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About Me

http://www.myspace.com/letterstoapollo

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

John K. Samson, Ben Gibbard.

Music:

Letters to Apollo. R.I.P.
Stephen Covell.
Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Death Cab for Cutie.
The Decemberists.
The Doors.
Muse.
Guster.
Dispatch.
Jack Johnson.
Sublime.
Matt Costa.
Matt Pond PA.
Cursive.
Ok Go.
The Weakerthans.
Jets to Brazil.
Ben Kweller.
Pepper.
Mindless Self Indulgence.
Q and not U.
Pretty Girls Make Graves.
Billy Talent.
Say Anything.
Atmosphere.
Built to Spill.
Weezer.
Ben Folds.
Jack Johnson.
Kristin Wardwell.
Damien Rice.
The theme song from Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.
Atom and His Package.
The Aquabats.
Minus the Bear.
The Hush Sound.
Dropping Daylight.
ZOX.
The Fray.
Nada Surf.
Rilo Kiley.
Phoenix.
O.A.R.
Gratitude.
Cake.
Pinback.
Better than Ezra.
Radiohead.
The Arcade Fire.
Calexico.
Postal Service.
The Format.
Queen.
Flogging Molly.
I am in love with local music. You need to check these bands out:
North
Days Unfold R.I.P.
Crossing Sarnoff
Mostly Bears
West
Saint Rorschach
The Swim
...Music Video?
The Year of Acceleration
The Holy Rolling Empire
Chango Malo

Movies:

Thank you to Stephen Covell for making this video, and Brant for filming it all:

Stephen Covell's "The View"

Television:

Scrubs. Flight of the Conchords. Whitest Kids U Know. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

My Blog

Who makes the music? And who makes the sound? (Update!)

I feel fantastic now that we're playing music with a (near) full band again. Even just jamming out feels fantastic cause we all click well musically. Just need someone to sing and be as much of a bada...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:07:00 PST

Idontswingthatway.

It's been a while since I've posted anything I've written, so here goes a short poem/song in the works. (I wrote this a while ago, but made some changes recently, so that's what made me think to post ...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:47:00 PST

The end of an era

Okay, so it may be a small era, but it saddens me to write that Letters to Apollo is disbanding and moving our separate ways. Unfortunately, We as a band, a house, a group of brothers, have had an ama...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:13:00 PST

Sounds Familiar

We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest. Shedding skin faster than skin can grow, and armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives: words, to meet and to define and to... but you must know the...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:39:00 PST

New York/Dispatch

My adventure to NYC started in January when I bought tickets to see Dispatch:Zimbabwe live at Madison Square Garden. I started thinking it wasn't going to be financially possible, but my mom had a tra...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:29:00 PST

Sicko

Not a fan of Michael Moore, but it was good anyway.http://www.tucsonscene.com/?q=node/560Makes me want to live elsewhere a bit. What do you think about it?
Posted by Alex on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:11:00 PST

Dear Bike Nazi,

This is for you: http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/To anyone who goes to the U of A, frequents campus, or rides a bike on campus, you may know who I'm talking about. This man, the "bike enforcement ...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:35:00 PST

Writing at 3 AM.

The small Tv in the corner is sendingsecret messages in static snow.I ignore the world outside,my skin absorbs the screen's glow.A flickering incandescenceproduces an image.I watch people's 15 minutes...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:09:00 PST

Let's get together and talk about the modern age.

Not sure if I believe all of it, but definitely some interesting facts.What do you think?...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:17:00 PST

Dear Energizer Bunny,

You are my hero. You just keep going and going, no matter what life throws at you.
Posted by Alex on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:46:00 PST