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Alon

About Me

somewhere between conceptual and actual

My Interests

Laughing To Tears, Post-Midnight Hijinks, Playing the Piano, Breaking Drums, Boxing/Martial Arts, Guitar, All Things Funk, Traveling, Body Language, Abstract Art, , Aguas Frescas, Being Woken Up By The Sun, Pressure Points, Uncompromising Delirium, Deja Vu, Distinguishing Between Like And Like-Like, Southern Idioms, Grizzly Bear Versus Silver-Back Gorilla Hypotheticals, Subtext, Teleportation, Actin' A Fool, Metaphors That Don't Really Make Sense, Anything Dirty-Dirty

I'd like to meet:

the purveyor of my next revelation

Music:

Funk Funk, Eb 10th Two Octaves Below Middle C, Singers with Weeping Guitars, Huddled Freestyles, Parallel 3rds Over Hand Drums, Wah + Distortion + Envelope Filter + Fuzz, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3 Organ, Two-Toned Iron Bells And Beaded Gourds, Piano/Cello Concertos, Boom Bap, Structured Dissonance, Bata Drumming, Syncopated Interlocking Parts, Dominant 7 w/ Flat 9, Desirous Feedback, Polyrhythm, Old Spirituals, Quarter Tones, Anything With Timbales and Clavinet, Slap Bass, Changui, Rumba, Crescendos Into Silence, Barrelhouse Blues, Chromatic Progressions, Montunos Con Afinque, The Space Between The Notes, Sweaty Solos By Old Pros Who Speak In Proverbs

Movies:

Annie Hall, The Professional, Raging Bull, White, The Big Lebowski, Baraka, A Clockwork Orange, Old Boy, Network, Goodfellas, Spaceballs, Krush Groove, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Animal House, Godfather II, Zatoichi, Amadeus, Big, Do The Right Thing, Rocky I-IV, Predator, Microcosmos, The Three Amigos, Kingpin, Top Secret, Pulp Fiction, Major League, Billy Madison, Rear Window, Nature Documentaries, Anything with Warwick Davis

Television:

Freaks and Geeks

Books:

What Was Man Created For?, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Franny & Zooey, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Flowers For Algernon, Saddies, Dr. Seuss, The Little Prince, DSM-IV, religious texts, The Beatles - Complete Scores

My Blog

QOTD: Slowmentum

'A tree falls the way it leans.'
Posted by Alon on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:18:00 PST

QOTD: Prioritizing & The Celestial Hand

1). 'Today me, tomorrow you.'2). 'If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.'
Posted by Alon on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:53:00 PST

QOTD: Overworked Opportunist & The Hollywood Vanguarded

1). 'I need to get some leeches to suck out some of my fucking Jew blood.'2). 'It's like Space Mountain, but without the fun.'
Posted by Alon on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:41:00 PST

QOTD: Double Access & The Blink Of Eternity

1). 'If the key for me was a lock for you, i would throw it away.'2). 'and indeed there will be time... time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hund...
Posted by Alon on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:46:00 PST

QOTD: Sleepless Holiday Residual Effect

'Looks like nobody told your face Halloween is over.'
Posted by Alon on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:12:00 PST

QOTD: First Meal & The Funeral

1). 'Breakfast is the only good thing in Los Angeles.'2). I'm coming up only to hold you under I'm coming up only to show you wrong And to know you is hard and we wonder To know you all wr...
Posted by Alon on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:52:00 PST

QOTD: The Cousin Of Death

Sometimes, getting closer to your dreams means passing through your nightmares.
Posted by Alon on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:32:00 PST

QOTD: The Other Self

'The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.' 'Hold a true friend with both your hands.'  ...
Posted by Alon on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:14:00 PST

QOTD: Halloween Disappointment (Tinky Winky vs. The Unsexy Simian)

Look at you. What a fucking sexy Teletubby. I'm rubbing your pecs.Actually, I'm a monkey.An ugly Monkey. Never mind.
Posted by Alon on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:13:00 PST

QOTD: Hit Me With Your Worst Shot

'The only reason I care about you is that for some reason you care about me.'
Posted by Alon on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:39:00 PST