Alex - ProfilesArchive

About Me

A tall redheaded drink of water with way too many life goals in the key of D.

Living the dream as an artist manager and placing music across the globe (the next best gig for a music nut other than superrockstardom). Next stop is traveling the four corners, though New York is my castle and not without its fun (day or night). Still attempting to hit all the museums, rock clubs, and low-key bars with friends and cohorts.

My Interests

Music, art, traveling (with or without moving), short form writing, quotable friends (who don't mind when i turn their phrases into songs), baseball, performing Baryshnikov acts in nightclubs and belting karaoke (sober or intoxicated).

I'd like to meet:

Looking to re-connect with old friends (they always win out) and folks with an equal lust for life (especially art/philosophy folks).

Fellow music nerds and mixtape sensationalists are also welcome.

Most celebrity encounters don't impress, but gathering Steve Martin, Neil Strauss, Matthew Good, and the Dalai Lama would at least make for one hell of a conversation.

Music:

Friends bands above all else - love the music made by those you love. Good music knows no genre.

Representing: The Shapes, Hello Eden, Bess Rogers

Now: The A-Sides, The Aeroplanes, E-Rock, Bobby Birdman, Jukebox the Ghost, North Street Records (Dirty on Purpose, Fighterpilot), The Sw!ms, The Lascivious Biddies, Smithsonian Folkways, Jenny Owen Youngs, The Teenagers, The Big Sleep, Wooden Dinosaur. Abram Wilson, Jack Penate.

All-time: Ash, Broken Social Scene, Brian Eno, Bright Eyes, Catherine Wheel, The Clash, Desaparecidos, Explosions in the Sky, Hey Mercedes, Idlewild, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Eat World, John Legend, Kristin Diable, the late 90s NJ Pop Punk scene, The Libertines, Matthew Good, My Bloody Valentine, New Radicals, Notorious BIG, Rainer Maria, The Replacements, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, The Streets, Trail of Dead, U2, The Verve, WLVR's Music Director Mike Moll's entire playlist.

And of course, the music coming from Bret's drums, Ryan's bass and my guitar/voice.

Movies:

Rendezvous, Zombie v. Shark, High Fidelity, 24 Hour Party People, No Country for Old Men

Television:

Curb, The Office (UK and US), Entourage, Frisky Dingo

Books:

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, 33 1/3 series, 24 Hour Party People, Basket Case, Friday Night Lights, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Tao Te-Ching, Ray (Barry Hannah), any Mark Leyner, Douglas Coupland, Edwin Morgan, Roald Dahl, Dalai Lama teachings

Heroes:

Kohesion, Tony Wilson, Lester Bangs, Gregg Alexander, Matthew Good, Peter Saville, Gustav Klimt, Beethoven, Steve Martin, Eddie Izzard