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Alnoor

fall is the new summer

About Me

I'm trying to write a song for a friend. Honest. I just have a lot of things to do first. Like updating myspace, reading every book on my bookshelf, and cleaning the bathtub. Then I'm going to write it. I swear.

My Interests

Sousaphone Hero II

I'd like to meet:

you halfway. If possible. in Central park. on a sunny afternoon. for a picnic lunch. and a nap.

Music:

Favorite recorded artists (last week):
Favorite recorded artists (overall):

Other faves (including live acts):
Antibalas, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, late Coltrane, Balinese gamelan, Phillip Glass, Schubert lieder, Sarah Harmer, Hawksley Workman, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Brad Mehldau, Miles Davis, The Police, NOJO, Tortoise, DJ Spooky, Paul Simon, Postal Service, Buck 65, Ben Folds, Octopus Project

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Life of Brian, Serenity, Stalag 17, City of God, Koyaanisquatsi, A Mighty Wind, It's all Gone Pete Tong.

Television:

My Name is Earl, Firefly, Futurama, The Office, Weeds

Books:

Douglas Coupland's Microserfs and other books he wrote long ago, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (the first chapter is so brilliant the rest of the book can't live up to it), assorted jazz (auto)biographies - Miles Davis' being the one I remember most vividly due to all the profanity, Genome by Matt Ridley is a great introduction to the crazy stuff that we are made up of, Stephen Leacock wrote tons of comedy classics long ago like Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah, Orson Scott Card's Xenocide won't make much sense unless you read the previous novels in the Ender's Game series but it's worth it (y'ever notice that the second-last of a series is always the best?), National Geographic

Heroes:

Josh - he can sleep in a chair without drooping his head.

My Blog

where to meet a man

I know that some of my female friends have trouble meeting guys. They try clubs and churches and Kentucky Fried Chickens but with nary a good man at the end of the day. Well, I have made a discovery....
Posted by Alnoor on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:20:00 PST

USS Santa Fe Station

I've safely arrived in Las Vegas and have boarded the self contained structure known as the Santa Fe Station.  In here, we want for nothing.  There are 6 restaurants, 3 bars, Starbucks, some...
Posted by Alnoor on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:51:00 PST

Cloud Gate

Imagine you are walking through downtown Chicago and you see this:Maybe you say to yourself: "Wow a giant metallic bean! If I had a golden calf and some mine-ripened tomatoes, I could make a great po...
Posted by Alnoor on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:24:00 PST

chicago

I love how my perspective changes so quickly when I travel.  Instead of all the day-to-day minutiae, those hundreds of distractions and trivialities, my thoughts are focused on much simpler thing...
Posted by Alnoor on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:26:00 PST

You know it's spring when...

Ottawa is bipolar in the springtime. On Monday it snowed, hailed, sleeted, and just plain sucked. Four days later it's sunny, warm, and beautiful. No wonder the city inspires things like this:Hot L...
Posted by Alnoor on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:46:00 PST

...thank a music teacher

I generally try and stay away from really personal stuff on this blog but I think that many readers of these pages can relate on some level.  About a week ago, Cathy-Lynn Yorke-Slader, my high sc...
Posted by Alnoor on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:07:00 PST

we are all lost here

My first night in New York was memorable. After getting picked up on the subway, I went out for sushi and a little cold sake. I ate to the sweet sounds of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (why do m...
Posted by Alnoor on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:41:00 PST

nyc - we ain't square!

As usual I didn't take too many photos of my trip but here are a few.This is my new favourite bookstore -- The Strand apparently has 18 miles of new and used books. That's 2/3 of a marathon!  It...
Posted by Alnoor on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:20:00 PST

NY conversations - subway pickup?

I just got back from marathon weekend in NYC - met some great people, saw lots of jazz, ate sushi, played ping-pong with my brother, and watched people run. I'm not planning a day-by-day account thi...
Posted by Alnoor on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:15:00 PST

The birth of a festival

When I was growing up it seemed like all the cool music festivals were in the UK - Phoenix, Glastonbury et al. Lately it has come to my attention that we have a lot of great music & arts festivals in...
Posted by Alnoor on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:07:00 PST