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Alex

About Me

Happiness is such hard work - it gets harder every day, and it can kill you; but no one wants to be that tacky about it. If you spin fast enough then maybe the broken pieces of your heart will stay together, but something I see lately makes me doubt it.

My Interests

Tennis, Scrabble, Classics, Demolished Cityscapes, the Q&As at belleandsebastian.com (why does MySpace sometimes automatically insert a semicolon after ampersands?); attempting to analyze Tony Soprano's dream sequences, malapropisms

I'd like to meet:

Roger Federer, Gaius Julius Caesar, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Moltisanti, Pallas Athena, Joss Whedon, Wikipedia, Eleanor Friedberger, Ken Jennings, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

Music:

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Arcade Fire, At the Drive-In, The Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Built to Spill, The Cure, The Decemberists, Dismemberment Plan, The Fiery Furnaces, The Get Up Kids, Godspeed You! Black Emperor; Guided by Voices, The Hold Steady, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Pornographers, Pavement, The Police, Radiohead, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Sleater-Kinney, Smashing Pumpkins, Spoon, The Streets, Sufjan Stevens, Tori Amos, The White Stripes, Wilco, The Wrens, Yo La Tengo

Movies:

Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974); Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941); Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai, 1991); Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2005); The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971); Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003); Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990); The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939); Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984); Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950); Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976); Three Colors: Blue, White, Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993-4)

Television:

HBO: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Rome, Big LoveOTHER: Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Twin Peaks, The Office (British & American), Futurama, Cracker, Northern Exposure

Books:

Homer, Ovid, Vergil, Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Dante, Hugo, Tolstoy, Fitzgerald

Heroes:

Soy Bomb

My Blog

Top 10 albums and top 20 songs of 2006

Okay, I realize it has been quite a long time since my last posting. I was going to write some over the summer, but I suffer from a degenerative disease called laziness. Then I defected to Facebook ...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:48:00 PST

My ideal New Pornographers/Belle & Sebastian setlists (UPDATED with actual setlists!)

As many of you reading this probably know, next Tuesday, March 21, I am going to the New Pornographers/Belle & Sebastian concert in San Francisco (thank you Matador Records!). Now, since these are tw...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:38:00 PST

Curb your enthusiasm, Mr. Donalson.

The other day I mentioned to a friend how I had just passed the 5000 song mark on my iTunes. She in turn asked, "doesn't that take up a lot of space on your computer?" to which I honestly replied, "I...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:41:00 PST

My first hardcore concert.

Let me preface this entry by stating that, while hardcore is not my favorite genre of music, it is what my friends at school mostly listen to so I hear a decent amount of it. Therefore, this entry is...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 03:13:00 PST

Things to look forward to in 2006

Here is a list of something of the things I am highly anticipating in the coming year. Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit ETA: February 7 New Belle & Sebastian is always worth celebrating. A...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:50:00 PST

And so it begins... (Top 10 albums of 2005)

Top 10 albums of 2005: 10)Bloc Party, "Silent Alarm" 9) Sigur Ros, "Takk" 8) The White Stripes, "Get Behind Me Satan" 7) Spoon, "Gimme Fiction" 6) Bright Eyes, "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning"...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:35:00 PST