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amy

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About Me

I like beer, the Golden Girls, and reading magazines. I am an EXCELLENT cook. I work at a magazine. Life is pretty swell.

Oh, and my headline clearly lies: I am in no way a classy lady. I drink excessively, curse like a sailor, and can outbelch any man. I'm from Baltimore, what do you expect?

My Interests

music, writing, going to concerts, cooking, being crafty, debauchery, sleeping, reading, feminism, making mixtapes, new york city, walking, comedy, being a snarky smartass, traveling, making lists, obsessively copy editing

I'd like to meet:

Conan O'Brien, The Golden Girls

Music:

Modest Mouse, The Beatles, the White Stripes, Bright Eyes, The Faint, The Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Sufjan Stevens, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, The Verve, Radiohead, the Dandy Warhols, The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Cursive, Pavement, Pedro the Lion, Dresden Dolls, the Good Life, The Postal Service, Franz Ferdinand, the Magnetic Fields, Pulp, The Walkmen, Something Corporate, Death Cab for Cutie, Ash, Oasis, Weezer, Ben Folds (Five), At the Drive-In, Joy Division, Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Murder by Death, Sleater-Kinney, Le Tigre, The Rapture, The Stills, the Strokes, Spiritualized, U2, Mirah, David Bowie, The Killers, Underworld, Morrissey, Yo La Tengo, Interpol, The New Pornographers, The Shins, Godspeed You! Black Emporer, The Monkees, OK Go, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, TV On the Radio, Metric, New Order, the Decemberists, They Might Be Giants

Movies:

Trainspotting, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Donnie Darko, Office Space, Super Troopers, The Big Lebowski, A Hard Day's Night, 28 Days Later, Shallow Grave, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Napoleon Dynamite, Requiem For a Dream, Amelie, Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Taxi Driver, Dr. Strangelove

Television:

The State, Stella, Family Guy, the Monkees, Kids in the Hall, anything on the Food Network, The Golden Girls, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, America's Next Top Model, Home Movies, The Office

Books:

A Catcher in the Rye, High Fidelity, The Great Gatsby, Wicked, Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-Five, Candide, anything by David Sedaris, Neil Gaiman, Jennifer Weiner, or Laurie Notaro, Harry Potter!, Running with Scissors, the Fuck Up, Lamb, A Million Little Pieces, Dry, Franny and Zooey, A Clockwork Orange, Motherless Brooklyn, Fast Food Nation, Girlfriend in a Coma, The Elements of Style (yes, I know this makes me a nerd), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Heroes:

Bea Arthur. Recently I've realized how fucking awesome Sleater-Kinney are, so them too. And Kathleen Hanna.

My Blog

My snortin' is on teh internet!

That's right, folks, not only did I write something, I recorded my dorky laugh for it, too!Go listen to me die of embarrassment! Yay!
Posted by amy on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:57:00 PST

Evan's going to make an honest woman out of me!

...Or I'm going to make an honest man out of him. Or something. Regardless, I'm engaged! Evan proposed a few weeks ago, and I said yes. So, in about a year's time, he will be Mr. Amy Plitt. ...
Posted by amy on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:51:00 PST

I'll need a new liver when I'm 40, but at least I've had fun, damnit!

I just realized that I have beer featured alongside myself in four of my Myspace photos. I really am a drunk. Jeebus.
Posted by amy on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 05:08:00 PST