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once in love with amy

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About Me


bipedal caucasian hominid. aged 24 years. female. music enthusiast. likes sweaters and humorous anthropoids. quite the talker.
1960s/70s fetishist who enjoys fantastical sequences displaying the fashions and excesses of those times; interested in a greater comment on the lifestyle of rockstar versus that of the common man and which is to be envied more.


the rest of the world has normal covered...

My Interests

MUSIC, museums, conservering energy, random facts, full circles, awkward silences, finding a damn parking spot, carbs, history, ukeleles, pianos, cockney accents, sutro baths, mad libs, traveling, myself, norwegian, donating blood, warm vanilla sugar, overpriced coffee, playing the geetar, the rain, painting my toenails, foreign bodies, overanalyzing, waterloo sunsets, bygone times, enlightenment, unlikely friendships, peace, love, eyeliner, reading. intelekshoeal stuph.

I'd like to meet:

i'm sure you random myspacers are mighty cool, but i'm more than happy with the friends i already have.


***SOMETHING NOT TO THINK ABOUT:***
sending me a friend request if you're some random dude/chick. i know all of my friends on here in the real world and really do deny everyone i don't know. sidenote: I WON'T BE ADDING YOUR MYSPACE MUSIC THING UNLESS I ALREADY KNOW AND LIKE YOUR MUSIC OR UNLESS WE ARE FRIENDS IN REAL LIFE. also, i love all of my friends equally (for the most part). so, don't feel bad if you're not in my "top friends." and if you have more than one profile, come on, i really don't need to add both of them. yeah, i've got a myspace ego.

Music:


The Beatles, David Bowie, The Doors, T. Rex, David Cassidy (I'm totally serious), Sondre Lerche, The Who, Ed Harcourt, Chet Baker, The Kinks, Velvet Underground, Jefferson Airplane, The Zombies, The Guess Who, Love, The Redwalls, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Cliff Richard, The Magic Numbers, St. Thomas, Feist, Rufus Wainwright, John Lennon, Blondie, Donovan, The Rolling Stones, The Black Heart Procession, The New York Dolls, Lou Reed, Tenacious D, George Gershwin, Herbie Hancock, Supertramp, George Harrison, The Bay City Rollers, The Cars, Flaming Lips, Marc Bolan, Talking Heads, The Stooges, Mercury Rev, Chopin, Mozart, Kings of Convenience, The Turtles, Yann Tiersen, Thee Headcoats, Air, Led Zeppelin, Lovin Spoonful, Phoenix, Roy Orbison, Magnet / Even Johansen, Sleepy Jackson, Datarock, Tori Amos, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Sex Pistols, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Wonders, Mott the Hoople, The Monkees, ABBA, The Animals, The Ramones, Jeff Buckley, John's Children, Them, Cat Stevens, ELO, Margo Guryan, DeVotchKa, Bread, Sergeant Petter, Sam Cooke, Dion and the Belmonts, Jonesy's Jukebox, KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic, cheesy 70s pop, glam rock, feel good oldies, rock 'n roll, nostalgic Nintendo music, and whatever keeps me going on my elliptical trainer. My all-time favorite songs, to name a few, are Crimson and Clover, Sexy Sadie, Waiting for the Sun, Walk Away Renee, My Sweet Lord, Spaceball Ricochet, Waterloo Sunset, Alone Again Or, and so on...

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." -John Lennon
I Ain't No Poser

Movies:


The Talented Mr Ripley, Grey Gardens, Raccoon Boy, Good Bye Lenin!, The Red Balloon, Born To Boogie, Love and Death on Long Island, Amadeus, Spirit of '76, The Snowman, Breakfast on Pluto, Harold and Maude, Home Alone, Magnolia, The Graduate, Somebody Up There Likes Me, New York Doll, Boogie Nights, Griswold Vacation movies, Swimming Pool, The Doors (i know you hate this movie, ray. sorry, man. i still like it.), Mayor of Sunset Strip, Laurel Canyon, Happiness, Edward Scissorhands, Help!, Elling, The US vs. John Lennon, That Thing You Do!, Velvet Goldmine, Fletch movies, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Polar Bears of Churchill, Almost Famous, Willy Wonka, Little Miss Sunshine, Forrest Gump, Jesus' Son, The Immigrant, documentaries, rockumentaries, and foreign films because I'm so damn artsy.

Television:

yes.

Books:

Slaughterhouse-Five, The Little Prince, Welcome to the Monkey House, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Catcher in the Rye, The Lorax, Franny and Zooey, Petals on the Wind, Valley of the Dolls, Dracula, Random Acts of Badness, Siddhartha, The Joy Luck Club, 100 Years of Solitude, Go Ask Alice, Breakfast of Champions, China to Me, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Confederacy of Dunces, Raise High The Roofbeams Carpenters, St. Augustine's Confessions, The Giving Tree, historical fiction when it's done right...

Heroes:

Jesus, John Lennon, Shawn Fanning, Bob Ross, the Maysles brothers, Larry David, happy campers, lovers not fighters, Santa Claus, people you don't know, great musicians, and sushi chefs everywhere.

My Blog

stop me if you've heard it.

Listen to the first song, then the one(s) listed underneath. . . Coincidence? I think not.1. You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry Come Together - The Beatles2. Ride A White Swan - T. Rex Certain Peop...
Posted by once in love with amy on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:33:00 PST

not for the weak of heart...

this is what morrison hotel looked like in 1970: and this is what morrison hotel looks like today: would it have been that difficult for them to at least leave the sign up? seriously. (yes...
Posted by once in love with amy on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:50:00 PST

F*ck Mick Jagger.

Alright, Rolling Stones...What is it that you have against me? Why do you go to such great lengths to avoid me? First, in June, Keith Richards "fell out of a palm tree" and had to cancel the show I wa...
Posted by once in love with amy on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:06:00 PST

Vintage Amy, if you care.

i somehow grew out of being asian -karly and i -southern belles - swimsuit models -sisters at a table -this proves that, once upon a time, kristel was taller than me -halloween '87 -12 years young -wh...
Posted by once in love with amy on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:39:00 PST

The House of the Moon and the Exaltation of Jupiter.

Three times last night I heard people, very seriously (as if it even remotely matters), ask somebody what their sign is. Each time, when given the answer, the response was something like "Ooooh yes, I...
Posted by once in love with amy on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:48:00 PST

norway: the blog.

I've just returned from my second excursion to the land of waterfalls and fjords...Norway, that is. I can't tell you how many emails I got asking for a travel blog just like my Spain one, so I'll do m...
Posted by once in love with amy on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:39:00 PST

spain: the blog.

Due to the immense popularity of my Spain bulletins, I've compiled them into one huge blog for your reading pleasure (oh and I added pictures):Pt. Uno:  after muchos stress and confusion, here i ...
Posted by once in love with amy on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 04:24:00 PST

We need to stop

ruining classic songs. I just heard a Chet Baker song in some shitty commercial. I think it was for laundry detergent. And Sheryl Crow should be banned from doing covers. She destroyed Led Zeppelin's ...
Posted by once in love with amy on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:00:00 PST

and i thought i was a chick.

my fortune, scanned for your viewing pleasure:
Posted by once in love with amy on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:59:00 PST

Sir Paul McCartney

Today at approximately 4:07pm, I met Paul McCartney at Starbucks on Sunset and Gower. I'm a lucky girl. ...
Posted by once in love with amy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST