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Alexandra

nobody knows where you've been

About Me

you'll just have to ask...

My Interests

eccentrics & personal style, 60's-70's decor and design, folkart, science fiction, vegetarian cooking, campfires, ancient history, philosophy, tuxedo cats, lads with long hair, textile designs, owls, night-time skys, natural history, record stores, lounging on pillows and listening to records, gardens, 70's NYC history, the scents of sandlewood, pine and orange and chocolate,turtles, thai food, conceptual art, psyche rock, screenprinting, ceramics 40's -70's, oaxaca mexico, being the hostess, 60's london, sitars, 60's 70 designers & shops like East/West/ossie clark & Biba, graveyards and catacombs, vintage advertisments & graphics, sitars, fleamarkets, knee high boots, french new wave films, film noir, vintage cameras, 70s' crafts like string-art and quilting,...hanging with my electric lady friends

I'd like to meet:

electric ladies, dandies in the underworld, roadrunners, southern man, & lots of pretty things...

Music:

garage & psyche, folk,blues, postpunk, bubblegum/glam, to soulful funk: some of the music i like is from: atomic rooster, Deep Purple, chocolate watch band, groundhogs, vetiver, blue cheer, dutronc, neil young, kinks, television, delta 5, serge g., zombies, stones, equals, TREX, buffalo springfield, odetta, buzzcocks, ultimate spinach, spirit, secret machines, Sparks, ike & tina, faces, black keys, gram parsons, cramps, moby grape, traffic, luna, terry reid, galaxie 500, siouxsie, CAN, ESG, them, tony joe white, the kills, black sabbath, beechwood sparks, the fall, vietnam, jesus & mary chain, datsuns, dead meadow, jbs, the seeds, stone roses, sweet, the kills, fred neil, love, canned heat, small faces, the nazz, psychic ills, rod stewart, warlocks, slade, bubble puppy, johns children, manassas, badfinger, smiths, Queen, cptn. beefheart, byrds, lyn collins, 13th fl. elevators, cheap trick, charlatans, spaceman 3, delaney n bonnie, skip bifferty, sly stone, mission of burma, joy divison, hawkwind, pretty things, humble pie, joe south, cream, cat power, rasberries, and so much more .. ..

Movies:

wickerman, suspiria, don't look now,IF,being there, whitnail and I, the third man, boy & his dog, zardoz, bottlerocket, 5 easy pieces, the shining, cabaret, la dolce vita, chinatown, darling, mean streets, the knack and how to get it, the man who loved women, klute, warriors, foxes, beyond the valley of the dolls, sunset boulevard, this is spinal tap, one flew over the cukooos nest, goldfinger, the tenant, alfie, smashing time, switchblade sisters, dog day afternoon, lonlieness of the long distance runner, fave. directors: godard, fellini, polanski, kubrick,visconti, truffaut, wilder, sergio leone, reed, hitchcock.

Television:

LOST, Law & Order or CSI repeats...ahh, and the scifi channel...

Books:

too many to list but some favorites are by lawrence durrell, nabokov, tolstoy, proust, andre gide, huxley, collette, balzac, thomas mann, emile zola, david sedaris, stendahl, huysman, camus, anias nin,italo calvino,wilde,cavafy

Heroes:

Stylistically: Jane Birkin, Gene Clark, Charlotte Rampling, Mick Jagger, Ossie Clark, Todd Rudgren, Jimmy Carter, Rita Tushingham, Julie Christie, Mia Farrow, Brian Jones, Bowie, Anais Nin, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Anna Karina, Arthur Lee, Keith Richards, Pam Grier

My Blog

this weekends EVENTS!

Tonight FridayElwood Grace is playing the last NY gig 9ish (call/text me for deets)September, 8 2006 at Magnetic Field 97 ATLANTIC AVE., BROOKLYN, NY, 11201 , New York NY, NY With Brooklyn's very own ...
Posted by Alexandra on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:55:00 PST

This week events

TONIGHT!monday aug 28th 06my aptly named tenement funster event!over at sweet paradise 14 orchard st way down in the LES area bordering chinatownI am playing lots of psyche, electric boogie, progressi...
Posted by Alexandra on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:40:00 PST

Flickr images

Hey folks phots posted here of us all out & about plus of inspired images/momentshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/morrial/
Posted by Alexandra on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:51:00 PST

Top 8

I will keep them in rotation of my nearest & dearest! (you know who you are!) I can't choose just 8 of you! and I'm so lucky to have the best people in my life
Posted by Alexandra on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:19:00 PST

Crowded...

Crowded, my life's so crowded Not enough time to do the things I want to do Faces, so many faces Not enough time to search through all of them for you See you know what I mean When I say that n...
Posted by Alexandra on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

you wear it well

"I had nothing to do on this hot afternoonbut to settle down and write you a lineI've been meaning to phone you but from Minnesotahell it's been a very long timeYou wear it wellA little old fashioned ...
Posted by Alexandra on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

top 10 lifetime songs!

this is it my top 10 favorite lifetime songs the ones I dont get tired of hearing: here goes: "I've been waiting"-Neil Young "Maggie Mae- Rod Stewart "Candy Says- Velvet Underground "13"- big ...
Posted by Alexandra on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

songs swirling around this week...

the current playlist of my mind.... "900 people daily making love"-the Seeds "Lonely weekends" the Remains "Risings sons" -Ry Cooder Helpless" -Crosby Stills Nash & Young "I'm a Mover"-Free "9...
Posted by Alexandra on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the songs swirling around in my head this week...

"morning dew"-episode six "the forest of Black"-dirty filthy mud "Bluebird"-buffalo springfield "Hard luck Woman"-kiss "grown so ugly"-the black keys "If love is the drug then I want to OD"- B.J....
Posted by Alexandra on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

this week on the turntable & in my head

this week my favorite songs are: "I got that feeling" sweet marie "I've got reasons" Mary Jane Hooper "Hound dog" big mama thorton "Aint it right:- king george discovery "wonderboy"-the kinks ...
Posted by Alexandra on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST