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alisha. maddocks.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

About Me

eclectic. esoteric. solipsistic. and really into old men's clothes.
i want to be a gentleman.

i want a dress the color of the time or the shade of the weather.

On Rotation

props to naserin/nancy for the reminder
currently..this seems about right.

.small.stimulants.

"He lives the poetry that he cannot write.
The others write the poetry that they dare not realise."- mr. wilde

CoHabit CoHabit CoHabit

My Interests

moptops, mash ups
good writers and OG's

phillip lim , gareth pugh, dior homme, alexander wang, vivienne westwood, leafless trees, antique cameras, eye contact...then followed by awkward aversion to eye contact, impressive elocutionary....
Audrey Kawasaki , Swoon, Anthony Lister, Amy Sol, Ena, Mari Kubota, Sam Flores, Timothy Karpinski, Stella Im Hultberg, Kukula...
x-men comics , polaroid projects, life soundtracks..

I'd like to meet:

People who do what they love without looking up.
Thinkers. Outside the box.
Someone who makes me want to talk on the phone.
Someone to accompany me to the symphony, like what.
buddha. pre-enlightenment. just cause i'm curious.

and also...john cusack, robert downey jr., christopher walken, the late august sander and diane arbus...
and this guy..for obvious reasons.
most/some of the people i want to meet are dead sooo i just like to look at things in which they've written.

Music:

anything coming out of paris, france..and apparently stockholm cause
oh my god Lykke Li , sir alice, yelle, sigur ros, hercules & love affair, eluvium, apparat, asobi seksu, radiohead , blonde redhead, the stills, france gall, the whitest boy alive, cinematic orchestra, the boggs, the black keys, pink enemy, mgmt, jealous girlfriends, clinic, tapes n tapes, adron, brigitte bardot, liars, the teenagers, grauzone, chk chk chk !!!, bat for lashes, architecture in helsinki, the submarines, santogold, sunset rubdown , the kills, stereo total, beirut , animal collective, xu xu fang, let's go sailing, warpaint, pavement, the blow, blue foundation, kate bush, four tet, devendra banhart, chemical brothers, royksopp, pleasure forever, the most serene republic, patrick watson, the microphones, out hud, kate nash, phoenix, hot chip, LCD soundsystem, belaire, frog eyes, yacht, neptune, justice, the rapture, bjork, spoon, death from above 1979, soko , autolux, deerhoof, charlotte gainsbourg, belle & sebastian, MSTRKRFT, deerhunter, feist , teenage jesus and the jerks, the go!team, yo la tengo, voxtrot, joy division, digitalism, pixies, catpower, pj harvey, electrelane, girltalk, the gossip, the faint, muscles, thieves like us, fugiya & miyagi, seelenluft, the arcade fire, enon, the presets, biggie smalls, tom vek, television , scanners, broken social scene, ex models, tv on the radio, ohm, cansei de ser sexy, XIU XIU, the tender box, mogwai, fiona apple , billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, jolie holland, etta james, ray charles, meiko, annuals, the album leaf, the pretenders, victoria bergsman, little ones, the cure, darker my love, indian jewelry, air, darkel, holly golightly, wolf parade, patrick wolf, simian mobile disco, UFFIE, the knife, x-ray spex, velvet underground, stars, iggy pop , metric, peter bjorn and john, chopin, emily haines, yeah yeah yeahs, goldfrapp, freezepop, someone still loves you boris yeltsin, PiL, trespassers william, modest mouse, bright eyes, brian eno, misfits, prototypes, dandi wind, talking heads , sea wolf, babyshambles, the smiths, ferraby lionheart, bon iver , nouvelle vague, ladytron, daft punk, the who, the clash... blah blah and blah there are too many; i'm bored now.

Movies:

The Neverending Story + Say Anything* + High Fidelity + Closer* + GIA + Stranger Than Fiction + X-Men* + Amelie* + Science of Sleep + Gray Matters + Ciao!Manhattan + Buffalo 66 + Batman + anything Audrey Hepburn*

Television:

DEXTER , californication, THE OFFICE, saved by the bell forever and ever and ever, ifc

Books:

"Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future."

Heroes:

the ones that never give up on me

My Blog

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it isn't some elusive code. just some plain old common sense.it's just like jogging; it doesn't need to be fast. just needs to be constant.the results will follow.it's just like jogging; it doesn't ne...
Posted by alisha. maddocks. on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:39:00 PST

the acrobat

[from .small.stimulants.blogspot.com, june 3rd entry]ac·ro·bat, -noun* * *one who readily changes positions, viewpoints on short notice based on the circumstance.the switch.to have set myself upon thi...
Posted by alisha. maddocks. on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:20:00 PST

obama...is...the man

who cares that he gave the pound to his wife on stage. that's awesome. but what we should care about is the fact that something as innocuous as that has the entire country talking and google searching...
Posted by alisha. maddocks. on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:40:00 PST

happy endings.

"Happy Endings"By Margaret AtwoodJohn and Mary meet.What happens next?If you want a happy ending, try A.A.John and Mary fall in love and get married. They both have worthwhile and remunerative jobs wh...
Posted by alisha. maddocks. on Tue, 20 May 2008 10:59:00 PST

my favourites

excerpts from T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"II. A Game of Chess...'My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thin...
Posted by alisha. maddocks. on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:24:00 PST

its just everything

i feel full now. for the moment. and that's an amazing feeling Posted by alisha. maddocks. on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:10:00 PST

Sunset Rubdown

This is a little late...but...Tavi and I agreed-Sunset Rubdown is between 10 and 20938189429813982 times better live.They're physically incapable of such an achievement? An utter impossibility? No. No...
Posted by alisha. maddocks. on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:35:00 PST