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Trevor Alixopulos

I am here for Friends

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

All the gumflapping pieholes of gullible America. I'd like to teach them all to sing, in the key of Trevor.......aging hipsters who'll let me rummage through their stuff while they mix themselves flaming sambuca shots ... pious ladies in gingham .... Spanish Civil War Veterans ... the pimp and gimp and that guy with the limp.
VIEW ALL BURZILLION-JILLION OF TREVOR 'S FRIENDS
Trevor has SO MANY GODDAMN friends you won't even believe it!!

Music:

Avengers, Leadbelly, Carter Family, MIA, Technotronic, Kaleidoscope, Ray Price, Ted Leo, Nu Shooz, Minor Threat, Ladytron, NoMeansNo, Hot Hot Heat, Edith Piaf, Dead Kennedys, Roky Erikson, Johnny Cash, Wildhearts, Ramones, Andrew WK, New Order, Futureheads, Mission of Burma, Goldfrapp, Chromeo, Give Up the Ghost, JJ Fad, I've a Big Fat Shillelagh, Ed Emberley and his Avenging Ape Squad, the Pityfuckers, Top 10 Reasons To Drive Underwater, Take My Jacket I'm Hitting the Yogurt Machine, The Urinary Tractors

what i listened to this week:

Books:

Homage to Catalonia, Madame Bovary, Desert Solitaire, Eightball, Epileptic, RAW, Love and Rockets, WEIRDO, Red Bird, Hi Horse, Lo Horse

Heroes:

People who get outraged because the daily paper doesn't regurgitate their own fringe ideology. Forget Ghandi, YOU PEOPLE ARE THE REAL HEROES!! Give yourself a pat on the back, if you weren't already doing so!

My Blog

Pretentious Breakfast

When I'm not dealing crack or tattooing hoboes for pulls of Nighttrain, you will find me working at the periodicals department of a minor metropolitan college library. There is a magazine in order cal...
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:44:00 PST

Hot Moonless Nights

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On night...
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:01:00 PST

Post 9/11 Memo to the Afterlife

Dear victim of the terrorist attacks of Sept.11, 2001- I was thinking, perhaps your shade cannot find rest, even four years on. Maybe you had a lot of things going on that day, maybe you were in the m...
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:30:00 PST

drawings to pass the time away

So, I have a lot of these sketchbook pages sitting around not doing anything. I'm sorry if this takes awhile to load, but maybe you should have thought of that before you clicked on the link? I d...
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:44:00 PST

sketch sneak II

"On a ferris wheel, looking out on Coney Island," and it's not California enough outside right now to make me not miss New York. Took a lot of cabs but I'm still amazingly not broke. So don't fix it. ...
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

sketchbook sneak

 
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I was walking along some downtown avenue...

...I just remembered the dojo creed that I must have repeated out loud hundreds of times during the ten years that I tried and failed at Karate. It all came to me in a flash, I think I was using ...
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Far Gone and Out

Walking the last few miles home from a trip seems to take forever. The Airporter Shuttle drops you off at the Days Inn on Santa Rosa Ave, wayyy down past the Adult Book Store. The only reason I could ...
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sandy Eggo, Brojobs and Brotards

Wow, I'll actually post a real blog here, instead of pop music ramblings. God I hate the central valley of California. I forgot how bad it sucks, especially in the summer. I spent something like 10 ho...
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

misinterpretation reinterpretation

There is a scene in Randy Shilts' AIDS history novel AND THE BAND PLAYED ON at a disco in New York City, an early AIDS activist is there trying to raise money. It's before the name AIDS was even coine...
Posted by Trevor Alixopulos on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST