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alej, mid-flight

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About Me

"I was born Maggie May in 1979 on a smashing pumpkin farm, and I lived Under Pressure. So I ran away with the Candy Man named Levon on his Magic Bus, who turned out to be a Blue-Collar Man, but I Can’t Explain why I didn’t mind…I guess I was just a Rag Doll, living in Paradise City. After a tragic accident involving Fat Bottomed Girls and a Bicycle, I moved to the Dark Side of the Moon, where I was the driving force behind Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band. Sadly, I developed a taste for whiskey, rye and American Pie, leading to my exile to China Grove. But a Rock N’ Roll Band that was playing in town picked me up when I was feeling down. I developed R-E-S-P-E-C-T, and people called me Mellow Yellow (quite righteously). After living with Ziggy Stardust and a Southern Man in a Caravan to Marrakesh, we moved to Our House, in the middle of the street – which suddenly exploded into Great Balls of Fire, and our ashes were spread Across the Universe.

I use the myspace layout generator at UltimateMySpace.com.

My Interests

Pretending to be someone I'm not in public places. Watching people's reactions.People watching.Watching (but not really) scary movies and masking the fact that I'm petrified with ridiculous comments.Randomnosity. I may not be great at it, but it keeps me on my toes!And absurdism.

I'd like to meet:

You.

Music:

I'm a self-confessed music freak (Hey, they say the first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem, right?) I have a ton of old vinyl - Neil Young, Todd Rundgren, Styx, Queen, all the Led Zep albums, even George Clinton. My faves? Clasic rock (preferably glam- QUEEN!!!!!!!!) and some indie (Cold War Kids, Imaad Wasif, Michael Zapruder's Rain of Frogs) But I love. Love. LOVE. LOOVE QUEEN.ROGER DALTRY IS A GOD

Movies:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Rebel Without A Cause The Usual Suspects, Pan's Labyrinth, LoTR, Star Wars (original trilogy ONLY), The Royal Tenenbaums, Waiting for Guffman, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Donnie Darko (FRANK!), The Virgin Suicides (I FREAKING LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK), Being John Malkovich, The Shining, Silence of the Lambs (Hello Clarice)(Yes, I have a hopkins fetish), City Lights, The Chumscrubber, Mal Educacion, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Volver, LA Confidential, All the Lillian Gish movies, UHF channel b-movies (ATOM AGE VAMPIRE!), Singing in the Rain, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Harvey, Amelie, Le Placard, Les Choristes

Television:

House, CSI, Monk, Without a Trace, BtVS, Masterpiece Theatre (Nerd!!!)

Books:

Abarat!!! Gormenghast, Titus Groan, The Chess Machine, Sex Drugs & Cocoa Puffs, White Noise, COnfederacy of Dunces, The Namesake, Love in the Time of Cholera, All Lewis Carrol EVER. Sylvia Plath! T.S. Eliot (Yes, the Wasteland is an English major MUST...but I confess to loving his poems about...cats. *cough*) I'm an English major for a reason. 3 Books.

Heroes:

Clive Barker, Mervyn Peake are my current top two.Bang Girl, Danni of Wanni, el aleJ, Juicy Fruit, DREWS (AnDREW, Gay Drew) T.S Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Lillian Gish,Sylvia Plath, Yeats, Shakespeare, Nick Hornsby, Jay Gatsby, Salvador Dali, Gary Baseman, Gene Wilder, James Dean, Jimmy Stewart, Queen (ready freddie!), Dorothy Parker, the triplets,MEN WITH BEARDS and You. I LOVE YOU.

My Blog

Post Script

I finished another short, instead of sleeping. Who wants to read it?I shall reimburse you handsomely.
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:21:00 PST

Even Artichokes Have a Heart

Dear World,Think of this as a long overdue apology.I've been so wrapped up in my own dilemnas and struggles this quarter that I've completely neglected to tend to the real world, and I think I may hav...
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:08:00 PST

It Dont Matter (To Me)

Ugh.Ever get the feeling you're stuck in a moment you can't get out of?***I visited the Art Center College of Design this Saturday, and as we were driving up the (admittedly short) driveway, there was...
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:16:00 PST

Progress!!! Ish.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_re_eu/britain_stem _cells_6Possibly the best news I've heard all week. It's a step forward... perhaps not in the direction I'd hoped for, but nevertheless a mo...
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:51:00 PST

Video Ga Ga

That's it. I really want to make a video for "Kick in the Teeth". I've got a bunch of ideas, now I just need the people and the software to make it happen. You know the drill - got my dinky lil' camer...
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:45:00 PST

Electronica!

I admit it. I'm an electro-junkie.I can't help myself! When I'm down because of my mom, I just slap on some Daft Punk (usually "Digital Love") or some Eiffel 65 (YES I know it's bad) and instantly I f...
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:33:00 PST

...and when I don’t sleep, I make your life miserable.

Sorta.I got started on quizzes and other time-wasters, and now I can't stop! I'm posting all that crap here so as to save your eyes the pain. Proceed at your own peril.A Completely Random Music Survey...
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:16:00 PST

Mos. Def.

It's not fair. Because of this mofo, I can't use one of my favorite abbreviations. EVER. Seriously, like, "mos def" was my THING, y'knowwha'msayin'? But noooooo. Like my lexicon wasn't limited enough....
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:12:00 PST

WHOOSH

is the sound makes when your teakettle overboils and you burn out the bottom.I thought that happened only in movies!Go figure, it happens to me.ANYWHOS.Having just been tackled and held down by two ve...
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:32:00 PST

Hello, It’s Me

It's amazing how listening to The Virgin Suicides can, ironically, lift me out of my moods. Ironic, namely because most of the songs are such a counterpoint to the state of my life - but I think there...
Posted by alej, mid-flight on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:25:00 PST