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Alex

My Interests

Music:

Jon Brion, Guster, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Dispatch, Dave Matthews, Coldplay, Blues Traveler, Jamie Cullum, Damien Rice, Elliot Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morriset, Aimee Mann, The Beatles, Joni Mitchel, Cat Stevens, Michael Penn, Howie Day, Counting Crows, Barenaked Ladies, Elton John, Billy Joel, The Who, Journey, ELO, The Polyphonic Spree, Tom Waits, Badly Drawn Boy, The Mars Volta, The Decemberists, Sahara Hotnights, The Postal Service, The Shins, Modest Mouse, Beck, Beethoven, Faure, Gershwin, Ravel, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, The Bens, Ben Kweller, Ben Lee, Adam Green, Tori Amos, Harry Nillson, Three Dog Night, The Ben Taylor Band, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Paul Simon, Supertramp, Tears for Fears, Jon Pizzerelli, Jason Robert Brown

Movies:

Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Kill Bill, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, Angels in America, Love Liza, Moulin Rouge, Lost in Translation, Garden State, The Three Amigos, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Amelie, Manhattan, Annie Hall, The Breakfast Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, About a Boy, High Fidelity, Wonder Boys, The Lord of the Rings, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, The Matrix, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Hamlet, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show, This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Wet Hot American Summer, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, What Dreams May Come, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Closer, Life as a House, Pi, Memento, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsuckor Proxy, Fargo, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, The Last Temptation of Christ, and more...

Television:

Sportsnight, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Reno 911, Strangers with Candy, Drawn Together, Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, STELLA, 24, Oz

Books:

Lullabye, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Diary, The Fuck Up, Dogrun, Suicide Cassanova, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary, The Last Temptation of Christ, Marriette in Ecstacy, Atticus, The Rachel Papers, The Catcher in the Rye, High Fidelity, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Cat's Cradle, and more...

Heroes:

Paul Thomas Anderson, Jon Brion, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Sondheim, Christopher Walken

My Blog

Far to Go

I wrote this song about my friends and I in High School, or really just the kids in high school.  Far To Go we grew old before our moms and our dads, we never stopped to look around at what we h...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hmm....

Back in the city and bored as hell, interestingly enough. Why am I the kind of person who will only call the people that he knows would call him if they were bored? Why am I not socially ambitio...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Anyone wanna help me out...

Tell me a story about a frustrating relationship you were in? Details help, but they're not absolutely necessary. I wrote a chorus about a frustrating relationship, and i like it, so i wanna fill it...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Punch-Drunk Love

So Jamie and I were watching this movie last night after having a long talk about holding out, looking for meaningful relationships and feeling like you're never going to find someone. And then this m...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

So...

First little entry in this thing. Feeling weird tonight, it's like my second night back at UArts, and am Feeling very...I don't know. Lonely/relective. So here's a song I wrote before I left to com...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST