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Alex P

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

is here

Music:

Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Sufjan Stevens, David Bowie, Jay-Z, falsetto, crescendos, Dan Bejar/Spencer Krug projects and side projects (Destroyer, Swan Lake, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, New Pornographers), Flaming Lips, Animal Collective, TV on the Radio, Magnetic Fields, Damon Albarn, Yo La Tengo, gypsy music (Beirut, Gogol Bordello, Fishtank Ensemble), Decemberists, Bright Eyes, M. Ward,

Movies:

Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, Stephen Soderbergh, Nick 'wrecking ball' Palmer

Books:

Soren Kierkegaard, Samuel Beckett, Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Foster Wallace, Ian McKewan, McSweeney's, Strunk and White.

Heroes:

Strunk

My Blog

Friend Rock

Just came across this and thought it was funny...and thought-provoking. Sufjan is here to warn us not to spend too many nights going to friends' shows just because they're our friends--the m...
Posted by Alex P on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:49:00 PST

Cuddle Party pt. 2

A while ago I went to a Cuddle Party and wrote about it here. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, but I won't ever go to another one. But now it looks like I just got upgraded to LA Cuddle Pa...
Posted by Alex P on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 07:14:00 PST

Washington DC: America's Birthplace

"It was like when I'd taken a trip to some foreign land and everyone asked me about it when I got back: my accounts would grow similar, focusing on this impression, that cool place, a certain funny an...
Posted by Alex P on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:41:00 PST

Whole Foods

Hey! Here's something to think about next time you reach for that organic zucchini:Is Whole Foods Wholesome?The dark secrets of the organic-food movement.By Field MaloneyPosted Friday, March 17, 2006,...
Posted by Alex P on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:06:00 PST

Good deed for Gramma

I just got a new boxspring for my bed, so I could afford to give away the ten milkcrates on which I HAD been resting my mattress, so I put them on Craigslist!---here is (seriously) the email I got: ...
Posted by Alex P on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:49:00 PST

How Bizarre

I met OMC! But it was scary :( You want to know the rest? Hey, buy the rights....
Posted by Alex P on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:08:00 PST