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Amy

I am a free radical

About Me

I love Wagner horn sections. Also, the sound of palm fronds in the breeze -- step into it. Friends call me Charlotte, sometimes. I am hedonistic, a sucker for ice cream, gin + tonics, anything pink, liable to crushes and also a conspicuous Pisces. Accident prone driver. Someday I am going to move to Paris. I prefer Craigslist, cannot abide Repulicans and am compulsive about doing the Sunday Times crossword.

My Interests

smiling in the dark, Tristan und Isolde, kissing + trysts, MoMA, the Albert Bridge + the South Bank, boys named James, dancing in dark poorly-ventilated confined spaces, Sicily, Franz Klein, Saatchi's Sensation, heart-shaped reefs, Kandinsky, Sturm und Drang, classical piano + rock drumming, Musee Rodin, Calder, foreign languages, Abelard + Heloise

I'd like to meet:

Feet in the air, heads on the ground

Music:

Wagner, Spiritualized, Slint, The Streets, Beethoven, Stan Getz, Royksopp, The Damned, Roy Orbison, Joy Division, Pulp, Verdi, Smashing Pumkins, U2, Air, Gang of Four, Roxy Music + Brian Eno, Nina Simone, Basement Jaxx, Scriabin, Jeff Buckley, Interpol, Peaches, Daft Punk, Arcade Fire, Boards of Canada, Pavement, Chopin, New Order, The Cars, REM, stellastarr*, Red House Painters, The Pixies, Johnny Cash, Magnetic Fields, Blur, Otis Redding, Spacemen 3, The Verve, Prince, Chet Baker, 2 Many DJ's, Flaming Lips, xfm London

Movies:

Sunshine, The Departed, The English Patient, Valley Girl, The Misfits, A Place in the Sun, Before Sunrise + Before Sunset, Singles, The Evil Dead II, Sixteen Candles, Goodfellas, 12 Monkeys, Solaris, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Spiderman I + II, East of Eden, Deja Vu, Godfather saga, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Taxi Driver, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 24 Hour Party People, Quills, everything by Christopher Guest

Television:

The Office, How I Met Your Mother, The Kids in the Hall, Sex and the City, My So-Called Life, Seinfeld, Square Pegs, Coupling, Twin Peaks, Nigella Bites, Curb Your Enthusiam, My Name is Earl, The Young Ones, AbFab

Books:

Love in the Time of Cholera, The English Patient, Lolita, The Alchemist, Jane Eyre, Death in Venice, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Glamorama, Brave New World, Bridget Jones's Diary, The End of the Affair, Shopgirl, Mrs. Dalloway, Birthday Letters, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Rebel Males, Persuasion, poetry by Pablo Neruda + Ted Hughes + Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Heroes:

Pablo Neruda, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Marilyn Monroe, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Coco Chanel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sam Raimi, J. Spaceman, symphony conductors of the world, my mum my sister my father, a cat named Monkey, my husband

My Blog

I just won the Trifecta!

Just bought our first house - and in doing so won the proverbial TRIFECTA, baby!  Here we go, count of three: 1.  It is a Craftsman bungalow built in 1914 - the details are stunning.&nb...
Posted by Amy on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:11:00 PST

Massive Attack on the feeble of mind

Seen + heard:  Massive Attack at the Hollywood Bowl last Sunday.  Brilliant concert highlighted by their piercing political edge.  Their set had the mass-moving crowd transfixed on...
Posted by Amy on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:08:00 PST

If this is 'MySpace', then what the fuck is Rupert Murdoch doing here?

    
Posted by Amy on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:30:00 PST

I'm as giddy as a 16 year old girl!

Last night I was carded again while buying alcohol before heading to the Hollywood Bowl!  Weeeee!  I am so not turning 30 next year....
Posted by Amy on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:22:00 PST