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Lara

I am here for Networking

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Having met my match, that only leaves Karl Rove and Diamanda Galas.

Music:

Coil, Rachmaninoff, Grails, Wire, Witch, Sightings, The Melvins, Zakir Hussein, Psychic TV, Conifer, Gillian Welch, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Amon Tobin, Shellac, Johnny Cash, Stan Getz, Joy Division, Butthole Surfers, Cheb Khaled, Led Zeppelin, Slint, Interpol, Om, Nina Simone, Kyuss, David Byrne, Michael Gira, Fugazi, Godspeed You Black Emperor et al., David Bowie, Ween, Siouxsie/The Creatures, Mission of Burma, Mastodon, Nirvana, Debussy, Pink Floyd, Lamb, Bi Kyo Ran, Sisters of Mercy, Primus, Steely Dan, John Lee Hooker, Ministry, Donovan, Big Star, The Legendary Pink Dots, Sarah Vaughn, Will Oldham, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Judas Priest, Calexico, Beethoven, Shruti Sadolikar, Clutch, Chet Baker, Portishead, Nick Cave, Iron and Wine, Mike Patton-Mr. Bungle-Tomahawk, AC/DC, Bill Monroe, Rondellus, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Skeleton Crew

Movies:

Mothlight, Report, Bladerunner, Happiness, The Cremaster Cycle, The Corporation, Scarface (the old one with Paul Muni), The Scarlet Empress, Wavelength, The Hunger, The Big Lebowski, Lady from Shanghai, The Matrix, Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, Shakes the Clown, Ghost in the Shell, Eight Men Out, Full Metal Jacket, Naked, The Princess Bride, Raging Bull, New York Portraits, Sex Lies and Videotape, Benny and Joon, Crouching Tiger..., Ali Zaoua, The English Patient, Psycho, Pieces of April, The Hunt for Red October, High Art, The Fight, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Stand and Deliver, Bad Boy Bubby, Road Warrior, Brokeback Mountain, The Wall, Proteus, The American Astronaut

Television:

Mine's a smoking pile of twisted plastic and darkened shattered glass sitting on Rupert Murdoch's bed, waiting for him to get home...

Books:

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (William Steig), A Canticle for Liebowitz (Walter M. Miller), The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil), Something Leather (Alisdair Gray), Stranger Music (Leonard Cohen), Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino), Manufacturing Consent (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky), The Night Country (Loren Eiseley), Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides), West with the Night (Beryl Markham), The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles), Written on the Body (Jeanette Winterson), Film Sense/Film Form (Sergei Eisenstein), Introduction to Systemic Functional Grammar (Michael Halliday)

Heroes:

My folks, Arundhati Roy, Joe Louis, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Peter Hutton, Beryl Markham, Ann Hamilton, Diamanda Galas, Mark Rothko, Gary Edwards, Laurie Anderson, Emma Goldman, Bill Hicks, j. frey, Roald Dahl, my husband

My Blog

China Doll

Rupert Murdoch has purchased the Wall Street Journal, and so I hereby throw in the towel. Fuck it - I'm moving to China. If you're interested in looking in now and then on my state of wonder/fury/em...
Posted by Lara on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:00:00 PST

...and whether pigs have wings.

Time is going by really, really, really, really slow. ...
Posted by Lara on Wed, 23 May 2007 03:40:00 PST

Meditation on Why Cities Have No People

There is a sound that comes from power stations, an earnest, insect hum that sings of busy-ness, of industry and efficiency and waste. It is the sound of things happening, of indiscriminate consumpti...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:43:00 PST

The Unbearable Lightness of Spam

As art imitates life, and life imitates art, as intention and perception lie often in the beholder and not in the one who initiates the form, as countless insights lie dormant in the creative bonds of...
Posted by Lara on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:39:00 PST

Modern Media: What the New York Times Taught Me About Having No Shame Whatsoever

Okay. I finally read this damn article because it's been on the NYTimes "most emailed" list for a fucking week and a half now, and my curiosity got the better of me, despite my revulsion at the smug,...
Posted by Lara on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:21:00 PST

Photos from the March

Hey everyone - thanks so much for those who turned out on Sunday. According to Portland Indymedia there may have been as many as 40,000, although I'm guessing the number was probably closer to the lo...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:12:00 PST

Greg kills me.

I hope you don't mind me ripping off your material, dude... "1) I have coined a new term, which I hope you will add to your lexicon; to whit- MyStalking (v)- The act of finding a MySpace profile of so...
Posted by Lara on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:01:00 PST

Pledge of Resistance - End the War, Begin the Peace

For those of you who don't know, March 19th marks the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq - the 18th through the 20th of this month are days of international consciousness-raising through c...
Posted by Lara on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:51:00 PST

OK - so I listen to hip-hop...

and this is why:"a bullet in thefull fury of its flightshot into the endless space can strip the sky of the starsbut youhave nottouched god" (Anti-pop Consortium)...
Posted by Lara on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:35:00 PST

Transcribed Letters - part 1

A very dear friend of mine just sent me a chunk of letters I wrote to him back in August, 1997... these are truly the notes from the underground, scrawled in near-illegibility onto film notebooks with...
Posted by Lara on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:50:00 PST