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Amanda/Yumi

Media Baroness

About Me

After properly assessing the intricacies of your personalities I may be inclined to devote my creative energies to colourful narratives which interweave your own skewed understanding of yourself with how I interpret you.

A friend has deemed this process "soap bubbles."

I call it my best form of humour. Unluckily for me it takes time. Which means mostly I appear to have no sense of humour.

BUT, man can I make good dinosaur noises!

Like any good woman, I am prone to changing my mind any moment with no notice. So if you've heard me say that I like or dislike something, but you heard it yesturday, don't bother trying to prescribe that in any permanent way to my persona because I likely feel differently about it today.

I'm a geek, but not the kind you're attracted to.

I don't respect superheros who wear spandex.

My Interests

Photography

Journalism, NGOs that work for human rights and international development (Oxfam, Red Cross, CARE Canada), Japanese culture, the intricacies of the cultural differences between the US and Canada, American politics, Canadian art, unpretentious art, newspapers, CBC, sustainability, political economy, photography, journalism, people

I'd like to meet:


Because we're rediculous... ly awesome.

Akin to my breakdowns

Music:

Cat Power, The Dudes, Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins, Metric, Neko Case, Poe, Regina Spektor, Rilo Kiley, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, The Go! Team, The New Pornographers, The Poppy Family, Portishead, Massive Attack, Ok Go, The Western Investors, Laura Barrett

Movies:

Advent Children, Iron Jawed Angels, V For Vendetta, The Stepford Wives, Chicago, The Life Aquatic, Amelie, Moulin Rouge, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Nausicaa: of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa, Luther, Batman Begins, Constantine, The Brothers Grimm, Pan's Labrynth,

Television:

Sex in the City, Heroes, America's Next Top Model, Doctor Who

Books:

Victorian scientific romances ... but not where romance = love story. Where romance = "A long fictitious tale of heroes and extraordinary or mysterious events, usually set in a distant time or place."
And Cyberpunk. If you don't like/understand cyberpunk we can be friends, but don't bother trying to date me. And American classics. Specifically The Grapes of Wrath, The Jungle, and Catcher in the Rye (me and everyone else..)
Everything by Madaline L'Engle and James Clavell

Heroes:

Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony, Emma Goldman, Ada Lovelace, Molly Pitcher, Richard Avedon, Marshall McLuhan, my MOM!

"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." -- Richard Avedon

My Blog

I have too many photos of myself

I struck an emergency meeting with myself today and we came to the consensus that I have too many photos of myself. It seems obscene that I am able to swap my myspace photos nearly every time I come a...
Posted by Amanda/Yumi on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:02:00 PST

I always give in eventually

So the fact of the matter is I've been avidly avoiding this stupid website for the past year. In no way do I need to spread myself thinner than I already am. (Isn't checking five email accounts, a blo...
Posted by Amanda/Yumi on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:30:00 PST