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Alyson

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm pretty happy right now. Life is good.

Writer/Director of Award Winning Feature Film 'Eve of Understanding'
Check out our blog: www.openplanproductions.blogspot.com
And the movie's website: www.EveOfUnderstanding.com
Or become our friend on myspace.com/openplanfilms

My Interests

Film, most kinds, my list of favorite films is hard to make, there are so many! I'll work on it though. I also love nature, hiking, swimming, I'll swin in the ocean, lakes, rivers, any natural water source, I love it. And I love reading, I'm a huge fan of the library.

I'd like to meet:

Reconnect with old friends. Meet new ones: filmmakers, writers, creative people and just plain ole nice people.

Music:

Arcade Fire, Aretha Franklin, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Death Cab for Cutie, Silversun Pickups, Radiohead, My Morning Jacket, Sea Wolf, Devics, Gorillaz, The Rolling Stones, Earth Wind and Fire, Dave Matthews Band, Al Green, Fleetwood Mac, Keane, Coldplay, Tori Amos, Travis, U2, R.E.M., The Killers, The Shins, Badly Drawn Boy, Dido, Beck, Modest Mouse, Paul Simon, Bebel Gilberto, Aimee Mann, John Mayer, Spoon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kelly Clarkson, Donna Summer, The Beastie Boys, Kanye West, No Doubt, The White Stripes, Kylie Minogue, Lyle Lovett, Buddy Guy, Welldigger's Banquet, Pawn DJ, Hank Dogs, Film School and Peter Senchuk.

Movies:

Touch of Evil, Blue, 8 1/2, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Say Anything, Pride and Prejudice, Godfather, Godfather II, Apocalypse Now, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, American Splendor, Baraka, Batman Begins, Bringing Up Baby, Cabaret, Casablanca, Cries and Whispers, Persona, From Here to Eternity, History of Violence, LOTR, Nghts of Cabiria, On the Waterfront, North by Northwest, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Raise the Red Lantern, Rushmore, Sideways, Singing in the Rain, Underground, Sunset Boulevard, Things Behind the Sun, When Harry Met Sally, The UP series (21UP and up), Little Miss Sunshine. And Eve of Understanding. And the people behind it!

Television:

Veronica Mars, The Office, (American and UK) Six Feet Under (Still. Even though it's gone), Sopranos, Entourage, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Friday Night Lights, The Wire, New Christine, Extras, How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, Daily Show. The Colbert Report, genius.

Books:

The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies, Brick Lane, The Color Purple, Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula, East of Eden, The Kite Runner, Lovely Bones, Lucky, Catcher in the Rye, The Belljar, Secret History, Virgin Suicides, The Shipping News, She's Come Undone, most things by Barbara Kingslover, John Irving, The Corrections, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, As I Lay Dying, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Known World, The Shadow of the Wind, Gilead: A Novel, The Sheltering Sky.

Heroes:

My mom. Cody.

My Blog

Another Word for Love by Alyson Shelton

Issue ..131 Friend of the Heroeshttp://www.friendsoftheheroes.com/contents/?page_id=46 Terror. She stares at her fingers and thinks about the word. People throw it around a lot these days. A small smil...
Posted by Alyson on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:33:00 PST