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Alex

Leviticus was right. Hunch backs are the problem.

About Me


"Alex is a forward thinking, motivated young boy who prides himself on his numeracy skills, and approaches responsibility with a positive attitude. Whilst his attendance could do with some improvement, his spirited contributions to song time during Religious Instruction are certainly worthy of praise. He should do well next semester"*.
From a very early age it seemed that music was in Alex's blood. At the age of 10, he began to take an interest in dance music. Before he knew it, he was eating records for breakfast, and took every opportunity to inflict his new-found passion upon others. As grade 6 bell monitor, he opted to replace the nursery-rhyme style recess music with hard house. The students complained when he wouldn't play the Macarena, and he was overthrown from the job. In his teenage years, he spent much time working for an aspirant radio station called Pulse FM, and found a broader and more receptive audience for his musical stylings. In recent years, Alex chose to hang up the turntable (or keyboard, whatever) for slightly more eclectic tastes. These days he spends a fair amount of his time procrastinating, still does the odd piece of DJing around Melbourne, and dabbles with photography on the side.
*Source: Mid-year report, grade 2, 1992. May not be accurate.

My Interests

music, film, photography, in-depth conversations about trivial things, non-sports, religious bumper stickers

I'd like to meet:


The guy that does the voices on Australia's Funniest Home Video Show.

Music:

Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, The Necks, Cinematic Orchestra, Herbie Hancock, The Meters, Fela Kuti, Demon Fuzz, Whitefield Brothers, David Axelrod, Super Numeri, Bill Laswell, Pete Namlook, Klaus Schulze, Cluster, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Tetsu Inoue, Susumu Yokota, Boards Of Canada, Global Communication, Steve Roach, Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jimi Hendrix, Dirty Three, Jeff Buckley, Verve, Ralph Towner, Triosk

Movies:

Being John Malkovich, The Seventh Seal, The Third Man, Walkabout, Adaptation, Hard Eight, Gerry, Happiness, Elephant, Solaris, Naked Lunch, Blade Runner, The Royal Tennebaums, Twelve Monkeys, Fight Club, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Mulholland Drive, Magnolia, Amelie, The Science of Sleep, Lost In Translation, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Mysterious Skin, Naked, Punch Drunk Love, Return To Oz, Clerks, Alice
The short films of the Brothers Quay and Jiri Barta

Television:

Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Black Books, Flight Of The Conchords, Frontline, The Chaser, People Like Us, anything involving Shaun Micallef

Books:

Naked Lunch, Manufacturing Consent, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Peter Carey's short stories

My Blog

Ready, steady... Coke?

Those of you who actually have lives may be unfamiliar with the mid-afternoon cooking game show "Ready, Steady, Cook".. As the title suggests, it fuses all the excitement and superfluous audience part...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:23:00 PST

An open letter to The Veronicas

Dear Veronicas,First of all, let me get the gushing fan stuff out of the way. Great, now we can get onto more pressing issues. I understand that every pop act needs to have an image. It's been going o...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:27:00 PST

An unfortunate series of events

Having worked in Dandenong for almost two years, I was beginning to think I'd pretty much seen it all.. Where else can you find prostitutes, drunks, abusive parents and hardcore gangste...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:48:00 PST

Kafka VS. Rob Schneider

To say that I'm not the biggest fan of Rob Schneider's work is probably an understatement.. There's just something about his humour that I don't get. Until recently, I put this down to the themes he c...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:52:00 PST