Alyssa - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I know everyone says this but "A Lonesome Crowded West" by Modest Mouse is an album I could listen to daily.

Ask me about my death threats--it's a super funny story!

I hate when people intentionally misspell words. It does not make you look more hip, it makes you look like you cannot spell.

I want to invent a way to make my hair stay black forever.

If it were socially acceptable, I would incorporate the word fuck into every sentence.

I consider my ability to recite virtually every episode of Dawson's Creek a talent.

Jam bands make me barf.

I want to do it with the Olsen twins and then steal all of their clothes.

I think that the entire world should be drenched in curry.

If there isn't live music, dancing and costume jewelry in heaven, I don't care to go.

Oh yeah, and I don't give a shit about the Beatles.

My Interests

music, dancing, Nylon magazine, cheese, black hair, Vice magazine, New Year's eve, politics, self-awareness, power-thrifting, Ashley Goldberg, New York City, Elvis Presley, Minneapolis, the Olsen twins, Fond Du Lac, restaurants, museums, photo booths, reading...

I'd like to meet:

Vote Obama for God '08

Music:

Amy Winehouse, The Arcade Fire, A-Track, Awesome Car Funmaker, The Beatitudes, Beck, Bjork, Bloc Party, Blondie, The Blow, Chromeo, The Cars, Cat Power, Cealed Kasket, Cold War Kids, Cloud Cult, David Bowie, The Dials, Decembrists, Deerhoof, Depeche Mode, Detroit Cobras, Duran Duran, Elvis Presely, Eyebeams, Fiona Apple, The Flaming Lips, The Fugees, Girl Talk, Go! Motion, The Go-Go's, The Go! Team, Jay-Z, Juliette and the Licks, Justice, Kings of Leon, Klaxons, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Madonna (strictly old-school, mo), The Mathematicians, Michael Jackson, Modest Mouse, NKOTB, New Young Pony Club, Nick Nice, Ouija Radio, The Pipettes, Poni Hoax, Postal Service, The Rapture, Ravonettes, The Roots, Screaming Cyn Cyn's, Simian Mobile Disco, Sleeping in the Aviary, Solid Gold, Talking Heads, The Teenagers, Tokyo Police Club, TV on the Radio, Uffie, Whore Du Jour, The White Stripes, Wolf Parade, The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, and everything Motown.

Movies:

Gone with the Wind, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Star Wars, Life is Beautiful, Inherit the wind, Bobby, Good night and Good Luck, Factory Girl, Breakfast at Tiffany's, What dreams may come, The Virgin Suicides, LOTR, Shopgirl, All Wes Anderson films with the possible exception of Life Aquatic.

I also really love PBS specials on DVD, like the ones we watched in high school history class.

Television:

The West Wing, Scrubs & Dawson's Creek (i.e. the greatest use of ANY media outlet, in history!)

Books:

"No One Belongs Here More Than You" -Miranda July
"The Kite Runner" -Khaled Hosseini
"Shopgirl" -Steve Martin
"Valley of the Dolls" -Jacqueline Susann
"Dear Diary" -Lesley Arfin
"Gone With the Wind" -Margaret Mitchell
"Rhett Butler's People" -Donald Mcaig

Heroes:

Mumma: the personification of selflessness.