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Alec

Life is not a pass or fail subject.

About Me

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. " -Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Not all who wander are lost." -J.R.R. Tolkien

My name is Alec Koumjian. I am everything the Neo-Cons fear: self-educated, unselfish, and young. I believe that social revolution starts at home. I believe in you.

My Interests

Tolkien, Zelda, computers, philosophy, theology, Unitarian Universalism, secular humanism, anarchism, nonhierarchal government, youth empowerment, Summer's End, universal love, peace, moral relativism, compassion, dragons, science fiction, science, poetry, writing

I'd like to meet:

It's hard to describe who I'd like to meet, since I haven't met you yet. If you can drink an entire bottle of Moxie (a nonalcoholic beverage), whether you enjoy it or not, you can at least consider me a comrade.Freethinkers, people who want to enjoy the moment, those willing to discuss their ideologies, music lovers,people who want to meet me.

Music:

Where to start? A Perfect Circle, The Ataris (don't hate me, listen to their old stuff), AudioVent, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Billy Joel, Black Sabbath, Cake, Catch22, Chevelle, Cold, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Dashboard Confessional, Dispatch, Eminem, Eve6, Fatboy Slim, Five Iron Frenzy, Hoobastank, Incubus, Less Than Jake, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Nirvana, No Use For A Name, NOFX, Offspring, Ozzy, Papa Roach, Pink Floyd, Prodigy, Ra, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Rob Dougan, Sage Francis, Saliva, Smashing Pumpkins, Something Corporate, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Tenacious D, Sublime, Susan Tedeschi, Tool, The Servant, (many more)

Movies:

The Matrix, Donnie Darko, Reservoir Dogs, Suburbia (the hard to find version), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, LadyHawke, X-Men (Anna Paquin ::drool::), classic James Bond, Goodfellas, Bamboozled, The Waking Life, anything that makes you think

Books:

Tolkien (Silmarillion still my favorite), Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern, Myst novels, Sherlock Holmes, Robert Cormier (genius), Stranger in a Strange Land (plus more Heinlein), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Miantenance, A Wizard of Earthsea, Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, general alternative reading, I read about a book a week these days

Heroes:

Arthur Miller, Nawang Kechog, The Nearings

My Blog

..Around the bend

To think I've never looked upon her I've never seen her eye to eye Or taken cheap glances down her side But she ran around the bend from me And all I do, is what I can I'll try to go stumbling after ...
Posted by Alec on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:54:00 PST

My dreams

I'm either working towards what I desire to get most out of life, or throwing away my chances towards having an easy and happy life. The best part about it all, is that I don't get to find out un...
Posted by Alec on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

How to explain this

I'm in a really good place, here at the Conference Center. I'd stay longer than May, but I know this is only a place for transition in my life. Soon enough I'll be back in Nashua, but this time I fe...
Posted by Alec on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Good times, bad times, somewhere inbetween

Life has been kind of blah. My grandparents are going to be over my house in twenty minutes and that's always a joy (..heh...). I went to my friend's Quinceanera last night. I was dressed up in...
Posted by Alec on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Epiphany

Reason, and reason to live, rarely intertwine.
Posted by Alec on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Rambles come to shambles

I'm listening to the instrumental Smith (Civ) helped me record. I scrapped all of my old Emo lyrics for it, and I'm starting to think of less cliche Emo lyrics but still something to the effect of "p...
Posted by Alec on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It's hard enough to keep up with http://www.livejournal.com/users/futileissue. Oh well, here I am. Or rather, I'm not. I have to run....
Posted by Alec on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST