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alex

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About Me

// i'm a quote stealing movie junkie //i will take up amazing new hobbies and forget about them mere moments later //i will trust you when you tell me what i should wear //i sometimes wish i was born fifteen years earlier just for the music //

My Interests

painting, photography, reading, film, military history, antique photos of complete strangers, velcro shoes, dollar store sunglasses, 70s style moustaches, mullets, strange tshirts, useless trivia, random and pointless discussions, dates to the grocery store, 50s robots, lip gloss, hoop earrings, sounds of a high heeled shoe on a hard floor

I'd like to meet:

you hate dave matthews and know why

Music:

radiohead, interpol, joy division, bonnie prince billy, johnny cash, cannonball adderley, prince, my bloody valentine, stooges, yo la tengo, david bowie, velvet underground, sufjan stevens, new york dolls, motorhead, arcade fire, mike patton, spoon, the cure, jesus and mary chain, stone roses, sonic youth, pixies, beatles, robert johnson, motley crue, bob dylan, decemberists, modest mouse, iron & wine, kraftwerk, duran duran, john coltrane, microphones, dinosaur jr., sebadoh, archers of loaf, smog, sigur ros, bjork, massive attack, the smiths, ac/dc, television

Movies:

taxi driver, chicago, royal tenenbaums, breakfast club, star wars, ferris bueller's day off, memento, modern times, hedwig and the angry inch, lost in translation, o brother where art thou, high fidelity, lord of the rings, the good the bad and the ugly, adaptation, casablanca, kill bill, the hours, last temptation of christ, unforgiven, air bud

Television:

house, arrested development, it takes a thief, sopranos, reno:911, king of queens, daily show, simpsons, the office

Books:

the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, jimmy corrigan the smartest kid on earth, ric flair's autobiography, the corrections, middlesex, terry goodkind fantasy novels

Heroes:

green lantern

My Blog

I am a DC superhero sometimes

My score on The DC Comic Book Superhero Test:The Question(Your stats:Autonomy: 30%Image: 33%Ideology: 20%Perspective: 50%)Name: The QuestionAlter Ego: Charles Victor SzaszAbilities: Highly intelligent...
Posted by alex on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:28:00 PST

car update

the jetta is no more. my insurance adjuster called me yesterday to tell me my car is totaled. this leaves me in a tough situation as i must now quickly find a new car that i can afford. easier said th...
Posted by alex on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:50:00 PST

thanks to all

for the birthday wishesi will reply to you all when i can type a little better
Posted by alex on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:15:00 PST

celebrating my birthday with a bang

i was already bemoaning (is that a word?) the big 3-0 birthday this morning. i've had what seems to be the flu since last tuesday afternoon or so, but it had finally started to get better. i woke up t...
Posted by alex on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:13:00 PST

21 random people

21 peopleCan you name 21 people you can think of right off the top of your head? Don't read the questions underneath until you write the names of all 21 people.*this is a lot funnier if you actually l...
Posted by alex on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:22:00 PST

please vote this november

"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death." ~ Adolf Hitler"The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a sm...
Posted by alex on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:57:00 PST

been awhile

1. NAME THREE THINGS YOU DID TODAY?Zipped my fly at least 3 times, ate a sandwich, got pissed about the Bush administration2. LAST ITEM YOU BOUGHT YOURSELF?diesel watch3. DO YOU HAVE AN ORNAMENT HANGI...
Posted by alex on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:48:00 PST

bands i listen to survey type thing (credit Matt)

Mark with X's the bands that you listen to. Be honest....... (**and i might just add a few notes and additions of my own!  --Alex)RADIO ROCK (i'm gonna predict a fat ZERO here)[ ] Nickelback (fuc...
Posted by alex on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:40:00 PST

how redneck am i? I'M 22% REDNECK! (thanks bonnie)

Well, for all of those who had their doubts about whether or not I am a redneck...According to the following quiz, despite my being an eighth generation southerner, alas, I am not a redneck. Besides, ...
Posted by alex on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:02:00 PST

the condensed version

for anyone who cares to know what i thought of the nine inch nails song without having to read that ridiculously long entry below, i thought it was quite good, but not quite what i remember. i blame t...
Posted by alex on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:35:00 PST