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About alexander-l

I went to the zoo today. It was a grey pleasant day and hardly anyone was around. I always went to the zoo when I was depressed and needed a good laugh. Watching the little animals all day had a curious effect on me, which I haven't experienced before. I have always admired them, their beauty, the solitariness, but now I hate them. What I noticed and what affected me was the dreadful savagery of these wild animals who hurl themselves on their food and how it is too horribly like the ways of humans. What moved me most was a group of chimpanzees: they were like primitive men... It is more depressing to see our own origin--depressing, not because we sprang from this, but that we may so easily slip back to it. Our knowledge is great, but how empty!... It allows us to make use of all these forces already in existence--our art to interpret emotions already felt; a big war, an epidemic and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, and become nothing more than fit sons of chimpanzees. We are genetically similar to the apes, but we are aware of the future and mortality. Our one consolation is LOVE, confidence, the embracing of spirit and body. When we are united we think neither of our outer darkness nor of animal brutality. Our human superiority vibrates through our passions, and we love the world--but how insignificant we really are, and how subject to universal law!

Music

This year I like DEVENDRA BANHART, A Place To Bury Strangers, LIARS, THE WARLOCKS, LCD Soundsystem, Bat For Lashes, Patrick Wolf, Blonde Redhead, Arctic Monkeys, Maximo Park, Long Blondes, Jarvis, Great Northern, Beach House, Motorhead, The Horrors, Klaxons, and more.

Films

Holy Mountain

Books

"From then on it became necessary to think the law which governed, as it were, the desire for the center in the constitution of structure and the process of signification prescribing its displacements and its substitutions for this law of the central presence-but a central presence which was never itself, which has always already been transported outside itself in its surrogate. The surrogate does not substitute itself for anything which has somehow pre-existed it. From then on it was probably necessary to begin to think that there was no center, that the center could not be thought in the form of a beingpresent, that the center had no natural locus, that it was not a fixed locus but a function, a sort of non-locus in which an infinite number of sign-substitutions came into play. This moment was that in which language invaded the universal problematic; that in which, in the absence of a center or origin, everything became discourse-provided we can agree on this word-that is to say, when everything became a system where the central signified, the original or transcendental signified, is never absolutely present outside a system of differences. The absence of the transcendental signified extends the domain and the interplay of signification ad infinitum." --Jacques Derrida

Tour Archive Photos

Shows

Date	Venue
Jun-06-08	Ink-N-Iron Festivals, Long Beach, CA, US

 

Date	Venue
Mar-30-08	The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA, US
Jan-25-08	Safari Sam\'s, Los Angeles, CA, US
Oct-23-07	The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA, US
Oct-06-07	Download Festival, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, US
Sep-08-07	SDSU Open Air Theatre, San Diego, CA, US
Sep-07-07	Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
Aug-25-07	SCMX Music Festival, San Diego, CA, US
Jun-24-07	House Of Blues, Los Angeles, CA, US
Jun-23-07	Little Radio Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA, US
Jun-19-07	Jillian\'s, Las Vegas, NV, US
Jun-02-07	9:30 Club, Washington, DC, US
Jun-01-07	Theatre Of Living Arts, Philidelphia, PA, US
May-31-07	Webster Hall, New York City, NY, US
May-08-07	The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA, US
May-06-07	House of Blues, San Diego, CA, US
Aug-26-06	Sunset Junction, Silverlake, CA, US
Aug-25-06	Echo, Los Angeles, CA, US
Jun-15-06	Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, US
Apr-02-06	Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA, US
Mar-14-06	Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
Mar-13-06	Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
Dec-15-05	Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles, CA, US
Oct-08-05	Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
May-28-05	Little Radio Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA, US
Aug-10-04	El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
May-03-04	Echo, Los Angeles, CA, US
May-02-04	Coachella, Indio, CA, US
Apr-29-04	Grand Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
Sep-06-03	Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
Apr-24-02	Beacon Theatre, New York City, NY, US
Apr-07-02	Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
Mar-16-02	Spread Your Love Video Shoot, Charles Mehling's Backyard, Los Angeles, CA, US
Dec-29-01	Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA, US
Dec-28-01	Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA, US
Dec-27-01	Werepad, San Francisco, CA, US
Dec-20-01	Silver Lake Lounge, Los Angeles, CA, US
Sep-20-01	North Six, Brooklyn, NY, US
Jun-27-01	Ruby, Los Angeles, CA, US
Jun-10-01	4100, Los Angeles, CA, US
Apr-15-01	House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA, US
Apr-12-01	3 Clubs, Los Angeles, CA, US
Jun-02-99	Silverlake Lounge, Los Angeles, CA, US

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Comments

	paula_abroad, May-15-08 1.49am
	thanks for the comment. i´ll try and take it to heart. :) (your current image... soo what´s the deal with the feather. is there a story? care to share it?)
	starsgoblue, Apr-8-08 11.39am
	But what if I don't think OR feel? What of my life then?
	line, Apr-3-08 3.27pm
	DuuuuuuuDe thanks for posting the BLACK ANGELS/WARLOCKS tour dates
	sekundur, Apr-1-08 6.10am
	I live there now, haven't you heard?
	a_song_away, Mar-12-08 7.22am
	Hey there.
	starsgoblue, Mar-8-08 10.14am
	Poor Peter - seems like the rumour mill is in overdrive. Of course, it is 100% fact that he is having my baby. Nice photo - you look very devout.
	suzanne010, Mar-7-08 11.15pm
	You should have sought medical attention while you had the chance! I gave you fair warning?
	dendrite, Feb-10-08 6.41am
	I have an idea in my head, but it's so abstract, I can't put it in words, no matter how hard I try. And when I try to confine it, it slips away. Our human brains are not made for thoughts which go beyond these poor dimensions we're stuck with. I hate that!
	starsgoblue, Feb-4-08 5.59am
	Ah, The Kooks. That should be a good show. I think they're really good live.
	a_song_away, Jan-30-08 10.07am
	ah damn, sorry, just saw your comment today. but i remember you, you said hi to me in front of the safari sam's after the shut down. til next time i guess. :)