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laura

Don't cry Charlie, You're a Kitler now.

About Me

I made american gothic better.

My Interests

The Kentucky Derby (big hats and seersucker) extra dirty martinis, getting the lime into the coconut, stripes, speaking french poorly,David Shrigley,riding my bike, parlour games.

I'd like to meet:

I dream of Kitler (that would be Jim)A certain (unnamed) Chinese Encyclopedia classified Animals into the following categories: A) Belonging to the EmporerB) EmbalmedC) TameD) sucking pigsE) sirensF) fabulousG) stray dogsH) included in the present classificationI) frenziedJ) innumerableK) drawn with a very fine camelhair brushL) et ceteraM) Having just broken the water pitcherN) That from a long way off look like flies.

Music:

Billie Holiday, The Blow, Berlin, Cat Power, Patsy Cline, The Cure, Dusty Springfield, Gloria Deluxe, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Chantal Goya, Poison, Metric, The Shirelles,Stereo Total, The Sugarcubes, Velvet Underground, Le Tigre, April March

Movies:

"on wednesdays, we wear pink."

Television:

Karen Walker: all i aspire to.

Books:

AUTHORS: Balzac, Proust, DuMaurier, Nin, Ibsen, Rimbaud, Rilke, Wilde, Goethe, Zola, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Breton, St Exupery

Heroes:

Anyone who can take pollution down to ZERO. Tony Danza, the knights who say NI,kitlers.

My Blog

Paris, Amsterdam, London Pics

Two weeks of romping with the fam. My mother, endlessly wanting the perfect family portrait. Paris:Amsterdam:Brighton, England:...
Posted by laura on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:33:00 PST

The Plague

I've caught the plague.  Perhaps.  No really, I've been sick with a fever and chills and cold sweats mixed with deathly headaches for over a week now.  And being in London, it must be t...
Posted by laura on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:41:00 PST