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Alisdair

I'm a rocketship on my way to Mars on a collision course/ I'm a satellite, I'm out of control

About Me

At night I am a part time music student at Juilliard in New York City, where I lead a merry band of electro-acoustic musicians one step further toward their ultimate destiny, starvation.
By day I work high up in the clouds, on a white platform encased in glass. That's code for working for the man.
...Sometimes I say things like, "All the most fucked up people I've ever met in my life are adopted," to an adopted person.
The last two times I tried to recount this fact, I accidentally used the word "retarded" instead of "adopted."
Two things wrong with me: I pay no attention to women's chests and asses, and I go to the opera like its going out of style. Hmm... combine this with the next fact and I really have to ask myself: Am I a repressed homosexual or am I really just having an awesome time?
My particular form of dancing could be more accurately described as somthing akin to African dancing combined with electroshock therapy. I can't explain. Just give me the Outkast and let us do the damn thang.
I have a penchant for learning to play as many instruments as I can get my hands on. I'd like to think that I'm skilled at playing even one of them. It would be awful nice to think that.
I'm a good listener. I'm extremely experienced but remain astoundingly naive, so please let me know in advance if you're going to lie to me about your dad being friends with Bill Clinton. Starry-eyed, I will totally believe you.

My Interests

Travel: China, Morcco, Spain, France, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Mexico, Quebec, the Philippine Islands, and the States.

Languages: French, Russian, English, Baby.

Opera

umm...rocking

I'd like to meet:

"What is left to say? Only to tell you that a cool air, calm, has settled itself against the body of the city. The colors come clear and hard, I feel slammed on the forehead by them as if by a heavy paperback. The memory of you is with me. The men and the women are with me. There is no appropriate music for the mystery in my heart. We carry our lives forward; the strain in the ankle is the strain in the soul. Speaking of which, tonight is dancing. But today is work, and I must go now. I would have been a fool, I think, not to reach you sooner. Still drunk, can you tell? No, I take back the disclaimer. Still happy, can you tell? Give me a moment to think, and your confidence. Before or after your eternal Italy we'll walk close to the water, or at least under a supreme sky."

Music:

Jimi Hendrix. Paul Simon. CHUCK BERRY! The Velvet Underground. Leonard Cohen. Tom Petty. Pink Floyd. Outkast. The Notorious B.I.G. Encrypt Manuscript, straight out of Long Island where only the Long survive. Nate Dogg and Warren G. Tupac Shakur. Buena Vista Social Club. R.E.M.

Movies:

True Romance, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Professional, The Graduate, Empire Strikes Back, Excalibur, Harold and Maude, Burnt By The Sun, The Last Emperor.

Books:

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger. Our Times, An Illustrated History of the 20th Century by various. Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by various. Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Short works by Earnest Hemingway.

Heroes:

Maude (Harold's first love).