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amanda ! !

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About Me

yep, i'm amanda. i'm generally a pretty happy person.. i guess you
could say that i'm one of those stoked on life kind of people. i spent the
last year of my life in manhattan going to an awesome art school for
graphic design. but, after a recent reality check, i've realized that i can't
keep ignoring the fact that i'm racking up thousands of dollars in
unnecessary student loans, and i decided to transfer back home to
BSU. there are too many people/things here in idaho that are important
to me anyway, and i can no longer see myself living thousands of
miles away from them. so, yeah. there's that. i'm still majoring in
graphic design, because honestly i can't see myself doing anything
else. that shit runs through my veins. :) i'm sort of a dork. i spend
a lot of time on my macbook and i'm a torrent whore. i can recognize quite a few typefaces on
command. don't even worry about it. i have a lot of pet peeves that
you might find anal and/or ridiculous. my little brother is one of my best
friends, and he's awesome. my boyfriend, david, is one of the most
amazing people i know. i think we're pretty lucky to have each other. :)
what else.. i like swing dancing (lindy hop), movies, and music. how
could i forget music? without it, i don't think anything in my life would
be the same. it honestly means everything to me. the descendents are
my favorite band of all time. yep, basically life is just awesome.

My Interests

swing dancing, of course.

I'd like to meet:

Music:



music i listen to frequently:
against me!, all, american
steel, ann beretta, avail,
the bouncing souls, the
briefs, the briggs, chinese
telephones, chuck ragan,
the clash, cloak/dagger, the
copyrights, dead to me,
defiance ohio, descendents,
dillinger four, the ergs!, the
explosion, face to face, the
falcon, for science, the
futureheads, the gaslight
anthem, groovie ghoulies,
kid dynamite, lagwagon, the
leftovers, lemuria, less than
jake, lifetime, the lillingtons,
the loved ones, the measure,
the modern machines, mxpx,
neutral milk hotel, the new
dress, nofx, none more black,
nothington, one man army,
operation ivy, paul baribeau,
rancid, the ratchets, regina
spektor, the replacements,
ringers, riverboat gamblers,
the slackers, slapstick,
the smoking popes, social
distortion, the soviettes,
sublime, suicide machines,
sundowner, the sw!ms, tegan
& sara, teenage bottlerocket,
this bike is a pipe bomb,
tim armstrong, toots & the
maytals, tsunami bomb, the
world/inferno friendship
society, youth brigade.

Movies:

anchorman, the boondock saints, garden state..

Television:



jd: you're not aware of
any sort of odd underground
canal system beneath the
hospital, are you? i think
i saw a manatee.

janitor: was his name julian?

jd: we didn't exchange pleasantries.

janitor: that's julian.

Books:



"i urge you to please notice
when you are happy, and
exclaim or murmur or think
at some point, 'if this isn't
nice, i don't know what is.'"
-kurt vonnegut

Heroes:

danny elfman, vic ruggiero..

My Blog

you know you're a graphic designer when..

You watch the superbowl just for the commercials. You can spot bad typography from 100 yards away.You are pro-facebook because 95% of the myspace accounts burn your retinas.You can name more than 200 ...
Posted by amanda!! on Sat, 12 May 2007 04:44:00 PST

oh WALMART. <3

i decided that since i've now worked at walmart for 3 years, it's time to write a collection of stories about just how AWESOME the customers can be. first: rules for idiots.1.  if you tell a ...
Posted by amanda!! on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:36:00 PST