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nik-alotta

the band, not the animal.

About Me

i sleep at night with my calf cradled in the arch of my opposing foot. ...overall unbreakable, but fragilest at the elbows and wrists.

Poppies Will Make Her Sleeeeeep!!!!

TETRIS is my THERAPIST.

My Interests

Singing, syncopated rhythms & layers of harmonies, lullabies and waltzes, bedtime conversations, digital photography, art museums, novels, honey flavored chapstick, falling back asleep, aveda anything, the blue couch, bedroom breezes, baileys breakfasts, clothes that are as comfortable as staying in bed, traveling, staying in touch, sharing hugs winks giggles shoulders secrets stories and lives, and VERY MOST importantly: finding reasons to laugh.

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I'd like to meet:


Music:

CocoRosie, Broadcast, Rotary Connection, Quixotic, Yo La Tengo, Stereolab, Autoclave, Can, Aisler Set, Cannibal Ox, Antelope, Cymande, Daktaris, Deerhoof, Dungen, Pretty Things, Electrelane, Evens, Fairport Convention, Duster, Faraquet, Flake Music, Gal Costa , Arthur Verocai, Beatles, Battles, Golden, Hella, Heroic Doses, Beans, American Analog Set, Love, Hollies, Holy Fuck, Iron & Wine, Advantage, J Dilla, Daktaris, Jennifer Gentle, Joanna Newsom, Kraftwerk, Lavender Diamond, Lily's, Marmoset, Mazarin, Metallic Falcons, MF Doom, Modern Lovers, Mogwai, Illium, My Bloody Valentine, Big Star, Love, Busdriver, Neil Young,Telescopes, Grant Green, Belle and Sebastian, Hot Snakes, Nick Drake, Radiohead, Nobody, Peter King, Milton Nascimento, Pinback, Nelson Angelo & Joyce, Feminine Complex, Freestyle Fellowship, Prefuse 73, Donavan, Polvo, Leonard Cohen, Syd Barrett, Brian Borcherdt, Ride, Sage Francis, Sam Prekop, Shellac, Shins, Casino vs. Japan, Shuggie Otis, Savath y Savalas, Swervedriver, Swirlies, Talking Heads, Terry Reid, T.Rex, Traffic, White Magic, Wu Tang, TV on the Radio, Wendy & Bonnie, School of Seven Bells, Blank Blue

Movies:

City of God, Murder By Death, Stand By Me, Dr Strangelove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wizard of Oz, It Happened One Night, Princess Bride, Donnie Darko, Amelie, All the Real Girls, HERO, Tripelets of Belleville, Ghost World, Winter Passing, ET, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Raising Arizona, Wierd Science, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Napoleon Dynamite, Memento, Super-Size Me, Sin City, History of the World, Shawn of the Dead, Lost in Translation, Brick, Science of Sleep, the Prestige, A Scanner Darkly, Little Miss Sunshine, 40 Year Old Virgin, Children of Men, Half Nelson, Pan's Labyrinth, Last King of Scotland

Television:

AFV, F&G on DVD, HBO series' on demand.

Books:

Cannery Row, The Alchemist, Love in the Time of Cholera, Identity, Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Dogrun, Lullaby, Dreaming In Cuban, Six Figures, Morvern Callar, Roughing It, Beloved, and I also love art books of all kinds.

Heroes:

My dad Tim Randa.

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My Blog

a neighbor says dolphins mean good luck

took a trip out to the beach yesterday.as far south as i could get... cleaner and cleaner the more i drove. the ocean wasnt blue, and neither was the sky.maybe only me.someone mentioned 'red tide' tho...
Posted by nik-alotta on Mon, 28 May 2007 03:20:00 PST

myspace.com/blankblue

BLANK BLUE IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN PRODUCER/DJ NOBODY (ELVIN ESTELA) AND VOCALIST NIKI RANDA.  THEY ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE SEQUEL TO NOBODY'S 2003 RELEASE PACIFIC DRIFT.  BLANK BLUE WILL DEBU...
Posted by nik-alotta on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:50:00 PST

Prospector, May 1st- early this time- HOLY FUCK!

Dear neighborly friends and folk...My far away friends are making a pit stop on a west coast tour with Cornelius and playing a long beach Prospector show... come early. These boys are called Holy Fuck...
Posted by nik-alotta on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:59:00 PST

siiiiiiiick

germies are attacking me and i feel yucky.
Posted by nik-alotta on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:05:00 PST

SXSW The things I can now remember.

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Posted by nik-alotta on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:28:00 PST

Gosh Money and Hospital Flats

Just returned from a successful spontaneous camping trip on the Kern River..... it was freeking gorgeous. Swimming, fishing, Sunning and STARS...please go see what youre missing....billions and gadril...
Posted by nik-alotta on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 06:18:00 PST