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Amy Drake

this is not just Something That Happened. this cannot be One of those things...

About Me


i find beauty wherever it may be hiding.

i want art, always. i love music. love. i have a lot of friends. i am still a new yorker. i love to laugh. love. i like to dance. i like stinky little coffeeshops. i want to take your picture. i like color, blue sky, stick shift, clear nights, pancakes, tattoos, poems, blankets, chopsticks, candles, tea, the subway, glass, yarn, and hugs.

i love being italian.

at times i can be brilliant and neat .

My Interests

real people, aliens, makeup, love, elvis, earrings, pencils, being funny, making a difference in this life, writing, helping when i can

Music:

the killers, sim redmond band, snow patrol, billy joel, imogen heap, katie yearick, the cranberries, ccr, harry connick, jr., violent femmes, michael jackson, kris delmhorst, cake, tori amos, rusted root, john mayer, the koo, dishwalla, barenaked ladies, eric clapton, dean martin, bob dylan, joss stone, coldplay, the white stripes, dmb, madonna, dido, lynyrd skynyrd, trent dabbs, k-os, simon & garfunkel, stevie wonder.

Movies:

the godfather, garden state, empire records, waiting for guffman, princess bride, amelie, run lola run, moscow does not believe in tears, pan's labyrinth

Television:

trying not to get sucked in, and it's not really working.

Books:

catcher in the rye, franny and zooey, nine stories, raise high the roofbeams, carpenters and seymour, an introduction, brave new world, paradise lost, alice's adventures in wonderland, pater pan, the chronicles of narnia, to dance, to dream, the oxford essential dictionary, i like you, pride and prejudice, the joy of signing.

also, i am in love with william shakespeare, so pretty much anything he ever wrote.

My Blog

so... new york.

it's been two months to the day that i rolled into new york.how did that happen? i wish i could say that this has been the easiest transition of them all - that out of all of my moves, this "home-comi...
Posted by Amy Drake on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:31:00 PST

why i don’t watch seinfeld before bed

last night i was puttering around in my room and i could hear my roommate watching seinfeld. it's not that i hate the show, i just don't like the way i feel when the show ends, and i realize i could h...
Posted by Amy Drake on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:16:00 PST

les bloggeurs

marriedtothesea.com...
Posted by Amy Drake on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:39:00 PST

music, writing, nashville

hey nashville peeps. i know some of you write and like music, so check it. dave is awesome to collaborate with, and i have had a great time writing for the nashville feed.From: mDaveDate: Jul 24, 2007...
Posted by Amy Drake on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:51:00 PST

slice

at home we get up earlythere is a thirty per cent chance of rainand we need to do the washhang it out to drywhile we still have the sunthe neighbor calls while we are hanging itto say"now they're not ...
Posted by Amy Drake on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:40:00 PST

it's happening again!

let's just start this out with "i love to fly." because i do.but, without fail, the evening before i take a flight, i can not even hope to scrounge up a feeling that even bears the slightest resemblan...
Posted by Amy Drake on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:41:00 PST

what is it with the white stripes?

ok. so, as long as the white stripes have been popular in the known world, i have not liked them. i thought they were a fad. because, really? what is that? jack white singing? a cat dying? who knows. ...
Posted by Amy Drake on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:38:00 PST

i see your lips moving...

i feel like i'm in this weird, going through the motions underwater kind of thing.i don't like that. real or nothing. seriously.sometimes things just break.not everything can be fixed once it is broke...
Posted by Amy Drake on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:48:00 PST

the perfect man

marriedtothesea.com
Posted by Amy Drake on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:32:00 PST

nothing to see here

i pounded on my chest with everythingall the strength i could musterand i heard an echoit came back for miles it was soloud it shook meon the ground with my ears downi was hearing everythingscreams an...
Posted by Amy Drake on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:56:00 PST