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My Interests

Music:

Bad Religion, Tool, Hendrix, DK, Joplin, Parliament Funkadelics, FireWater, The Clash, Clutch, James Brown, Bikini Kill, Tom Waits, the Ramones, so many bands I can't even think of right now...most things that are loud and fast...anything with great lyrics...

Movies:

I have a penchant for cheesy action movies (anything with Arnold in it because he's hilarious), 80's fantasy and cartoons (like The Dark Crystal, Neverending Story, The Last Unicorn), 80's barbarian movies (like Conan and Red Sonja), The Princess Bride, Star Wars (not the crappy new ones, though)...movies that twist your brain...Withnail and I (it's great, I highly recommend it), EVERYTHING Monty Phython ever did...depressing documentaries...

Television:

80's cartoons like He-Man and She-Ra, My Little Pony, Jem and the Holograms, ThunderCats etc. Veronica Mars, Invader Zim, South Park, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Democracy Now!, Adult Swim, Ali G. I love Jeopardy...and dare I admit it?...Buffy the Vampire Slayer...don't hate me...

Books:

Sooo many...In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, anything by Noam Chomsky, Dracula by Bram Stoker, anything by Zora Neale Hurston, anything by Shakespeare...especially the bloody revenge plays...cheesy formula fantasy novels...The Stranger and The Immortal by Albert Camus, The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels...Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, No Logo by Naomi Klein

Heroes:

Wonder Woman, Naomi Klein, Angela Davis, Frederick Engels...

My Blog

a birthday missed?

Shit. I missed my own birthday. Well, I was there for it...and I celebrated it...but I didn't bother to gloat on myspace. Weird, huh? Totally out of character. However, a...
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:51:00 PST

swayze II

It turns out that the word "swayze" is a slang term, meaning that something is awesome and totally badass. As in, "That's so swayze." Wow. The ever developing irony of the English l...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:12:00 PST

swayze

I just watched Roadhouse (with rifftrax...I wouldn't watch that turd on its own), and I've got to tell you, it has the best cinematic line of any movie of any time period anywhere...for all time. ...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:41:00 PST

fun-time with birthday pants

It's my BIRTHDAY!!! Happy, happy birthday to me! All well-wishing and happy day exclamations are welcome. Cards of the paper or e variety will be considered thoughtful. Presents, of ...
Posted by Amanda on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:54:00 PST

jerks...

To all of you who I posted a comment for, but you never posted one for me...you suck... To all of you who haven't written me in a million years...you suck... Stupid jerks...burn in hell......
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:06:00 PST

superhero me

I wish I had a superpower....some people have said that my superpower is the ability to whine all day without interruption...without a need to eat or sleep or pee or anything really...if that's my sup...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

self-love

I tried to post a comment about myself on my myspace page...hey, I was bored. It was going to say, "I'm pretty great." That's all, but they wouldn't let me. They said that I had to b...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

blood....Blood...BLOOD...

Today I had a crappy doctor's appointment for jerks, and they took 8 vials of blood. EIGHT!!! That's obscene! What do they need all that for? Are they vampires? I don't think I ...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

all the cool kids are doing it...

Actually, I wouldn't know what the hell the cool kids are up to because I don't actually know any of them...(sorry friends, but the truth will out). Anyway, here's a blog because I'm bored....
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST