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About Me


I am the real thing.

"Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil.
For what is Evil but Good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when Good is hungry, it seeks food even in dark caves, and
When it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."
-Kahlil Gibran
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The flood behind me will never put out
The fire inside me.
"...The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.
That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes, in writing and in life
--and do not fret about them but pass on...
Active evil is so much better than passive good, which is docility, feebleness, timidity."
-Brenda Ueland
What nourishes me
Also destroys me.

My Interests


my crisis awaits.

matt.
music.
film.
travel.
food.
reading.
writing.
dancing.
singing.
art.
pilates.
my various television show obsessions.
being active.
being spontaneous.
experiencing everything before i die.
proving people wrong.
thinking for myself.

i plan on becoming a world traveler
sooner than you know it.
i'll be making stops in all of these places :

Paris.

London.

Brussels.

Prague.

Cairo.

Tokyo.

Hong Kong.

Melbourne.

Auckland.

and everywhere in between.

just watch me.

i am an independent thinker.
a free spirit.
an idealist.
and a cynic.
in one body.
if that is possible.

i like music.
i used to work at a music store,
now i work for a music publishing company.
i write about music.
i listen to a lot of music.
i talk about music a little too much.

yeah...
you could say i like music.

I'd like to meet:

Nobody
Short of extraordinary.

...and this chick.

Kate Moennig from the L word. .
These are some of the most amazing people you will ever meet. .allegra.'s beautiful friends My BFF

My Twin

Adam

My Soul Sister

Curty

My Bosom Buddy

My Boo

Domsy

Tori

Lyndus

My ISTJ Better Half

My Partner in Crime

Andrea

My Love

Tay

Christopher

Aim

Scary Kari

Jonny Dee

Jameson

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Music:


the smashing pumpkins.
radiohead.
the sounds.
AFI.
the faint.
pj harvey.
azure ray.
bjork.
bright eyes.
low.
yeah yeah yeahs.
the arcade fire.
cat power.
sigur ros.
the used.
green day.
saxon shore.
the bravery.
alkaline trio.
air.
bloc party.
the album leaf.
M.I.A.
white rose movement.
30 seconds to mars.
mogwai.
ben harper.
the cure.
bob marley.
annie.
autolux.
elliott smith.
pixies.
the raveonettes.
imogen heap.
frou frou.
eminem.
the colour.
the postal service.
the fire theft.
portishead.
sleater-kinney.
nirvana.
franz ferdinand.
the killers.
sonic youth.
tool.
handsome boy modeling school.
my chemical romance.
the distants.
stellastarr.
the shins.
zero 7.
the autumns.
le tigre.
the flaming lips.
the fugees.
tsunami bomb.
the gris gris.
jurassic 5.
the velvet underground.
hooverphonic.
the twilight singers.
hot hot heat.
iron and wine.
deep dish.
miles davis.
simon and garfunkel.
lush.
drain sth.
no doubt.
mazzy star.
peaches.
metric.
rage against the machine.
missy elliott.
rilo kiley.
a perfect circle.
sia.
the white stripes.
outkast.
alicia keys.
jimi hendrix.
scissor sisters.
blonde redhead.
ladytron.
band of horses.
nine inch nails.
craig armstrong.
tegan and sara.
death from above 1979.
wordsworth.
team sleep.
deftones.
the lovemakers.
she wants revenge.
kaiser chiefs.
head automatica.
shiny toy guns.
kaito.
cibo matto.
the strokes.
explosions in the sky.
the birthday massacre.
kill hannah.
HIM.
silversun pickups.
spoon.
static-x.
matchbook romance.
stabbing westward.
jack johnson.
unwritten law.
johnny cash.
system of a down.
something corporate.
flogging molly.
eisley.
sublime.
pedro the lion.
mum.
tortoise.
shout out louds.
lily allen.
clear static.
infadels.
the bronx.
coldplay.
every move a picture.
deathcab for cutie.
dirty sanchez.
the knife.
arctic monkeys.
we are scientists.
goldfrapp.
tremolo.
jill scott.
feist.
venus hum.
damone.
rise against.
flyleaf.
editors.
blaqk audio.
the bird and the bee.
nicole atkins & the sea.
elevaters.
the go! team.
gliss.
los abandoned.
the garden state soundtrack.
the walk the line soundtrack.
ANYTHING 80's.

Movies:


donnie darko.
the virgin suicides.
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
kill bill.
pulp fiction.
garden state.
american beauty.
v for vendetta.
the breakfast club.
the sandlot.
almost famous.
office space.
slc punk.
lord of the rings.
fight club.
ghost world.
moulin rouge.
reality bites.
old school.
lost in translation.
man on fire.
the matrix.
bandits.
walk the line.
zoolander.
the dark crystal.
election.
lilo and stitch.
igby goes down.
girl, interrupted.
the shawshank redemption.
the wedding singer.
william shakespeare's romeo and juliet.
now and then.
to kill a mockingbird.
the royal tenenbaums.
the boondock saints.
se7en.
i am sam.
good will hunting.
run lola run.
the dangerous lives of altar boys.
jerry maguire.
dogma.
a league of their own.
finding nemo.
hook.
phone booth.
21 grams.
city of god.
american history x.
requiem for a dream.
the princess and the warrior.
school of rock.
the usual suspects.
big fish.
moonlight mile.
10 things i hate about you.
as good as it gets.
willy wonka and the chocolate factory.
the shining.
frida.
crouching tiger hidden dragon.
monster.
the sixth sense.
ray.
snatch.
the green mile.
interview with the vampire.
traffic.
the emperor's new groove.
napoleon dynamite.
clueless (shut up, it's damn funny).
happy gilmore.
better off dead.
white oleander.
the motorcycle diaries.
in dreams.
chicago.
blow.
the princess bride.
hero.
gia.
the incredibles.
trainspotting.
the pursuit of happyness.
factory girl.
hard candy.
pan's labyrinth.

Television:


sex and the city.
heroes.
grey's anatomy.
the L word.
old seasons of the real world.
america's next top model.
project runway.
my so-called life.
gossip girl.
i used to be an avid x-files watcher back in the day.
i like to keep it old school.
that is all.

Books:


ray bradbury.
chuck klosterman.
sylvia plath.
stephen chbosky.
chuck palahniuk.
j.d. salinger.
alice sebold.
maya angelou.
anne lamott.
e.e. cummings.
flannery o'connor.
harper lee.
janet fitch.
madeleine l'engle.
c.s. lewis.
jack kerouac.
donald miller.
david james duncan.
f. scott fitzgerald.
lois lowry.
kaye gibbons.
rebecca ray.
louisa luna.
and many more.

Heroes:


my parents.
anne lamott.
angelina jolie.
among others...

My Blog

Awake

i feel like i have been in a coma for the past 6 months, and i am just now waking up... finally.
Posted by allegra. on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:44:00 PST

Profundities

"i've never been so lost. i've never felt so much at home. please write my folks and throw away my keys." i've said this before, and i'll say it again: home has become such an arbitrary word. it's ref...
Posted by allegra. on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:11:00 PST

Allegra's Philosophy of Education

human beings were not created to do this... to sit in front of computers for hours on end, typing papers and study guides, their noses shoved in textbooks, jampacking as much information into their br...
Posted by allegra. on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:24:00 PST

My 21st birthday

i went to 80's night at Q's at Midnight tonight for my first few hours of being a legal drinker. good times! i didn't get any pictures from inside the venue, but hopefully my friends can send me some....
Posted by allegra. on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:23:00 PST

My sundown

"My Sundown" i see it around me, i see it in everything. i could be so much more than this. i said my goodbyes, this is my sundown. i going to be so much more than this. with one hand high, ...
Posted by allegra. on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:28:00 PST

The Bravery... And the injustices of 4-way stop signs

i just saw The Bravery tonight at the Hollywood Avalon, formerly known as The Palace. (sorry, but it will always be considered The Palace in my mind.) my take on the performance: good solid sweat...
Posted by allegra. on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:28:00 PST

Sigur Ros

i saw sigur ros tonight at the hollywood bowl. absolutely amazing. we missed anima (amina?...not sure), the opening act, but arrived with plenty of time to find our seats and people-watch for a bit. t...
Posted by allegra. on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:24:00 PST

January

2 am january standing at the edge of the world enveloped in a web of sirens and echoes of distant voices my destiny, just on the other side of the glass smiling back at me through the cloud of st...
Posted by allegra. on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:02:00 PST

The undeniable wisdom of Patrick

Patrick: i don't really think you've learned a lot, to be honest of you. i think you have absorbed a lot of information, but when it comes to your own life, you haven't really figured out how to apply...
Posted by allegra. on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:02:00 PST

Untitled

i miss the harsh embrace of anonymity the facelessness of freedom the comfort in the noise and the whir of life outside my window just beyond my reach i have become careless with myself i see myself ...
Posted by allegra. on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:00:00 PST