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Lara

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

it's not about me. ;)it's about changing how the world looks at itself.it's about making love the ultimate religion.it's about getting inspired by minute feats of nature.it's about finding another version of you, entrapped in the body of a man obsessed with bad taste.it's about being a slave to the sound.it's not about me. ;)

My Interests

music from the 80's to the 20's, vintage, punk history, atheism, thought-provoking sound/music, thought-provoking films, thought-provoking clothes, thought-provoking furniture, thought-provoking art, video production, cinematography, inventions, chocolate, cheese, filipino street food, ukay,silly conversations that make you break out into a song, non-conformist movements, talented filipino women, tasteful drinking, smoke outs, spontaneity,basslines, drums, observing people, RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY, cultural relativism, free-thinking, respect

I'd like to meet:

Filipino female inventors. J-pop groups. Atheists. Shoegazers and Tweefolk. Feminists. The cast of Bioman. Kuya Germs. John Waters. Mike De Leon. the puppeteers inside Snuffalufagus in Sesame Street. old high school friends.

Music:

i listen to everything. but my favorites are: BRITTLE STARS, THE FLAMING LIPS, LIGHTNING BOLT, HELLA, COLD COLD HEARTS, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, SLOWDIVE, THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, STEREOLAB, JJ JOHANNSSON, BECK(sea change), DANIEL JOHNSTON, YO LA TENGO, the MOLDY PEACHES, SONIC YOUTH, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, CAMERA OBSCURA, CANDYAUDIOLINE, SOFTPILLOWKISSES, DEATHBYTAMPON;), BIKINI KILL, LE TIGRE, NORTHERN PICTURE LIBRARY, ABERDEEN, TREMBLING BLUE STARS, LAURA WATLING, 800 CHERRIES, SLEATER KINNEY, MARS VOLTA, BLUEBOY, AIR, SMOKE CITY, SIGUR ROS, BLONDE REDHEAD, WEEZER, BJORK, THE ERASERHEADS, YANO, PAN, THE BRASS MONKEYS, CINDERELLA, MILES DAVIS, FACE TO FACE, DESCENDENTS, THE PIXIES, RADIOHEAD, LAURYN HILL, MISSY ELLIOT, JOBIM, PORTISHEAD, sound of louie's voice, crunchy crispy sounds, sound of plastic being crumpled, sound of the wind and fire, sound of heels, creaking doors, hiccups...

Movies:

funky forest, a taste of tea,requiem for a dream, ma vie en rose, 24 hour party people, virgin suicides, the royal tenenbaums, splendor, fear and loathing in las vegas, lost in translation, y tu mama tambien, kids, cinema paradiso, 8 women, bowling for columbine, kill bill, pulp fiction, jackie brown, high fidelity, school of rock, any SNL movie, rules of attraction, chasing amy, the clerks, faces, jay and silent bob, mallrats, pay it forward, million dollar hotel, buenavista social club, spirited away, jc kicks alien ass, jc and the living dead, my life without me, talk to her, amelie, animatrix, trainspotting, go, kakabakaba ka ba?, bayaning third world, bagets, shaolin soccer, the god of cookery, beauty and the beast, little mermaid, aladin, tarzan, finding nemo, monsters inc, bugs life, lion king, finding nemo

Television:

rocko's modern life, MONTY PYTHON, hey arnold, invader zim, life with loopy, ren and stimpy, THE SIMPSONS, FUTURAMA, inside eddie johnson, the girl with her head coming off, the offbeats, dexter's lab, the powerpuff girls, johnny bravo, who's line is it anyway?, saturday night live, the drew carey show, that 70's show, dharma and greg, ally mcbeal, the simpsons, strangebrew, eat my shorts, ftv , late night with conan o'brian, bahala si tulfo, master showman walang tulugan, conquest, chowtime, iwitness, imbestigador, reporter's notebook...ABS-CBN BULOK!!! WALANG RESPETO SA NAMATAY SA WOWOWEE!

Books:

tank book, buzzed, International Designers Network, fashion history books, makeup books, juxtapoz, high times, the language of graphics, taschen books, art books, installation books

Heroes:

career-driven women, kevin shields, sofia coppola, rachel goswell, annemarie davis, brittle stars, darren aronofsky, larry clark, daniel clowes, roger avary, andy warhol, alan montero, aj domingo, mimi sanson, bjork, air, mike de leon, jun sabayton, all our blue collar workers, environmental organizations, independent filmmakers, all our hungry artists & all our teachers

My Blog

Your Heart is an Empty Room

Having dreams about youI want to scream about youI?m having dreams about youI want to scream about youEverything you?ve doneYou were the girl who seemed to own the worldEverything was about youI took ...
Posted by Lara on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:35:00 PST

paradigm shift

mind over matter. there's profound beauty in distraction from a world that scoffs at your innocence and idealism. and so i set forth on a brand new perspective that blurs the margin between emotion a...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:46:00 PST

copied entry from my lj about my dying grandmother

everyday, i grow even more restless the more i realize how temporary things are. 20 years go by so fast, we inevitably become spectators of natural phenomena. after a century, we will all be undergrou...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:23:00 PST

do you realize

do you realize that you have the most beautiful face? do you realize that happiness makes you cry? do you realize that everyone you know someday will die? and instead of saying all of your goodbyes...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

falling in love with everyone

is that even possible? right now i feel like i'm falling in love with everyone...i mean seriously. it's so weird. no i'm not ON anything. how i wish though. now, i'm exploding with so much emotion.......
Posted by Lara on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

creative block

i'm supposed to finish this layout for a whole magazine, as in 16 pages and i'm so jaded, overloaded...i can't think of anything. it seems that i'm burned out again. all the responsibilities are slowl...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

nothing's gonna change my world

words are flowing like an endless rain into a paper cup they slither as they pass and make their way across the universe pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind possessing a...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

a brain fart ( a series of words i wrote without thinking)

quacker happy in the sappy love hum of a butterfly. crinkets of sweetness that flows through my veins. Ravished with energy. Throb. Throb. Throb. Goes my heart. Goes my left eyelid. The neverendi...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

burnout

breathe in. breathe out. breathe in. breathe out. i'm burning out. i'm burning out. i'm burning out. whatever i do, i always end up being alone. why? i don't know. maybe i need to change my vie...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

liniligawan ako ni god

before any violent reactions, i just want to use this phrase because this is what my friends use to coin unexplainable abundant blessings. and as of these days, i am being "blessed" with lots of j...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST