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ames

I am here for Friends

About Me

"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive." --A.E.

My Interests

www.amyvanschaik.com . My Flickr Photos . photography. experimenting with film. reading. movies. playing the piano. long roadtrips and good music. collecting old cameras and books. sarcastic people.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who has read something other than Catcher in the Rye...and can make me laugh.

Music:

sufjan stevens. rilo kiley. built to spill. tilly and the wall. mountain goats. mates of state. the weakerthans. ben folds. elliott smith. neutral milk hotel. pinback. wilco. great lake swimmers. history. pixies.

Movies:

wes anderson. sofia coppola. michel gondry. peter jackson. charlie kaufman. cameron crowe. kevin smith. j.j. abrams. tim minear. art school confidential. broken flowers. reality bites. garden state. me without you. empire records. i heart huckabees. drop dead gorgeous. ferris bueller's day off. the good girl. serenity. amelie. little miss sunshine. documentaries. waitress.

Television:

pushing daisies, wonderfalls, dead like me - brian fuller always makes something amazing.

studio 60. arrested development. it's always sunny in philadelphia. the office. 30 rock. the soup. the inside. firefly. it's always sunny in philidelphia. studio 60. survivorman. discovery channel.

Books:

david sedaris. chuck klosterman. nick hornby. jk rowling. martin amis. ray bradbury.
my books .

Heroes:

"Role models are bullshit. People who move through the world playing roles, attending to roles, aspiring to roles looking for models to help them find new roles - these people are not partaking fully in this whole existence-thing, which is about doing it for real." - Zadie Smith

My Blog

Amy will bake you yummy cookies...

...if you can find her an early copy of the new weakerthans album. yes, i know, it will not even come close to fallow or left and leaving. but i'm ready for a new weakerthans record....
Posted by ames on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:09:00 PST