D. Paul Alecſandri
I’m giving You þis little page about myſelf for þoſe of You who are curious to know þe man behind þē... well, myþ is a ſtrong word... ſhall we ſay anecdote?
Here’s a raþer baſic deſcription of me:
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I am a twentyſeven year old buddhiſt taoiſt redneck* pagan foreign-talkin’ virgo wine-makin’ goþ-wannabe* áſatrú* tree-huggin’ ſkinhead* hippy witchboi from Minneapolis, Minneſota. |
What more can i really ſay? I’ll give You a little run-down of þe reſt. Let me know if þere’s ſomeþing miſsing þat You would like to know.
* Þeſe terms are ſometimes given a negative connotation and i would like to take þis opportunity to make it known þat i am neiþer ignorant, nor a raciſt, nor a white ſupremiſt, nor anyþing of þe general white trailer traſh ſort. More ſpecifically, i am a redneck in þe ſenſe of þe tree-huggin’ hippy type rednecks who can fend for þemſelves in þe woods and know what roots and berrys are edible, and love beer, and brew beer and wine (hell, i’d even brew moonſhine if i could figure out how to work grandma’s ſtill) - (for more clarification on what ſort of redneck i am, pick up any Cracker album. David Lowry ſays it all!); I am áſatrú in þe ſenſe þat i draw from þe Norſe panþēon (as well as ſeveral oþers) and practice Norſe magic; I am a ſkinhead in þe ſenſe þat i ſhave my head, not becauſe i am a nazi or becauſe of any political views i hold (ſee “Political Poſition” below) but becauſe it’s eaſyër and i þink i happen to look good wiþ it. Þe goþ-wannabe þing i þink deſerves an explanation as well. I do like ſome of þe goþ culture, and ſpend quite a few of my free ſaturday nights goïng to Bondage-a-Gogo night at Ground Zero (or at leaſt i ūſd to until Miſtreſs Jean left...), and moſt of my cloþes are black (Quote from þe laundry room: “Wow, You’re ſo goþ Your lint is black!”... Hey, it’s ſlimming and it goes wiþ everyþing!); however, i am not a vampire, i do not hate my parents and my life and everyþing and everyöne, i ſtopped writing ſelf-pityïng poëtry when i was fifteen, and (Deïty-of-Your-choice forbid) i am actually happy ſometimes, ſo þat’s why i’m only a wanna-be goþ.
D Paul Alecſandri, New Year’s 2003, Minneapolis, MN
Some Backgroud...
| Name: | D. Paul Alecſandri | |||||
| Date of Birþ: | Auguſt 31, 1977 | |||||
| Time of Birþ: | 8:46 p.m. EST | |||||
| Place of Birþ: | Stamford, NY | |||||
| Aſtrological Profile: |
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| Height: | 69” (172 cm) | |||||
| Weight: | 185 lbs (84 Kg) | |||||
| Addreſs: | Nicollet Iſland | |||||
| Phone Number: | 612 area code | |||||
| City: | Minneapolis, Minneſota | |||||
| Zip Code: | 55401 | |||||
| Home Page Addreſs: | You’re looking at it. For reference: | |||||
| Native Language: | Engliſh | |||||
| Oþer Acquired Languages: | Deutſch, Français, Italiano, Norðısca, Íslensk, Latinovesa, Español, Esperanto, Nederlands, Svenska, 中文 (漢語), Latina, Limba Română, Ελληνικά, Русски, Catalá, Dlatci, Chicheŵa, עברית, Cymraeg, Maltжέgj, Barak... | |||||
| Political Poſition: | Conſervative Anarchiſt in Poſt-Modern Agrarianiſt cloþing | |||||
| Relationſhip Status: | In a “Significant Oþer” ſituation wiþ Pipa Peat | |||||
| Religion: | Æclectic Pagan | |||||
| Patron Goddeſses: | Sahaqueshah, Brighid, Laxmi, Saraswati, Nǚ Kua, Ariadne, þe Queen Moþer Wu, Ceredwen, Maria Mater, Ma Kali, Hecate, Freya, Kuan Yin, Perusha, Týr, þe Lady Yīn, Gilþoniel, Inana (Ishtar), Arachne, Tori Amos, Janis Joplin | |||||
| Patron Gods: | Sahaqueshah, Óðinn, Counterjupiter (T’ai Sui), Cernunos, Visnu, Poseidon, þe Auguſt Perſonage of Jade, Shiva, Yeshua Ha-Natsri, Ganesha, Perusha, Týr, Frey, þe Lord Yáng, Dagda, Valfǫðr, Þórr, Elbereþ, David Lowry, Nick Cave | |||||
| Computers: | (Þis category was much ſimpler before i became an I.T. Specialiſt. Þe anſwer changes weekly þeſe days.) | |||||
| Pets: | ||||||
| Eyes: | Green (occaſionally glaſses, uſually contacts) | |||||
| Hair: | (When i have it...) Currently brown, occaſionally a range between black and purple. | |||||
| Tattoos: |
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| Piercings: | Þirteen (Þat is to ſay, i’ve been pierſt þirteen times, but only four ſtill intact due to þat whole “having a job” þing.) | |||||
| Colleges Attended: | State University of New York at Oneonta
Nazareth College of Rochester State University of New York at Binghamton | |||||
| Current Occupation: | Student Computing Services Coördinator | |||||
Favourite... | ||||||
| Album Cover: | Rouge by Jean-Jacques Goldman | |||||
| Alcohol: | Tequila or Vodka | |||||
| Alcoholic Beverages: | Mike’s Hard Lemonade | |||||
| African City: | Blantyre | |||||
| Animal: | Armadillo | |||||
| Artiſts: | Vincent van Gogh and Salvador Dalí | |||||
| Auþor: | Robert A. Heinlein | |||||
| Baroque Compoſer: | François Coupérin | |||||
| Beer: | Tequiza | |||||
| Berry: | Blueberry | |||||
| Beverage: | Mountain Dew (yes, caffeinated; no, not diët!) | |||||
| Bird: | Penguin | |||||
| Birþ Control Meþod: | Having a boyfriend | |||||
| Board Game: | Bao | |||||
| Book: | The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart | |||||
| Card Game: | Mao | |||||
| Champagne: | Dom Perignon (duh) | |||||
| Cheeſes: | Muenſter, Jarlsberg, Capra w/ honey, Stilton w/ mango and ginger, and in fact moſt cheeſes. | |||||
| Claſsical Compoſer: | Joſef Haydn | |||||
| Colour: | Ultraviolet (followd by purple, green, black, and red, reſpectively) | |||||
| Computer Games: | Bill the Demon by James Burton | |||||
| Conſonants: | (In ſtandard IPA) m, v, ð, r, l, | |||||
| Countrys: | Canada, Iceland, þe Neþerlands, Sweden... | |||||
| Cyrillic Letter: | Ж | |||||
| Diſguſting-Sounding Drink: | Beaujolais and Coke | |||||
| Diſguſting-Sounding Food: | Peanutbutter and tuna ſandwiches wiþ Muenſter cheeſe | |||||
| Diſguſting-Sounding Snack: | Cheeſe Doodles dipt in blueberry yogurt | |||||
| Eſsential Oil: | My own ſpecial blend of dragonsblood, patchouli, amber, opium, and himalayan muſk. A cloſe ſecond, however, is Majik by Auric Blends. | |||||
| European City: | Barcelona | |||||
| Ex: | Two poſsible anſwers here: | |||||
| Faſt Food: | Taco Bell (Me gustan chalupas mucho!) | |||||
| Font: | (Well, when i can’t uſe my own, anyway...) Times New Roman for text Courier New for fixed widþ MS Mincho for unicode PMingLiu for chinese | |||||
| Food: | yes | |||||
| Food’s Eþnicity: | Italian or chineſe, ſometimes french | |||||
| Fruit: | Peat... er, i mean, paſsionfruit or watermelon | |||||
| Gemſtone: | Emerald | |||||
| Heinlein Novel: | Number of the Beaſt | |||||
| Hiſtorical Figure: | 老子 (Lǎo Tzu/Tsu/Zǐ... ſpell it how You will) | |||||
| Ice Cream Flavours: | Ben & Jerry’s Blueberry Cheeſecake, butter pecan, cooky dough | |||||
| Impreſsioniſtic Compoſer: | Claude Debussy | |||||
| Incenſe: | Nag Champa Agarbatti | |||||
| Induſtrial Band: | Rammſtein | |||||
| Inſtrument: | Canon | |||||
| Internet Browſer: | Internet Explorer (I ūſd to be a dy-hard fan of Netscape and/or anyþing þat didn’t make more money for Bill Gates. However, wiþ þe diſcovery þat my webſite cannot be diſplayd in Netscape ſince i ſtarted mucking about wiþ unicode characters, my loyaltys ſhifted gradually. By þe time þey came out wiþ Netscape 6, which was able to diſplay [moſt of] þe characters correctly, it was too late... I’d already gone over to þe Dark Side of þe Net.) | |||||
| Language: | Hmmm... Not a fair queſtion. My favourite conſtructed language (alþough i’m quite biaſt) is norðısca; natural language is probably welſh or old norſe. | |||||
| Marſupial: | Kangaroo Rat | |||||
| Metal Band: | Rob Zombie | |||||
| Metallica Albums: | Load S & M | |||||
| Modern Muſical Artiſts: | All The Pretty Horses, Tori Amos, Garmarna, Cracker, Dead Can Dance, Metallica, Nick Cave & þe Bad Seeds, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, the Smiths, Tool, many many more... | |||||
| Movys: | What Dreams May Come The Princeſs Bride The Uſual Suſpects Beſt in Show Drop Dead Gorgeous | |||||
| Muſical: | Les Misérables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg | |||||
| Muſical Mode: | (traditional) Phrygian | |||||
| Muſical Scale: | C harmonic minor | |||||
| Norþ American City: | Montréal | |||||
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| Opera: | Les Pêcheurs de Perles by Georges Bizet | |||||
| Operatic Compoſer: | Gioacchino Antonio Rossini | |||||
| Operating Syſtem: | As an I.T. Specialiſt, i have learnd to hate all operating ſyſtems. | |||||
| Orchid Genera: | Brassia, Masdevallia, Dracula | |||||
| Painting: | Þe Burning Giraffe by Salvador Dalí | |||||
| Piece of Muſic: | Chopin’s Revolutionary Étüde or poſsibly þe fourþ movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. | |||||
| Plant Family: | Orchidaceae | |||||
| Poem: | Ohne Deine Amor by Carolyn S. Foote | |||||
| Poet: | Richard Brautigan | |||||
| Reptile: | Tuatara | |||||
| Romantic Compoſer: | Frédéric Chopin | |||||
| Sauce: | Peſto wiþ Morrel Muſhrooms | |||||
| Scotch: | Bushmills Black Bush | |||||
| Sculpture: | Caryatid Who Has Fallen under Her Stone by Auguste Rodin | |||||
| Seaſoning: | Garlic | |||||
| Shellfiſh: | Shrimp | |||||
| Sopranos: | Barbara Hendricks Leontyne Price | |||||
| Sports: | Archery, fencing, karate | |||||
| Stone: | Aventurine | |||||
| Stringed Inſtrument: | Cello | |||||
| Tea: | Bigalow’s Earl Grey | |||||
| Televiſion Shows: |
Absolutely Fabulous (ſweety, darling!) | |||||
| Tenors: | Andrea Bocelli Placido Domingo | |||||
| Tool Album: | Lateralus | |||||
| Tool Song(s): | The Grudge | |||||
| Tool: | Duct Tape | |||||
| Tree: | Ginkgo biloba | |||||
| Vegetable: | Broccoli | |||||
| Vowel: | u | |||||
| Whiſky: | Crown Royal | |||||
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Leaſt Favourite... | ||||||
| Alcohol: | Armagnac1 | |||||
| European City: | Ancona (got arreſted þere...a long ſtory) | |||||
| Romantic Compoſer: | Richard Wagner2 | |||||
| Soprano: | Sarah Brightman | |||||
| Tenor: | Luciano Pavarotti (þinks a lot more of his own voice þan i do.) | |||||
| Vegetable: | Celery | |||||
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F1 One day, after i had receivd a ſmall bonus at work, i was feeling particularly pretentious and decided to go to þe liquor ſtore and pick up ſomeþing extravagant. I had heard a lot of people talk about armagnac, and i knew it was a bit like cognac, which i love, ſo i ſplurged and bought a $50.00 bottle of þe ſtuff. Þe vile liquid which i found inſide it was quite a bit like cognac, actually, only wiþ all þe redeeming qualitys of cognac ſtript away, leaving a volitile ſort of paint remover. It now ſits in my liquor cabinet, prominently diſplayd and looking quite lovely, waiting for ſome unſuſpecting fool to tell me þat þey like it, and upon whom it will be unloaded.
2 I heard a wee anecdote once þat pretty much ſums up my feelings about Richard Wagner. I’m not ſure of its veracity, but þis is it. Apparently, Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (my favourite compoſer) was well known for þrowing laviſh dinner partys. Wagner was invited to one of þeſe, and when þe meal was ſervd, everyöne receivd a cut of ſome expenſive piece of meat ſmoþerd in a very rich ſauce. When Wagner receivd his, he found only a big plate of ſauce, but no meat. When he demanded to know what had become of his meal, Rossini allegedly replyd ſomeþing to þē effect of, “’Tis þe fate of one who prefers harmony to melody.”