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abby alyssa

i'm like a dynamo of action

About Me

i learn. i work. i play.
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My Interests

running, friends/good company, books (especially those in a series), coffee/tea, libraries, being outside, family, crocheting, horses, painting and drawing, pottery, history, language, a good beer, clever dialogue, boys with accents, getting better at chess. . . .

I'd like to meet:

Monsters, pirates, Norwegians, good conversationalists, bike riders, horse riders, people that will buy me coffee and/or Guinness, and general riff-raff.

Music:

JOHNNY CASH, Ani Difranco, Bob Dylan, Violent Femmes, Woodie Guthrie, Simon and Garfunkel, Ben Harper, Tracy Chapman, David Gray, Rufus Wainwright, Rusted Root, Grateful Dead, Sleater Kinney, James Taylor, Gaelic Storm, Tom T. Hall, Indigo Girls, Bright Eyes, Dance Hall Crashers, Save Ferris, Reel Big Fish, Don Williams, Bob Marley, Tilly and The Wall, Waylon Jennings. . . . . . .

Movies:

The Royal Tennebaum's, Donnie Darko, Stranger Than Fiction, Snatch, Fight Club, Princess Mononoke, Willow, Gosford Park, A Beautiful Mind, Red Dragon, Interview with a Vampire, Serenity, Fiddler on the Roof, Amistad, Dazed and Confused, American History X, Chocolate, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, The Birds, Signs, Walk the Line, Clue, The Goonies, Howl's Moving Castle, V for Vendetta, Jarhead, Talladega Nights. . .

Television:

Firefly, The Office, Arrested Development, Buffy, Six Feet Under.

Books:

The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Unfinished Tales - (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice), doris (Cindy Gretchen Ovenrack Crabb), Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling), The EarthSea Cycle (Ursula K. Le Guin), Beowulf, The Saga of the Volsungs, The Dark Tower Series (Stephen King), Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), Walden Two (B.F. Skinner), Paradise Lost (John Milton), We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (Philip Gourevitch), Richard III (Shakespeare), The Iliad (Homer), Black Beauty (Anna Sewell), Lord of the Flies (William Golding), Cash: An Autobiography (John R. Cash), His Dark Materials Trilogy (Philip Pullman), The Firebringer Trilogy (Meredith Ann Pierce), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini), many more.....

My Blog

since i lack the motivation to write something creative . . .

BACKGROUND: 01. real name ? abby alyssa von arx 02. nickname ? footie, abs, abster 03. single or taken ? taken 04. zodiac sign ? aries 05. male or female ? female 06. elementary ? st. mary's grade s...
Posted by abby alyssa on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:20:00 PST

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admittedly, i lack any real, comprehensive, music knowledge.  i don't actively seek out new artists or new sounds, basically if i happen across performer(s) i enjoy -- i'll listen.  i tend...
Posted by abby alyssa on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:29:00 PST

Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Explosions . . .

I find this entertaining.  You may not, I'm sorry.  www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/showdown 
Posted by abby alyssa on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:04:00 PST