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Alex

alexfox74

About Me

I'm mostly on Facebook these days. It's WAY better.
Little kids tell me I'm 'good at Play Doh.'
Apparently I look 'badass' holding the toy guitar from Guitar Hero.
I break bones kickboxing - my own bones, that is.
I find boring things like information science interesting because I'm a nerd.
I have a slight obsession with cartoons and peanut butter because I'm really just a big kid.
I'll try almost anything once.
I own way too many Patsy Cline CDs.
I press the snooze button A LOT.
I'm addicted to Triscuits.
Sometimes I speak in movie quotes.

My Interests

muay thai kickboxing, music, movies, reading, cartoons,
computer/database/web stuff, wine, travel, crosswords, photography

Music:

Frank, Patsy, Aretha, Otis ... Delta Blues... The Clash, AC/DC, Kinks, The Offspring, Eminem, Van Morrison, Social D, Bloodhound Gang, Oldies, '80s, Nerf Herder, Cake, Green Day, Beasties, Violent Femmes, Bad Religion, Bowling for Soup, The Donnas and lots more.... lately I've been in a girl punk mood and listening to the Donnas a lot.

Overall Top Listens So Far...

Movies:

cheezy horror flicks like The Faculty and Shaun of the Dead and Eight Legged Freaks
cheezy disaster flicks (you know - volcanoes in the midwest and meteors crashing into earth sort of stuff)
hitchcock
anything with cary grant, katherine hepburn, john cusack, nicholas cage,johnny depp or edward norton
Jaws
Blues Brothers
Empire Records
Mallrats
Billy Elliot
anything remotely interesting i can find on netflix

Television:

I finally got Tivo so I don't have to bother remembering the TV schedule (I'm horrible at that). So now I will never miss an episode of House or Psych. They both crack me up. And Spongebob.

Books:

I'm always reading something...

My Blog

A Trip to the Seattle Public Library

Seattle Public Library - Downtown/Central BranchSo Seattle has a (relatively) new library downtown with some much talked about architecture. I believe I've even heard about some interesting things th...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:54:00 PST

Pandora.com vs. Last.fm

I hate to say it but Pandora wins hands down. Last.fm has so many great features that pandora does not. But it doesn't do the one thing I want it to do - play music. In fact, Last.fm has so many fe...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 27 May 2006 11:25:00 PST

James Brown and Coffee in the Morning

Anyone who knows me well (or has read the previous 'Note to Self' blog entry) knows that I'm not a morning person. I never have been. Waking up is a daily chore that I have not yet managed to perfec...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 18 May 2006 07:05:00 PST

Note To Self

Alex, you know how much of an effort it is for you to get up early in the morning. This is exactly why you try to fool yourself by setting the time on the alarm clock an unknown number of minutes ahe...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 16 May 2006 05:12:00 PST

On Goats & Yurts

YaY! The goats are back with their yurts! OK, so nobody has any idea what I'm talking about. Let me explain. There's an NC State Field Laboratory near my father's house. I drove my father past it ...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 16 May 2006 06:23:00 PST

Death by Triscuits and other nonsense

"Chuck, Porterhouse, Ribeye.......thirsty men with no necks"So apparently I didn't learn my lesson yesterday when I nearly choked to death on a triscuit since I'm eating them again. I need to impose ...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:00:00 PST