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Alison

here I am!

About Me

I was probably asleep when you called.

My Interests

waking up, phonetics, road trips, tweaking, anthropology, music, writing, crossword puzzles, film, irish writers, banjo hero, gender theory, geography, cooking, geosense.net I think I would like carpentry and rock climbing. I'm trying to teach myself Russian.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet more introverts, but I don't know how to go about it.

Music:

I mostly end up listening to momus, (nick currie), the divine comedy, the pogues, the smiths, the kinks, the magnetic fields, jacques brel, scott walker, kurt weill, caetano veloso, hank williams, jimmie rodgers, nick cave, kraftwerk, wire, gorillaz, the sex pistols, the dead kennedys, the cramps, beirut, the dandy warhols, elliott smith, marko haavisto and poutahaukat, franz ferdinand, pink noise, air conditionings, car alarms, bus wheels, room tone, XM radio: XM pops, Fred, XMU. Sometimes I get stuck on classical, like right now it's Dvoark string quartets nos. 12 and 13.

Movies:

My Fair Lady, Amelie, Waiting for Guffman, Breathless, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amadeus, Paris Texas, Back To The Futures, Thelma and Louise, The Apartment, Brazil, Harold and Maude, Before Sunset, musicals, billy wilder, jack lemmon, woody allen, charlie kaufman, audrey hepburn, michael caine. Be my netflix friend!

Television:

Ice Road Truckers, Trick my Truck, Trick my Trucker, 24 and house, I love lucy, blackadder, father ted, arrested development, deadwood, curb your enthusiasm, alton brown, what not to wear, the simpsons, jeopardy, QI

Books:

The Midnight Disease, On The Road, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Foe, The Places In Between, The Palmwine Drinkard, The Immoralist, The Bell Jar, Os Maias, The Ancestor's Tale, P.G. Woodhouse, David Sedaris, George Bernard Shaw, E.M. Forster, Nobakov, Pynchon

Heroes:

Whoever saves me!