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~amy~

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About Me


something i read:

"Onions"
// Getting to know april 8th's is like peeling an onion: one layer reveals another and then another, but the core of your being remains a mystery. This can make intimacy with you a challenge, but only the most timid people would pass up the chance to enjoy your company. What's a few tears compared to the flavor you add to everything? //

i am a FIREY indulgent ARIES, a designer/photographer/fire dancer/music LOVER...
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for those who have never seen FIRE DANCING, here's a taste from my AMAZING, smokin HOT poi teachers hannah kamala and les:

also check out NICK WOOLSEY, one of the most beautiful and inspirational poi spinners i have ever seen *bowing*:

my doGGie, toki~

photos:

Check out more photos @ ..::DEVIL'S LAB::..

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My Interests

~ "music is my heart & soul, more precious than gold"
~ going to shows of all kinds
~ feeling a great song coarsing thru my body and flowing out of my arms and legs
~ fire dancing
~ traveling
~ gorgeous beaches, gritty cities
~ photography
~ aesthetics
~ creating & appreciating art
~ graf/street art
~ vinyl toys
~ interior design
~ architecture
~ yoga
~ chakras
~ good writing
~ daydreaming
~ nightdreaming
~ singing rilly loud
~ tatts/piercings
~ irie vibes
~ destroying brain cells
~ movies movies movies
~ vocabulary
~ social commentary
~ transcendence
~ connecting
~ expanding the mind
~ shaking what my momma gave me
~ staying up all nite
~ playing w/ my dog =)
~ foodies
~ sushi!
~ lounging around in bed
~ rawkin out
~ making long lists

...good stuff good stuff

if you'd like 2 see some more of my photography check out:

..::DEVIL'S LAB::..

"It's like, you're not playing the instrument...It's like, you ARE the instrument, and the Universe is playing YOU" ~ Qbert

"abundance may be had simply by consciously receiving what has already been given"
~ sufi saying

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I'd like to meet:

~ REAL ppl who aren't afraid to get down & dirty
~ artists
~ musicians
~ photographers
~ fire dancers
~ hippies
~ stoners
~ geeks and freaks
~ elitist bastards
~ djs
~ cute hiphop boys
~ drealock rastas

Music:

~ grimey underground shit & anything w/ SOUL
~ i'm a dancehall queen for life!

~ HipHop and U Don't Stop:
~ the mighty Mos (circa blackstar, black on both sides...i give mos mad luv but he hasn't had anything relevant to say since '99)
~ common
~ kweli (circa blackstar, reflection eternal))
~ handsome boy modeling school
~ people under the stairs
~ gangstarr
~ RJD2!
~ blockhead
~ dead prez
~ atmosphere!
~ immortal technique
~ crown city rockers
~ cunninlinguist
~ zion i
~ dj krush
~ blackalicious
~ latyrx
~ j5
~ dilated peoples
~ tribe
~ the roots
~ binary star
~ slum village
~ the fugees
~ j-live
~ living legends
~ nas
~ big
~ pac
~ erykah badu

~ Rawkin Out:
~ the gorillaz!
~ justice
~ interpol
~ cold war kids
~ the rapture
~ bloc party
~ digitalism
~ ratatat
~ the decemberists
~ peter bjorn & john
~ the postal service
~ my morning jacket
~ sublime!
~ incubus
~ nirvana
~ the killers
~ death cab for cutie
~ the smiths
~ portishead
~ bjork
~ morcheeba
~ thrice!
~ the jealous sound
~ jeff buckley!
~ jose gonzales
~ coldplay
~ the white stripes
~ the shins
~ 311
~ rage against the machine
~ NIN
~ depeche mode
~ the cure!

~ Bass head!:
~ thievery corporation!
~ daft punk
~ st. germain
~ bonobo
~ mark farina
~ dj zeph
~ kaskade
~ kosheen
~ house/trance/jungle/D&B/hardcore

~ Roots Rock Reggae! Ska, Dub to Dancehall
~ bob & damien marley
~ luciano!
~ gregory issacs
~ buju
~ barrington levy
~ sizzla
~ beres hammond
~ sean paul
~ richie spice
~ elephant man
~ t.o.k.
~ tony rebel
~ tanya stephens
~ lee 'scratch' perry
~ black uhuru
~ pepper

and on and on forever// "music is my heart and soul, more precious than gold"

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Movies:

yes please!
~ lost in translation
~ born into brothels
~ the fountain
~ royal tennenbaums
~ garden state
~ marie antoinette
~ fight club
~ snatch
~ donnie darko
~ nightmare before xmas!
~ bomb the system
~ 24 hour party people
~ waking life
~ rounders
~ moulin rouge
~ amelie
~ gattaca
~ american beauty
~ scent of a woman
~ shawshank redemption
~ resevoir dogs
~ lord of the rings
~ clerks
~ high fidelity
~ delirious
~ office space!
~ half baked
~ harold & kumar
~ pretty much any and all stoner movies
~ austin powers
~ wayne's world
~ lilo and stitch
~ wallace and gromit...
~ tim burton!
~ wes anderson
~ kevin smith
~ sofia coppola
~ ed norton
~ mike myers
~ documentaries
~ claymation!
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Television:


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Books:

~ AYN RAND'S FOUNTAINHEAD
~ the god of small things (roy)
~ the alchemist (coehlo)
~ blindness (saramago)
~ world religions (houston smith)
~ a time to kill (grisham)
~ the quiet american (green)
~ siddhartha (hesse) ~ rahl dahl!
~ poe
~ calvin & hobbes!
~ art books
~ grafiti world: Street Art from Five Continents (Ganz)
~ vaporz
~ and tons of interior design magazines

~ currently reading:

Heroes:

~ creative souls ~

~ frida kahlo ~ alexander calder ~ philipe starck ~ david choe ~ shepard fairey ~ The London Police ____________________________________________________________ __________________

My Blog

Art as Flirtation and Surrender

In your light I learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do,and that sight becomes this art.~ Rumi...
Posted by ~amy~ on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:16:00 PST

a sincere token of my affection

Incredible it is to experience the life we do--Especially when it is shared with youThis card is just a simple tangible expression of my appreciation for your spirit and presence along this journey of...
Posted by ~amy~ on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:55:00 PST

the sickness and the cure: what love is

love and relationships are a complicated convoluted confusing matteri've been struggling with two concepts lately: 'the other' and chemisty.what is it in us that drives human beings (and human being o...
Posted by ~amy~ on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:40:00 PST

Children of Fire

come unto memy children of firewicked and weepingalone in hotel roomsstaring unrecognizably in the mirrorthe all dancingall knowingsoul searching(or soul seeking?)innocentmurderouscoldwaringcerebralre...
Posted by ~amy~ on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:56:00 PST

sleepless nights

ugh. 3:53am jet streams fuel sleepless nights: watery pictures of rumples sheets, morning kisses the transmition of sweet smiles over tangles of telephone wire love forgotten (or aband...
Posted by ~amy~ on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

concluding remarks

my time here is running short. concluding remarks on HK: this has been, by far, the most intense and interesting chapter of my life. in the past 4 months i have passed thru 4 countries + the ext...
Posted by ~amy~ on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

running

a dreary monday morning, i put on my running shoes, i had been asleep for weeks, the laces like gray nooses around my fingers, i looked once more round the empty room and shut the door, i ran ...
Posted by ~amy~ on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST