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amber at painfullyhip.com

"what if hokey pokey really is what it's all about?"

About Me

fact: i like to wrestle dogs.

www.painfullyhip.com

My Interests

tacos, music, dancing, curry, travel, art, cinema, photography, fashion blogging (www.painfullyhip.com), playing ukulele, dogs, my hair, my friends' hair, the sun, cold ones, crunchy pickles, hockey, frogs, sexy old motorcycles, old psych art posters, hating GW, the states of things, blaming the breakdown of society...

I'd like to meet:

keeners

Music:

odetta, the cave singers, jim o'rourke, beirut, grizzly bear, bob dylan, woody guthrie, townes van zandt, bill fay, black mountain, black rice, pink mountaintops, blood meridian, MIA, olivia tremor control, band of bees, band of horses, otis redding, caetano veloso, feist, carla bruni, the notwist, 13 & god, buddy holly, raymond scott, deerhoof, deer tick, black lips, the monks, decemberists, flower travellin band, peter bjorn & john, tyrannasaurus rex, t. rex, ak-momo, devendra banhart, django reinhardt, elliott smith, billie holiday, nina simone, etta james, joanna newsom, sondre lerche, nico, nick cave, nick drake, hot chip, tarwater, iron & wine, portishead, radiohead, stones, serge gainsbourg, silver apples, lots of 80sbritfagpop, chad vangaalen, the shins, solex, tom waits, television personalities, jens lekman, vincent gallo, calexico, crooked fingers...

Movies:

anything by p.t. anderson (magnolia), wes anderson, pedro amaldovar, jean-pierre jeunet, spike jonze, christopher guest, werner herzog, or michel gondry. jesus's son, i heart huckabees, blood simple, fargo, happiness, palindromes, rope, buffalo 66, brazil, frida, american movie, chun king express, the goonies, the last unicorn, almost famous, in america, fubar, the jerk

Television:

the wire, the office, project runway, arrested development, hockey

Books:

currently loving the children's hospital by chris adrian. still life with woodpecker by tom robbins, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers, burn collector by al burian, 1984 by george orwell, the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas. vonnegut. neruda. pynchon.

Heroes:

bob dylan, bill fay, townes van zandt, mark borschardt, aubrey beardsley, alison maclean, p.t. anderson, louise brooks and bill murray