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Alan

No te metas con mi cucu.

About Me



My Interests

Inverting my circadian rhythm, drunkenly testing the limits of impropriety, challenging your cynicism, sleep deprivation, sleep marathons, month-long recuperative hibernations, smarty-pants premises, pancakes, sweater weather, t-shirt weather, motorik, overcast, constructivism, mid-century modern architecture, the bauhaus movement, Catholic imagery, being Mexi-core, hitting my stride, generally not giving a shit.

Music:

The Black Ghosts, The DFA, LCD Soundsystem, !!!, M83, Hot Chip, M.I.A., Diplo, Annie, X-Wife, New Young Pony Club, Alden Tyrell, Klaxons, Aaron LaCrate, Amanda Blank, Spank Rock, Glass Candy, The Rapture, Basement Jaxx, Kudu, Spektrum, RJD2, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Go! Team, Metronomy, Santogold, Editors, Snowden, Fujiya & Miyagi, Stereolab, TV on The Radio, Goldfrapp, Efterklang, Hood, Primal Scream, Ladytron, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths, Suede, Pulp, Red House Painters, Sufjan Stevens, Sondre Lerche, Natalia Lafourcade, Julieta Venegas, Belinda, Kinky, Mecano, Los Angeles Negros, Palito Ortega, Ramon Ayala, Los Bukis, Francis Lai, Serge Gainsbourg, Julie London, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Lil Chris, Trina

Movies:

Lynn Ramsay, Ingmar Bergman, Lucrecia Martel, David Lynch, John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Isao Takahata, Stanley Kubrick, Bob Altman, George Cukor, Billy Wilder, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Todd Haynes, Wes Anderson, La India Maria

Television:

All Food Network, all the time.

Books:

Paulo Coelho, Haruki Murakami, John Updike, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Esquivel, Bret Easton Ellis, Julio Cortazar, Honore de Balzac, Don DeLillo, Jorge Luis Borges, Douglas Coupland, Carlos Fuentes, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Patrick Suskind, Jeffrey Eugenides, Zadie Smith, Ira Levin, Ayn Rand, Thomas Pynchon, Evelyn Waugh

Heroes:

Mies van der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Frank Lloyd Wright, Vaughan Oliver, Andy Warhol, Candy Kong, Vicki the robot, maybe Peter Saville

My Blog

This blog is juuust right...

As I am now a resident of the Vancouver/Portland area and will be, unfortunately, missing out on all the Meatball Magic-type fun in California for several short whiles, I created a music blog to tide ...
Posted by Alan on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:56:00 PST

An excerpt: John Updike,

    The house shudders to the master's step. Kruppenbach comes up the stairs into his den, angry at being taken from his lawn-mowing. He wears old black pants and an undershirt soaked w...
Posted by Alan on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:36:00 PST

She salts and peppers her mango.

My sister Jannette works at this fancy new organic spa in Hollywood, and she tends to call me when some celebrity comes in for a treatment. Shannyn Sossamon is gorgeous and walks around buck naked, Al...
Posted by Alan on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:26:00 PST

Livejournal redux, chapter two.

On god and the devil in the land of the sun.Thursday, November 25, 20041:50 p.m.Not that they're especially important or symbolic or anything like that, but it's those mushrooms I keep mulling over mo...
Posted by Alan on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:01:00 PST

Livejournal redux, chapter one.

Remember the good old days when everyone kept a Livejournal to read about each other's days and lives? Before Myspace began sucking everyone's energies into its big blue mouth and you were really exci...
Posted by Alan on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:37:00 PST

All flowers in time bend towards the sun.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.Why didn't I know about this? Was I the only person left in the dark about this duet Liz Fraser did with Jeff Buckley right before he died? Is it some twisted sort of Bizarro World...
Posted by Alan on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:26:00 PST

27.

Dear friends,It was only until recently that I was totally one of those people who never really celebrated their birthday. I'd likely stay in bed all day, then my mom would come over with a cake and s...
Posted by Alan on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:17:00 PST

Candy is dandy, but liquor... oh, you know.

The thing is, so many of us are so accustomed to living in the "Central Valley Bubble" that when an artifact from the outside world drops onto one's head like the jet engine in Donnie Darko, one's ini...
Posted by Alan on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:48:00 PST

My commitment to Sparkle Motion.

Those of you who have seen Donnie Darko know all about Sparkle Motion and their amazing dance routine to Duran Duran's "Notorious." What you may not know is that it was originally choreographed to the...
Posted by Alan on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:12:00 PST