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About Me

MiRandom facts:
I work in Manhattan at a music management company and love it.
My favorite number is eight.
I'm a quintessential libra .
I've never had the chicken pox.
I used to be a nationally ranked equestrian but have hung up my spurs due to a near death riding accident. Perhaps I'll ride again.
I'm reckless with ellipses.
I love NYC.
I have glasses and naturally curly hair, you will rarely see me wear either.
My favorite colors are orange and grey not gray.
I've been a vegetarian for most of my life...nothing with a smile.
Wawa Lemonade Iced Tea reminds me of Sundays at the white (editing) house.
I love roadtrips because I like seeing Americana out the window. I can also drive stickshift and I kinda suck at driving automatic.
I like umbrellas, but hate being out in the rain.
I don't know how to swim and fear boats, but love the New England ocean.
My iBook is my favorite possesion.
I love telling people about their new favorite song.
I prefer my peanut butter natural and smooth.
I become easily obsessed.
I have favorite teams along the east coast: Red Sox, Nets, Eagles, Wings, Flyers.
Sometimes I play my music loud and spin around in my room.
My car is named the Go Go Cabrio and doesn't have a broken window anymore.
My life can be peiced together by the scraps of paper and mundane items that I horde.
I hate mayonnaise not because of the wretched taste, but because I had a bad dream about it when I was eleven.

My Interests

chess
cinematic adventures
coffeeshops
cupcakes
diners
doodling
flip flops
giraffes
going to shows
horseback riding
jukeboxes
listening to music
mini golf
mint tea
nyc
photography
running
shorelines
starfish
traveling
vegetarianness
wawa
wiener dogs
wreaking havoc
etc...

Music:

my top five (in order):
pat mcgee band
ryan adams
radiohead
wilco
juliana hatfield

then there's everything else...:

akiva
ben folds (and his five)
ben lee
better than ezra
brand new
bright eyes
damien rice
david ford
david gray
death cab for cutie
doves
earlimart
elliott smith
embrace
glen phillips/toad the wet sprocket
gran bel fisher
green to think
guster
hellogoodbye
honestly
honorary title
howie day
ike
jacks mannequin
jamie cullum
jeff buckley
jellyfish
jesse malin
johnathan rice
josh joplin group
joshua radin
kings of leon
letters to cleo
lily allen
lloyd dobler effect
loveless
magnetic fields
matt pond pa
mellencamp
mr north
my weekend self
muse
mute math
OK Go
old 97's
omnisoul
owsley
paloalto/golden state
pat mcgee band
paul westerberg/replacements
pete yorn
phantom planet
pink spiders
plain white t's
postal service
rachael yamagata
regina spektor
rhett miller
rooney
ryan montbleau
schaeffer
seeking homer
snow patrol
sondre lerche
spoon
stars
starsailor
stephen kellogg & the sixers
stereophonics
teddy thompson
teitur
the blake babies
the boy least likely to
the damnwells
the format
the futureheads
the get up kids
the police
the stills
travis
vertical horizon
weezer
wheat
whiskeytown
your vegas

Movies:

Christopher Guest films
Kevin Smith films
Mostly anything that Johnny Depp is in
Mostly anything that Jared Leto is in
Everything Parker Posey is in
A Beautiful Mind
Almost Famous
Benny and Joon
Dead Poets Society
Empire Records
Eternal Sunshine
Fever Pitch
Ghost World
Girl Interrupted
Good Will Hunting
Half Baked
Harold and Kumar
High Fidelity
Life as a House
Memento
Mozart and the Whale
Napoleon Dynamite
Prefontaine
Reality Bites
Riding in Cars with Boys
Snakes On A Plane
Super Size Me
The Brave Little Toaster
The Little Mermaid
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
any assortment of rock documentaries...

Television:

Arrested Development
Colbert Report
Daily Show
Grey's Anatomy (which is really starting to majorly suck)
Kids In The Hall
Saturday Night Live
Scrubs
The Office
History Channel
STN 49
Turner Classic Movies
any assorted craptastic MTV "reality shows" but only because Dan makes me...I swear.

Books:

Currently reading "IV: A Decade Of Curious People And Dangerous Ideas" by Chuck Klosterman

My Blog

my second biggest fear

This is horrible. Careening off of a bridge is my second biggest fear (first one being flying/dying in a fiery plane crash, usually over water). For as long as I can remember I've had this fear. Wh...
Posted by miranda! on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:13:00 PST

all we are

This is one of my favorite albums of the summer... and I enjoy it so much that even though I have an "advanced" copy, I am so pre-ordering it as well. You can preorder it here too: www.awarestore.co...
Posted by miranda! on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:04:00 PST

all we are

graphic!

This is excellent. I totally wrote my Bright Eyes show blog and of course it's on my home computer. All in all, it was a lovely, controlled chaos, show. As Joy said, " a fuck of sound". (Bright Ey...
Posted by miranda! on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:18:00 PST

go back and listen to "daughters", bitches

I love Kanye and I love John Mayer. I remember siting in the STN studios watching MTVu when Kanye's "The College Dropout" emerged into the scene and he admitted that he would like to work with John M...
Posted by miranda! on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:54:00 PST

oh my goodness gracious!

I AM SO DOING THIS! Though I already have the album and have the vinyl en route, I so want to play because my mix will be the best ever. Ever ever.Create an iMix with 10 of your favorite Ryan Adams ...
Posted by miranda! on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:22:00 PST

:-)

Oh, we were there for the boots.Click Here To Watch "These Girls" at Stereogum.com ...
Posted by miranda! on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:27:00 PST

everybody knows

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Posted by miranda! on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:44:00 PST

oh my goodness gracious!

So today I was slightly bored and ended up looking for my phantom daschund on various pet adoption sites. I also shared with Danielle pictures of my hit list and named my unknown pet: Moxie the Doxi...
Posted by miranda! on Thu, 24 May 2007 08:02:00 PST

we may be vanilla but our labs are chocolate

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Posted by miranda! on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:55:00 PST