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About Me

hi. i'm alex. i live in portland oregon. i like music a lot. i like the outdoors too. i like people who are honest and don't take life for granted. i love living somewhere with more mountains and forests and less urban sprawl. i got out of houston and now i intend to become a homebody and garden and cook and stuff. i have two cats.


Good. You know your music. You should be able to
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Barry

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My Interests

geologist by day - musician by night. recently moved from houston texas to portland oregon. need topography to keep my mind from thinking too much of itself. zen buddhist. don't usually eat land roving animals. love my mustang but can't wait to trade it in for a hybrid. not much into tv or movies. listen to lots of music. love motorcycle. queer.

I'd like to meet:

pretty much anybody. i tend to get on well with artsy liberal types.

Music:

In no particular order and by no means complete. the orb, tragically hip, death cab for cutie, gordon downie, harkonen, the roots, stereolab, karsh kale, bjork, ani difranco, cabaret voltaire, lyle lovett, peter tosh, coil, medeski martin and wood, patty griffin, iron maiden, skinny puppy, can, beck, rocky votolato, throbbing gristle, built to spill, aphex twin, radiohead, paul simon, tortoise, thievery corp., bad plus, miles davis, the doves, mahavishnu orchestra, psychic tv, front 242, phish, robert earl keen, gustav mahler, the cure, john denver, massive attack, modest mouse, trick daddy, cafe tacuba, velvet underground, bauhaus, belle and sebastian, photek, indigo girls, einsturzende neubauten, fleetwood mack, system of a down, r strauss, amon tobin, pigface, cibo matto, pixies, tricky, mouse on mars, pizzicato five, sonic youth, pet shop boys, spring heel jack, rufus wainright, erasure, ludacris, goldie, meat beat manifesto, basement jaxx, old metallica, bob marley, kmfdm, keller williams, orbital, underworld, tv on the radio. currently listening to: new doves, old stereo total, belle and sebastian, string cheese incident.

Movies:

i watch very few movies. i don't know why, it's just not what i do. some of the movies i have really liked in the past are: 2001, close encounters, american beauty, ferris bueller's day off, altered states, anything from greg araki, clueless, amelie...

Television:

i watched every episode of melrose place while it was on. now i just watch the weather channel.

Books:

imajica, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, 100 years of solitude...

Heroes:

gord downie. lou reed. alex paterson. patty griffin. maya angelou. my grandpa.

My Blog

Texas, epilogue

So we made it back from Texas alive.  We had a great time, but both Pete and I are completely exhausted and at least I am totally excited to get back to my routine.  Hmmm.  That makes m...
Posted by alex on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:28:00 PST

TEXAS Part I

So Pete and I just got to Texas a couple of days ago.  It was Pete's first plane flight (that he can remember) and it was mostly uneventful.  Our flight left at 6 in the am so we ended up ha...
Posted by alex on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:56:00 PST

almost everyone i know is asleep right now

i guess it's time to write one of these things again.  i've got too much going on inside my head to keep it all in.  feeling like i might explode.  i knew it was going to be hard to mov...
Posted by alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

holy shit

... i'm moving to portland in less than two weeks!!!
Posted by alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

somehow i don't think this is all that good...

Your Brain is 33.33% Female, 66.67% Male You have a total boy brain Logical and detailed, you tend to look at the facts And while your emotions do sway you sometimes... You never...
Posted by alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

never feel alone - you're really not alone

i'm pretty discouraged. i've got that caged animal feeling again. i need a vacation. i really want to get out of houston but every time i see a possible opportunity it seems to vaporize in fron...
Posted by alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the new beck album...

rocks! not that i've heard it yet or anything...
Posted by alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i bit into the baby jesus!

...do you think that means that i will get the job in portland? or that i have heavy metal poisoning? or that the remake of war of the worlds is going to suck? or that my dog's spaying did...
Posted by alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

and now folks for an old familiar favorite...

another weekend my mind is in the mountains will you go with me?
Posted by alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i rearrange the furniture as you sleep

so i'm at work in the elevator and i see this woman who works on my floor i know who she is, but i don't *know* her and i work in a very corporate environment so i try to be cordial it's good to ...
Posted by alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST