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lara

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About Me

I'm the love child of a school teacher and a nurse. I've never won a trophey. I once had simultaneous crushes on tom selleck, richard dean anderson and cyndi laupa. The birthday song makes me uncomfortable

I made my myspace layout using Pimp-My-Profile.com

My Interests

making out to david bowie songs. drawing. cleaning shoes. theatre. film. soccer. making stuff. sock puppets. having sleepovers with Oracle. baking. street fighting. drinking wine. travel mugs. nichiren buddhism. curiousity shops. tea cups. espionage.

I'd like to meet:

cool kids with rad skills

Music:

David Bowie. Blondie. The Mint Chicks. Pink Mountain Tops. Black Mountain. Nouvelle Vague. Peaches. Joy Division. Hot Chip. Julie Doiron. The beatles. Feist. Ryan Adams. Jose Gonzalez. Chris Smith. Fly My Pretties. Thom Yorke. Destroyer. The Knife. Rod Stewart. The Cure. Billy Idol. Cyndi Laupa. Castle Project. The Cardigans. Stars. The Corries. Harry Belafonte. Sarah Vaughn. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Arcade Fire. Phoenix. Of course this list goes on...

Movies:

does someone want to cast me in one?The goonies. Lost in Translation. The Labrinth. City of God. Rain. Man on the Moon. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Kitchen Sink. Family (doco). The Squid and The Whale. Igby Goes Down. Pulp Fiction. The Princess and The Warrior. Amelie. Terminator 2. Broken Flowers. 24 Hour Party People. Dog day afternoon. Little Miss Sunshine. Shortbus. Breathless. Mullholland Drive.

Television:

six feet under. miami ink. the office. Project runway. the bouncing ball commercial. The 'hand in my pocket' commercial

Books:

The Master and Margarita. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Beautiful Losers. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. The Red Tent. Where The Wild Things Are. Owls Do Cry. The Alchemist. The Vitner's Luck. My Year of Meat. The Red Tree. The Doubtful Guest. No Ordinary Sun. Clockwork Orange. Authors/poets: Haruki Murakami. Hone Tuwhare. Ian Rankin. 'Uncle' Shakespeare.

Heroes:

Hone Tuwhare. Jim Hensen. Graeme

My Blog

The next chapter...

One minute I am on the internet looking at options for work. The next day I'm on the phone to the company I used to work for in Auckland. Two days after that I'm flying to Auckland for an intervi...
Posted by lara on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:53:00 PST

they farewell-ed me real good

two sleeps... that's it, just two. The farewell party was so much fun (i think). Thank you to everyone who came and made it awesome - i'm sorry if i wasn't the most efficient host - so many dirty mart...
Posted by lara on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:52:00 PST

two weeks

Suddenly i find myself with two weeks to go before i leave vancouver. How did this happen? Where did summer go? Did i really ride my bike everywhere? Did i really go to the mount pleasant pool everyda...
Posted by lara on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:20:00 PST

oh sunday

oh work. oh unexpected dancing extravaganzas. oh early morning and bleary-eyed meetings over bad coffee. this is my sunday. it hurts. but only a tiny bit. I'm thinking of burrittos and new zealand. al...
Posted by lara on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:05:00 PST