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Alyssa

Bearing Witness

About Me


I'm a filmmaker, a cultural cowgirl and an avid yogini.

Check out what's been keeping me busy these days at www.soulfabric.net

One of my new highs: AcroYoga. Here are the founders, Jason and Jenny:

My Interests

I LIKE: Biking, hiking and people watching. Yoga, bargain hunting and reading. The written word. FILM: documentary, experimental, ethnographic, independent. Personal stories and whimsical tales. Music, tea & coffee. Finding natural treasures, especially feathers. Thrift stores, vintage clothes & antique shops. Passionate people. Listening to music so loud it rattles my soul, kitty cats and traveling.

I'd like to meet:

Yogis and Gurus. Film freaks and music geeks. Shy, sly souls and roving, swashbuckling intrepid travelers. Loners, caffeine fiends and those clinging desperately to the trembling edge of the present. Truth seekers and techies.

Music:

Feist, Sia, Tokyo Police Club, Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, The New Pornographers, Bishop Allen, The Raconteurs, Wolf Parade, Tapes 'n Tapes, Ratatat, Rogue Wave, The American Analog Set, Spoon, The National, Dr. Dog, The Smiths, Morrissey, Interpol, Blur, Gorillaz, Beck, The White Stripes, Blonde Redhead, Dresden Dolls, Weezer, Pixies, Muse, The Hives, YYY's, Tori, Radiohead, Sparklehorse, Cat Power, The Dandy Warhols, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Dechen Hawk, The Playwrights, Jeff Buckley, Portishead, Aphex Twin, Bjork

Movies:

Last Hat in Town, Flying the Ama, With the Sun, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Delicatessan, Tuvalu, Down By Law, Dead Man, L'Age D'Or, Tierra Sin Pan, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Forest of Bliss, Rivers of Sand, Keep the River on Your Right, Requiem for A Dream, Donnie Darko, Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Dancer in the Dark, Himalaya, The Never Ending Story, Smoke Signals, Me You and Everyone We Know, Velvet Goldmine, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, American Beauty, Four Rooms, The Piano, Daisies, Darwin's Nightmare, Ma Vie en Rose, Amores Perros, Babel,...

Television:

kill your tv. Oh wait, no, not yet. Love film, hate tv.

Books:

Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Heroes:

Maya Deren, Robert Gardner, Medusa, Koren Zailckas