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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shaggy 2 Grote on July 27, 2008, 08:28:45 PM
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)? Laurie Joan
2. Where were you born, geographically? Miami
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)? Miami :(
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study? Trustafarian?
5. Desert Island: ONE record Robyn Hitchcock's I Often Dream of Trains. I picked this one despite the fact that it does not have my favorite Robyn Hitchock song ("Egyptian Cream"). Worse, still, it has my least favorite song: "Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus." Despite this, I still like the overall feel of the album. The "Nocturne" songs are particularly sweeping and cinematic.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person? I spent a month in Australia. We were staying in Sydney. My mom and I did a nature thing in the forests of Victoria. The guide pointed out some amaaaaaaaazing bowers decorated with beetle wings, flowers, pens, and clothespins. I was jotting down notes in a little notebook, and a male satin bowerbird swooped down and snatched the blue ballpoint pen right out of my hands. Amazing. By the way, should someone come along and mess with a fellow's bower while he is away hunting for more pretty things, he will notice and fix it at once -- even if you just move a single flower a few inches over. They're little artists!
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person? I went to the Art Institute during my trip to Chicago. I was in the impressionist room, looking at Monet paintings, and I started crying.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings? Portobello mushrooms, goat cheese, white alba truffles, and drizzled with single-vineyard extra virgin olive oil and a tiny dash of truffle oil. Too much?
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do? Brunch at St. Michel in Coral Gables, spend the afternoon at the Rubell and maybe also perusing the Margolis warehouse (that shit is bananas), dinner at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink (http://www.michaelsgenuine.com/content/menu_dinner) (they have really good salads and sides and snacks and stuff for the veeeeeegans. Think you hate kimchi? Try the kimchi with crushed peanuts, you will be a convert.) Spend the night partying. Maybe take in a show at Churchill's? If we're lucky, we'll run into the ravaged visage of Iggy Pop! (Wait... lucky?) If nothing's going on there, we'll just go to The White Room (http://www.whiteroommiami.com/venue.html) or Circa 28 (http://www.circa28.com/) or some shit. We will drink beers on the beach at around 3 am. Yes.
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There's a reason that place is called The White Room. The reason is overt cocaine use.
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I don't know about you, Josh, but I am excited about Why?/Mt. Eerie show at the White Room.
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the White Room definitely seems like the sort of place Tom would enjoy spending time at.
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh93/whiteroommiami/FEMALEWRESTLING-1.jpg)
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Are you saying he wouldn't enjoy the musical stylings of Johnny Sex Fuck and the Flesh Rockets?
Edit: I've only been there for the PopLife nights. :(
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the White Room definitely seems like the sort of place Tom would enjoy spending time at.
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh93/whiteroommiami/FEMALEWRESTLING-1.jpg)
KTB, did you photoshop Tom's face onto that guy?
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no.
(http://www.kickthebobo.com/FEMALEWRESTLING-2.jpg)
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Thanks for the nightmares!
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Thug Jesus is my favourite of all the Jesuses.
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Even more than Raptor Jesus?
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8371/raptorjesusnc2.jpg)
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now I'm all conflicted!
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I just joined a Thug Jesus praise band.
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I just joined a Thug Jesus praise band.
Do you play the tambourine?
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From what I understand, he taps. Like a cross between Tilly and the Wall and Dave of NewsRadio.*
*This is a guess.
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I just joined a Thug Jesus praise band.
Don't get ahead of yerself there, buddy - we all thought your audition went well, but nothing's been decided yet...
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To answer your question, Laurie, I'm more of an El Duce figure. At least I thought I was, until TL burst my bubble.
Shit, there goes my dream job.
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To answer your question, Laurie, I'm more of an El Duce figure. At least I thought I was, until TL burst my bubble.
Shit, there goes my dream job.
I wouldn't take it too personal. TL takes Thug Jesus very seriously. I've heard some of his new songs live, and they're basically all about Him. If I'm interpreting the lyrics properly.
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TL, if you come to Miami, we can make a pilgrimage to Thug Jesus. Hell, you could even play the White Room! It would be magical.
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To answer your question, Laurie, I'm more of an El Duce figure. At least I thought I was, until TL burst my bubble.
Shit, there goes my dream job.
I couldn't remember which band El Duce was in, so I googled. This NSFW site (http://www.churchofelduce.com/) came up. My favorite part is this:
The Church of El Duce is open to anyone to join with certain exceptions : no gayes, no children allowed as well : only sexually liberated swingers
No one named Gaye is allowed. That's oddly specific.
Did Spike start this thing?
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Laurie, I don't understand your current occupation. What happened after you left the bank thing? Did you find a new gig?
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Laurie, I don't understand your current occupation. What happened after you left the bank thing? Did you find a new gig?
That's what my mom wants to know.
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SHOCKING REVELATION: I am Laurie's mom
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In case you couldn't find it, Laurie: El Duce was the fat sweaty guy from a gross misogynist 80s hardcore band called The Mentors*, and as far as I could tell (from seeing them at City Gardens in 1987 and a cursory internet search), he was primarily there to defecate on stage. Hence my erstwhile Thug Jesus gig, though I was hoping to do it classy.
Oh, and he murdered Kurt Cobain for Courtney Love.
*I'm sure there's a Mentors fan here somewhere, feel free to debate/correct me
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SHOCKING REVELATION: I am Laurie's mom
This comment made my morning.
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Worse, still, it has my least favorite song: "Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus."
Wow, after the title track, that's my favorite on that album. Different strokes! That would be a high quality desert island disc, though.
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Worse, still, it has my least favorite song: "Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus."
Wow, after the title track, that's my favorite on that album. Different strokes! That would be a high quality desert island disc, though.
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Did the Earth-3 Grote write this? I know I forget my posts all the time, but I don't think I've ever even heard that song.
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"Johnny Sex Fuck?"
Yargh! There is no one worth meeting after midnight.
I've only been to Miami once, and I'm going to guess that's still considered PG-13.
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Worse, still, it has my least favorite song: "Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus."
Wow, after the title track, that's my favorite on that album. Different strokes! That would be a high quality desert island disc, though.
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Did the Earth-3 Grote write this? I know I forget my posts all the time, but I don't think I've ever even heard that song.
He was quoting your first post, silly! Where you printed Mrs. JC's answers.
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OK. Whew!
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Here you go Laurie:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/142633-jarvis-cocker-the-pitchforktv-interview
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Ha ha!! Check out the look in that interviewer's eyes. He's almost as in love with Jarvis as I am.
I just watched a few of the video's Pitchfork posted today. You can see my face in the Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh one. Apparently so did a few thousand other people who might have been watching the Jumbotron. Scary!
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Brothers - Jarvis Cocker, Rainn Wilson and James Urbaniak.
Someone do the photos.