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alan

i love lamp.

About Me

my amps are heavier than me. www.tenminuteturns.com www.myspace.com/tenminuteturns

My Interests

writing music, playing music, recording music, listening to music, drawing, painting, animating, going to shows, going for walks, staying up late, drinking beer, smokin' butts, politics, long drives, flirting, winking, diddy rides, writing, reading, teaching, listening, and learning.

I'd like to meet:

someone who will carry my amps...

Music:

yo la tengo, modest mouse, pixies, flaming lips, destroyer, pinback, broken social scene, buddy holly, rolling stones, beatles, stereolab, belle & sebastian, jack drag, neutral milk hotel, explosions in the sky, tortoise, mogwai, god speed.., built to spill, air, trans am, beck, american analog set, the shins, velvet underground, polyphonic spree, kings of convenienve, dump, david bowie, tom jones, the drifters, tommy james and the shondelles, santo and johnny, the clash, sex pistols, elliot smith, spoon, ugly cassanova, silver jews, pavement, stephen malkmus, sparklehorse, mates of state, le tigre, nada surf, low, irving, iron and wine, sonic youth, death cab for cutie, postal service, guided by voices, frank black, the breeders, 764-hero, tiger saw, frog eyes, devendra banhart, fuck, deerhoof, of montreal, sebadoh, folk implosion, pj harvey, magnetic fields, etc., etc., etc.

Movies:

dead men don't wear plaid

Books:

mr. t by mr. t

My Blog

happy holidays... now get out of yer house...

i think everyone can agree that landlords are a pain in the ass... now imagine that you just moved into a new place on sept. 1st. it's a great place. an old brownstone on a nice tree lined street in b...
Posted by alan on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:50:00 PST

anyone...

as pissed about this as i am?: Split verdict for officer at Abu Ghraib:"A military court Tuesday acquitted an Army officer of failing to control U.S. soldiers who abused detainees at Abu Ghraib prison...
Posted by alan on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:34:00 PST

scary...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/pushing_the_e nvelope_on_presi/index.html
Posted by alan on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:32:00 PST

cerebral labor...

i've been thinking about the state of the world pretty much non-stop for a while now... which of course fueled my last post... but some more societal ills have come to mind that i wanted to talk about...
Posted by alan on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:42:00 PST

comments on the world as will...

i want everyone to do something for themselves... call your local city couoncilmen. call your mayor. call your governor. call your state representatives. call your state senators. call the whitehouse ...
Posted by alan on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:01:00 PST

the machine that goes "ping"...

it's been a strange long time. the last week has been a busy and stressful time. last tuesday i got a call that my father was in the hospital. he was found in a coma on his kitchen floor. the next mor...
Posted by alan on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:12:00 PST

other people's lives...

48 hours from now my band and i will have just played our first show of our first mini-tour together... ya see on wednesday morning we're all flying to ft. luaderdale to spend thanksgiving at my mothe...
Posted by alan on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:51:00 PST

best weekend ever (part five)...

on friday the 13th i drove up to pittsfield for our show on saturday... what is usually a 3 hour drive turned into a 5 hour drive thanks to traffic... needless to say, by the time i go off the highway...
Posted by alan on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:51:00 PST

best weekend ever (part four)

pardon that last outburst... up until last night, Ten Minute Turns had the best weekend EVER.... part four. on friday i received 3 boxes full of our first album, SAD ANIMALS... all in all, we had 1,10...
Posted by alan on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:04:00 PST

fuck...

FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by alan on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:54:00 PST