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About Me

My name is Alissa. A lot of people seem to get the wrong idea, so here are a few things you should know:
I'm not really into the party scene anymore. Don't try to send me messages if that's what you're after.
Please don't send me condescending messages, calling me "sweetie", "homegirl", "baby", "shorty", etc., in the hopes of getting up my skirt. It's sleazy, and will only make me cringe.
I do not like rap, hip hop, anything remotely associated with the "ghetto" culture. I have my reasons; respect them and I will respect you.
I will not think you're cool when you brag how much you party/drink/smoke/do whatever random drugs you can.
Also, just about all of the people on my friends list are people I know in real life, and I rarely add people I haven't met; that isn't to say I'm not open to meeting new people, but I don't see the point in having 1534896752 million "friends" on myspace, when I'll likely never have more than one conversation with them. Tl;dr: Don't send me a request just to boost your friend count, you will be denied.
I don't like drugs. I don't do them anymore. I don't want to hear about how high you are, or were, or about how much you love to party and get fucked up; stories like that won't impress me. Go to the dumb bimbos and frat boys if you're looking to brag about how high your tolerance is, or the "funny" shit you did while you were fucked up. Besides, chances are I could top your stories. Drugs destroy lives, and if you're too blind, naive, or arrogant to see that, they will destroy yours as well. Moderation doesn't exist with them; if you believe that you're already fucked.
I'm a grammar freak. I don't waste my time with people who make no effort to better themselves.

My Interests

piercings, tattoos, ancient traditions, foreign and dead languages, arguing, literature/art with deep meaning, anime, opera, theatre, playing the violin, reading, chess (though i'm not very good), scrabble, psychology, mythology, computers, history, theology, philosophy, neil gaiman...

"God's...don't get to opt for therapy or medication, though one can see how such things might do wonders for the Judeo-Christian god."

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. (Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.)

"The freaks looked at her in a secret way, trying to connect their eyes with hers, as if to say, We know who you are; we are you."

I'd like to meet:

No one that it would be possible to meet in this life.

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out the emperor has no clothes. Yet the half-wit remains the half-wit, and the emperor remains emperor."

"So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end."-Lestat from Anne Rice

"By suffering comes wisdom" - Aeschylus

Music:

Rise Against, AFI, Finch, Death Cab for Cutie, Bad Religion, Jeff Buckley, Norah Jones, Goo Goo Dolls, Jimmy Eat World, Placebo, MXPX, Moby, Brand New, Emery, Mae, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Ataris, God or Julie, Breaking Benjamin, Escape the Fate, Avenged Sevenfold, A Static Lullaby, AlterEgo, The Rasmus, Muse, Gackt, Dir en Grey, Malice Mizer, MCR, The Used, Nirvana, Lit, Story of the Year, Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Three Doors Down, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dashboard Confessional, Something Corporate, Juanes, Blink 182, Evanescence, Slipknot, Nikki Jane, The Dresden Dolls, Manson's OLD stuff (sellout)
There's more but I'm too lazy to recount all of the bands I like.

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" -- Ernest Gaines

Movies:

latter days, the rm, the singles ward, a tale of two sisters, jungdok, love letter, windstruck, 200 pounds beauty, amores perros, pantaleon y las visitadoras, maria full of grace, girl interrupted, thank you for smoking, monty python and the holy grail, requiem for a dream, fight club, office space, pirates of the carribean, interview with a vampire, queen of the damned, the dreamers, the fifth element, kissing jessica stein, adam & steve, cruel intentions, the butterfly effect, almost any foreign or independant film... Again, there's more, and again I'm too lazy to recount all of the movies I've liked.

Television:

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted and invariably fatal." (No, this is not my way of saying life sucks. Look a little deeper. I know it's hard for some of you to think deeply, but give it a shot...)

Books:

all of andrea dworkin's writings, the red tent, lamb, she's come undone, good in bed, snow flower and the secret fan, i am america and so can you, flannery o'connor, the hundred secret senses, girl with a pearl earring, memoirs of a geisha, lolita, sex, drugs, & cocoa puffs, dante's divine comedy, i love ayn rand, george orwell, anne rice, chuck palahniuk, and especially NEIL GAIMAN. the sandman collection is awesome!

Heroes:

Andrea Dworkin, Somaly Mam

My Blog

terror

Words can have an amazing effect on people. One simple word can start a war, or save a hundred lives. Abstract concepts, such as gloom, excitement, or pain, all have deep emotional ...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:26:00 PST

Dirty (and a rant on the

I'm so fed up with society assuming that everyone who has an STD is dirty. I don't see how it is okay to hold such a stigma to anyone with any STD, regardless of how they got it. Whether you're a pro...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:28:00 PST

prostitute

For Sale: An interview with a prostitute As you drive down US1 betwe...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:55:00 PST

Mad Girls Love Song

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my lids and all is born again.(I think I made you up inside my head.)The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,And arbitrary blackness gallops in:I ...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:59:00 PST

tin mans quest

You left me then, when I was nineIn a room with the tin man,Over the rainbow.You left me in the care of a lifeless zombie.I knew though,That you'd never really been there at all.And I have searched f...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:01:00 PST

I feel ancient...

Okay, I just saw a commercial for the compilation CD called "Buzz Cuts", and suddenly I feel so old... I remember when most of the songs on the CD originally came out, and it feels like just yesterda...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:14:00 PST

How to look stupid when writing an essay:

Aside from the obvious incorrect spelling and grammar issues, the following is a list of metaphors that are sure to make any essay look stupid. The metaphors were compiled by a college professor, take...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:38:00 PST

Failure of Romance

This idea just barged into my head as I got out of the shower, so I'm going to run with it before it disappears.I wonder if the divorce rate in this country could have far deeper roots than adultery o...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:14:00 PST

letter to an absent father

I guess this makes 19 missed birthdays, although I can't say I'm surprised. Don't worry, I'm not looking to you for anything, nor do I wish regular contact with you. I do hope, however, t...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:29:00 PST

RIP: Today We Mourn The Death Of Common Sense

Obituary of Common Sense Today, we mourn the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense. Common Sense lived a long life, but died from heart failure at the brink of the Millen...
Posted by (Far From) Vindicated on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:42:00 PST