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Alyssa

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About Me



Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. Table, ivory elephant charm, rainbow, onion, hairdo, violence, melodrama, honey...None of it moved her. She addressed the world honestly, searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her, but to each she would have to say, I don't love you. -Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

my flickr site

Arizona Animal Welfare League
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My Interests

Photography, art, reading, animals (and not eating them), films, horror, falafel, toys, toy cameras, jewelry (especially antique, vintage, or hand-made and not diamonds), organic, juicing, hats, Weasleys, postcards, vintage, Starbuck, scooters, charlie chaplin, pop-up books, universal monsters, finding inspiration in everyday life.

I'd like to meet:

People with interesting stories. People with interesting faces who will let me photograph them. People who love animals. People who want to bake me vegan cupcakes.

Music:

billy bragg, brian wilson, the cure, bjork, ramones, that dog, stray cats, horrorpops, social d, the buzzcocks, david bowie, beach boys, cat power, nick cave and the bad seeds, tom waits, tegan and sara, QUEEN, blondie, johnny cash, depeche mode, ben folds, michael jackson, ben kweller, r.e.m., damien rice, the rentals, polyphonic spree, smashing pumpkins, they might be giants, yyy, the white stripes, the ditty bops

Movies:

amelie, Tim Burton...my favorite being Ed Wood, ET, shaun of the dead, reality bites, the godfather, evil dead II, the mockumentaries of christopher guest, secretary, an american werewolf in london, goodfellas, purple rain, lost boys, kung fu hustle, star wars, sense and sensibility, spider baby, breathless, once upon a time in mexico, dark crystal, bride of chucky, close encounters, the devil's backbone, harry potters, freaks, the goonies, the wedding singer, lost in translation, garden state, the shining, the warriors, rushmore, Pan's Labyrinth

Television:

spaced!

buffy, sex and the city,home movies, battlestar galactica, wonderfalls, kids in the hall, freaks and geeks, the x-files, da ali g show, firefly, extras, lost, 30 rock, futurama, the office (uk), I don't know what to think of the office on nbc this season (forget "jumped the shark" how about "killed the cat"??)

Books:


Harry Potter, obviously...
tolkien, cash, mary gaitskill, nick hornby, douglas adams, roald dahl, jonathan safran foer, c.s. lewis, poe, walt whitman, siddhartha, the basic eight, if chins could kill, 'salem's lot, girl, interrupted, the lovely bones, ash wednesday, bridget jones's diary, the bell jar, sideways, Frida by Frida, The Diary of Frida Kahlo, Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth,memoirs of a geisha, brave new world , burton on burton.
comics: blue monday, scooter girl, the atomics, courtney crumrin, ghost world, invincible, the walking dead, scott pilgrim, the quitter, 30 days of night, local, strangetown, phonogram, y the last man, ex machina, the pirates of coney island.

Heroes:

Jason. Foxy Roxy. Diane Arbus. Harry Potter. Tim Burton. Frida Kahlo.

My Blog

For your information there’s an inflammation in my tear gland

I don't want to have kids. My only desire for having children is experimental. If I only fed them certain foods and raised them around certain books and music and real life experiences, would they tur...
Posted by Alyssa on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:51:00 PST

Pop Candy

Jason's costume was featured on the Pop Candy Blog on usatoday.com!I sent it in thinking that there probably weren't a lot of people dressed as the Ro-man this Halloween......
Posted by Alyssa on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:31:00 PST

I married a vampire

Jason, Greg, Tim, and Werner in Nun Chuck Taylor 2... For those who don't know, it's a fake movie trailer sequel to Nun Chuck Taylor. Enjoy!...
Posted by Alyssa on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:27:00 PST

The Proudest

My dog is a genius (he takes after his mother). He has recently learned two more new tricks. He now knows up and roll over. The roll over is especially cute since he rolls onto his side and puts his f...
Posted by Alyssa on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:00:00 PST

What the...

The Finnish "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" cover art has been revealed...So yeah, who wouldn't want to read that?...
Posted by Alyssa on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:15:00 PST

Things I would like to know

How is it possible for Spike to smoke? There are several mentions of Vampires having no breath in Buffy. The most memorable perhaps is when Xander had to save Buffy's life when she drowned because Ang...
Posted by Alyssa on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:06:00 PST

Addendum

It's much more fun to make your own costume than to buy one out of a package but in a bind, you just might need to do that. I think I speak for many girls who don't want to use Halloween as an excuse ...
Posted by Alyssa on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:01:00 PST

Is it Christmas yet?

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Posted by Alyssa on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:26:00 PST

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks

Here's to proving "them" wrong!!Mr. Samuel just learned how to "lay down." For those who don't know, Sammy is a rescue dog. We adopted him just before his 5th birthday. He just turned 7 on the 13th of...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:45:00 PST

It may concern

Dear Clothing Makers of the World,Is it too much to ask that you pull your heads out of your asses and start making clothes that fit real people? You do realize that not every female who wears women's...
Posted by Alyssa on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:42:00 PST