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laura

Put on your red shoes and dance to the blues

About Me

Hello, im Laura!

My Interests

Art,music,film,philosophy,Skiing,seeing different places and meeting interesting people

I'd like to meet:

Ilya Kabakov, or Bob Dylan or Tom Waits, or the ghost of Joseph Cornell....Background By MyPimpSpace.com

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Music:

The Black keys, Tom Waits, New York Dolls, Bikini Kill,css,Sonic youth, Big Brother and the holding company, Frank Zappa, Hepcat, Robert Johnson, Odetta, Pj Harvey, Magik Markers, Detroit Cobras,Yeah Yeah Yeahs,beatles,Jefferson Aeroplane, Kings of Nuthin' [personal friends of mine ;) ]Neil Young, Bob Dylan, RATM, Billie Holiday, j5, broken social scene,radiohead, the roots, les fleurs, mr scruff,wolf parade, the doors,quantic soul orchestra, mum, be your own pet, Slint, mono,Fugazi,fiery furnaces, david bowie,do make say think,muddy waters, wire,cat power, billy bragg,

Movies:

Goodbye Lenin!(my favourite film), Hiroshima Mon Amour [Minus the animal porn], Amelie, Eternal Sunshine..., Brick, Dead End,Delicatessen (freedom fighting vegetarians that live in the sewers oh yes) Unknown White Male, The Breakfast Club, Leon, Tank Girl, whats eating gilbert grape, heathers,Everything is Illuminated (set in the Ukrain, love the woman who has boxes of mementoes that fill her house. boxes labelled 'dust', 'in case')stoned....the doors,In my father's den, the goonies, manequin, Pan's Labrynth, Perfume

Television:

queer eye for the straight guy (they really care!)am also a fan of fashion tv. its a guilty pleasure and of course Grey's Anatomy. I watch it just to see Doc Derek

Books:

The Time Travellers Wife, The Shadow of the Wind, The Dream of Icarus, The Book of Sands,(anything by jorge luis borges) Poetics of Space, Perfume by patrick suskind (caramel and the grotesque), Valley of the dolls (good trash)am currently reading Charles Bukowski's The Most Beautiful Woman In Town and Other Stories......also joseph Kosuth's Art after Philosophy and After (am studying mimesis, and kosuths theory of 'art as idea as idea')Dissertation !

Heroes:

Plato, Oscar Wilde, dylan Thomas, Joseph Kosuth, Joseph Cornell, Piero Manzoni, Cherrie Levine, Sophie Calle, Bill Woodrow,Thomas Demand ........and Carson Kressley, i want to take you home.