sarah alyse - ProfilesArchive

About Me

"I'm a pop punk girl, I like sunny days, stupid jokes, and a good Ramones song."
-The Unlovables
I was born in Washington state, and lived there until I reached the fractious age of 19, whereupon I up and moved to Michigan for reasons yet uncertain. I lived there for two years before I decided I missed Seattle and came back. Three years later, I can hardly imagine leaving again.
I like going to rock shows. I like new music. I like writing about bands and making zines to that effect. I like taking pictures and staying up late and working in a record store and dying my hair and playing with my kitty.
sarahshay(dot)com is my personal website and portfolio...or soon will be. It will have samples of my photography, writing, and comics.

My Interests

Rock shows, grape soda, foreign films, zines, urban fantasy novels, buskers, rock journalism, my cats, karaoke, and bookends shaped like Spanish galleons.

I'd like to meet:

Young Ones! Bachelor boys! Crazy, mad, wild-eyed, big-bottomed anarchists!

Music:

I love music, period. I like it live and I like it loud. I like rock and roll, punk, ska, emo, indie, poprock, country, folk, bluegrass, showtunes, a little jazz, a touch of blues, some a capella for good measure. If you deny The Beatles, you're wasting my time.
My favorite song of all time is "Greensleeves." "A Day in The Life" comes close, though.
I can sing almost every word in Rent, Phantom, Miss Saigon, and Into the Woods. And I'm actually proud of that.
I am teaching myself to play the washboard. Yeah, you wish you were this cool.

Movies:

All I'm saying is that The Princess Bride, The Usual Suspects, Boondock Saints, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Le Cite Des Enfants Perdus would all probably make the top twenty.
I like foreign films, especially French, Irish, and Israeli.
I currently have a big crush on Brick.

Television:

Most of the good stuff is off the air: MST3K, Star Trek TNG, Mr. Show, The Tick, The Young Ones, Monty Python, Firefly.
Law & Order is my anti-drug.
Lost is my drug.

Books:

I love urban fantasy, children's books, and the occasional trashy romance novel.
Will Shetterly, Emma Bull, Jane Lindskold, Charles De Lint, Jane Yolen, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling, Antoine De St. Exupere, Nora Roberts, Wil Wheaton, David Sedaris.
The Outsiders, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Light in the Attic, The Princess Bride, Flowers for Algernon, Bridge to Terabithia, and The Little Prince are all on my bookshelf. The last book I read (at time of writing) was Without You by Anthony Rapp.
Comics are books too, right? Blue Monday, Geisha, Hopeless Savages, Snakepit and Runaways are a couple I could name, and have. Brian K. Vaughan is my favorite writer. Craig Thompson might be my favorite artist. I'll unconditionally love anything that Young American Comics puts out.

Heroes:

"Sometimes words can serve me well, and sometimes words can go to Hell."
-Harry Chapin

My Blog

Living the dream!

So I'm working a thankless job, living in a filthhole, and writing. All I need is to get some sort of wasting disease, and I'll be living the dream! I'll be sure to become totally famous and be haile...
Posted by sarah alyse on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:37:00 PST

I thought all writers drank to excess, and beat their wives

Sigh. It seems I have not been successful in swaying my brother to the way of the edge.Is 't come to this? Shall I never see a teetotaler of two score again?
Posted by sarah alyse on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:14:00 PST

Myspace editors are for communists

That's right, I am morally opposed to changing my myspace page so it has a picture in the background or fancy colored fonts and all that crap. It is IMPURE and SINFUL.Or maybe I'm just lazy. That's po...
Posted by sarah alyse on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:43:00 PST

One small step towards becoming a crazy cat lady

Talking to one's self may be the first sign of madness, but surely the second is adopting a kitten on little more than a whim. Yes, Pepper and I have opened our family to a new addition: a 3 month-old...
Posted by sarah alyse on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:42:00 PST

KNIVES IN THE ATTIC & MANPLUS TONIGHT!

Be there or be somewhere less cool. Knives in the Attic and ManPlus at S.S. Marie Antoinette (myspace.com/ssmarieantoinette). 5 American dollars. The venue site says 7pm and ManPlus says 8pm, so.....
Posted by sarah alyse on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:58:00 PST

Scrilla fo' rilla! This haul gonna be TAUT.

Oh GOD, I love Brian K. Vaughan.
Posted by sarah alyse on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:22:00 PST

Spring cleaning?

Just trimmed down the friends section...got rid of about 10 bands I don't care about and people I can't remember why I friended.I still have 31 bands/companies/labels/comics/stores/non-people...I kind...
Posted by sarah alyse on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:48:00 PST

Homelessness is imminent!

Big things are afoot at the House of Broken Glass*.Erin and Jake were talking about wanting to buy a condo on the Eastside, so I knew I'd need a new place to live in six months. But now everything has...
Posted by sarah alyse on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:09:00 PST

I'm a wild and untamed thing!

Went to Rocky last night with the kid (read: my 19 year old brother). It has been months, if not upwards of a year, since I went to a show. It was good raucous fun, of course (we brought two virgins),...
Posted by sarah alyse on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:07:00 PST

Is good. You vill come back.

For the record, the matzo ball soup from the piroshky place in Crossroads is delicious.Still not as good as homemade, but damn will it do in a pinch.
Posted by sarah alyse on Thu, 25 May 2006 02:36:00 PST