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alanjason

About Me

i am the sagittarius in the schoolyard, aries rising, aries moon. i am your best friend & most reliable ride. i am continuously obsessed with just about everything because even dilettantes can make miracles. currently i manage a happy cupcake circus midtown-style - & have been a musicmaker since age tiny. i'm a great collector, a true combusticator, a little cheeky & very loving. i use a lot of poetic license, read tarot cards & have great esteem for garbage in other languages. a good bourbon with a splash of soda & a twist.

My Interests

musical expression. astrology. combustibility. theatre. organic produce. conversation. tarot. prose poetry. texas hold-'em. aromatherapy. cuisine. design. cabbie hats. peace. the world. irony. dessert. stripes. procrastination. deviance. solitude. company. cultivation. the flipside.

I'd like to meet:

superheroes with really cool powers, firestarters, & whoever invented the pear-flavored jelly bean.

Music:

is the answer. a brief listing might be: tori amos. radiohead. metric. nine inch nails. ani difranco. ladytron. massive attack. goldfrapp. rufus wainwright. tv on the radio. björk. aphex twin. magnetic fields. portishead. boards of canada. interpol. the cure. fischerspooner. antibalas afrobeat orchestra. gorillaz. nick drake. imani uzuri. dj krush. dj shadow. ltj bukem. joni mitchell. jill scott. jeff buckley. muse. the rapture. medeski, martin & wood. the postal service. air. bloc party. elliptical ferns. jen urban & the box.

Books:

one hundred years of solitude, invisible cities, white noise, midnight's children, the corrections, lolita, cloud atlas, disgrace, ulysses, the collected works of sylvia plath, the autobiography of red, lorca's a poet in new york, neruda's twenty love songs and a song of despair, vegetables: from amaranth to zucchini, the practical astrologer, jeanne rose's aromatherapy book, the french laundry cookbook. & shakespeare.