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Alex

About Me

The Following Are Quotes From Some Of The Greatest Pieces Of Literature From The Modern Era: //A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be? //There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there. //I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip. //Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people. //We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas... //We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole multi colored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. //What was I doing here? What was the meaning of this trip? Was I just roaming around in a drug frenzy of some kind? Or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there were a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning, still humping the American dream, that vision of the big winner somehow emerging from the last minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino. //

My Interests

Music - Guitar, Bass, Electronic Production; Reading; Architecture; Design; Photography; Fencing; Mod Culture

I'd like to meet:

All My Heroes Are Coked Up Or Dead. As For Everyday People, Any Journalism Students, Journalists, Musicians, Producers, Photographers, Promoters, Actors and Mods. Also anyone else who is interesting, unusual or a little bit crazy.

Music:

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, The Who, Cream, Dire Straits, Aerosmith, Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, Squarepusher,Dandy Warhols, Infected Mushroom, INXS, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Police, Sting, Portishead, Massive Attack, Queen, Luke Viebert

Movies:

Almost Famous, American Psycho,Igby Goes Down, Spun, Se7en, 8mm, Fight Club, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Run Lola Run, Grosse Pointe Blank, Less Than Zero, Sin City

Books:

American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero, Glamorama, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Fight Club, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Ubik

Heroes:

Bret Easton Ellis, Hunter S. Thompson, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Slash, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen