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Amanda

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About Me

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My Interests

Fashion Design, the Great Lakes (especially Long Point, Port Rowan, Georgian Bay and The Great Lakes Historical Society), shipwrecks, long walks in the city, lounging on a beach, frisbee, paranormal activity, anywhere and everywhere Massachusetts (from the Berkshires to Plum Island) and especially that little antique shop in my grandma's hometown of Georgetown , alternative medicine, growing herbs, fish keeping (tropical), adobe buildings, mass consciousness, organic food, The Bruce Peninsula, Fathom Five Provincial Park, Mexican food, music, strange road signs, interior design, colour theory, mountain lions, poetry, Spanish (it's so beautiful isn't it?), coincidence, green building, vegetarian food, Robert Kennedy's Waterkeeper's Alliance, painting stuff, sustainable development, Mobility (the game), rollerblading, kayaking, Kauai (especially Hanalei, home of Puff The Magic Dragon), full sentences on messenger, long steamy baths with a good book and some candles, people who can change my point of view (in a positive way), DIY fashion, boardgames, playing the mouse game with my cat, cryptozoology

I'd like to meet:

Sarah Polley, Kathleen Hannah, William Shatner, Jack Black, Virginia Woolfe, Robert Kennedy Jr, Xavier Rudd, Galadriel. People who can make me laugh.

Music:

Le Tigre, Stevie Nicks, NOFX, The Weakerthans, The Dead Kennedys, Sleater Kinney, Paul Simon, Tom Petty, Dick Dale, Tegan and Sara, Dojo Workhorse, Pink Mountaintops, Black Mountain, The Pixies, The Distillers, The Breeders, Tenacious D, Desmond Dekker, Po Girl, Sublime, Man or Astroman, Gordon Lightfoot, The Beastie Boys, William Shatner, AFI, Peter Gabriel, Julie Ruin, The Dudes, Beija Flor, The Decemberists, The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, The Pogues, Johnny Cash, The Velvet Underground, The B-52's, CCR, Ween, Chicks on Speed, Midnight Oil, Adam Ant, The Byrds, The Queers, The Pretenders, Neil Diamond (seriously), My Chemical Romance, Chixdiggit, Ben Folds Five, Cat Power, Buffalo Springfield, The Beta Band, The Postal Service, Nick Drake, Fugazi, Bright Eyes, The Roots, The Travelling Wilburys, The Skatalites, Digable Planets, The Dudes, Xavier Rudd, The Mamas and The Papas, The Shangri Las,James Taylor, Puffy AmiYumi, Bob Marley, The Be Good Tanyas, Michelle Shocked, Aleka's Attic, Of Montreal, The Brunettes

Movies:

Running On Empty, Reality Bites, Stand By Me, Welcome Home Roxy Carmicheal, The Breakfast Club, Benny and Joon, Dirty Dancing, The Lord Of The Rings movies, Boys Don't Cry, The Hours, Eyes Wide Shut, Dead Poets Society, Chasing Amy, The Sweet Hereafter, Heathers, The Station Agent, E.T, Thelma and Louise, Pump Up The Volume, Lost Boys, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Thing Called Love, I Heart Huckabees, My Life Without Me, Open Water, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Grizzly Man, Lie With Me, The Weatherman, The Notebook, Say Anything, Happy Endings, Amelie, Little Miss Sunshine, The Triplets Of Belleville and MANY more.

Television:

Pilot Guides, The Office, Creepy Canada, The Nature Of Things with David Suzuki, The National Geographic Channel, The Gilmore Girls, Road To Avonlea, Changing Rooms, My So Called Life, The Wonder Years, any shows on shipwrecks, Hot Property, House Hunters, Mythbusters, Survivorman, the news, W-Five, The Sopranos

Books:

Memoirs of A Geisha, The Dharma Bums, Siddhartha, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Silmarillion, Marine Mammals Ashore: A Field Guide For Strandings (written by my mom!), A Handmaid's Tale, Animal Liberation, Dr. Rat, Fast Food Nation, The Diary Of Anne Frank, The Narnia Chronicles, Santa Evita, Prescription For Nutritional Healing, New World Atlas

Heroes:

David Suzuki, Amelia Earhart, Laurelai Gilmore, Jacques Cousteau, the family from "Ocean Wanderer", Sarah Polley, Mel Fisher, Anne of Green Gables, Sayuri the 3 legged cat

My Blog

How To Write A Poem

Nicholas Moore HOW TO WRITE A POEM To be a poet, You have to drink like a fish, By which I mean: You should do it without any clothes on In the middle of a lake. To be a poet, First you ...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:21:00 PST

Canadian History

Once upon a colony, there was a land that was almost a real country called Canada.  But people began to feel different and no longer Acadien or French and rational but CanadiEN and Mensch and pas...
Posted by Amanda on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:34:00 PST

A New Poem

Nothing can ever happen twice.In consequence, the sorry fact isthat we arrive here improvisedand leave without the chance to practice.Even if there is no one dumber,if you're the planet's biggest dunc...
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:00:00 PST

Poem by E.E Cummings

Well, I know I promised to do it every week and this is only the second time...Sorry.  I finally found a poem I just had to post.  Some poems I have to keep to myself you know...like secrets...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 22 May 2006 08:17:00 PST

Poetry

 I really love the magic of poetry.  The way that the words can incite such emotion.  The way a few short lines can take you to another place.  So, I've decided to share a few...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:51:00 PST

My mom's new book

Hello!  I've never written a blog before...and I don't really intend to write more...unless there is something that I absolutely must share.  Anyway, I'm writing because yesterday my m...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:41:00 PST