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Our protagonist Alys

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About Me

I like to eat avocados and play silly word games. Clear continuity is not my forte, and I also like reckless gymnastics. My best friends know how to trick me effortlessly into doing the best thing. I appreciate the finer things in life, like drinking Scotch on a pier at dawn and crashing strangers' high school reunions. I am not a sucker for romance despite the fact that I'm frequently caught laughing or singing to myself in public. working on getting a handle on this.

My Interests

anatomy, arithmetic, awkwardness, beauty, becherovka, being irresponsible, bones, borat, cajones, canoeing, capoeira, chad and trixie, coffee, confusion, cribbage, crochet, dancing, desert, dia de los muertos, discipline, dorothy parker, drawing, dreams, emma goldman, fashion, feminist theory, finding a home, fire, folk arts, frantisek kupka, garlic, gender studies, good deals, good food, good influences, good posture, harrison ford, having a good time, infatuation, installation art, jim campbell, kara walker, katharine hepburn, kissing, knitting, las vegas, libraries, love, making fun of boulder, meaningful work, microeconomics, museums, nerds, nachoes, not being broke, online quizzes, parmasen cheese, pasta, poland, postcolonial theory, pretty little things, quilting, revolutionary art movements, rocking out, saunas, science stuff, second-hand clothes, semicolons, semiotics, sewing, sex politics, shakespeare, social anarchy, spinach, storytelling, stupid grins, sun, surrealist games, sushi, taking care of business, taking things out of context because it's funny, taquerias, textures, things that smell good, various crafts, warm weather, waves, wine, women's studies, yerba mate, yoga.

I'd like to meet:

Leningrad cowboys.

Music:

the beatles, talking heads, michael jackson, frances gall, the sonics, bjork, the white stripes, fela kuti, the coup, ella, nina, the cramps, atmosphere, the shins, frank sinatra, tom waits, ray charles, prince, the arcade fire, cibo matto, outkast, beck, blondie, django, sex pistols, michael jackson, sleater-kinney, tigre and bunny, pink martini, cornershop, dracula, a band of bees, mice parade, clap your hands say yeah!, animal collective, nouvelle vague, the isley brothers, patsy cline, wanda jackson, bikini kill, the doors, michael jackson, lady sovereign, the avalanches, the clash, bis, wu-tang, towa tei, the femmes, dead milkmen, the books, the rapture, michael jackson, aesop rock, the supremes, buddy holly, sonic youth, johnny cash, the shins, dolly parton, hank williams, the jackson 5, typical cats, devo, andrew bird, calexico, nikko case, britney spears, girl talk, mos def, the jesus and mary chain, michael jackson, nancy sinatra, erykah badu, motown, stax-volt, cock rock, samba, hiphop, jazz, hank williams, the yeah yeah yeahs, architecture in helsinki, the velvet underground, beribau, zap mama, justin timberlake, dosh, ratatat, akron/family, the steve miller band, os mutantes, michael jackson, of montreal, parliament, booty-shakin music, whatever's going on around me, mixtapes from anyone, all kinds of random stuff.

Movies:

bringing up baby, the royal tennenbaums, rosemary's baby, little shop of horrors (both), casablanca, fight club, indiana jones, adam's rib, trainspotting, roger corman stuff, woody allen stuff, six-string samari, borat, the princess bride, i heart huckabee's, the kill bills, planet terror/death proof, romy and michelle's high school reunion, the secret lives of dentists, sleeping beauty, cabaret, brick, monster, rabbit-proof fence, eternal sunshine, stuff by bruce conner, michel gondry stuff, starsky and hutch, zoolander, heathers, pulp fiction, the beaver trilogy, the cremaster cycle, bed and board, 40-year-old virgin, me and you and everyone we know, any midnight movie or drive-in screening, other stuff i'm forgetting.

Television:

BIG LOVE, wondershow zen, the golden girls, three non-blondes. the young ones, freaks and geeks, strangers with candy. aqua-teen hunger force, the kids in the hall. star trek, and, logically, mst3k.
who'm I kidding: anything on a dvd or on the internet, especially shows that are easy to make drinking games for.
and who'm I kidding: all that HBO crap.

Books:

inferno, the last samari, yvonne vera, dorothy parker, i'm kind of a shakespeare dork, zadie smith, neil gaiman, virginia wolfe, roald dahl, unberto eco, haruki murakami, david sedaris, william gibson, margaret atwood. anything with pictures (but mostly neil gaiman).
any literature involving stitches and patterns.

Heroes:

Amy Sedaris. Dolly Parton. William Shatner. My friends and co-workers.

My Blog

Buddy Comedies About Chicks

Watching Flight of the Conchords and The Young Ones lately has kind of got me thinking about this.  There really aren't many of these (at least not GOOD ones), which makes me kinda sad.  It'...
Posted by Our protagonist Alys on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:53:00 PST

open letter

Dear NPR,Thank you for making me a little whiter every time I tune in.  Really.  Little did I know how much I was starved for a regular aural dose of the thirtysomething bourgoise.  I h...
Posted by Our protagonist Alys on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:32:00 PST

One hell of a pitch

So there's this show called The Mysterious Cities of Gold I watched a ton of in the mid to late 80s.  I youtubed it recently and was pleased to find the entire series available online.  Here...
Posted by Our protagonist Alys on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:39:00 PST

Priorities

All the sudden, when I'm about dead-on-my-ass (not even my feet) and a few glasses of wine in: I have to change my myspace song.  It was a good one, but even that's getting stale.  I cannot ...
Posted by Our protagonist Alys on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:25:00 PST

Heads & Tails

Hey guys, I could use some assistance with this project I'm tinkering with (if for some reason you want details, shoot me an email and I'll shoot you some pics). It'd be awesome if you thought about ...
Posted by Our protagonist Alys on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:55:00 PST

Liberal Arts Degrees (a.k.a., y'all are clever mofos)

Here are some selected "occupations" cited on some of my myspace friends' profiles:rock/tablespresidentbee keepernefarious ne'er-do-welldevising diabolical planspretty boyfreelance revolutionaries (ok...
Posted by Our protagonist Alys on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:02:00 PST

TAG

The always-lovely and forever-beautiful Miss Katherine Morgan tagged me, so here we go: 6 things most people don't know about me 1. I just bought a whole bunch of underwear a few weeks ago. 2. Vivald...
Posted by Our protagonist Alys on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:37:00 PST

mostly rambling, but a couple public queries:

Andrew Bird was sexy when I was 17, and he's sexy again now that I'm 24. How refreshing is that? His new album (burned for me by some super-friendly co-worker whose name I can't remember for the life ...
Posted by Our protagonist Alys on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:40:00 PST