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Amber

all too human

About Me



My Interests

drunken vs sober recording, thinking up gay names for my friend's boat, eating media, listening to awesome radio, making awesome radio, learning Spanish once and for all, enjoying a room with my bed next to my desk, not on top of it, trying to stretch my weary body, remembering and recording my dreams, reading and wriitng, loving my friends, testing my hypothesis, living the dream, being off the cuff and on the fly, planning trips: Papua New Guinea, Cuba, Finland...

Movies:

I don't play favorites with movies, but here are some I like: The Graduate, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine, most Lynch, most Almodovar, most Kaufman (except Adaptation), most Jarmusch, City of God, Vertigo, early Steve Martin movies like the Jerk and LA Story, the Fisher King, Taxi Driver, Life of Brian, Paris, Texas, Brazil, Heathers, Easy Rider, and more... Documentaries: Gimme Shelter, Grizzly Man, Gates of Heaven...

Books:

Coming soon to my new room, a bookshelf with the likes of: Cat's Cradle, Rebel Angels, Master & Margarita, Under the Volcano, Pedro Paramo, Narnia, anything Sherlock Holmes, Story of O, The Great Gatsby, Plath, Simic, Freud, Hemingway, Orwell, Wolfe, Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, (non fiction: Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright, Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Studs terkel, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men) and more!!! I can't wait.

My Blog

Mermaid Parade!!!

Some pictures from the funnest Mermaid Parade ever!!!And check out the radio piece I did about the mermaid Parade on my new You Never Know Myspace Page!!!...
Posted by Amber on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:30:00 PST

Announcing...You Never Know Radio!!!!!

I've put up the "official" You Never Know Radio page on myspace!!!!http://www.myspace.com/youneverknowradioSomething different for your ears... If you haven't already, please add You never Know radio ...
Posted by Amber on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:11:00 PST

In My Lifetime...

Check:-Slept in a Mayan Pyramid -Crossed the Panama Canal by boatTo Do:-See the Hindu Temples of Indonesia-Macchu Piccu-Dive the Great Barrier Reef-Papua New Guinea!!!-Antartica, before it melts.more ...
Posted by Amber on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:39:00 PST

New Radio for 99 Ways To Tell A Story

There's this really cool radio experiment called 99 Ways To tell A Story. They give you a set of guidelines, or specific elements to use in the piece (an opening: 'To being with, they didn't get along...
Posted by Amber on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:43:00 PST

A confession

I am not 27, like my myspace profile says. I am 29.
Posted by Amber on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:20:00 PST

Remind Me Never To Do That Again

OK, so it's long story, but I for a period of my life, I worked on boats. Not fishing trawlers out at sea, fly-fishing for marlin off the coast of Cuba, or even sail boats hugging the shore of an undi...
Posted by Amber on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:13:00 PST

Three Cheers for Vicodin

So here I am, in a lovely vicodin induced haze and feeling pretty good about the world. Pretty damn good. I feel okay about society, they'll do their thing, I'll do mine, it'll all be f...
Posted by Amber on Tue, 16 May 2006 12:45:00 PST

Wisdom, Once Removed

you know what they say about girls with big teeth ... (no gum disease!!!!) so i got my wisdom tooth removed....needless to say haven't seen a dentist in like eight years. not that i am an anti-dentite...
Posted by Amber on Tue, 16 May 2006 12:27:00 PST

Dear Naked Man Outside My Window

Dear Naked Man Outside My Window.:I feel like we've gotten to know each other a bit. My window looks out to the backyard, and the backyard of many others. If I look sharply to my right there is your w...
Posted by Amber on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:55:00 PST

New radio for International Women's Day

I just finished these two pieces for International Women's Day. They are to air on WBAI today at 9:30 AM. The first piece is about the first ten women to run for US President. as narrated by artist Ch...
Posted by Amber on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:42:00 PST