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A. Lotto Fun

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About Me

I hate iTunes and AOL/AIM equally. Also, the way the All Music Guide website is laid out.

My Interests

Protecting my car from nightly predators. Fixed locks, working garages and a new car already.

I'd like to meet:

The fucker who keeps trying to break into my car...but not when I'm alone.

Music:

BET After Dark...but only when I have writing to do...There are two really bad songs that have become favorites lately: the Rihanna murderer song and that Hate me today Switchfoot-sounding one. I can't get enough of either of them. I like how I just add on to this section instead of updating it...10 O'clock Tupac is bittersweet, cuz I love catching it, but it also means I'm really late for work. I was so sick of the So Sick of Love Songs song and then they made the remix and I'm into it again. What's awesome is that KDay and 92.3 are so close to each other, now I can just go between them in heaven all day all. I love the Mack 10 song about praying and that song where the guy says "she got me doin' dishes." That's all for now and of course all Mariah. Mariah Carey is reading my mind/saving my life. Just like the Calgon commercial - she is amazing. This entire list is bullshit since I've been listening exclusively to 92 Jams for the last 6mos. So really, this section should read: R&B circa 1988 - present. But I'll keep the list for posterity's sake: 764-hero,bob dylan, leonard cohen, (look I was almost going to try alphabetical order) tom waits, van morrison, neil young, cat power, be good tanyas, freakwater, velvet underground, red house painters, promise ring, bruce springsteen, mobb deep, dead prez, nas, billie holiday, songs: ohia, silver jews and all the variants of them like, karate, silkworm, pavement, cash, willie nelson, ani (old), joni mitchell, jawbreaker, lifetime, songs that talk about trains, streets and cities, chieftans, rolling stones, pogues, random old folk irish songs, regular old folk songs, smog, keith sweat, whiskeytown (but not ryan adams), jeremy enigk (but not SDRE), kelly price, smiths, damien jurado, derrick carter, joan baez, jim croce, modest mouse, nick cave, hole, dirty three, jeff buckley, slim whitman, leadbelly, muddy waters, chris smithers, fred eaglesmith, john prine, lucinda williams, dixie chicks a little, cheryl crow sometimes, nanci griffith, kate & anna McGarrigle, tragically hip (one song but i like it a lot), led zeppelin, otis redding, ella fitzgerald, the rachels, ramblin jack elliot, nina simone, etta james, prince, taj mahal, rod stewart, elton john, will oldham, bright eyes, king kong, steve earle, mark knopfler, townes van zandt, songs with Dublin in the title, guy clark, woodie guthrie, nana mouskouri, tom rush, linda rondstat, dolly parton, clancy brothers, waylan jennings, uncle tupelo (but not Wilco), billy bragg, gram parsons, REM, gillian welch, hem, aretha franklin, interpol, neutral milk hotel, libertines, decemberists, i finally listened to the whole pedro the lion album (i know i'm late to that one but wasn't interested) and i really like it

Movies:

SUMMERHOOD. I have a new favorite movie - The Odd Couple. I feel like I should have watched it 15 years ago and it's like I'm saying "I really identify with Holden Caulfield." But anyway, it's a great movie and I'm sure play...I loved TransAmerica, which reminded me that I also love Y Tu Mama and Thelma and Louise. Annie Hall. Withnail and I, Performance, The Hustler, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridgit Jones, Trainspotting, Dazed and Confused, American Splendor, Iron Giant, Daytrippers, Almost Famous, Me Without You, Walking and Talking, Running on Empty, A Beautiful Mind, You Can Count on Me, Adaptation, Norma Rae. Talk to Her, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Television:

The writing in between the shows on the cartoon network.

Books:

Damn Hannah for this historical/fantasy/sci-fi/porn novel about a woman who goes back to Scotland in 1743 and falls in love with an outlaw Highlander. It's stealing my life and there's more when this one is done...I am so in love with the book I'm reading right now and Leigh's mom is reading the same one, further elevating the book's cosmic relevance. It's called Kafka on the Shore and the title is gay but the book is awesome...."I was totally in love with him. Which is to say - he was good with his hands and his mouth." - that's from the book I'm borrowing from Travis. I've been reading mostly "don't kill yourself books" lately. Cold Mountain, other long books where nothing happens but they talk about the weather alot and it's nice to think about such as Hemingway, Thomas Hardy, All the Pretty Horses, Faulkneranything where people are really poor like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Grapes of Wrath, Angela's Ashes,some British twats like Jane Austen, Bronte, Rachel Papers by Martin Amis, BJ's Diary, ADRIAN MOLE, TrainspottingUnbearable Lightness of Being, Cavalier and Klay, Catcher in the Rye, Great Gastby, 1984, Narnia, - Ok, clearly I'm reaching back to books from 3rd grade. I don't read as much as I should anymore.

Heroes:

Stephon Marbury, Joss Whedon, my mom, my sisters, Mrs. Avalle

My Blog

R.I.P Brown Hoodie

Last seen in vicinity of 2nd and Hill, late Thrs. night. I like to think some small homeless person is wearing it.
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:10:00 PST

Reservoir Blogs

I've started running around the Silverlake Reservoir (who knew that's how you spell it?) again and I thought I would write about the different kinds of people I see there. a) Super In Shape Old Men: T...
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:02:00 PST

Attention West Side class of 87: Joe, Courtney, Tomeka, Nikki,

Do any of you guys have your CLASS PICTURES - as in the one with the whole class that we took in that weird round thing in the library - from any year at West side? I thought I had 4th and 5th grade ...
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:20:00 PST

Birthdays 10 yrs. Gone Journal Style

Here's a journal entry from when I turned 20, on this day in 1996: "Maybe there's a god above but all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you..." Now I'm on the bus. Too...
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:53:00 PST

Attention Pittsfield Residents

I'm coming home to on Aug 26th. Travis wouldn't stop bugging me to take him to Dylan and show him Pittsfield!! They are like apparently, his two favorite things! So I finally gave in. Please think of...
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:29:00 PST

This is the pilot STRAYDOGS - come see

STRAYDOGS - Pilot "Backyard Heroes" Network: The N (Noggin, Nickelodeon) Executive Producers:  Albie Hecht, Jim Hecht, Dave Stration Writer:  Anna Lotto A group of teenage skaters live in a ...
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:28:00 PST

Attention San Diego Skaters...

It looks like Nickelodeon is going to actually make the pilot for the Straydogs!  And we're doing it in San Diego...I think we're going to need a lot of skaters and if anyone knows a cool ho...
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Thu, 25 May 2006 04:00:00 PST

"so this is the yourspace site?" - my dad, watching me type this blog.

NORTHAMPTON, 1996-2006 So the main goal of this trip, besides celebrating Jessica's 21st birthday, is for me to visit my college bar again.  I've pretty much exhausted my highschool nostalgia, so...
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Mon, 22 May 2006 09:05:00 PST

Peyton Podcast with Sylvie's Poem

Here's Hilarie Burton reading the podcast I wrote for her  for my episode - she reads part of Sylvie's poem "St. John the Divine" and she quotes Thurston Moore.  She even cries a little.&nbs...
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:26:00 PST

When you log on to myspace...

There is a One Tree Hill ad for my episode right under where you sign in - that's right, my episode is sponsored by Secret Sparkle - because when you're strong you sparkle. Skills uses Bevin's Vanilla...
Posted by A. Lotto Fun on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:59:00 PST