Lauraloo - ProfilesArchive

About Me

The five unbeatable moments in my life:1. Waking up in the middle of the night and knowing that someone is lying next to you. 2. Going to an absolutely amazing restaurant and having a three hour lunch, followed by a glass of ice-cold white wine and a cigarette on a cold evening. 3. Long train journeys where you are free because trains are an environment out of space and time, allowing you to talk and think about out-of-the-ordinary things. 4. Skinny dipping at two in the morning in he middle of London 5. Sailing the KAS boats, sitting on the side with the spray in my face and the great blue beyond in front of me; realising that Jack Sparrow is right when he says 'what the black pearl really is... is freedom'.

My Interests

Thinking, dreaming, fantasizing, beating people at scrabble and table tennis, reading 'romance' novels, being infatuated, singing raucously, sailing with my darling Falmouth seadogs, watching a whole series of the West wing in one go with a bucket of tea in one hand and a vat of chocolate in the other, cooking elaborately named chickens. making paper mache novelty toothbrushes.

Music:

THE GREATEST BAND EVER ARE THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISTS. they will bring light love and truth into your life. they will nourish your consumer-driven, Tv-rotted, cynical, disillusioned brain.

Movies:

Ken Loach's Land and Freedom. VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

Television:

ok guess.. daa daa dadadaaada dadadaaaaaaDADADAAAAAA dadaDADADAdadaDAAAAAAAAA..... dadadadaaadaaadDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. ahem, West Wing, The American liberal's wet dream. also, the Green Wing and Spaced

Books:

'it was bad, infineiely bad' Need I say more? Oh you plebs, to the LIghthouse of course, a life-changing orgy of metaphors and streams of consiousness.

Heroes:

George Eliot, Lara Croft, Virginia Woolf, Jon Snow, Dylan Moran. basically anyone who is brave, talented, funny and most importantly, sincere in what they believe.

My Blog

Pics from hamburger-a-go-go Land YEEEHAAA

the Land of the Feedom Fry- we arrived, and after wading through Cyrus' numerous admirers, we made it to our hotel:although the sign was a little grubby, overall it was pretty nice (mine and Imi's roo...
Posted by Lauraloo on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:40:00 PST

a man walks into a pub...

My Dad and I went into a pub for breakfast in Chelmsford the other day (i know. a pub. for breakfast. in Chelmsford. but that's besides the point). on the menu there was an english breakfast, which we...
Posted by Lauraloo on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:19:00 PST

On giving up

To state the obvious: giving up stuff is shit. i mean really really shit. especially if you having about as much self-control as a serial killer, like me. the second i give up something, it begins to ...
Posted by Lauraloo on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:51:00 PST

BIG RANT PANTS

Let us take religion from a purely scientific point of view: it is the irrational, if human trait of attempting to find significance, purpose and meaning in this world other than making babies and eat...
Posted by Lauraloo on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:06:00 PST

On reading

The begginning of the summer hols is always the same: right, now I have the time to read, must turn over new intellectual leaf. No more magazines, no more children's books. From now on will only read ...
Posted by Lauraloo on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:05:00 PST

On cherry jam, take II

so, the English say you must have termometers and pectin and sterilising kits and muslin bags and egg timers and wooden spoons and chilled saucers and superhuman skills to get jam rights.What do the F...
Posted by Lauraloo on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:51:00 PST

On cherry jam

first, find your cherry basket, preferably made by inbred American Amish and hand-weaved using medieval tools. Next, climb a cherry tree, getting blinded by crumbling lichen as you scramble up with as...
Posted by Lauraloo on Tue, 30 May 2006 01:46:00 PST