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lauren.

I've been smiling with anchors on my shoulders

About Me

I wear a green sweatshirt a lot. I love nature. And a dog named Carl. And pickles.

.."there's this brutal imperial power that my passport says I represent, but it will never represent where my heart is only vaguely where it went..." -ani difranco"oh to grow up gagged and blindfolded/ a man's world in your little girl's head/ the voice of the great mother drowned out/ in the constant honking/ haunting the car crash up ahead/ oh to grow up hypnotized/ and try to shake yourself awake/ cuz you can sense what has been lost/ cuz you can sense what is at stake" -ani difranco

My Interests

veganism, traveling the globe, learning about different cultures, the ocean, nature, dolphins, outerspace, music, reading (a lot), being at peace, educating myself, soccer, massage, scuba diving, energy and chakras, pugs, chocolate labs, dogs, cats, sloths, snails, frogs, monkeys, elephant feet, animals in general, my friends, painting, acting and theater, spontaneity, dancing, laughing, dreaming, love, star gazing..........

I'd like to meet:

People who care about the planet and all creatures on it.

Music:

ani difranco, andrew bird, aqualung, at the drive in, ben folds, bjork, blonde redhead, bob dylan, bright eyes, circa survive, counting crows, cowalker, cursive, days away, death cab for cutie, denali, elliott smith, engine down, feist, fiona apple, grandaddy, incubus, jason mraz, jeff buckley, joanna newsom, karate, led zeppelin, lovedrug, marigold, minus the bear, murder by death, muse, nada surf, nirvana, ours, pedro the lion, pj Harvey, portugal the man, presidents of the united states of america, puzzle muteson, queens of the stone age, radiohead, rival schools, regina spektor, rufus wainwright, ryan adams, sean lennon, slowreader, sunny day real estate, the arcade fire, the beatles, the cardigans, the decemberists, the doors, the get up kids, the mars volta, the new frontiers, the notwist, third eye blind, thursday, tom waits, weezer and other bands that are nice haha

Movies:

BEST IN SHOW!!!!, The Motorcycle Diaries, Trust (the Ani dvd), The Squid and the Whale, Nightmare Before Christmas, Being John Malkovich, V for Vendetta, Meet the Fockers, and others that i can't remember right now...

Television:

Arrested Development, The L Word, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, and Alf

Books:

Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Journeys of Socrates, 1984, Confessions of An Economic Hit Man, anything by Eve Ensler, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Tom Robbins, Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky, Pablo Neruda, oh and this book for all you women out there:

Heroes:

Joel Hammon and Barbara Brodman

My Blog

Most rediculous holiday ever goes to..........

EASTER!It amazes me how so many people believe that a man "rose from the dead."It's a bullshit-cash-cow just like every other holiday.Have fun eating death chocolate....
Posted by lauren. on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:02:00 PST

And we hold these truths to be self evident....

I just listened/ re-read the lyrics to the poem "Self Evident."  Amazing.us people are just poems we're 90% metaphor with a leanness of meaning approaching hyper-distillation and once upon a time...
Posted by lauren. on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:02:00 PST

"Why can't all decent men and women...

call themselves feminists?  Out of respect for those who fought for this?"- Ani DiFranco  I bet half of you saw the word "feminist" and groaned.  I bet a negative image popped into your...
Posted by lauren. on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:58:00 PST

Now we officially live in a DICTATORSHIP...WHY AREN'T WE SCREAMING FOR OUR RIGHTS???

I am extremely upset at our government. How can a law that takes away so many of our rights be passed today, with little to no protest from the people. Bush has now made it possible to arrest anyone ...
Posted by lauren. on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:30:00 PST

Ode to Oso

  The saddness I feel is so great right now.  Vadim and I adopted Oso to a family who loves him very much (from what we can tell).  They were looking for another Lab companion for their...
Posted by lauren. on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:15:00 PST

SAVE YOUR BRAIN

and watch this documentary ...
Posted by lauren. on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:16:00 PST

I dun did it.

What is your name?~LaurenAre you named after anyone?~nahWhat's your screename?~stellarstars1Would you name a child of yours after you?~nopeIf you were born a member of the opposite sex what would your...
Posted by lauren. on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:24:00 PST

The Power is Yours...For Real

Just reminiscing about a sweet song... "EARTH!" "FIRE!" "WIND!" "WATER!" "HEART!" "Go Planet!" "By your powers combined, I...
Posted by lauren. on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:55:00 PST

CA now:)

  So, I live in Long Beach, California now and I find it really refreshing.  Refreshing in the sense that I am in a new place, where noone really knows me and I am free to do whatever I want...
Posted by lauren. on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:57:00 PST

If you're bored...

Check out what I'm doing on Semester at Sea:) www.loveistruth.org Peace and love.
Posted by lauren. on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:23:00 PST