Sean: Empire Alley - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i like sarcasm not meanness, unique not mainstream, driving not traffic, people not sheep, music not noise, flirting not games, love not confusion, vanilla not plain, contrast not stagnation, thinking not sitting, questions not answers, etc not unetc.

My Interests

Yay to: Challenges. Being analytical. Not thinking things to death. Honesty. People who don't play games. Instant connections. Cadenzas. Ascending chord sequences with lots of sevenths. Dissonance and resolve. Actually making money. Letting go. Mutual understanding. Hanging out with my sister because she's awesome. Smelling good. Having 30-second arguments. Elaborately designed low-budget music videos. Getting lost. My family. Writing and words and notes and songs and phrases and stanzas and verses and choruses and bridges. Love. Bridges. Tunnels. Anticipation. Resolve. Minimalism. Big huge explosions of everything. Possibilities. Hopelandish.

I'd like to meet:

you, if you're not a wanker and can hold a decent, interesting conversation. and if your idea of a decent, interesting conversation includes lots of talking about art and music and anything else creative, even better.

Music:

Aqualung. The Arcade Fire. Acrtic Monkeys. Art Brut. Beatles. Beethoven. Bell Orchestre. Belle & Sebastian. Bloc Party. Blonde Redhead. Bobby Birdman. Broken Social Scene. Cat Power. Chopin. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. The Clash. Coldplay before they thought they were the biggest band in the world. Controller.Controller. Damien Rice. Death Cab. Death From Above 1979. Debussy. Dirty on Purpose. Doves. Emily Haines. EMPIRE ALLEY. Explosions in the Sky. Fiery Furnaces. Franz Ferdinand. Go! Team. Interpol. Iron and Wine. Jeff Buckley. Kasabian. Killers. Libertines. Liszt. Maximo Park. Metric. Modest Mouse. Muse prior to the travesty of their last album. New Pornographers. NIN. Oasis. Of Montreal. OkGo. The Perfect Fifths. Postal Service. Pretty Girls Make Graves. Prokofiev. Rachmaninof. Radiohead. Robocop Kraus. Sonic Youth. Stars. The Stills. Strokes. Sufjan Stevens. Thom Yorke. White Stripes. Wolf Parade. Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Television:

scrubs, alias, arrested development, etc

Books:

all harry potter books, the lord of the rings, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, you shall know our velocity, nothing by dan brown, life of pi, youth in revolt, the great gatsby, cry! the beloved country, a scanner darkly, the zombie survival guide, my life in heavy metal, lolita.

My Blog

of symphonies and mountaintops

i need to listen to more classical music.i finished downloading the 7th symphony by sibelius and it's breathtaking. i listened to it, completely transfixed, not moving, for the 22 minutes it lasted. ...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:41:00 PST

pieces

take a piece of me whatever you want it's okay there's lots of to go around, take a chunk and use it how you want to as you see fit as is convenient for you, that's how things work give give give give...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:30:00 PST

0.25. huh. neat!

i don't know why i'm so surprised by the fact that the fraction 0.25, which is a quarter of something, equals my age, which is a quarter of a hundred, but right now it's trippin ma shit out.i swear i'...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:53:00 PST

mount the worn steps in tattered ermine.

i always wanted to be loved by the communist party and the mother church.i wanted to weep for the innocent people my bomb would have to maim.i wanted to wear my sleeve pinned in half, people smiling w...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:14:00 PST

rubber hands and silly friends

medical updates: my mom's okay. she was released from the hospital the day of the surgery, and went back in today because they were afraid she might have blood clots. she doesn't, according to the t...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:25:00 PST

squeaky strings

i haven't really written very much recently. in here, and also in general. october-november-into-december was fairly productive in terms of creativity; since then, i don't know. it's...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:09:00 PST

explosions

i've been listening to a lot of epic soundscape-type music over the past few days. i've been really stressed out/worried/feeling helpless with a couple different things lately, and while they're bett...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:26:00 PST

ocd

last night included: going to the club to realize that we weren't playing that night and weren't being awarded one of the prizes we won for the battle of the bands (nobody there had had the courtesy t...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:15:00 PST

the explorer

i went chasing rainbows todaythought i saw treasure at the end of the sky.no shoes no coat, was no time to delay asclouds swept across the cold shimmering haze.i called a friend who said go it alonetr...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:15:00 PST

home is where the heart is

i feel confined. restrained. claustrophobic. i want to jump out of this and run away, run somewhere. walk, even. i know where i want to go but how do you get there if your sense of direction is really...
Posted by Sean: Empire Alley on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:31:00 PST