This is the page where I get down, verbally, with my bad self and articulate what it is to be me. To accomplish this, I will start with the surface details, like cultural icon affiliation, however trite or vapid that may be. As this amorphous beast of a page takes form, I may even delve into the deeper regions of Lauraness(as esoteric and ineffable as I may be*L*). Pretentious, aren't I? Cheeky girl.
Ok, so here goes:
Donnie Darko, Bridget Jones's Diary, Titus, The Fight Club, Swingers, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, The Shawshank Redemption, anything directed by Baz Luhrmann (Romeo and Juliet, and Moulin Rouge), and cheesy eighties flicks like Real Genius, Better Off Dead, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Legend, Krull, One Crazy Summer, Top Secret, The Man with Two Brains, Harold and Maude, anything with a zombie in it(eg. Shaun of the Dead)
'The 13.5 Lives of Captain Bluebear'- Walter Moers, 'The Sheep Look Up'-John Brunner, 'Jude the Obscure"-Thomas Hardy, 'On the Beach'-Nevil Shute,'We'-Yevgeny Zamyatin, 'Crime and Punishment'-Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'Catch-22'- Joseph Heller, '1984'-George Orwell, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'-Ken Kesey, 'Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell' and 'A Brave New World'-Aldous Huxley, 'Siddharta'-Hermann Hesse, 'Heart of Darkness'-Joseph Conrad, 'Justine'-M.d.S., 'The Last Unicorn'-Peter S.Beagle, anything by Tolkien, and selected poems by T.S. Eliot, such as 'The Hollow Men', and by Mathew Arnold, such as "Dover Beach".
new and old (aka the soundtrack to my life) Big Shout out to Jeffrey and his fantastic song, "London Fog" *You're brilliant, man*'The Scientist'- Cold Play,'Blurry' Puddle of Mud,'My Happiness'-Powderfinger,'Gorecki'-Lamb, 'Nurega'-Organic Audio, lots of Paul Oakenfold stuff, Clint Mansell with the Kronos Quartet, 'Sick'-Sneaker Pimps, Leftfield, BT, Dido, some 'Angel'-Massive Attack,Mint Royale(From Rusholme with Love, Don't Falter, Lonely Girl, Can't Stop the Rock, Elephant Stone Remix), 'Bizarre Love Triangle', 'Vanishing Point', and 'Thieves Like Us'-New Order, 'Dreams'-the Cranberries, The Psychedelic Furs,'I Melt With You'-Modern English, 'Hurt'and 'Something I Can Never Have'-NIN, 'How Soon Is Now'-The Smiths, 'Common People'-Pulp, 'As Bad As They Seem'-Hayden, Tori Amos(Butterfly and Hey Jupiter),'Gone for good'-Morphine, 'Sometimes I Don't Mind'-Suicide Machines, 'Wise Up'-Aimee Mann, 'Fire and Rain'-James Taylor, 'Mad World'- Gary Jules, 'Halo'-The Cure, 'All I want is you'-U2, 'Clouding Doubt'-Rose Chronicles, 'Your Name'-Tricky-(anyone who sings it sings it well), 'Killing Moon' -Echo and the Bunnymen, 'Under the Milky way'- The Church, and The Doves, 'tear you apart'-she wants revenge,'Wires'-Athlete, Deepest Blue-Deepest Blue, "Club Foot"-Kasabian....this list is in no way exhaustive.