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Alex

About Me

I like, I love, I live for...
-music-quality people-good literature-dusk-films that move me-rockin' it like no other-starry nights-art-night blooming jasmine-classiness-traveling-scholarship- chivalry-straightforwardness-theater-cities-getting visits-good conversation -camping-great lines-road trips-coffee in the evening-quotes-family-intrigue-reliability- fireworks-picnics- playing in the rain-cooking something edible-quotable movies-those moments-sleeping in-the little things-lightning at night-pets-autumn-cozy homes- canoeing-good roommates-bonfires-photography-intellect-aquariums-amazing lyrics-the sound of rain-new bedding-meeting people-storms-clean laundry-greeting cards- cartoons-handwritten mail-getting out of class early-movie nights-randomness -endings-paradoxes-scarves-persistence-the tranquil silence-sleeping with the windows open-wine-day trips-squirt guns-farmers markets-the tate modern-traveling buddies-hugs that make you feel like you deserve it-looza-canals-sun rises-road ragin'-the middle of nowhere-long distance friendship-ecover-imprinted awkwardness-high fives-rubber band balls-earthwatch-sunglasses-intensity-
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My Interests

music a whole lot, traveling, understanding things, movies, sleeping when I can, spending time with people I truly enjoy, reading, coffee and conversation, going on adventures

I'd like to meet:

the boy who could fly

Music:

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The 88
The Academy Is...
Acceptance
The Album Leaf
Allman Brothers
Fiona Apple
Aqualung
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Augustana
Mickey Avalon
Azure Ray
Badly Drawn Boy
Bananas
Beatles
Bell X1
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Harper
Best Friends Forever
Bishop Allen
Bjork
Bloc Party
Boat
Brand New
The Bravery
Bright Eyes
The Caesars
Johnny Cash
Cat Power
Cheap Trick
Chopin
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Coldplay
John Coltrane
The Coral
The Cribs
The Cure
Daphne Loves Derby
Death Cab
The Decemberists
Defiance, Ohio
DeVotchKa
Ani DiFranco
The Distillers
The Ditty Bops
Dresden Dolls
Electric Six
Elefant
Elvis Costello
Feist
The Flaming Lips
Frou Frou
Get Set Go
Goldfrapp
Jose Gonzalez
Grateful Dead
Hallelujah the Hills
Ben Harper
Her Space Holiday
Hot Hot Heat
Imogen Heap
Interpol
Iron and Wine
Jack's Mannequin
The Killers
Kings of Convenience
Kings of Leon
The Kinks
The Kooks
Led Zeppelin
anything Jenny Lewis
The Libertines
The Magnetic Fields
Mando Diao
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
The Mars Volta
Mates of State
Modest Mouse
Motion City Soundtrack
Muse
My Brightest Diamond
Anna Nalick
Ok, Go
Old Crow Medicine Show
Paramore
Peter Bjorn and John
Pink Floyd
The Pixies
Plain White T's
Matt Pond PA
Postal Service
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Lali Puna
The Ramones
The Rapture
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Damien Rice
Saves The Day
Say Anything
The Scissor Sisters
She Wants Revenge
The Shins
The Smoking Popes
Snow Patrol
Spoon
Starlight Mints
The Starting Line
Straylight Run
The Subways
The Submarines
Susie Suh
Syd Matters
Taking Back Sunday
Tegan and Sara
William Tell
Tiger Army
Tilly and the Wall
Emiliana Torrini
The Transplants
TV On The Radio
The Vines
Violent Femmes
The Weepies
Youth Group
(condensed)

Movies:

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
An Affair To Remember
Amelie
Arthur
Bad Education
Born Into Brothels
The Boy Who Could Fly
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Brick
Caddyshack
Can't Buy Me Love
Casablanca
The Chorus
The Chumscrubber
Clerks
A Clockwork Orange
Closer
Dazed and Confused
disney classics
Empire Records
Ernest Scared Stupid
E.T.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Everything Is Illuminated
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Flats
Garden State
Get Shorty
Gone With the Wind
The Goonies
Groundhog's Day
Harry Potter
A Home at the End of the World
Igby Goes Down
Intimate Stories
Jaws
Life Aquatic
Lost Boys
Me, You, and Everyone We Know
Nobody Knows
Nowhere
Office Space
Once
Pan's Labyrinth
PCU
Pulp Fiction
Punch Drunk Love
Requiem for a Dream
Rules of Attraction
Sabrina
Schultze Gets the Blues
The Science of Sleep
Se7en
Shaun of the Dead
The Squid and the Whale
Stand By Me
Stardust
The Story of Us
Sullivan's Travels
Turtles Can Fly
When Harry Met Sally
White Oleander

Books:

The Awakening, Albert Camus, Harlan Coben, Ender's Game, Harry Potter, Alice Hoffman, Homer, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Dean Koontz, Lord of the Flies, Medea, Oh the Places You'll Go, On the Road, the perks of being a wallflower, Sylvia Plath, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Prozac Nation, The Red Tent, The Romantic, Seven Types of Ambiguity, Silence of the Lambs, Stardust, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Wicked

Heroes:

my old car, it had all sorts of attitude; my dignity-it's made it 21 years more or less intact

My Blog

adventures in london

london is amazing. you all better be missing me. i can't wait to tell you all about it. love across the pond
Posted by Alex on Sun, 20 May 2007 01:24:00 PST

no matter how far i go my heart remains with you

this is my temporary farewell to all of you i hold so dearly. after the goings on of the past year, deciding i need to run away in a big way, i am going transcontinental. here is the itinerary for my ...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 11 May 2007 12:12:00 PST

pan's labyrinth

was amazing. if the opportunity to see it arises, i suggest you snatch it. to all you gainesville'rs, it's playing at the hippodrome until feb. 11th. take advantage of it.www.thehipp.orgcheck out time...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:25:00 PST

and i just won't have a future anymore

**spoiler warning**"dark", "beautiful", "moving", all used to describe Stranger Than Fiction. it was ok. "dark" and "beautiful" is criteria for my movies, i get "moving". i see the deeper meaning in t...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:12:00 PST

the grass grew high, i laid down

i sat outside on my balcony tonight after a lovely evening, mulling over the going's on of my day. after having decided to kill my body in multiple ways, i became a silent observer of a chaotic world ...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:35:00 PST

i lost my place

i wish you wouldn't... i'm afraid to hate you.
Posted by Alex on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:46:00 PST

the whole world is moving and i am standing still

for the past week or so, sleep has had a difficult time finding me. i can't reason why, as i have not changed locations, yet hour after hour i wait and hope, certain that any moment it will arrive. w...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:52:00 PST

this is for...

my friends, whom i love and appreciate and feel the need to thank: (not in any sort of order) Shareefa, Maiki, Elyse, Allison, Celeste, Hector, Cedric, Nikki, Katie, Brittany, Frank, Lauren, John, Kai...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:46:00 PST

and then there's you screaming "say something"

this past month has been full of changes. to start off with, i changed my mind about graduating. i'm going to take two more years instead of one. why, you may ask. because i do not know what i want to...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:16:00 PST

most of the time

i'm giving up a few things. i'm going cold turkey. my name is alexandra and i have a problem. i hope you will support this. i don't need you to understand. six days and going strong...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:28:00 PST