia; Crimes of Passion; Dangerous Liasons; West Side Story; True Stories; Starstruck (New Zealand - New Wave); Velvet Goldmine; New York Doll; Fast Times; Outfoxed; The Big Lebowski; late '60s - early '70s pretentious art pieces featuring excellent soundtracks - like my men; The Opening of Misty Beethoven...

Television:

30 Rock, Simpsons, Football, Sunday Morning, Monty Python, Arrested Development, Family Guy, Amazing Race - I want to be on this show. You get to travel all over the world and workout. Awesome. No - I mean Amazing...

Books:

The Great World Atlas, Francais 1, SP-505 Owner's Manual PDF, Crossword Puzzles, 1000 Record Covers, Psychotic Reactions, Last Exit to Brooklyn - Selby, Jr., Paris Interiors, Simone de Beauvoir, Borges, Calvino, Sartre, Joyce, Vonnegut, The Consolation of Philosophy, Autobiography Of A Yogi, Pauline Reage is very intriguing, Tiajuana Bibles, Tracy Landecker, Photography I...

Heroes:

Makers.

My Blog

Glass Breaking, Mirrors Quaking.

The Five Minute War... breaking glass with our head.
Posted by Laura on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:36:00 PST

My Name Virtually in Lights...

My first published review...Click to dig. It is also in print and cut down from my original but I'll just take the littling challenge. I'm stoked.Next? Wire....
Posted by Laura on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:27:00 PST

When In San Francisco...

Write about it for a couple days.A couple notes and a review from last night.
Posted by Laura on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:48:00 PST

Party Planning For the Lord.

Dylan, Dogs and Cash.
Posted by Laura on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:57:00 PST

How I Play.

Truth is, I have actually lost at this online more times than I care to admit......
Posted by Laura on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:47:00 PST

Expository Comp.

As I have a tendency to often times both Chick Flick out on this thing as well as editproofedit my blogs here (which I really feel horrible about - do they send out notifications each time?), I wanted...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:19:00 PST

Radar Love.

New Radar Bros. is really good. I think it's very friendly. Like a Pink California Floyd.They've made some great harmonies. Outstanding production. With sounds similar to Mercury Rev's, Deserter's Son...
Posted by Laura on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:54:00 PST

Skyscrapers At Night, Moonlit Delight.

I think I'm happiest when I'm Downtown at night. It's sweet. A still and woken satiation made by the moonlit dichotomy of Big City L.A. I see my mind stirring behind any group of 64th floor windows. A...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:11:00 PST

Nina Simone, God Damn.

I love Nina Simone. She used a lexicon of her own discovery and it made her a master translator. I would've loved to have seen what she would've done with Borges. I've started reading Wilde. It'd be n...
Posted by Laura on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:58:00 PST

Hillary On Meet The Press.

Help. Please. Why Obama and Edwards over Hillary? She sure can debate. So am I just blindly impressed by her political-debate speak? I just don't know if I can believe what I'm seeing from her but  i...
Posted by Laura on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:17:00 PST