Jeff Alan
45 years old
North Carolina
Male
About
Night after night I sit in the computer's glow, typing, trying to repay every writer who has enriched me, leaving traces of myself, forming a silhouette of my existence before I step off the edge of the world and become a ghost, a ghost forever repeating the words that describe what I saw and felt when I was here, every ugly and beautiful thing.
Check out my writer's blog: bonescribble.
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Feb 25, 2008
Apartment Building: Seattle, 2003
I smell urine when I enter the stairwell. At the first landing, I step over the carpet stain, trying not to get any on my shoes. At the second landing, I see him and know instantly that his pockets contain everything he owns. There's a syringe in his right hand, left …
Flickering light
American Splendor, Blow, Boogie Nights, The Departed, Donnie Darko, The Doors, Ed Wood, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Good Will Hunting, The Grudge, Heathers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Carpenter's Vampires, Kill Bill, A Love Song for Bobby Long, May, Memento, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Office Space, Pan's Labyrinth, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Pulp Fiction, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Secretary, Secret Window, Seven and a Match, Sid & Nancy, Sin City, Sleepy Hollow, A Slipping Down Life, Tombstone, Unforgiven, Walk the Line
Sonic happiness
Alice in Chains, The Beatles, The Black Angels, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Sabbath, Buckcherry, Concrete Blonde, Cowboy Junkies, The Cult, The Donnas, The Doors, Drive-By Truckers, Garbage, Guns N' Roses, Heart, Humble Pie, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Joy Division, Kings of Leon, Ladytron, Led Zeppelin, Mazzy Star, Motley Crue, My Morning Jacket, Nirvana, Oasis, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Rolling Stones, Scout Niblett, The Sex Pistols, The Shroud, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Stone Temple Pilots, Switchblade Symphony, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, This Ascension, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground, The White Stripes, The Who, X, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Neil Young
TV is evil but I watch
Bobby Flay Showdown, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International, The Henry Rollins Show, Inside the Actor's Studio, Iron Chef America, Jackass, Jeopardy, L.A. Ink, Paranormal State
A few of my favorite books
American Primitive, Carolina Ghost Woods, The Dead and the Living, Different Hours, Facing the Music, Faerie Tale, Fatal Light, Flash Fiction Forward, The House on Mango Street, Invisible Cities, The Lords and The New Creatures, Lost Souls, On the Road, Requiem, Sea Smoke, Stardust, Sudden Fiction, Tell Me, The Tooth Fairy, War for the Oaks, What We Carry, Wormwood
What I do in my bathrobe
cook, make music, write flash fiction, write prose poems, write vignettes
Obsessions
alphabetizing, cats, cemeteries, diy, fogwoods, folklore, ghosts, gypsies, history, inventing words, metaphysics, music, mysticism, mythology, outsider art, poetry, psychology, semiotics, subcultures, subversion, tattoos, toy cameras, weirdness