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Alison

I am here for Friends

About Me

I'm a lefty, with all the connotations that implies. I enjoy many things that other human beings enjoy, including freedom, cake, absurd but funny situations, the occasional distraction, fulfillment, hot pretzels, cats and dogs, a nice set of headphones, a new purchase, bourbon, small clubs, dreams of flying, miniature food and free perfume samples. What? you like all that too? Then we're friends already. Welcome and tell me what you know.

My Interests

Hootenanies and BRAINS.

I'd like to meet:

In the Afterlife: Italo Calvino. Spaulding Gray. Quentin Crisp. Nico. Mia Zapata. Johnny Ramone. My great-grandparents. Maurice Ravel. Ella Fitzgerald. Maxwell Bodenheim. Jack Conroy. Margaret Anderson. Mme. Pompadour. Disraeli. Alexander Pope. Sappho.

Books:

Right now I'm reading : Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks.

My Blog

Tour Diary

Hi folks,Got back Sunday from a splendid, splendid time looping around America’s midsection. Afterward, my midsection didn’t do so well (stomach virus last two days - ugh! - I’ve qua...
Posted by Alison on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:14:00 PST

Bound for Tex-ass!

Dearest Friends and subscriberinos,Tomorrow the band departs for places west and south, down towards and into the whirling chasm known as South By Southwest. Us and 1,499 other bands -- also PR people...
Posted by Alison on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:00:00 PST

Vinyl ’Ventures

Yesterday was taken up with*digesting*converting more vinyl to mp3...I'm not converting everything alphabetically, but it's less confusing to my wee brain if I can do sequences of alphabetically arran...
Posted by Alison on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:45:00 PST

Tour Diary for Le Concorde!!

Hey folkie-tokes!Part 1 of the recent odyssey of Le Concorde is now posted on the band's myspace page! I have some more photos I want to post and I think there will be several more parts to the story,...
Posted by Alison on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:16:00 PST

Adam Ant / Atom Ant / Adamant / Adamantine

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/adamantine  (click to hear the pronounciation, it's fun!)So, "adamant" is a noun and an adjective.  "Adamantine" is an adjective, describing  "adamant" whe...
Posted by Alison on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:48:00 PST

my almost psychotically spazzy playlist

I'm loading more tunes into the new toy.  Brian has at least twice as many in his brand new 80 GB iPod, and I'm trying to catch up.  So I'm in the PQR part of the cd library, and this is wha...
Posted by Alison on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:07:00 PST

i got my ipod! i got my ipod!

i so happy! [snif]  80 gigs of potential rocking, wheeeeeeee!
Posted by Alison on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:05:00 PST

no home should be without one!

Thanks to Mags for bringing this very important device to my attention!  Kick Ass, Sweetie!...
Posted by Alison on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:28:00 PST

Digg.com

Tuesday night a guy on the train asked to take a picture of my messenger bag to post on digg.com -- I usually don't allow strangers to take my picture but this wasn't going to be recognizable as me, s...
Posted by Alison on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:29:00 PST

The Rats have chewed through the hull...

...and now they're abandoning the sinking ship.Rumsfeld;thenRove;nowGonzales.Now is the time to restore our civil rights and liberties, to right the heinous wrongs, and turn the last seven years of di...
Posted by Alison on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:52:00 PST