Laura Morrigan

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About me

Gender	Female
Location	Australia
Introduction	"Girl Anachronism." Neo-Victorian. Book addict. Writer. I especially love Steampunk and other retrofuturism, the Gothic genre, mythic fiction, urban fantasy, science fiction, beautiful picture books and anime. I love 19th Century to early 20th Century style. I love the Pre-Raphaelites and the Surrealists especially Dali, Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo. Also Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner, Monet and Renoir.
Interests	Writing, reading, watching movies, art, music, design, fashion, architecture... basically anything creative. I don't mean I am good at all of them, I'm just interested in all of them. I definitetly wouldn't know how to make a house stay up :P, Steampunk, steamgoth, cogpunk, clockpunk, Victoriana.
Favorite Movies	C.R.A.Z.Y., Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Natural Born Killers, Sid and Nancy, Frida, La Vie En Rose, Basquiat, Un Chien Andalou, Apocalyse Now, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), Beneath Clouds, Byron, Carne Tremula, Chungking Express, All About My Mother, Coco Avant Chanel, Coraline, Cria Cuervos (Raise Ravens), Cuore Sacro (Sacred Heart), Dark City, Death Becomes Her, Don't Move (Non te Muovere), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Foxfire, Full Metal Jacket, Ginger Snaps, Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed, Goodfellas, Great Expectations, Great Expectations (BBC), Heathers, High Plains Drifter, Imaginarium of Doctor Paranassus, Inception, Inkheart, Interview with the Vampire, May, My Own Private Idaho, La Mujer del Anaquista (The Anarchist's Wife), Live and Become Once Upon a Time in America, MirrorMask, Pandaemonium, Pan's Labyrinth, Secretary, Stardust, Sleepy Hollow, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Brothers Grimm, The Day I Became a Woman, The Fountain, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The Man Without A Past, The Matrix, The Mists of Avalon, Total Eclipse, Trainspotting, Turn Left, Turn Right, Gangs of New York, Fight Club, The Craft, Factory Girl, Merlin, Suspiria, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, But I'm a Cheerleader, Camelot, Chicago, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Wall (Pink Floyd), Blade Runner, Romeo + Juliet, Toys, Watchmen.
Favorite Music	Dresden Dolls, Loreena McKennit, Garbage, Enya, Yello, Ennio Morricone, Cradle of Filth, Annie Lennox, Eurythmics, Stevie Nicks, Kate Bush, Opera, The Green Children, Frank Sinatra, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Chingon, David Bowie, Fats Domino, Frida Soundtrack, Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack, Jazz, Blues, Basquiat Soundtrack, Classic Rock and Roll, Leonard Cohen, The Threepenny Opera
Favorite Books	White is for Witching, Brave New World, Rosa and the veil of gold, Worldshaker, The Shadow of the Wind, The Prestige, The Autumn Castle, Alan Ginsberg's poetry, Memory and Dream, Coraline, Neil Gaiman, Lives of the Monster Dogs, Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, The Great Gatsby, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Godfather, Algernon Blackwood, Something Wicked This Way Comes, pretty much everything else by Ray Bradbury, Asimov, general older science fiction, Wuthering Heights, The Mists of Avalon, Sandman Comics, Francesca Lia Block (especially the Weetzie Bat books), The Poemfone Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, The Invisibles, Sin City, poetry collections, fairytale fantasy, real world fantasy, myths and legends, Charles de Lint, V for Vendetta, Watchmen