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About Me

deep thinker
musician
aspiring novelist
insomniac
longboarding enthusiast
current landscaper (just for summer)
pescetarian
i'm very quiet, especially if i don't know you too well. but that doesn't mean i don't like you. i've been shy ever since i could remember. i like to think a lot, which may contribute to my quietness.

My Interests

Music
Literature,
Film,
Photography
Collecting and listening to vinyls
Longboarding
..

I'd like to meet:

A Short Message

Leave me a short message, if you'd like...

Music:

Mostly indie and post-rock...here's a small list of favorites:
Swords
Sigur Ros
Mogwai
Mono
El Ten Eleven
Windsor Forth Derby
Unwed Sailor
Explosions In The Sky
MONO
The Album Leaf
The Decemberists
The Dears
Bedouin Soundclash
Modest Mouse
The Shins
Iron & Wine
Darrin Schaffer
Miles Davis
Death Cab For Cutie
Franz Schubert
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Erik Satie Jefferson Aeroplane
Yes
Joe Cocker
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
The Beatles
Whe Who
Led Zeppelin
The Band
The Mamas and the Papas
Cream

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
I Heart Huckabees
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Punch-Drunk-Love
Garden State
THX 1138
The Squid and the Whale
Happiness

Television:

Law & Order (Paloma got me hooked)

Books:

"Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" both by Henry David Thoreau
"On The Road" by Jack Kerouac
"The Green Hills of Africa", "The Sun Also Rises", "The Nick Adams Stories" and "Farewell to Arms" both by Ernest Hemingway, "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby" both by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Heroes:

Ernest Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac

My Blog

"Of Angels and Angles": an analysis by ALan Nelson

"There are angels in your anglesThere's a low moon caught in your tanglesThere's a ticking at the sillThere's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of dayAs on we go drowningDown we go awayAnd darling...
Posted by alan on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:50:00 PST