www.laurencarnali.com
I was gawkered Blogorrhea 4/19/07
Books, words, grammar, tap dance, gender studies, body politics, performance art, music, percussion, drag queens, children's books, nostalgia, exfoliating, my family, peanut butter, irony...
my maker
Chemical Brothers, Rusted Root, Ani, Fiona Apple, Rolling Stones, Tori Amos, Basement Jax, Prince, Cher, Michael Jackson, Indigo Girls, Zeplin, Mellencamp, Do Make Say Think, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Patti Labelle, Muddy Waters, Jeff Beck, Santana, Pete List, Kate Morrissey
A Love Song for Bobby Long, Tap, Little Miss Sunshine, Grey Gardens, The Anniversary Party, The Squid and the Whale, The Celebration, Moonstruck, Thirteen, St. Elmo's Fire, My House in Umbria, American Beauty, Big Fish, Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, Sylvia, If These Walls Could Talk, Like Water for Chocolate, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Fuller Brushman, Pretty Persuasion, The Goonies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Lost, Six Feet Under, The L-Word, Moonlighting, Punky Brewster, Golden Girls
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers, Bastard Out of Carolina-Dorothy Allison, Waltzing the Cat-Pam Houston, Whores and Other Feminists-Jill Nagle, Water for Elephants-Sara Gruen, Pippi Longstocking series-Astrid Lindgren, The Secret Life of Bees-Sue Monk Kidd, The Color Purple-Alice Walker, Freaky Green Eyes-Joyce Carol Oates, Push-Saphire, Walk Two Moons-Sharon Creech, The Messy Rabbit-Ruth Nivola, Dandelion-Don Freeman,
People with something to say.
“…at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss…†–from Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
"The public library saved my soul." --Peter Plate
"I believe the secret of writing is that fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer's courage. The best fiction comes from the place where the terror hides, the edge of our worst stuff. I believe, absolutely, that if you do not break out in the sweat of fear when you write, then you have not gone far enough." --Dorothy Allison
We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. -- Naomi Wolf
"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it." -- Isadora Duncan
“There’s a real difference between doing a time step because someone asked you to, and doing one because you feel like doing a time step. Nobody asks Baryshnikov to do a plie for them.†-–Jane Goldberg
“I am two women: one who wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things what can be planned and achieved. I’m a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.†-- Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
“For me, performance art is the live presentation of an aesthetic argument that reveals or unmasks an assumed organization of thought. It challenges what I thought I knew about a situation in my social establishment. --Gabriel
“Improvisation is a way of life. Some people like to know where they are going at all times and others only want to find out where they are going when they get there.†--Brenda Bufalino