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Ashley

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About Me

I just started a D.C. show experience website (dcsounds.com). It is finally up and running so go check it out. I am slowly but surely getting the posts up that I have written. If you, too, enjoy going to shows and would like to write about your experience let me know and we can add your thoughts to the site. Also, feel free to comment in the forum on any of the posts or use to the forum to discuss anything else music related.

My Interests

coffee, live music, krispy treats, exploring, riding my bicycle, walking around the city looking at buildings, making people laugh, staring at people, learning new things, reading, eating veggies and cupcakes, being spontaneous, photography, stand-up comedy

I'd like to meet:

Someone who likes to go to shows and is capable of having a good time.

Music:

What I listen to the most:
A Perfect Circle, Ambulette, The B-52's, Beck, The Beta Band, Better Than Ezra, Bjork, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Botch, Broadcast, Cave In, Celebration, cKy, CocoRosie, Crisis, The Cure, Cursive, Dresden Dolls, Enya, Faith No More, Fantomas, Faun Fables, Fugazi, Goldfrapp, Grizzly Bear, Hall & Oates, H.I.M., Hope For Agoldensummer, Imogen Heap, India.Arie, Isis, Interpol, Jucifer, Lovage, The Mars Volta, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Morphine, Mr. Bungle, Myshkin's Ruby Warblers, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Polyphonic Spree, Portishead, The Postal Service, Queen, Radiohead, Rasputina, Rotting Christ, RX Bandits, The Sea and Cake, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Yo La Tengo.

Movies:

I like funny movies.

Television:

Most watched channels: History, National Geographic, The Learning Channel, Discovery, The Science Channel, Disney and Cartoon Network.

Books:

Last read:
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Lost On Earth: Nomads of the New World by Mark Fritz
North Toward Home by Willie Morris

Heroes:

Me, because I am amazing and maybe you.

My Blog

Haircut

Tomorrow morning I am getting my hair cut for the first time in 4 yrs by someone other than myself.  I am also coloring it. I will miss my greys but I would like to have a richer color.  Hav...
Posted by Ashley on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:03:00 PST

Eeek, the public

I have been in this really weird mood for about the past month where I haven't wanted to be in public or around people I don't know.  I used to love gazing around the metro at all the wonderful s...
Posted by Ashley on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:33:00 PST

Sasquatch or Bear?

What do you think?   
Posted by Ashley on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:45:00 PST

Closer to 30 than 20

Wow, time has flown by.  It seems like just yesterday I was in middle school getting scolded for talking too much in class.  I don't want to complain about being old because 26 is still youn...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:01:00 PST

LA and Vegas

My flight from DC to LA was nothing short of amazing. From the sky I saw the plains, farmland marked by circles and squares (it looked like a giant game of Othello), the Rocky Mountains, the dese...
Posted by Ashley on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:49:00 PST

presents are good

My favorite thing to receive as a gift is mix tapes/cds.  Well, considering my tape deck broke in my last move I guess tapes wouldn't be the way to go but I would still welcome it with open arms....
Posted by Ashley on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:47:00 PST

oh my god!

HOLY BLOODY HELL THESE COOKIES ARE FREAKING DELICIOUS!  My tastebuds are going insane right now.  ...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:02:00 PST

Yardwork To The Max!

I was going to label the pics before and after but I think it's obvious. I did all of this by myself with an electric weedeater and a pair of hedge clippers.  It only took me a little ...
Posted by Ashley on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:43:00 PST

This is the reason I vacation in Mississippi

For those of you who know me it should be no surprise that my vacations and travel are based around food.  When speaking of elegant cuisine; places like France and Italy are the ones most often m...
Posted by Ashley on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:05:00 PST

Movie quotes that I think are funny

I was thinking about funny lines from movies so I went to IMDb to look up some more, see below.  Feel free to add some of your favorite quotes. CB4: Euripides: Did you know a black man invented i...
Posted by Ashley on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:57:00 PST