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AJ

At what point did Phil Collins start to aggressively suck?

About Me

Part tigress, part fourth grader.

Winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald Emotional Maturity Award

My Interests

I'm into excellent grammar and spelling. I like graffiti, water, sleep, bikes, cameras, cheeses, bass guitars, coffee (and its associated espresso beverages), unicorns, computers, beards, sushi, selective ambiguity, food, books, comics, moving pictures, illustration, debasement, cherry preserves, travel, hand signs, gold teeth, david byrne, motorcycles, smells, pets and boys, plants, automanipulation, colors, glasses, rude hand-gestures, paint, macaroni and cheese, gin, modified bodies, gang signs, constellations, King Arthur, pornography, Josh and Laura, hardwood floors, dorks, home, art, the echo people, lamps, games, goths, kissing, things that fly, and glitter. I like more stuff but that’s all I could come up with right now.

I'd like to meet:

and...

Music:

Genres:

Art Rock

Folk Rock

Glam

Kraut Rock

Motown

New Wave

Post Punk

Progressive

Psychedelic

Soul

Synth Pop

Bands:

AIR

The Beach Boys

Billy Nayer Show

Bjork

Black Sheep

The Bloodhound Gang

The Breeders

Brian Eno

Calliopefair

CAN

Cocteau Twins

The Cure

Cyndi Lauper

Danny Elfman

Dave Matthews Band

David Bowie

David Byrne

Dead Can Dance

Deep Forest

Depeche Mode

Devo

The Dillards

Django Reinhardt

Donovan

Edith Piaf

The Flaming Lips

Franz Ferdinand

Gary Numan

Genesis (pre-1975)

Grandmaster Flash

Guided by Voices

Harry Nilsson

Husker Du

Interpol

The Jackson 5

Jah Wobble

James

Jane's Addiction

Joanna Newsom

John Cale

Jordan O' Jordan

Joy Division

Kate Bush

King Crimson

The Kinks

Kraftwerk

Kruder & Dorfmeister

Led Zeppelin

Leonard Cohen

Lou Reed

Love

LTJ Bukem

The Magnetic Fields

Mark Farina

Marvin Gaye

Massive Attack

Minutemen

Nat King Cole

Neil Young

Neutral Milk Hotel

New Order

Nick Cave

Nick Drake

Oingo Boingo

Otis Redding

Over the Rhine

Patsy Cline

Pavement

Pearl Jam

Peter Gabriel

PIL

Pink Floyd

Pixies

The Police

Portishead

The Pretenders

Prince

Psychic TV

Queen

REM

The Righteous Brothers

Robert Johnson

Robyn Hitchcock

Rosyvelt

Sam Cook

The Shins

Simon & Garfunkel

Siouxie and the Banshees

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Sisters of Mercy

The Slits

Smashing Pumkins

The Smiths

The Split Enz

Stephen Malkmus

Stereolab

Stevie Nicks

Sugar

The Sugarcubes

Supertramp

Syd Barrett

T.Rex

The Talking Heads

Theivery Corporation

They Might be Giants

This Mortal Coil

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Tuxedomoon

U2

Velvet Underground

Violent Femmes

The Who

XTC

Yaz

Yo La Tengo

..

Movies:

Directors

Akira Kurosawa

Alfonso Cuaron

Carol Reed

Charlie Kaufman

David Lynch

Edgar Wright

Fernando Meirelles

Fritz Lang

Georges Melies

JessicaYu

Jeunet and Caro

John Cameron Mitchell

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Lasse Gjertsen

Lumiere Brothers

Mathieu Kassovitz or

Matthew Barney

Michel Gondry

Pedro Almodovar

Peter Greenaway

Peter Weir

Sofia Coppola

Spike Jonze

Werner Herzog

Wes Anderson

Movies

Amelie

Annie Hall

Black Orpheus

Children of Men

City of Lost Children

Cleo from 5 to 7

Clue

Delicatessin

Donnie Darko

Goonies

Harold and Maude

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Metropolis

My Own Private Idaho

Red/White/Blue

Seventh Seal.

Squid and the Whale

The Grand Illusion

The Lives of Others

The Passion of Jean d'Arc

The Rules of the Game

Thin Man

Third Man

Tristram Shandy

Trouble in Paradise

True Stories

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Actors

Crispin Glover

Jean Reno

Jeff Daniels

Michael Caine

Robert Downey Jr.

Steve Coogan

Vincent Cassel

Television:

I don't have cable--at all. That being said: Dr. Who (Tom Baker), Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Robot Chicken, Look Around You, Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf (f-off smeghead), Monkey Dust, Scrubs, CSI, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, 6ft. Under, Sex & the City, Simpsons, Jonathan Creek, Poirot, Ms. Marple, Alias and the X-Files, I guess.

Books:

Alasdair Gray, Robert Heinlein, Lynda Barry, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Kafka, David Sedaris, Tom Robbins, Nick Hornby, Irvine Welsh, Donna Tart, Dan Savage, Mary Stewart, Agatha Christie, Kurt Vonnegut, Gladys Mitchell. COMICS: Roman Dirge, Neil Gaiman, ALAN MOORE (From Hell, Swamp Thing, The Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extrodinary Gentlemen, Promethea...etc.)Harry freakin' Potter, Phantom Tollbooth, Susan Cooper... I collect old copies of Children's Books, like the Dark is Rising Sequence, The Chronicles of Narnia, Pyrdain Chronicles (The Black Cauldron), Mists of Avalon (Arthurian Legends in general) His Dark Materials, Madeline L'Engle's Time Series (A Wrinkle in Time), the Phantom Tollbooth and other "juvenile" literature.

Heroes:

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My Blog

Muskrat Love

You can have your email forwards of animated angels sprinkling fairy dust on laughing kittens; it's just not my thing. I'm a natural-born cynic always on the offense ready to defuse your cute and mark...
Posted by AJ on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:18:00 PST

Richard Corey

Assuming he was trying to kill himself and not just trying to sleep...Weirdly enough, I got a text message (via phone), two instant messages, 3 MySpace bulletins, and a partridge in a pear tree about ...
Posted by AJ on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:07:00 PST

2007 Survey: In which I make more jokes about how ugly, slutty, and dumb I am.

01. Was 2007 a good year for you?Phenomenal. I'm a lucky duck.02. What was your favorite moment of the year?Hearing Phil Collins' Invisible Touch live. 03. What was your least favorite moment...
Posted by AJ on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:36:00 PST

About a monkey in a gingham dress with a blue plastic pretzel

1. Who was the last person you called "gorgeous?Overly -- but I think he might have been talking about someone standing behind me.2. Do you respect yourself?R - E - S - P - E - C - T find out what it ...
Posted by AJ on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:08:00 PST

Desperate times, desperate measures.

1.Do you smoke weed?In communist Russia, weed smokes you!2. Have you kissed somebody in the last 2 weeks?I've enquired if someone would be interested in pressing their lips to my posterior. They have ...
Posted by AJ on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:29:00 PST

What's big and purple and lives in the sea?

Dear Amanda Jane,You need to start thinking about yourself. I mean, it's conceivable that from the outside you think about nothing but yourself, which may be true; however, I mean this in a more conte...
Posted by AJ on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:47:00 PST

Euthanasia: A Polemic

1. What are you wearing?moth-eaten bathrobe, mismatched socks, frying pan.2. Explain what ended your last relationship.A grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of tomato soup.3. What were you doing this mo...
Posted by AJ on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:55:00 PST

Incense, Peppermints, Crimson, Clover, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme.

You have $10 and have to get food at a gas station what do you get?A cap gun and candy cigarettes. Who is your favorite redhead?CliffordWhat do you order at an IHOP?The server, rooty tutti fresh and f...
Posted by AJ on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:46:00 PST

Lindbergh baby, medium rare, with limburger cheese

Shake a prosthesis over to my real blog. You'll thank me. 
Posted by AJ on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST

Hip Hop Easy Listening

I've started back up with my real blog--let me know if you need a link to it... I like to keep MySpace and real-life separate and unequal. xoxoYour darling Amanda Jane
Posted by AJ on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:00:00 PST