Amanda Noce, MUSIC, ZOOLOGY, Ramphocinclus brachyurus sanctaeluciae, Melanoptila glabirostris, cooperative breeding, herpetology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, ethology, ornithology, mammalogy, entomology, natural history, environmental science, conservation biology, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, trying not to procrastinate, philosophizing, balancing really juvenile immature antics with intelligent discussions, haddon heights, cape may, nature, trying to save the world, singing, guitar, gibson guitars, saxophone, writing/performing music, Belize, Latin America, Español, Brazilian Portuguese, rain forests, cryptozoology, evolution, sustainable development, quasi-vegetarianism, attempting to be healthy, attempting to maintain an exercise schedule, facial hair.
I'd like to meet:
Cool people who like to do cool things. Do you do "cool things?" Are you a "cool person?" If so, you are a candidate for meeting me!
Also, Bigfoot/Sasquatch/the Yeti/the Abominable Snowman/Skunkape/the Wildman/Yowi or any species of bipedal hominid other than a human!! Dun dun duuuuhhhhhH!!!!
I want to meet peoples, preferable traits:
good sense of humor
an open mind with a desire to learn.
Peopled I'd really like to meet and talk to: Jeff Corwin, E.O. Wilson, John McLaughlin, and pretty much any of the people listed in my hero section.
Music:
Sufjan Stevens, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Rx Bandits, The Sound Of Animals Fighting, John Coltrane, The Evens, Charles Mingus, The Mars Volta, Seu Jorge, Lagwagon, BearvsShark, The Tony Williams Lifetime, Boys Night Out, Circa Survive, Led Zeppelin, Belle and Sebastian, Coheed & Cambria, Matchbook Romance, Five Iron Frenzy (RIP), Thrice, Streetlight Manifeseto, No Use For A Name, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Catch 22, Sonny Rollins, Vince Giuaraldi, the Roots, Badly Drawn Boy, Rufio, Movielife (RIP), NOFX, Starting Line, the Suicide Machines, Avail, Mad Caddies, Mustard Plug, Bigwig, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Bouncing Souls, Rise Against, Atreyu, the AQUABATS, Millencolin, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Finch, Dance Hall Crashers, Biocoogana, Monty, Longshot Hero, Ritter, Breakaway, The Prize Fight, Honest Engine, Pullout, Simetta, SGR, A Case of the Mondays, Remember Daylight, We Explode, I Voted For Kodos, Distorted Penguins, Monty, No Regrets, Luckystar, Valencia, Fake Bakon, Ruder Than You, First Step To Failure, The Skeptics, The Suicide Pact, Red Tuesday, too many bands to list... (I'm branching out and trying to listent to as many different bands and styles and whatever as possible)
Band I am currently in:
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Bands I have been in:
DIRTY LARRY, Push Forward Fight Back, Big Fat Huge, Mandatory Exposure, When Everything's Silent, The Get Down Syndrome
Movies:
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU; CITY OF GOD; The Motorcycle Diaries; Garden State; The Weatherman; March of the Penguins; Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy; I Heart Huckabees; the Royal Tenenbaums; Rushmore; Bottle Rocket; 8 Days A Week; Boondock Saints; Lord of the Rings (all of them); Wasted Apples, Small Kid;Tank Top, Here's To Yesterday (The Station Trilogy); X-Men; X-Men: United; X-Men: The Last Stand; Spiderman; Spiderman 2; Two Weeks Notice (yeah, i know, but hugh grant is really funny in this); Shawshank Redemption; Oh Brother Where Art Thou?; Snatch; The Burbs; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; SLC Punk; Hudson Hawk; Unbreakable; The Sixth Sense; The Fifth Element; Die Hard trilogy; the Lethal Weapon movies; As Good As It Gets; Short Circuit 2; ELF; Deuce Bigalow; Dogma; Mallrats; Clerks; Jay and Silent Bob; Ace Ventura 1 and 2; the Ref; The Godfather; Napoleon Dynamite; Mean Girls
Books:
Books I'm currently reading:
Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology, Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology, The Song of the Dodo, tons of papers, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Journal of Herpetology, Journal of Behavioral Ecology, Herpetological Review
Last read books:
Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds, Hot Water Music, The Handicap Principle, River Out Of Eden, A Year In The Maine Woods, The Panda's Thumb, The Future of Life, A Farewell To Arms, The Wild Muir, So Excellent A Fishe, One River, On Becoming A Biologist, The Beak of the Finch, Slaughterhouse 5, Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species, The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, The Complete Idiots Guide To Being Vegetarian, The Windward Road by Archie Carr (this book was absolutely great!), Fitness For Dummies, When Smoke Ran Like Water, A New Species of Trouble, Contaminated Communities, The End of Nature
Books I'll hopefully read someday soon:
Consilience, Off The Beaten Path, One Long Argument, Elements of Argument....
Books I hope to read this year/on my list of books-to-read/reread (I'm trying to repent for many years without reading):
The Animal In Its World, A Neotropical Companion, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories, Jeff Corwin: Living on the Edge, The Great Gatsby, Konrad Lorenz: On Aggression, some copies of National Geographic, Rare and Elusive Birds of North America, Sea Turtles, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, Of Wolves and Men (again), The Naked Ape, Anuran Communication, Sociobiology, and many more
Books I've read, remember, and liked (from H.S. and my youth):
Catcher in the Rye, Grendel, Dibbs In Search of Self, A Raisin in the Sun, Siddartha, Brave New World, The Glass Menagerie, I Am The Cheese, Maniac Magee
Heroes:
Steven Robert Irwin, Jeff Corwin, Mark O'Shea, Nigel Marvin, Jane Goodall, John Varty, Archie Carr, Austin Stevens, Charles Darwin, Tyrone Hayes, the RxBandits, The Sound of Animals Fighting;
anyone who can shovel through all the bullshit, willful incompetence, and irrational people in this world and still be able to positively influence others and maybe leave the world a slightly better place...
Oh, and the creators of these...
