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Alexandra the Greatest

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

It’s not that I don’t know who I am, or how to communicate this to others, it’s just that I have yet to find a method that doesn’t offend people.

My Interests

Likes:

- Being inappropriate

- Adventures

- Writing

- Traveling

- Poetry

- Philosophy

- Walking

- Photography

- Eating out

- Fashion

- Peppermint Mochas

- Hot Boys in tight clothes

- My Shoe and boot collection

- Ethiopian, Indian, and Italian foods (particularily pizza), my favorites

- Parties

- Women's history

- The Illadelph, and all my friends there

- The delightful juxtaposition of cherry blossom trees and old buildings for which Philadelphia is so known in the spring

- 60's Music, and I especially love it if it's French.

Dislikes:

- Waiting

- Phonies. People well versed in verbal harlotry as I call them.

- Telegraph Ave

- People that insist on wearing their school gear everyday

- When people call Berkeley 'Cal'

- People who don't answer their phones, and claim to like me even though they rarely call me. I can't be expected to do everything!

- Patriarchy

- Annoying valley girls on their cell phones

- Parties that end too early

- Ugly, unfashionable people who have the audacity to be snobby. What the fuck are you doing? Look in the mirror you fooool!

- People who aren't doing anything with their lives but still feel the need to judge others (Oh yeah, and being 'hip' everyday doesn't mean you're doing something with your life).

- You know Bush and all the other evil people in the world.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting Folks.

Music:

I usually just listen to compliations and make mixes rather than listen to the entire album of one single artist, but here are some people I like in no particular order:

- The Beatles
- Portishead
- Cibo Matto
- Butter 08
- Le Tigre
- The Faint
- Bikini Kill
- Sleater-Kinney
- David Bowie
- The Rolling Stones
- France Gall
- The Velvet Underground
- Gorecki
- My Bloody Valentine
- Miles Davis
- Komeda
- Franciose Hardy
- Takako Minekawa
- Joy Division
- New Order
- Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane
- Fiona Apple
- Sonic Youth
- Gang of Four
- Ladytron
- Kahimi Karie
- Jimi Hendrix
- Janis Joplin
- The Nazz
- Metric
- Simon and Garfunkel
- Strawberry Alarm Clock
- Os Mutantes
- Abba
- The Mamas and the Papas
- Lou Reed
- The Kinks
- Diana Ross
- The United States of America
- Quixotic
- Wagner
- Peer Gynt
- Beethoven
- Tchaikolvsky
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Edith Piaf
- Franz Ferdinand
- The Buzzcocks
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Rimsky-Korsakov
- Kanye West
- Clothilde

Movies:

- The Graduate
- Manhattan
- Annie Hall
- Bridget Jones Diary
- The Dark Crystal
- Something's Got to Give
- Strictly Ballroom
- The Last Unicorn

Television:

Sex in the City, but besides that I haven't watched TV in a few years.

Books:

Fiction/Non-Fiction Writers
- Joan Didion
- Nora Ephron
- Zora Neal Hurston
- Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)
- Haruki Marakami
- Ryuu Murakami
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Jorges Luis Borges
- James Baldwin
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- William Faulkner (short stories)
- Mona Simpson ('Lawns")
- Ernest Hemingway
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Murasaki Shikubu (The Tale of Genji)
Poets:
- Geoffery Chaucer
- Harryette Mullen
- David Antin
- Charles Bukowski
- Jack Spicer
- Frank O'hara
- Mashou Bashou
- John Milton
- Lyn Lifshin
- Mina Loy
- Wallace Stevens
- Edmund Spenser
- Gertrude Stein
- T.S. Eliot
- William Carlos Williams
- Mary Karr
Other:
- The Manyuushou
- The Koukinshu
- The Zagat Survey and other books on Food.

Heroes:

Oona the cat, and everyone who has read through my worked and helped me edit it. I admire and honor your patience my loves.

My Blog

since feeling is first by e.e. cummings

since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate t...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:52:00 PST

STEPS by Frank O’Hara

How funny you are today New Yorklike Ginger Rogers in Swingtimeand St. Bridget's steeple leaning a little to the lefthere I have just jumped out of a bed full of V-days(I got tired of D-days) and blue...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:03:00 PST

And So Aries Begins

If you all didn’t already know I’m obsessed with astrology. Aries is my favorite time of year, always has been. Yesterday when good old Aries began the entire zodiac began again as well. I...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:47:00 PST

A Six Year Old’s Visit To Paris

In this beautiful world of ours there are numerous places to go, from the typical to the unusual, but there is one spot, familiar to all as it may be, that is most definitely the first on my list to v...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:40:00 PST

Traveling Through Western Japan in 2004.

Unlike the other blogs I've posted about Japan this was written right after my trip in my dorm room in Tokyo. Many of the other entries were written in January of 2008 when I was providing written con...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:25:00 PST

How To Optimize Your Dining Experience

Introduction If you are not a food aficionado or have never had the desire to be one, may I suggest that there is something wrong with you? What can be better, after all, than studying food? What is ...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:41:00 PST

My Experience Studying Abroad in Tokyo 2004

My Experience Doing Study Abroad in Tokyo It is weird for me to say that I studied abroad in Tokyo because I didn't see the experience as school related at all. Unlike other people in the program I t...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:52:00 PST

A Day in Hiroshima

I went to western Japan (the Kansai region) two times while I was studying abroad in Tokyo. During my stay there I decided that I liked it there much better than the Kantou region. The people were muc...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:23:00 PST

When I Got Robbed.

It was in Hayes valley around 4pm. This teenage boy came up behind me and stole my ipod out of my bag. I have to tell you, getting robbed is really freaky. Neway, so the story gets better.I chased the...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:11:00 PST

My Favorite Poem

MEN ANYTHING SHE CAN PULL AROUND HERSHAWLS SHEkeeps things between herself and other peoplehair the blankwords of a pageshe says she sleepswith everyone soyou won't knowwraps those wordsaround her lik...
Posted by Alexandra the Greatest on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:51:00 PST