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I'm No One, I'm No. 1

About Me

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My Interests

all things bright and beautiful. all things dark and dismal. so, that's everything.

I'd like to meet:

those who know their power, and use it aptly, kindly, wisely, and well

Music:

prince, electronic, tom waits, billie holiday, sara vaughn, nina simone, james brown, bruce springsteen, screamin' jay hawkins, sade, air, johnny cash, merle haggard, bjork, philip glass, uakti, beethoven, chopin, orchestral / classical, wfmu 91.1, public radio

Movies:

genres mirroring my fav. books above: documentary, fantasy, violence, religion, & art. specifics tend more towards 'Badlands' and 'Night of the Living Dead', and those films they've influences, such as 'True Romance' etc. long is my expansive list, and this not the place

Television:

Jim Lehrer, Frontline, BBC, & documentaries

Books:

journalistic non-fiction (Chomsky, Fast Food Nation, American Ground: Unbuilding the WTC), dystopian novels (1984, The Handmaid's Tale), darkly-themed classics & neo-classics (Naked Lunch, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Johnny Got His Gun, Dracula, The Virgin Suicides), select historically-themed graphic novels (Maus, Safe Area Goradz'e, Persepolis). in imaginative breadth and concept, many religious texts eclipse such violent and moral themes that I cannot avoid them, but i find reading them a chore

Heroes:

the ones who dont break... who dont descend into madness or violence... despite the myriad ways they've been pushed there...

My Blog

the exquisite corpse, you see

is i, you, they, we
Posted by alan on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:57:00 PST

Superfoods

There's a book called Superfoods, or something like that.Here are the chapters:- beans- blueberries- broccoli- oats- oranges- pumpkin- wild salmon- soy- spinach- tea- tomatoes- turkey (skinless breast...
Posted by alan on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:47:00 PST

tyson-douglas for next halloween?

next Halloween, i was thinking about being "The Ref" from the Tyson-Douglass fight (Tokyo- Feb '90). i was watching it last nite on ESPN Classic, and i was 75% of the way there in fact that or my sta...
Posted by alan on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:57:00 PST