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Alison

...better hang on to yourself...

About Me

My name is Alison. I am (sadly) not named after the Elvis Costello song. I go to Pitt, where I study Psychology, Spanish, and Portuguese. Someday I'd like to do research on how people learn languages. (Actually, I do that now. I'd like to get paid for it...) I speak Spanish and am learning Portuguese. In regular conversation, I am pretty vulgar. I am currently enduring a period of unhealthy obsession with David Bowie. I not-so-secretly aspire to be a stand up comedian. I love to travel.

My Interests

Spanish, Portuguese, fruit salad, cognitive psychology, stand up comedy, spending money I don't have

I'd like to meet:

The fabulous James St. James, David Bowie, a good shopping buddy (my poor boyfriend needs a reprieve)

Music:

aberfeldy, adam green, apples in stereo, architecture in helsinki, atom and his package, beck, beep beep, belle and sebastian, ben folds, ben folds five, ben kweller, ben lee, billy bragg, bob dylan, bouncing souls, brand new, bright eyes, caetano veloso, , catch 22, cat power, cursive, dane adelman, david bowie, dead milkmen, desaparecidos, duran duran, elementary thought process, elliott smith, elvis costello, endless mike and the beagle club, flogging molly, herman's hermits, hot hot heat, interpol, jawbreaker, jenny lewis, jens lekman, jets to brazil, johnny cash, kanye west, kimya dawson, les sans culottes, les savy fav, link 80, madness, matt costa, mean streak, modest mouse, morrissey, murder by death, nancy boy, nat baldwin, neutral milk hotel, nick drake, OF MONTREAL, operation ivy, os mutantes, pain, park ave, prince, queen, ramones, rem, richard swift, rilo kiley, rival schools, rufus wainwright, rx bandits, saves the day, sean lennon, shout out louds, slowreader, son ambulance, spacehog, spoon, steve miller band, streetlight manifesto, sufjan stevens, the beach boys, the beatles, the clash, the elected, thee michelle gun elephant, the faint, the good life, the impossibles, the magnetic fields, the moldy peaches, the raveonettes, the robot ate me, the shins, the sounds, the specials, the stereo, the streets, the strokes, the velvet underground, the weakerthans, the white stripes, the who, weezer

Movies:

the royal tenenbaums, rushmore, bottle rocket, the life aquatic with steve zissou, fight club, ghost world, donnie darko, death to smoochy, waiting for guffman, best in show, a mighty wind, this is spinal tap, orange county, man on the moon, moulin rouge, say anything, backbeat, hedwig and the angry inch, pi, better luck tomorrow, bowling for columbine, fahrenheit 9/11, stand by me, a clockwork orange, annie hall, battle royale, the graduate, amelie, talk to her, bad education, l'auberge espagnole, party monster, thank you for smoking, city of god, life is beautiful, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, office space, hairspray, punch-drunk love, all about my mother

Television:

SEINFELD, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Iron Chef, Project Runway, Top Chef, America's Next Top Model (I know, I know...), stand up comedy, Da Ali G Show, The Young Ones

Books:

1984, A Tale of Two Cities, Dude Where's My Country, Catcher in the Rye, Invisible Monsters, Death of a Salesman, Choke, Nothing Feels Good

Heroes:

John Lennon, Wes Anderson, Kevin Barnes

My Blog

blog purge

So I got rid of my old blogs.  They were all at least a year and a half old, and they were making me feel pretty ancient. If any of you guys ever read them, I'm deeply sorry. Sometimes I think I ...
Posted by Alison on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:05:00 PST