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Amanda Jane

I am here for Friends

About Me

I use this site as a convenient way to keep up with the doings of assorted musicians more than anything else.
Even so, please don't randomly add me. Unless you introduce yourself with a short note, I won't bother to listen to your music or even view your profile. If I know you please send a note reminding me of who you are before sending a friend request. If I don't know you, introduce yourself and if I like ya, I'll add ya. But know I am a terribly slow correspondent and don't check this as often as a lot of people do. When I do check it, I am almost always unable to sift through all the friend requests and never get around to reading all the bulletins.
I have deleted all the flashy pictures people have posted as comments on my profile. This was a sweeping gesture that even took out my dear friend Emily's flashy pictures from some time ago. Frankly, several different flashy or glittery or whatever superlative pictures make me feel nauseated, and I have enough trouble with feeling that way without such pictures. Please don't post them to my profile. They will be deleted.

My Interests

entomology, history, poetry, psychology, reading, sociology, writing

Music:

Fiona Apple, Bjork, Jackson Browne, Cake, Mariah Carey, Adonis Cross, Ani DiFranco, Faith Hill, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Audra McDonald, Joni Mitchell, Alanis Morissette, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, Cat Stevens

Movies:

A Star is Born, Benny & Joon, Blade Runner, Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Clockwork Orange, Dancer in the Dark, Evolution, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Greed, Harold and Maude, The Iron Giant, Malcolm X, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Platoon, The Point, Sophie's Choice, Spaceballs, Whale Rider, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Young Frankenstein

Television:

As the World Turns, Father Ted, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Red Dwarf, Sex and the City, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Trigun, The X-Files

Books:

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa, Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs, The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Native Son by Richard Wright, The Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler, Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
the Amanda pig series by Jean Van Leeuwen
pretty much any play by Edward Albee, especially Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
dystopian novels and utopian novels or novels that are some combination thereof
comic strips: Dinosaur Comics, The Boondocks, Calvin and Hobbes
poets: Anne Sexton, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Carl Sandburg, Christina Rossetti, Denise Duhamel, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Marge Piercy, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Rodney Jones, Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes