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amanda

About Me

I don't like it when people use my first name a lot in conversation when they don't know me very well.

My Interests

Talking to my rifle.

I'd like to meet:

Batman, Robert Rodriguez, Elizabeth Taylor

Music:

Echo and the Bunnymen; Primal Scream; New Order; PIL; Interpol; The Mountaineers; The Echo Session; Destiny's Child; The Owsley Sunshine; Mother and the Addicts; Nancy Sinatra; Nick Cave; Christina Aguilera; Phil Spector; The Beatles; Roxy Music; The Clash; The Beach Boys; New Order; Gwen Stefani; Jefferson Airplane; Ladytron; The Teardrop Explodes; The Mighty Wah; The Mary Chain; Jay-Z; Pulp; The Archies

Movies:

Suddenly Last Summer; Cleopatra; The Incredibles; Once Upon Time In Mexico; The Faculty; Desperado; Cabaret; La Reine Margot; Star Wars; Fantasia; Clueless; Pulp Fiction; If; House Of Flying Daggers; The Little Mermaid; Spinal Tap; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Gone With The Wind; Raintree County; The Apartment; The Odd Couple; Sin City; The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; The Wizard Of Oz; Help!; Night Of The Iguana; The Dirty Dozen; The Aristocats

Television:

CSI; CSI New York; CSI Miami (generally anything CSI, as well as Law and Order and all it's offshoots, especially Criminal Intent, which is the favourite show in my flat); The Simpsons; Brief History of Disbelief; Divine Designs; Child of our Time; Tim Marlow on...; Anything with wildlife or history.

Books:

Any of the Discworld Novels; Any of Tennessee Williams' plays: especially The Glass Menagerie; Much Ado About Nothing; The Three Musketeers; American Gods; Head On; Turquoise Days; Wouldn't It Be Nice; Paroles; The Man In The Iron Mask; Riot Of Our Own; Portent; The Rats; Les Choses; Romans Policiers; Four Tragedies and Octavia; the Adrian Mole books; Danse Macabre

Heroes:

Stuart Moran; Oscar Wilde; Liz Taylor; Richard Burton; Robert Rodriguez; Stan Lee; Tam Maher; Tennessee Williams; Gator; Batman; Mickey Rourke; Joe Strummer; Ryan Rimkus; Leigh-Anne Elliott; Xtina Murdoch; Sarah Wood and Cayleigh-May Forbes (relentless suck-up that I am)