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laura

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About Me

"the point being that i am a tender heart still; vulnerable, never wise, but tender-hearted." - anne sexton.i love: san francisco, silliness, animals, sour gummy candy, trashy magazines, coffee dates, feta cheese, reading, "processing," my beloved tivo, horror movies, girl bands, good music, nostalgia, crime shows, documentaries, road trips, daydreaming, autumn, my gorgeous friends, board games and baked goods.



My Interests

used bookstores. bright colors. tourette's lite. thinking and overthinking. starting over. daydreaming. reading. writing and thinking about writing. feminism. the brain. aimless meandering. road trips. riding in cars with boys (and girls). laziness. movies, especially documentaries. cats. dogs. coffee. sweets. true love always.

I'd like to meet:

fast talkers, quick thinkers, partners in tomfoolery, people to sip tea with, literate funny sarcastic spastic smarty-pants. oh and a cute boy with a heart of gold and something to say.

Music:



lavender diamond, the smiths, the magnetic fields, spoon, tilly and the wall, helium, cat power, camera obscura, jenny lewis and the watson twins, bikini kill, julie ruin, belle and sebastian, rufus wainwright, jeff buckley, old 97s, versus, containe, go sailor, elliott smith, sloan, bjork, amy winehouse, mary j blige.

Movies:

pretty much any documentary, plus 'friends with money,' 'withnail and i,' 'meet the parents,' 'being john malkovich,' 'freeway,' 'the shining,' 'the orphanage,' 'annie hall,' 'napoleon dynamite,' 'city of god,' 'safe,' 'high art'

Television:

curb your enthusiasm, intervention, 30 rock, law and order, crime stuff and crappy reality shows.

Books:

cities of the interior, dry, drugs are nice, drinking: a love story, diary of a teenage girl, the robber bride, a girl's guide to taking over the world, henry and june, cunt, the unbearable lightness of being, like being killed, a home at the end of the world, lolita, cat's eye, anne sexton's poetry, everything dorothy parker.

Heroes:

kathleen hanna, morrissey, ann richards, dorothy parker.

My Blog

new piece up at Tango

I have a new piece up at Tango.
Posted by laura on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:24:00 PST

LauraBarcella.com

My new website is up. Check it out here!
Posted by laura on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:17:00 PST

My new website

Dudes, I'm totally making my own (rudimentary) website. Check it out: LauraBarcella.comOK, so there's only a "Coming Soon" bookmarker there now. But still, I'm so excited to finally have a little h...
Posted by laura on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:09:00 PST

I'm reading at the Big Ugly Review release party tonight at 111 Minna

Tonight I'll be reading a personal essay I wrote, "My Eczema, Myself," at the Big Ugly Review issue #6 release party. It's at 111 Minna, in the back room. Feel free to come check it out if you're in...
Posted by laura on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:03:00 PST

Full Frontal Feminism interview

Hey, guess what?I interviewed the smart 'n lovely Jessica Valenti about her new book, FULL FRONTAL FEMINISM, for AlterNet. You can read the meaty goodness here: http://alternet.org/story/50843/...
Posted by laura on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:10:00 PST

Ehrenreich interview on AlterNet

I interviewed author Barbara Ehrenreich for AlterNet recently. We talked about her latest book, Dancing in the Streets. You can read my q&a here:http://www.alternet.org/story/50126/Love,Your frien...
Posted by laura on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:55:00 PST

self-promotion a-gogo

Mediabistro.com featured me on their website today in their "Pitches That Worked" column. (They analyzed a freelance query I sent to San Francisco magazine, and talked to the editors there about why t...
Posted by laura on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:11:00 PST

new piece up on MsMagazine.com

I have a piece up on Ms. magazine's website today. It's a q&a with the wife and daughter of a guy who wrote a great new book about misogyny. The book is aptly titled Misogyny, and it's a history o...
Posted by laura on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:06:00 PST

I have a piece in the new BITCHfest book

There's a piece I wrote in the new book "BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine."You can buy the book here:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374113432/ref=sr_11_1 /...
Posted by laura on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:15:00 PST