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lauren

laurenmacdonald

About Me

i love life.i love my california family - my girlfriend jillian and our roommate eli. i love my wisconsin family, which is too big to name and includes a whole lot of people i'm not technically related to. i love my hometown, even though i'd never want to live there again. i love the college i went to in wisconsin and all the professors there who gave me such incredible opportunities and helped me grow more as an actor than i ever thought i could. i love playing scrabble with my mom, drinking tea with my dad, and boating with my sister. i love going out for coffee with my parents when i visit them. i love my little potted flowers that i grew from seeds, and i love my little kitty izzy. i love my bed and i love my books and i love sitting outside. i love learning new things and going places i've never been to before. i love sunny days outside and rainy days inside. i love the cool, colorful days of fall and beautiful, still winter days. i love exploring big cities and slowing down in the country. i love the water and the mountains, little villages and bustling towns. i love trees and animals and flowers and looking for shapes in the clouds. i love breakfast. i love playing with babies and young children and watching them learn, and i love talking with older people and learning from them. i love meeting people who are genuinely happy and are eager to share that happiness. i love long walks, long talks, and long naps. i love the feeling that anything's possible and the feeling that everyone in the world is united by a common thread of humanity. i love art and music and theatre and literature and philosophy, and i love learning about and experiencing other cultures and languages. i love good food, good coffee, good books, and good company. i love spending time with the people who care about me, and i love my quiet alone time. i love that i'm starting a new chapter.

My Interests

classic literature, musical theatre, fifty-cent vinyl, reese's big cups, writing, horseback riding, yoga, coffee, history, travel, people, scrabble, languages, wigs, psychology, beer pong, baths, tree-climbing, art, roof-diving, naps, music, politics, fruitios, volunteering, extreme sledding, trick bowling, candle wax, empty notebooks, comfortable clothes, swingsets, sunsets, boating, walking, drag queens, diva stalking, pretty packaging, bubble gum pink nail polish, breakfast, library smell, pool tables, gourmet slushies, the map and globe store, restaurants, junk-picking, bowling ball bags, photography, philosophy, kung fu, thrift stores, and tea.

I'd like to meet:

the most strange and extraordinary persons.Get Your Own Voice Player Manage

Music:

George Harrison
Bob Dylan
The Who
O.A.R.
Pat MacDonald
Patti LuPone
Ben Harper
Howie Day
Jack Johnson
the Beatles
The Ben Taylor Band
Belle & Sebastian
Bob Marley
Ziggy Marley
Ani DiFranco
The Arcade Fire
Atmosphere
Blue Öyster Cult
Bread
Bright Eyes
Cake
Carole King
Cat Stevens
The Championship
Christine Kane
The Clash
Coldplay
Cyndi Lauper
Damien Rice
The Dandy Warhols
The Darkness
Dashboard Confessional
The Decembrists
DMB
David Bowie
Death Cab for Cutie
The Postal Service
Dios Malos
Dismemeberment Plan
Dolly Parton
The Doors
Eels
Elliot Smith
Finley Quaye & William Orbit
Michael Franti and Spearhead
Franz Ferdinand
Garbage
Gordon Lightfoot
Frou Frou
The Greatful Dead
The Hives
Hot Hot Heat
Idina Menzel
Imogen Heap
Interpol
Iron & Wine
James Blunt
James Taylor
Jamie Cullum
Janis Joplin
Jefferson Airplane
Jem
JET
Jewel
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon
John Mayer
John Prine
John Eff Kennedy
Joseph Arthur
Kasabian
Keane
The Killers
Kings of Convenience
Kristin Chenoweth
Lauryn Hill
Led Zepplin
The Libertines
Lynyrd Skynrd
Macy Gray
Madness
The Mamas and The Papas
Maroon Five
Mason Jennings
Melissa Ferrick
Modest Mouse
Muse
Nada Surf
Neil Diamond
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Drake
Nirvana
No Doubt
The Offspring
Ok Go
Ordinary Peoples
Otis Redding
Patrick Park
Patsy Cline
Dolly Parton
Paul Cebar
Pavement
Pepper
The Perishers
Phantom Planet
Phish
Pink Floyd
PJ Harvey
Primus
Radio Head
Ray Charles
Reliant K
Remy Zero
Ringo Starr
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Rouge Wave
The Rolling Stones
Roony
Rufus Wainwright
Rusted Root
The Secret Machines
Sheryl Crow
The Shins
Simon and Garfunkel
Sixpence None the Richer
South
Spoon
Steppenwolf
Steve Miller Band
Stevie Wonder
The Streets
The Strokes
Sublime
Sufjan Stevens
Sunblind Lions
Super Furry Animals
The Supremes
Ted Led & the Pharmacists
Thievery Corporation
Thin Lizzy
Thursday
Three Dog Night
The Thrills
The Trashmasters
Turin Brakes
Tyler Hilton
U2
Van Morrison
The Walkmen
Weezer
When In Rome
The White Stripes
Wilco
Will Smith
Willie Nelson
The Yardbirds
Yaz
Yes
The Youngbloods
Zero 7
Showtunes.
et cetera.

Movies:

Now and Then, Sleepless in Seattle, Breakfast at Tiffany's, When Harry Met Sally, Le Divorce, Under the Tuscan Sun, Alex & Emma, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Along Came Polly, Funny Girl, Cabaret, Hello Dolly, Rent, Candide, Something's Gotta Give, Mona Lisa Smile, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Last Time I Saw Paris, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Garden State, Spanglish, My Fair Lady, Bridget Jones movies, The Producers, Beaches, Raising Helen, Love Actually, Stage Beauty, Rounders, Indiana Jones, Ocean's 11, The Breakfast Club, V for Vendetta 101 Dalmations, and probably my all-time favorite: Cinderella.

Television:

Friends, Gilmore Girls, Everybody Loves Raymond, Grey's Anatomy, Sex and the City, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Golden Girls, Project Runway, Work Out.
Shut up; I watch the History Channel, too.

Books:

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tale of Two Cities, Little Women, A Separate Peace, Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, Sophie's World, August Frost, Rebecca Wells' novels,
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Slogging,
In the Walled Gardens, by Anahita Firouez. Art and Lies, by Jeanette Winterson. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire. Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver. The Bondwoman's Narrative. Free Bird. Catch 22.
Um... I've never read a Shakespearean play I haven't liked.
As far as poetry goes... Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, cummings, Eliot, Angelou, Frost, Hughes, HWL, Poe, Stevenson... just a few names that come to mind.
I'm always looking for good book suggestions; let one drop.

Heroes:

patti lupone.
barbra streisand.
judy garland. ethel merman.
bette midler. diane keaton. goldie hawn.
lorraine hansberry.
lauren bacall.
elaine stritch.
bette davis.
marilyn monroe.
meryl streep.
adudrey hepburn.
elizabeth taylor.
angela lansbury.
julie andrews.
katharine hepburn.
vivian blaine.
carol channing.
chita rivera.
gloria swanson.
barbara harris.
joan crawford.
brenda vaccaro.
liza minelli.
betty buckley.
lucille ball.
catherine II.
jackie o.
ellen degeneres.
kathy griffin.
oprah winfrey.
laura riddle.
lisa loeb.
jeanette winterson.
misty may and kerri walsh.

et cetera.

My Blog

Confessions of a Telemarketer

Confessions of a Telemarketer: Part One(a work of fictionalized nonfiction)I work on the fourth floor of the Yunger Executive building down on Broadway in Maple City. Every morning I wake at six, tak...
Posted by lauren on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:00 PST

What I've Learned About Owning Up to My Fears and Getting Real.

What does it take for people to admit they are scared?  Some people are scared all the time.  Some people seem like they're never scared.  I'm more the second type, I think.  I mea...
Posted by lauren on Tue, 16 May 2006 10:09:00 PST

InTheEndTheLoveYouTakeIsEqualToTheLoveYouMake: random ramblings regarding the theology of love

i've been thinking a lot, mostly about religion.  god, especially.  or God, or "god," or "God," or however it is you feel i should be writing it.  but that's not the point.  all ri...
Posted by lauren on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:44:00 PST

Christie Takes On Katrina

Okay, guys.  This is a series of three emails regarding the latest project of the most active activist I have the pleasure of knowing.  My aunt Christie is a mover and a shaker.  I...
Posted by lauren on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:18:00 PST

Just a Story of A Walk.

Friday night and nothing to do.  Story of my life.  (Well, not really, but let's pretend, shall we?)  Having no other plans, I decided to take a little walk after dinner.  I set ou...
Posted by lauren on Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:23:00 PST

This is who I am.

One of my favorite books of all time is Pamala Oslie's Life Colors, a nonfiction personality study based on individuals' auras that gives information about people's unique personality types, the key t...
Posted by lauren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Anger Breeds Hate: Learn To Tolerate

Countless thinkers have preached the importance of tolerance.  Writers have provided the masses with insight unto the matter with far more eloquence than I could ever hope to muster.  But no...
Posted by lauren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Are we friends?

  Are we friends? Fill out the answers in a comment on this blog, and post it yourself.  Then I'll fill yours out! 1. Who are you?2. Are we friends?3. When and how did we meet?...
Posted by lauren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Catholic Girl on Catholic Dogma

Those of you who know me are probably aware of my ongoing struggle to embrace the Catholicism in which I have been confirmed.  Those of you who know me really well probably know that I was extrem...
Posted by lauren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

random rantings of a raving ranger

i really do blog a lot.  for instance:  right now, i am blogging.  woke up at 7:45-ish this morning.  worked at 8.  got home at 11-ish.  went to lunch.  got home, sa...
Posted by lauren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST