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lauren renee

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I want everything to be a quilt.Everything ..Ev"er*y*thing...., n. a. whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. b. all relevant matters: told each other everything. c. peaches, oak, cotton, molars, dimples, knees, arm pit hair, the act of breathing in at the same time: ribs tight against each other, interlocked.

Background from flickr user

My Interests

Enjoyable to me are really hot showers, bruises of any sort, fountain soda, mashed potatoes, snow days, late night with Conan O'brien, True Romance, Radiohead, lace on clothing, smoking cigarettes, writing (I'm whispering), heat rashes, red moist lips, hang nails, c-section scars, midwifery, gardening, snapping snow peas, fish eggs between my teeth, loose teeth, wiggling loose teeth with my tongue (too bad that stops when you're like eight), roof tops, swimming, poetry, and: "There is the rising up from light's embrace you can see in a field or in a child's dancing. Every city is a dulcimer That plays its chorus against Our ears. The lid of a pot starts jumping When water gets ecstatic from fire. If I ever don't complete a sentence While we are together Accept my apologies and try to understand This sweet drunk thought. Birds initially had no desire to fly, What really happened was this: God once sat close to them playing Music. When he left They missed him so much Their great longing sprouted wings, Needing to search the Sky. Listen, Hafiz knows, Nothing evolves us like Love."

I'd like to meet:

ted berrigan, kenneth koch, my dad, marilyn monroe, a girl with crooked teeth."The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” -kerouac

Music:

Radiohead, Pinback, Tricky, Modest Mouse, Bob Dylan, The Beta Band, Keller Williams, Louis Armstrong, The Andrews' Sisters, Richie Havens, The Beatles, Mos Def, mathew dear. peter bjorn & john, steel pulse, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, David Grisman, Sublime, david bowie, mr bungle, om trio, nas, peter tosh, the eels (amazing simply amazing), frou frou, the postal service, hot chip, tara jane o'niell, hokma ghandi, gillian welch, ani difranco, los lobos, ozo motli, led zepellin, two gallants, alix olson, my mornign jacket, lesbians on ecstasy

Movies:

True Romance, Mallrats, Say Anything, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Requiem For a Dream, A Christmas Story, Happiness, the Land Before Time, Fantasia, Evil Dead 2, Dead Alive, The Big Lebowski, Ed Wood, Cry Baby, The Lost Boys, Garden State (don't make fun of my hobbies, I don't make fun of you for being an asshole), Prancer, Snatch, Ghost World, My First Mister, All the Real Girls (if anybody smiles at me ever again I'm gonna freak out), office space, mean girls, kids, cinema paradiso (the director's cut), legend, notting hill, drop dead gorgeous, pan's labyrinth, little miss sunshine, stranger than fiction, no country for old men.

Books:

Fight Club, the Phantom Tollbooth, Alice in Wonderland, 1984, Almost No Memory, Valencia, Trash, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Jesus' Son, Tarantula, the Chelsea Whistle, the Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Jon, On The Road, a Season in Hell, Howl, The Complete Works of Arthur Rimbaud, I Promise To Be Good, a confederacy of dunces, a place to stand, stone butch blues, the outsiders, rose of no man's land, anything by ted berrigan, in defense of food, the omnivore's dilemma.

My Blog

it seems.

I am displaced from people I like to "call friend."things have changed. these admittances are sad to make.
Posted by lauren renee on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:26:00 PST

a letter

dear ________,it's me again. I lost my keys. my shoe laces won't stay tied. knives keep slipping off of vegetables. i'm lucky to still have all of my appendages. someday i may require a prosthetic. i'...
Posted by lauren renee on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:19:00 PST

around every corner

there's soup simmering on the back burner. potatoes, leeks, ginger. there's laundry in the dryer, thump thump thumping around & around & around. there are traces of your presence lingering around cert...
Posted by lauren renee on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:55:00 PST

all i need now is someone to play.

I am building a drum set, out of forks & spoons & plastic buckets & jam jars filled with water & old cake tins & cookie jars & bike spokes & acrylic paint.
Posted by lauren renee on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:13:00 PST

define love

how do we characterize love? how can we say, without judgment, this is true love? a feeling, a glance, a gut instinct, a moment, perhaps words exchanged and fervent kisses and "i have to see you again...
Posted by lauren renee on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:52:00 PST

living with ladybugs

hoarse and buggy. I am infected again. large under the eyeballs, pale, coughing up a lung. disgusting. if you pass by my bed and see a hand limp under the edge of the blankets, just keep going, don't ...
Posted by lauren renee on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:23:00 PST

summing it up

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by E. E. Cummingssomewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyondany experience,your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which e...
Posted by lauren renee on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:50:00 PST

learn how to say

my body is telling meto make babiesand I say"no."all my eggs are in this one basket, and I'm not ready to start cracking them open. but my body. bossy betty of a thing keeps telling me pulling me.and ...
Posted by lauren renee on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:49:00 PST

you wrote:

"except" instead of "accept" and I thought, "is it heels over head" or "head over heels" or "heads over heel." either way, i've mixed up falling with flying. ...
Posted by lauren renee on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:04:00 PST

(I am) a carrier

woke up today in a fever (frenzy) from favorite dreams of fervent (flesh) fondling. it (eros) is spreading, as a virus, through my bloodstream; warm (burning) down to my toes despite the arctic weathe...
Posted by lauren renee on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:22:00 PST