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Allison

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About Me

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My Interests

cartoons, angry robots, dumbo octopus, tattoos, pirates, penguins, burlesque, painting on cardboard, vintage prom dresses, and audio recordings of people dancing.

I'd like to meet:

Dolly Parton and whoever made this:

Music:

Nick Cave/ The Birthday Party, Hole, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Rolling Stones, Fire flies, Jenny Owen Youngs, O'Death,Skeleton Breath, David Bowie, Apoptygma Berzerk, Bauhaus, Wolfsheim, 80's new wave/goth/dance, (standards such as The Cure, Depeche Mode, Smiths), Rilo Kiley, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr., The Misfits, Opeth, Christian Death (with Rozz only), Sisters of Mercy, Velvet UNderground, The World Inferno Friendship Society, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Guitar Wolf, Dufus, Patty Smith, Mr. Quintron, Brit pop, Clinic, Kult ov Azazel, Deicide, Polaris, Woody Gutherie, etc. and so on

Movies:

Harold and Maude, Philadelphia Story, Cry baby, Wild Zero, Young Frankenstein, Roman Holiday, Hairspray, Top Hat,Bringing Up Baby, Annie Hall, Hud, Godfather I & II, The Best Years of Our Lives, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Muppets Take Manhatten, Velvet Goldmine, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, High Art, The Abomination, Heavenly Creatures, Forbidden Planet, You've Got Mail, Coal Miner's Daughter, Auntie Mame, The Little Princess, Willy Wonka, Citizen Kane, Jem and the Holograms:The Movie, Like Water for Chocolate, Muppet Treasure Island, True Romance, Return to Oz, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Heathers, Pretty in Pink, Dr. Strangelove, The Crow, Trashy/ B Horror, Troma flicks, etc.

Television:

Pee-Wee's Playhouse, cartoons, MST3K, Project Runway, Fishing with John, late night informercials, History Channel, Most Extreme Animals (spoiler-it's always ants)

Books:

Demian, Siddhartha (Hesse), Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, Wormwood (Brite), Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, really almost anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Go Ask Alice (anonymous), The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex, Brave New World (Huxley), Nico: The End (James Young), The Professor and the Madman, (Simon W.) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), Raymond Carver, Checkov, Flannery O'Conner, Wizard of Oz books (L. Frank Baum). Poetry by : Anne Carson, Anne Sexton, James Tate, Nick Flynn, Robert Lowell, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Diane Wakoski, Edward Lear, Hesiod, Carol Snow, Inger Christensen, George Oppen, Cummings, Kunitz, Corso, the Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, etc) Szymborska, Sonnets in general... and plays, esp. those of Sophocles and Euripides. I like to read...a lot. I'm a creative writing major, it's my job.

My Blog

Im on BART

If you happen to travel the SF underground realm known as the BART or MUNI, ride the buses around San Francisco or read the Sf Bay Guardian, then you might just catch a glimpse of the new Good Vibes&n...
Posted by Allison on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:34:00 PST

Sometimes I’m a Hot piece

Eventhough the Holiday Ball will no longer be Dec 13th but instead sometime in February and this poster won't get to make its relevant debut until probably March, I think Sharon, Camilla, and I just l...
Posted by Allison on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:30:00 PST

Erotica Night at EBS

Hello Smut Worshippers! This Saturday, Sept. 15th I will be hosting an OPEN MIC EROTICA NIGHT at the Good Vibrations store in Berkeley located at 2504 San Pablo Ave @ Dwight. The readings will begin p...
Posted by Allison on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:02:00 PST

Whos the Boss? I am

So it is official, I am the new editor of the GV Weekly! For those of you who don't know, that is the online magazine for Good Vibrations filled with sex advice, erotica, educational articles, quizzes...
Posted by Allison on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:16:00 PST

My Penguin Video

So last week Judi B and I escaped from work and filmed a bunch of adorable penguins at the California Academy of Science. The resulting video is the true story of what happens when I get too close to ...
Posted by Allison on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:53:00 PST

My New Tattoo is HOTT

I will be posting pics very soon but seriously, I am in love with my new tattoo. It is even more beautiful then I thought it could be and I just want to let everyone know that Jeff Rassier at Black He...
Posted by Allison on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:49:00 PST

GV Podcast! Celebrities! Sex Toys! Me!

I knew eventually all the amazing tales of close encounters of the celebrity kind would come in handy for something. Then we decided to start a podcast. So as our first order of business Judi B and I ...
Posted by Allison on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:57:00 PST

Check out my Video Play List

Hey, My exquisite taste in music and videos have finally paid off and my latest (and first) video play list, aptly titled: Nerd Worship, is up on the GV magazine. Stop acting so surprised! If you...
Posted by Allison on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:11:00 PST

This June, Come Hang with Me and the Gays in Boston!

Hey!I know this is a bit early, but I just got my flight reservations so indulge me as I am on a tad of an excitable-travelling high. *clears throat*:June! June! June! What's in June you ask?BOSTON GA...
Posted by Allison on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:09:00 PST

Another Reason I NEVER want to live in SF

So this just pissed me off to the extent that I feel like I literally needed to stop working and blog about it. A woman I work with was crossing the street on a crosswalk during her allotted...
Posted by Allison on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:02:00 PST