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Alissa

It's too bad I can't quote a guitar riff or something on here.

About Me



My Interests

honing my personal vices, good scotch, cheap whiskey, dry comedy, british isles, acting badly, sushi, singing, playing the piano badly, marijuana, old pictures of my family, understanding my grandparents, spanish movies, trying to be a badass, peeling labels from bic lighters, ripping labels from jeans, trying to be a man since kindergarten

I'd like to meet:

I dreamed I met Stephen Colbert and wanted his autograph but the only thing I had for him to write on was my mother's bible. Anyone want to take a crack at that one?

Music:

is great.Tom Waits being awesome:

Movies:

The Usual Suspects, Breathless, American Beauty, Fargo, Harold and Maude, Jarhead, Wet Hot American Summer, Psycho, Rope, Sunset Boulevard, East of Eden, In America, Brazil, Singin' In The Rain, Bonnie and Clyde, Metropolis, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Great Dictator, West Side Story, Gosford Park, Rear Window, The Graduate, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Dr. Strangelove, Manhattan Murder Mystery, The Motorcycle Diaries, Amadeus, Cool Hand Luke, Scotland PA, All About Eve, A Day at the Races, No Country For Old Men

Television:

The Daily Show, The X-Files, Kids In The Hall, old-school SNL, The Office, Adult Swim, Family Guy, Mr. Show

Books:

1984, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, Gone With The Wind, Farenheit 451, The Little Prince, Utopia, Proverbs, Why I Am Not A Christian, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Harriet The Spy, Little Women, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Little House on the Prairie (sentimental memories attached), The Picture of Dorian Gray, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Heroes:

Peter Fonda in Easy Rider, Mary Travers

My Blog

beats me

Subjective morality is the name of the game these days.  What's right to someone is determined by whether its outcome gets them what they want.  This sounds more cynical than it really is, b...
Posted by Alissa on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:25:00 PST

Anne ... Frank?

I just had this dream that I was rehearsing that role and came to a scene where her father gives her an old pocketwatch of enormous family significance as a gift and I was so moved in the scene that I...
Posted by Alissa on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:03:00 PST

for the sake of it

I'm told I should write more.  A dubious thing to undertake without a goal.  (I guess that goes for everything.) It's been a while since I've been this broke.  No money and none co...
Posted by Alissa on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:55:00 PST

reflections on "Meet The Robinsons." No, really.

I saw this movie at no cost to me. Remarkably easy to accomplish at the Palladium. If you don't know of the movie, it's a Disney movie animated by Disney about a little orphaned inventor boy much like...
Posted by Alissa on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:30:00 PST

I'm an addict.

Last night, I was hanging out with John and Denver when we were in need of a booze run.  Denver and I got in the car to go, and I remembered I'd taken my cds into the apartment in case ...
Posted by Alissa on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:54:00 PST

Rest in peace, Hutt of Java

Many of you know that Java Hutt is no more.  For those of you who don't know, Java Hutt was an independent coffee shop in downtown Birmingham.  It was open 24 hours, the walls were lined wit...
Posted by Alissa on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:13:00 PST

Abbey Road, An Ode

I decided to see if I could explain why I love Abbey Road so much, and this is what came of sitting in the student center with headphones, She's So Heavy, coffee and snow outside. What can I say, some...
Posted by Alissa on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:49:00 PST

rambling, sort of mostly about gender roles

My hair keeps getting shorter.  I understand less about the things I do every day.  I look like a boy.  Tonight I thought about the possibility of being gay.  I think there's a pos...
Posted by Alissa on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:43:00 PST

an account of Christmas Eve, for memory's sake

A most enjoyable Christmas Eve indeed. I think it's a Scandinavian thing, I'm not sure, but my family does the whole shebang on Christmas Eve.  Christmas day, nothing happens.  But I like it...
Posted by Alissa on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:50:00 PST

a story I wrote a few years ago

I just came across this again.  Interesting.Once upon a time there was a beautiful young maiden locked in a tower.  Her name was not Rapunzel, so get that out of your head.  She had a k...
Posted by Alissa on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:26:00 PST