1.
What is your real first and middle name (if any)? Laurie Joan
2.
Where were you born, geographically? Miami
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Where do you reside now (geographically)? Miami
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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.
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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!
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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 (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 or
Circa 28 or some shit. We will drink beers on the beach at around 3 am. Yes.
