Alyssa - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i like cheese.

My Interests

i like road trips, dive bars, used bookstores, mid-century graphic design and architecture, vegas, snacks, art deco movie palaces, live music, writing, disneyland, vintage fashion, marshmallows, and plastic squirrels. i also like candlelit dinners, puppies, long walks on the beach, butterflies, bubble baths, and unicorns.

I'd like to meet:

people who don't eat other people's cheese. and/or giant bunnies.

Music:

hank williams, johnny cash, jean shepard, chet baker, phil spector girl groups, bob wills, hole, the lucky stars, the detroit cobras, joan jett, patsy cline, le tigre, madonna, francoise hardy, hank thompson, faron young

Movies:

the misfits, breakfast at tiffany's, bonnie and clyde, donnie darko, amelie, the girl can't help it, american beauty, buffalo 66, angel heart, vertigo, bring it on, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Books:

choke, geek love, the contortionist's handbook, me talk pretty one day, the bell jar, avoiding prison and other noble vacation goals, amy hempel, dorothy parker, lynda barry. currently i'm reading a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, a book about the history of western swing, the bullfighter checks her makeup by new yorker writer susan orlean, fast food nation, the new david sedaris, and a bunch of travel books on spain.

Heroes:

david sedaris. tyler durden. michael moore. buffy the vampire slayer.

My Blog

don't be an asshole

of course *you're* going to vote. you're not an asshole. but on the off chance that you know someone who maybe isn't planning to, you can give them the following article to read in the car while you'r...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

go outside

sometimes, you write down the random journal entries in your head because it's saturday afternoon and you should be following up on engineering bugs or documenting your project plan but instead you're...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

fahrenheit 9/11

please, do the collective conscious a favor and go see "fahrenheit 9/11" on opening night. its opening-weekend success will send a powerful message to the media and to hollywood (especially disney) th...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

thank you ray

when i was a little girl, one of my favorite records in my mom's collection was "modern sounds in country & western music volume 1." i used to listen to the cover of hank williams' "you win again" ove...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

give the cat a name

today for no particular reason i thought of a remarkably unfunny "ziggy" calendar that my mother had given to me and my best friend from high school when we moved into our first apartment together, al...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

let's go...

in case you missed mark morford's column on sfgate today... Maybe You Need A Road Trip A long stretch of road, a shiny new car, a big happy dog, and thou. Balm for the soul? By Mark Morford, ...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"if you're sad, and you like beer, i'm your lady!"

yesterday i saw "the saddest music in the world," a satirical black and white musical set in 1930s winnipeg about a legless beer maven's worldwide search for depressing music to inspire post-prohibiti...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

van lear rose

just picked up the new loretta lynn album, which was produced by jack white. i'm quite fond of both artists, but hadn't read any reviews and wasn't sure what to expect from their unlikely collaboratio...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

a perky list of sad songs

deanna's post about her top breakup songs got me thinking... the evening of my last major breakup-breakup, i was listening to the go-go's and dancing around the newly freed space in my apartment in my...
Posted by Alyssa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST