Alissa Kaye
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Industry | Arts |
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| Location | Minnesota, United States |
| Introduction | All you really need to know in about 45 seconds: I love my (ever-growing) big family, music, grand pianos and Larrivee acoustic guitars. Sometimes I wish I had more siblings. I tend to lose control over my Minnesotan accent. I loathe bad grammar/spelling. I take my time. I tend towards sarcastic humor. Unconventional beauty fascinates me. I love deep conversations and have nothing worth living for in this life but Jesus Christ. |
| Interests | Watching my friends take the next step in life Spending time with Jesus. Playing in mud. Jumping fully clothed into lakes. Upsala. Modified board games. All of my quasi-siblings. Nerdy music-related conversations. Eating cold cereal at odd hours of the night. Playing piano in the dark. Opportune moments. Roadtrips...and drive-dancing with Tirz and Stina. Good books. 80s music. Dancing awkwardly. Dictionaries and words. Looking at the stars. Uncontrollable outbursts of laughter. Welsh, Irish, and Scottish accents. Thinking... |
| Favorite movies | 10 Things I Hate About You, Across the Universe, Atonement, Batman Begins/The Dark Knight, Braveheart, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Extreme Days, Forrest Gump, Garden State, Hidalgo, Hoodwinked, i am sam, I'm Not There, Indiana Jones, Juno, The Kingdom, A Knight's Tale, Little Women, The Lord of the Rings, Miss Congeniality, Moulin Rouge!, Mr. Holland's Opus, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Once, The Patriot, The Phantom of the Opera, Pirates of the Caribbean I, Pride and Prejudice (long & short versions), The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Say Anything, Sense and Sensibility, The Sound of Music, That Thing You Do |
| Favorite music | A Fine Frenzy, Alela Diane, Architecture In Helsinki, Alanis Morissette, Alecia Keys, Alison Krauss, Anberlin, Bach, Backstreet Boys, The Beatles, Beethoven, Beck, The Benjamin Gate, Berlioz, Björk, Bob Dylan, Cartel, Citizen Cope, Cloud Cult, Coldplay, Dashboard Confessional, Dave Matthews, The Decemberists, Eisley, Emery, Eric Whitacre, Falling Up, Flogging Molly, Feist, Flyleaf, The Frames, Frou Frou, Further Seems Forever, Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Handel, Iver, James Horner, Jars Of Clay, Jewel, Jennifer Knapp, Joss Stone, Journey, Keith Green, Keane, KT Tunstall, Kutless, Linkin Park, Liszt, Mat Kearny, Mates of State, Mendelssohn, mewithoutYou, Michelle Branch, MIKA, Mute Math, Natalie Walker, Nickel Creek, Pat Benatar, Plumb, The Postal Service, The Presets, Project 86, Rachmaninoff, Red, Regina Spektor, Rich Mullins, Rita Springer, Rivertribe, Rufus Wainwright, Sarah Kelly, Sarah McLachlan, Sixpence None The Richer, Skillet, Stravinsky, Sufjan Stevens, Switchfoot, Tchaikovsky, Tegan and Sara, Theresa Anderson, The Ting Tings, The Shins, Underoath, Vanessa Carlton, Zoe Keating...and pretty much any soundtrack I can get my hands on. |
| Favorite books | Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibilty by Jane Austen, Les Miserables, A Severe Mercy, Authentic Beauty, Anything by C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, or Gene Stratton Porter. |
You've broken up with your old band and are about to release your first solo album. Please write the liner notes:
In case there's any confusion, we were on a break.