About ALHO

Overweight
5'8"
No broad shoulders, shoulders downward slanted
eyes with crypts
Small/ Medium lips
small nose


Plays guitar
  - Can enter a trance when playing, he is intensely focused on the guitar
  - Doesn't feel like smoking or going to the shoppette afterward to get food. While playing, he doesn't feel like taking a break to smoke or eat.
  - He learns to play rock songs but he also learns jazz riffs.
  - After his dad died, he spent three weeks intensely playing guitar. He would go to work then go to his CHU (when deployed in Iraq). He looked up and studied how to play jazz on the internet. He would play for a few hours at a time.
  - When he plays songs they aren't perfect. He doesn't recognize very well that they aren't perfect.
  - He changes from song to song without a break.
  - He makes facial expressions when he plays. If someone is smiling at him while he plays, he smiles back. He sticks out his tongue when concentrating.
  - He likes to play improvised solos.
  - He feels like he is not good at playing because he cannot remember the songs that he knew and was good at playing a couple years ago.
  - Sometimes, in front of people, if he thinks he knows a songs and then tries to play but can't remember it, he will put the guitar down and say that he's not good at the guitar or he will switch to another song.
  - He sings with the songs that he knows but his singing is out of tune and off key. Sometimes they are the completely wrong notes in the song but they fit nicely with the chords that he plays.
  - He has the ability to ab lib words to a song. The words fit well with the rhythm and the words rhyme also. The are about random subjects but he intends them to be comical and taken without any seriousness.
  - He has noticed that some people when he plays feel like he is showing off, they are critical and point out imperfections, and they are not friendly at that point. When he doesn't play though, those people become his friends again.
  - When he was in school (maybe high school) he had the ambition of being a punk rock star.
  - When he plays, I feel sensory pleasure. It makes me relaxed and attentive.

- He is conscious about imposing or being rude to people that he is around at the moment.
- He has never gotten into a fight. He is very good at avoiding situations where fights might occur.
  Ex: one time we went in to a bar and he put up is hood and told the people that we were with to not look at anyone else to avoid a fight.
- He calls his roommate, ZAOH, an angry midget.

- He became a cook in the Army because he loves food but not because he knows or is good at cooking. He also wanted the easiest job.