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About Me

I like art, both making it and looking at it. I like faces and figures and eyes. I like to read and write. I paint and draw. Here are some pieces of pieces of mine.

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My Interests

Painting, drawing, art, writing, illustrated novels, comedy, sleeping, staying up all night, blank space, vapor, wear and tear, shedding, running, riding bikes, talking out loud, white go go boots, cherry pie, chocolate ice cream and fear.

I'd like to meet:

The Lone Ranger

Music:

The Pixies, Dakota Staton, Wilco, Music For Airports, Mimi Farina, Pavement, Twisted Teenaged Plot, Mecca Normal, Bobbie Gentry, Big Star, Lou Reed, Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire,
ice cream truck music

Movies:

Hal Hartley, Harmony Korine, David Lynch, Vincent Gallo, John Waters, Wim Wenders, Todd Solondz, Woody Allen, Mike Leigh, Vittorio De Sica, A Brief Vacation, The Unbelievable Truth, Melvin Goes To Dinner, Brain Candy, Me and You and Everyone We Know, They Live, The Strawberry Statement (at the drive-in), Buffalo 66, Wrony, Harold & Maude, loudQUIETloud, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth

Television:

Mighty Mouse
Dark Shadows
Twin Peaks
The Lone Ranger (first four episodes from 1949 -- "A fabulous individual!"

Books:

"Cruddy" by Lynda Barry
"Ask The Dusk" by John Fante
"The Catcher in the Rye" "Nine Stories" by J.D. Salinger
"Ham On Rye" by Charles Bukowski
"Wide Eyed" by Trinie Dalton
"I Can Hear Me Fine" by Jean Smith

Heroes:

Lynda Barry
Jean Smith
Miranda July
Francis Picabia
Kurt Schwitters
Coco Rocha
Lily Blakowt (:

My Blog

six self portraits

I took the day off from work to start some painting. For a while I've just been drawing but I feel like painting again. It was kind of scary. It's always scary. I decided to st...
Posted by Laurie on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:10:00 PST

Losing Nemo

"An international group of ecologists and economists warned yesterday that the world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, based on a four-year...
Posted by Laurie on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:45:00 PST

a painting I did last week

Posted by Laurie on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:34:00 PST

HECKS CASHED HERE!

It was one of those stores where people without bank accounts buy money orders for a few dollars Vines grew over the edge of the sign on the outside of the building so it looked like it ...
Posted by Laurie on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:39:00 PST

The Fish Scales of Injustice

The fish flipped out I threw him back in He flipped out again So I fried him ...
Posted by Laurie on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:39:00 PST

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Posted by Laurie on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:06:00 PST

BLOG CABIN SYRUP

it was pouring when I woke up I smelled coffee then bacon and hoped for the best pancakes...
Posted by Laurie on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:22:00 PST

REPEAT UNTIL GONE

I haven't told anyone what it is but I have wondered if everyone has the same one I was told to sit quietly until it slipped away and I'd noticed its absence then start again there were...
Posted by Laurie on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:43:00 PST

Poem for my friend

Here's the Rumi poem that Lynda read out loud to us before each writing session. She would turn the lights down (our workshop was held in a small theatre) and have us take a few relaxing br...
Posted by Laurie on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:41:00 PST

For my young friend who loves Lynda Barry

These are the books Lynda Barry had with her at the writing workshop I attended in NY. She had her "inspiration stuff" set out for us to look at. There were many items; a toy dog...
Posted by Laurie on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:29:00 PST