Liberal Propaganda

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:05:01 GMT

"I keep smiling and it's not because I'm stoned"

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:10:21 GMT

My cat is to me as an electric blanket is to my cat.

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:04:07 GMT

Remember when I used to post in my livejournal?

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:20:43 GMT

"Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical."

Slutty Saturdays

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 04:14:52 GMT

From 215-445 we went through fifty plus beers. Up from the 30 we went through last week. Rock. There were about 15 more people there (30+) than there was last Friday(15ish). I think we got to bed around 6? These numbers are extremely hazy. And instead of just one car roof being madeout on in the parking lot, there were two. Simultaneously. At about 430 again. Our neighbors must think that we moved in from Sodom and Gomorrah. Though I yelled at Shannon for burning a fourth party CD, it turned out that it was a necessity (But the Barry White and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy I put on CD1 is what made the party). I don't remember much of what went on between when I was in the kitchen (cue R. Kelly reference) and when I found myself in the parking lot. I remember dangling Jenny off the railing on the backporch, meeting a neighbor who had wandered in while I was in a compromising position and trying to introduce myself, and... umm... lots of dancing. If you have stories (and I know there were people with cameras, especially in the parking lot) then email me with them. :)

Band should be playing in early october! \m/

Fri, 05 Aug 2005 09:20:30 GMT

Stay away from me. I am a bad person.

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:52:18 GMT

Also, those that know me may find this humorous-

I am currently listening to Buckcherry, and I love it.

Summer + Buckcherry = LIVE RIOT ALAN! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:24:19 GMT

I am thirty pages into Lolita and it is fucking awesome. But no matter how much I enjoy this book, nobody better let me grow a toucher mustache.

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:23:56 GMT

So, with two weeks remaining for summer reading, I thought I'd see how I've done.

Things read:

The Illiad and the Odyssey - I like Greek mythology.
This Side of Paradise - Awesome. I love Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and the Damned Awesomer, but a little more bloated.
Waiting for the Barbarians Totally sweet book.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I didn't like. Hard for me to get through. I dreaded reading this.
Wonder Boys So good. Not as good as Kavalier and Clay, but still awesome.
Sons and Lovers This is what Joyce's book should have been. I liked, but didn't love. Weird Oedipus stuff, great writing.
David Copperfield Dude, Charles Dickens is the bomb. This is what I read for "fun" (besides Chabon). Knowing about his life makes his other stuff seem richer.
The Metamorphosis by Kafka. This was cool, but, dude? He's really a bug?
The Great Gatsby So amazing. So amazing. So amazing. I read all three of these books in order, and Gatsby was the money shot.
and I'm most of the way through Middlesex
and I'll probably get to The Aeneid

I substituted David Copperfield for Bleak House, but I totally nixed Joyce from my list. I doubt I'll be able to get through Ulysses in two weeks. I didn't touch Ovid either. Now I'm debating between Lolita by Nabokov, The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner, and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon. I'm likely to go with Lolita. I give myself a "Pretty good" for reading this summer.

I give myself a "FUCKING RIGHTEOUS, BRO! HIGH FIVE" for the party last night. The high five, unlike 73% of them, would totally be warranted*.

*these statistics reported by the onion

Oh my god. So awesome. Everyone needs to come to the I7 after parties.

Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:20:05 GMT

I own five shirts with blue stripes in them. I also own a CBGBs t-shirt. I don't really like punk rock, nor have I ever been there. Someone buy me a lite beer at Coachouse

Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:32:52 GMT

Shannon almost gets in three fights
Sister dancing on the DJ booth, drunk
Alan on the dance floor?
VIP Room :-D

Awesome. Y'all that didn't come missed out. Bamboo Room = pwn3d

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 06:27:55 GMT

AHHHHHHHHHHH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

DRUNK

DRINK REAL BIG!

SMILES REAL BIG!

Go on brush your shoulder off.

This shit was bananas.

My cousin is hilarious

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:59:45 GMT

eAlanSnider: mega lame
eAlanSnider: I am a hot guy and need to be fawned over
InaptlyYours: i need to set up some dekalb tap-satellites because driving to chicago at 4am on a saturday mornin just isnt cuttin it
eAlanSnider: hahahahahahahahaha
eAlanSnider: that sux yo
InaptlyYours: yeah
eAlanSnider: but sounds like what I've been doing the last 2 weeks
eAlanSnider: hahaha
eAlanSnider: Dude!
InaptlyYours: haha
InaptlyYours: DUDE
eAlanSnider: We should've been carpooling
InaptlyYours: hahahaha
eAlanSnider: the ass carpool
InaptlyYours: aaaaaaahaha!!!
InaptlyYours: man, to think how much we could both save on gasoline!

Random

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:51:10 GMT

http://theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4129
"Hey, I don't want to brag, but when you got it, you got it. And when it comes to picking up women with severe personality disorders, I've got it."
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Man Who Lost Leg To Whale Decides To Let It Go

NEW BEDFORD, MA—Sources close to 58-year-old Samuel Rahal, a commercial fishing-boat captain who lost his right leg in a great-white-whale attack last March, announced Monday that he has put the incident behind him and is getting on with his life. "The first to guess the score of next Tuesday's Red Sox game gets this golden coin!" Rahal told his crew as he nailed a Sacagawea dollar to the cabin of his trawler. "Now, let's get this boat full of haddock so we can call it an early day." Rahal said he plans to replace his custom-made whalebone prosthesis with an OrthoPro with flex-foot and hydraulic knee.
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"Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued, so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether."

Onion
Onion
D.H. Lawrence

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 18:04:03 GMT

"Whether it was the following Sunday when I saw the gentleman again, or whether there was any greater lapse of time before he reappeared, I cannot recall. I don't profess to be clear about dates. But there he was, in church, and he walked home with us afterwards. He came in, too, to look at a famous geranium we had, in the parlour-window. It did not appear to me that he took much notice of it, but before he went he asked my mother to give him a bit of the blossom. She begged him to choose it for himself, but he refused to do that - I could not understand why - so she plucked it for him, and gave it into his hand. He said he would never, never part with it any more; and I thought he must be quite a fool not to know that it would fall to pieces in a day or two."

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:20:00 GMT

Well, I finally pwnz0r3d A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm now 6 days behind schedule (an entire Michael Chabon book). We'll see if I can make up the difference.

I cut off all my hair, by the way. I'm pretty sure everyone on my friends list already knows this, though. I'll have to develop a new repetoire of non-hair-related rock moves.

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:06:49 GMT

"Anything that ten people a year can do well enough to pass muster has become so easy that it isn't worth the doing."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sorry, I'm listening to an audiobook at work right now and liked that quote. I wasn't trying to inspire you all, but I thought this would be the easiest way to hang on to it.

Day 2

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 05:55:26 GMT

Mission accomplished. Should finish up this novel by Sunday. I am ashamed of not having read more Fitzgerald.

"...desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and guilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone-"

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:37:59 GMT

Day one of the summer reading syllabus: Completed.

"Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances."

For those who want a laugh

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 04:50:41 GMT

I am sure that I will look back at myself by the end of the summer and laugh at my overly ambitious, stupid self.

June 16th The Beautiful And The Damned 237-302

June 17th TBATD 302-367

June 18th TBATD 367-432

June 19th TBATD 432-449 Waiting For The Barbarians 1-48

June 20th WFTB 48-113

June 21st WFTB 113-152 Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man170-196

June 22nd PotA Finish

June 23rd Wonder Boys 1-65

June 24th Wonder Boys 65-130

June 25th Wonder Boys 130-195

June 26th Wonder Boys 195-260

June 27th Wonder Boys 260-325

June 28th Wonder Boys 325-368 Sons and Lovers 1-22

June 29th Sons and Lovers 22-87

June 30th Sons and Lovers 87-152

July 1 Sons and Lovers 152-217

July 2 Sons and Lovers 217-282

July 3 Sons and Lovers 282-347

July 4 Sons and Lovers 347-412

July 5 Sons and Lovers 412-456 Bleak House 1-21

July 6 Bleak House 21-86

July 7 Bleak House 86-151

July 8 Bleak House 151-216

July 9 Bleak House 216-281

July 10 Bleak House 281-346

July 11 Bleak House 346-411

July 12 Bleak House 411-476

July 13 Bleak House 476 - 541

July 14 Bleak House 541 - 606

July 15 Bleak House 606 - 671

July 16 Bleak House 671 - 736

July 17 Bleak House 736 - 801

July 18 Bleak House 801 - 866

July 19 Bleak House 866-880 Ulysses 1-36

July 20 Ulysses 36-87

July 21 Ulysses 87-138

July 22 Ulysses 138-189

July 23 Ulysses 189-240

July 24 Ulysses 240-291

July 25 Ulysses 291-342

July 26 Ulysses 342-393

July 27 Ulysses 393-444

July 28 Ulysses 444-495

July 29 Ulysses 495-546

July 30 Ulysses 546-597

July 31 Ulysses 597-648

August 1 Ulysses 648-699

August 2 Ulysses 699-Finish

August 3 Ovid 1-65

August 4 Ovid 65-130

August 5 Ovid 130 - 195

August 6 Ovid 195 - 260

August 7 Ovid 260-280 Kafka 1-45

August 8 Kafka 45-110

August 9 Kafka 110-150

August 10 GRACE DAY

August 11 GRACE DAY

August 12 GRACE DAY

August 13 GRACE DAY

August 14 GRACE DAY

James made me do it

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:02:28 GMT

Current favorite six songs, then pick six people to do it back.

I think I don't even have 6 friends that post regularly, so I'll just make Angelina do it.

The Seed 2.0 - The Roots
Southern Fried Intro - Ludacris
Why Do You Get All The Love In The World - NIN
How I Could Just Kill A Man - RATM version
Anti-Gravity Love - Incubus
In The Meantime - Spacehog

One song from this year. Man, I suck. It was hard not to put something from Tiny Music on there, since I've been listening to that album a lot lately.

Pretty much the worst that I could say...

Thu, 26 May 2005 01:34:12 GMT

I've finally found someone else who's not a 14 year old girl that likes My Chemical Romance, so I'ma come out of the closet and admit that I really like "It's Not Okay" and "Helena." Yes, I know this is several months past schedule, but they are incredibly emo, so give me a break.

Fri, 20 May 2005 01:53:12 GMT

Things I am reading: The Odyssey, This Side of Paradise
Things on my shelf that I have to read: Ulysses, The Red Badge of Courage, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Around The World In Eighty Days, Wuthering Heights, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Don Quixote, Sons And Lovers, Islands in the Stream, Issac Babel's collected Stories, Will In The World, Metamorphoses of both the Ovid and Kafka persuasions, Beloved (about a 100 pages or so), The White Jacket, Go Ask Alice, The Fixer, The Beautiful and the Damned, Paradise Lost, Collections by Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, the Hemingway stories I haven't read yet, and the last 100 or so pages of A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
Things I'd like to have on my shelf to add to the damned list: Waiting For The Barbarians, The Stranger, Nausea, The Sound and the Fury, Things Fall Apart, and more things by Vonnegut and Chabon

Anyone have any advice, suggestions, recommendations?

Also, I will be working at Borders and the campus library this summer. If anyone feels the urge to add some non-printed excitement to my life, feel free.

At the library, I will be digitizing African American short stories from 1900-1905. Sort of like a Bartleby the Scrivener for a new generation. eScrivening, I think it's called.

God, this post smells like library dust.

Mon, 09 May 2005 05:21:12 GMT

I haven't posted in this thing in two months because of myspace and facebook. I thought I would surprise all of you with a little banality.

<td>You are a guitar.

You are a musical genius... congratulations. Most people think you are a little obsessed with music, but that's okay. You don't care what other people think. You are independent, and would rather have a few good (and weird) friends than a lot of not-so-good ones. You may feel that people run down your eccentricity, but that's only because they're jealous. You will most likely become very successful with your musical talent. \m/ Rock on!

Most compatible with: Drumstick.

Click here -- What Random Object Represents Your Inner Self?
</td>

How'd you like that?!

I read 3876 pages of literature this semester.

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:26:55 GMT

1400 words for a 1000 word essay. After three revisions. Fuck me.