The People's Republic of Albert

About Me

A little some of this and definitely a lot of that...

My Interests

Making Music, Caffeine, Pogo Sticks, KCRW, magazines, parks, the color brown, and the color blue

I'd like to meet:

I just want to meet cool people... Weird people are cool. Smart and witty people make me smile. People with good taste in music, individual thinkers, and other fellow musicians or artists are who I want to be around. (The last one is not a must, but it's kinda cool)

Music:

..Tegan and Sarah
Elliott Smith
Massive Attack
Marianne Faithfull
MUSE
Macy Gray
Kelis
Peaches
The Gossip
Cursive
Beth Gibbons
The Postal Service
Sinead O'Connor
Janis Joplin
Smashing Pumpkins
Mum
Mellowdrone
Portishead
Irving
Bright Eyes
Cafe Tacuba
The Good Life
Alanis Morissette
The Cranberries
Fiona Apple
Mirah
The Polyphonic Spree
Remy Zero
Magnetic Fields
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Morcheeba
Buried Beds
and bands like these...

Movies:

Requiem for A Dream
Dancer in the Dark
Napoleon Dynamite
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Dogma
Time Bandits
Good Will Hunting
Dopamine
I Heart Huckabees
FlashDance
Best in Show
Clueless
Pieces of April

Television:

There are a few things that I like to watch... Project Runway, The Simpsons (never get enough of them), The Golden Girls, LOST, America's Next Top Model, Rad Girls, and infomercials, and pretty much anything on VH1.

Books:

Perv-A Love Story
The Giving Tree
Siddhartha
The Tao Of Pooh
Animal Farm
Alice In Wonderland

Heroes:

Mary T. Anderson
Sinead O'Connor
Bjork
Thom Yorke
Janis Joplin
and some other people...

My Blog

No one cares about poetry but here it goes.

I heard from someone that no one cares about poetry as blogs. This person, may be the only person that may read this. Thanks, you know who you are.Then There, There, ThereBy Alberto GarciaA train com...
Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Wed, 02 May 2007 02:35:00 PST

Desenredamiento de Mi Bola de Madeja

Things have changed drastically for me in the past two and a half weeks. Not many things I feel proud of. However, I have made many changes to make the little things around me better. But let me tell ...
Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:29:00 PST

"Excuse me sir, can you help me?"

Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Fri, 26 May 2006 07:49:00 PST

Street Sweepers. How I Loath You!

Today was the last straw!When I used to live in Anaheim, My rooom mates and I used to wake up to the sound of these monsters and hope that we would not get a ticket. Today, I had to get up to move my...
Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Thu, 25 May 2006 01:59:00 PST

Music is Always Magical

I finished my Senior Reflective Essay. This paper is suppossed to explain my journey with music, my senior project, and my studies at Cal Poly.I ended the paper with a conversation I had with a friend...
Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:51:00 PST

Disillusioned? Maybe.

Hi all just some food for thought... Many of you may say that the defeat of Brokeback Mountain was a great disillusionment. I think that losing to a film that negatively displays eve...
Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:40:00 PST

An Ode To Pastries

This is a question that I've had swimming in my mind for a year and a half: If the chocolate croissant is a croissant, and the cheese danish is a danish; then why are they called something differ...
Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:45:00 PST

Ohh yes.. I got it!

1. Who are you? 2. Are we friends? 3. When and how did we meet? 4. Do you have a crush on me? 5. Would you kiss me? 6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it. 7. Describe me in one wor...
Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Short Circuits (Installment No. 3)

It was a warm day of August.The suns rays creeped through a bedroom window where Morgan, with his youthful looks, sat at the death bed of his love whose body had been ravaged by time. As she took her...
Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Just Chemical Reactions and Short Circuits (Instalment No. 2)

Days, months, years, and even a couple of decades passed. Morgan grew older. His life was enriched with many experiences of which he would have not traded for anything. he met people, created things, ...
Posted by The People's Republic of Albert on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST