Alan - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am able to hit the snooze button on my alarm clock for hours. I am not a picky eater and will try just about anything--with the exception of bugs, guts and other "Fear Factor" cuisine. I am reliably 5-10 minutes late. I am often told that I know the words to every song ever written, which I know not to be true, but I let them believe. I talk and sometimes walk in my sleep. If there is music playing and I've had a drink, I am unable to refrain from shaking my booty. I am a Texas liberal and consider politics a fine gauge of intellect. I keep hammocks, ice chests and koozies in my car at all times, 'cause you never know. I haven't tossed a cigarette butt on the ground in years. I am the most laid-back person you will ever know.

My Interests

concerts/music festivals, Astros, darts, tubing, pool, bowling, skiing (snow), road trips, jeeping, camping, drinking, dancing, cavorting, galavanting

Music:

Grateful Dead, Talking Heads/David Byrne, Toots and the Maytalls, Pink Floyd, Modest Mouse, Mike Doughty/Soul Coughing, Phish, John Coltrane, Tom Waits, The Killers, The Gourds, Allmann Bros., Sublime, Citizen Cope, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Kanye West, Little Feat, Dinosaur Jr., The Strokes, Cake, Yonder Mountain String Band, Kings of Leon, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, Widespread Panic, Bob Marley, Led Zepplin, Flogging Molly, The Roots, Bob Dylan, Old 97's, The Postal Service/Death Cab for Cutie, Warren Zevon, Patty Griffin, Rancid, Panjabi MC, Counting Crows, Galactic, Paul Simon, O.A.R., Wilco, Willie Nelson, String Cheese Incident, The Boss, Morphine, The New Deal, Dropkick Murphys, Big Head Todd, Robert Earl Keen, Particle, Jack Johnson, John Prine, Steve Earle, Wu Tang Clan, Asylum Street Spankers, Sheryl Crow, Beck, The Chieftains, Beth Orton, My Morning Jacket, Bob Schneider, Interpol, Nick Drake, Tool, Josh Ritter, Louis XIV, Alison Krauss, Tribe Called Quest, The Queers, Taj Mahal, Dwight Yoakam, Social Distortion, Jimmy Lafave, Townes Van Zandt, etc. . .& my XM Radio

Movies:

A River Runs Through It, Fight Club, Being John Malkovich/Eternal Sunshine, The Wall, Pulp Fiction, American Psycho, Kurosawa's Ran, Dazed and Confused, Apocalypse Now, Clerks, Wrestling Earnest Hemingway, Seven, Donnie Darko, Hands on a Hardbody, Fear and Loathing, Harold and Kumar, Garden State, anything by the Farrelly Bros, Coen Bros., Wes Anderson or Scorsese

Television:

Simpsons and Seinfeld (given), The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Scrubs, Sealab 2021, Home Movies, Robot Chicken, Futurama, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman, Tom Goes To The Mayor, Deadwood, Chappelle show, The State, Reno 911, Kids in the Hall, 24, SNL, Conan, Alfred Hitchcock

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, Ball Four, Confederacy of Dunces, 1984, The Sun Also Rises, Tuesdays with Morrie, Island (Aldous Huxley), America (The Book), anything by Hunter Thompson or Dave Barry

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Bill Murray, Bill Maher, Bill Clinton, Mr. Bill