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Name: alexa
Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 3/3/1991
Gender: Female
Interests: dada, dinosaurs, declan macmanus. wackos, wanderlust, wes anderson. gumbo, grammar, gogol bordello. chuck berry, chuck klosterman. leonid brezhnev, lenny bruce and lester bangs, birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, BOOM!
Expertise: overreacting
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  crank up th bass
Member Since:
2/2/2005
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| WE'RE GONNA BUILD SOMETHING THIS SUMMERfaretheewells, june
1. radio - rancid
2. shout me out - tv on the radio
3. so far around the bend - the national
4. father to a sister of thought - pavement
5. memphis skyline - rufus wainwright
6. chelsea hotel #2 - leonard cohen
7. ballad of big nothing - elliott smith
8. scarlet begonias - sublime
9. dammit - blink 182
10. pagan baby - bratmobile
11. blank generation - richard hell & the voidoids
12. sweet jane - the velvet underground
13. no surrender - bruce springsteen
14. ancestors - throw me the statue
15. on the other side - the strokes
16. bled white - elliott smith
17. pot kettle black - wilco
18. looking at you - MC5
19. carey - joni mitchell
20. sea lion woman - feist
21. pink bullets - the shins
22. i'll be there - the jackson 5
lab pridefest
pre-prom, prom, post-prom sunrise on the brooklyn bridge.
dirty little whirlwind. this month was a blur - pride, tvotr, little joy at bowery ballroom with special surprise guest regina, graduation, prom, parties, crying, yearbooks, all that good cliche high school stuff. it's my second day as a counselor and it's been making me think a lot about the passage of time, and how the hell i got to the point where i wasn't the camper and was actually the adult figure pushing swings and yelling about dehydration.
let this be my annual reminder that we can all be something bigger - we're gonna build something this summer.
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| everybody is making love or else expecting rainBLAST OFF, BABY, may
1. may day! - elvis perkins in dearland
2. black tongue - yeah yeah yeahs
3. vincent o'brien - m. ward
4. i’m on fire – bruce springsteen
5. dink’s song – bob dylan
6. manana – desaparecidos
7. greater omaha – desaparecidos
8. prove my love – violent femmes
9. i will dare – the replacements
10. brand new start – little joy
11. new paint – loudon wainwright III
12. chelsea hotel #2 – lewis & clarke
13. middle cyclone – neko case
14. gigantic – pixies
15. most of the time – bob dylan
16. playing your song – hole
17. no dice – beirut
18. dig a pony – the beatles
19. surf wax america – weezer
20. rosalita (come out tonight) – bruce springsteen
i've been thinking a lot about legacy. graduation is in 23 days (hol-eeeee shit), pridefest is friday, the final liner notes just came out. i've been at lab for seven years, seven years in which i (mostly) stopped whining, made unbelievable friends, developed a consciousness of the world, learned to think critically, and essentially gained human form. my development over the course of my life at lab is my development as a person. so then to leave the nest, never to return in the same form (or to the same school, really, if we're being honest, which we are) requires thinking about what i will be leaving behind. i'm incredibly proud of the work that i've done, from liner notes to running the newspaper with an iron fist, to copy-editing the yearbook and filling it with love just like carla told me (hello, robbed), to starting AIDS action, to pridefest. and i'm selfishly wondering how much of it will be there in five years? and how much will still have my stamp on it? and does it really matter? well, yes. if the place has left such an indelible mark on me then why shouldn't i do it the same courtesy? i guess every senior class thinks they're the best that ever happened, but i think (and many agree) that ours is pretty special. i hope the senior letter in the yearbook says that explicitly enough, and i hope people don't know that i wrote it (although they probably will, on some level). in some ways, i want my words to speak for themselves, and hope that any ways that people feel about me don't influence the way they look back on the class. but i want to be there somewhere. i don't know. i'm thinking about my fifth grade yearbook quote and how i said i wanted to be remembered as someone who made a difference and i guess i'm trying to fulfill that wish to myself.
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| my friend said stick to your guns and instead i just got stuck
I'M TRYING, APRIL
last goodbye - jeff buckley
polar opposites - modest mouse
dreams anymore - magnetic fields
carolina - m. ward
two step - dave matthews band
our time - yeah yeah yeahs
the good life - ghost mice
blister in the sun - violent femmes
little bribes - death cab for cutie
fame and fortune - mission of burma
suggestion - fugazi
i'll believe in anything - wolf parade
hummingbird - born ruffians
nikorette - conor oberst & the mystic valley band
celebrity skin - hole
see no evil - television
where is my mind? - pixies
die - iron & wine
either,or - elliott smith
whatever happened to? - buzzcocks
new york, i love you but you're bringing me down - lcd soundsystem
i'm ready to not feel stagnant.
new york, i love you but you're freaking me out - there's a ton of the twist but we're fresh out of shout.
so stoked to "build something this summer"
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| lost in the supermarket
don't look back, march
1. wake up - arcade fire
2. lovelife - atmosphere
3. walking on the moon - the police
4. this must be the place (naive melody) - talking heads
5. other people's lives - modest mouse
6. no one will know - bella
7. clementine - elliott smith
8. the slow descent into alcoholism - new pornographers
9. miles davis & the cool - the gaslight anthem
10. wrestlers - hot chip
11. for emma - bon iver
12. under the blacklight - rilo kiley
13. one of us must know (sooner or later) - bob dylan
14. mystery girl - yeah yeah yeahs
15. up the junction - squeeze
16. like dylan in the movies - belle and sebastian
17. burn one down - ben harper
18. so real - jeff buckley
19. say goodnight - neutral milk hotel
my job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of decision making so intense you can escape only by THINKING. - lemuel m-c
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| children, wake uptrailer for "where the wild things are" fills my heart. i want to go to there.
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