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Ali

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About Me

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier.

My Interests

Daydreaming, Reading, Planetariums, Sing-a-longs, Sea Horses, Painting, Carefully designing intricate cage tunnel tracks for my hamsters...

Music:

Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Sufjan Stevens, The Who, Radiohead, Queen, Philip Glass, The Kinks, Kate Nash, Flaming Lips, Regina Spektor, most 19th century Italian opera composers, anything in the genre of Wizard Rock, and so much more...

Movies:

Harold and Maude, The Warriors, Wit, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Life is Beautiful, Titus, The Hours, Clue, Once Upon A Time In The West

Television:

The Office, BSG, Best Week Ever, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Flight of the Conchords, Rome...

Books:

The Harry Potters, Peter Pan, Farneheit 451, Song of the Seals, East of Eden, A Clockwork Orange, The Book of Lists, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggaring Genius

Heroes:

Andy Warhol, Jonny Greenwood, Jacques Derrida, Nico...my cat is pretty cool too.

My Blog

epistemology

So I got into grad school. I've decided to go to Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. It was ranked 6th in a list of the nations most counter-culture colleges and is one of the best master...
Posted by Ali on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:08:00 PST

materialization

Ok, so I apologize for my lack of blogging. I know that this is how we keep up with each other and I'm glad that you all have kept it up. I have been ridiculously busy doing my thing. I had surgery (w...
Posted by Ali on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:14:00 PST

Phantasmagoria

So my cousins and I went to the coolest concert on Sunday in Boise. We saw Harry and the Potters with Draco and the Malfoys. It was seriously the best show I've ever been to. They came out into the au...
Posted by Ali on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:41:00 PST

Matrimony

So my best friend Jessica (who I grew up with) is getting married and guess who she asked to be the Maid of Honor?  Me. Not only do I get to help pick out the bridemaid dresses, bu...
Posted by Ali on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:19:00 PST

diiirty

So over Fourth of July I went on the annual Beltramo camping trip. It was pretty sweet. How does this sound: Kayaking down a semi-raging river, ultimate badminten, dart throwing competitions, croquet ...
Posted by Ali on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:58:00 PST

alp

So I climbed a mountain yesterday. Seriously, it's called Monument Peak. It's in the Sierras. Ali 1 - World 657 At least I'm catching up...
Posted by Ali on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:08:00 PST

Scil-ed

So if you haven't heard, I'm graduated and I moved to beautiful South Lake Tahoe. And just in time, too. The Sierra's are starting to get run off and most of the hiking trails have become a bit boggy....
Posted by Ali on Sun, 20 May 2007 01:05:00 PST

EXODUS

So graduation is steadily approaching and I am so freaking excited. I want out, but I have all this school work to do before I'm done and quite frankly there is nothing in the world I want to do less ...
Posted by Ali on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:01:00 PST

boonies

So I'm on Spring Break this week and it started out very badly, so I grabbed my cat, got in my car and drove home to Tahoe. This was probably the best thing I could have done for myself. I got to talk...
Posted by Ali on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:59:00 PST

Diversions

So today I had a couple of hours to just chill on campus and think. I really liked it. It reminded me of the summer I spent all of my free time reading Derrida. I realized that I miss doing a lot of t...
Posted by Ali on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:38:00 PST