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Amy

Just enough education to reform...

About Me


Marty Robbins defines my lonesome and wandering cowboy soul. I feel and look not unlike a man in drag most days. Some days I do not think this is a bad thing. I'm interested in the recreational use of...bandages. I want to marry Jeffrey Combs. No one understands my rather passionate enthusiasm for the 1990 Sheen-Estevez venture, Men at Work. I want to sign up for Tom Savini's school of special effects makeup so, so badly, but I have a hard enough time with my own face. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want have the one I can't have. While I wouldn't say that I necessarily like dead babies, I'm ceaselessly interested in Victorian memorial photos of dead babies, most especially fascinated with retouched photos of modern dead babies, and particularly excited to find the tombstones and graves of long dead, short-lived babies. Moreso than regular dead people. I live for midcentury housewares. When I'm home alone, I like to don a vintage slip and comically false lashes and imagine I'm a cat on a hot tin roof. I love life. And photos of wailing babies and/or ailing old ladies squirming in the padded embrace of mall Easter Bunnies. Or anyone in a fur suit. I stumble down my bedroom stairs at least once a week. Sometimes I tumble to the bottom. That's where these bruises come from. Well, most of them. Daddy drank. I'm not much of a talker. I'd like you to think that it's because I'm a secret agent with a gun as shiny and black as the synthetic wig I'm wearing, but in truth it's often just too hard to find the words. Doug Wilson of television's "Trading Spaces," I'd ask you to marry me, too, but I have this deeply rooted, irrational aversion to men in flip-flops. *edit* I thought I wanted to marry Jeffrey Combs until I saw him performing oral sex acts in a B-film. It scarred me to such a degree that now I think perhaps I'd be better suited as his (or any film industry player's) personal assistant. I will never marry; Jeffrey Combs is not to blame.

My Interests


- abandoned places
- accordions
- adventures
- Alain Delon
- the alphabet
- and you
- amusement
- amusement parks
- defunct amusement parks
- anatomy and physiology
- androgyny
- androids
- Anglophilia
- antiheroes
- antiques
- apocalyptic landscapes
- the landscape of Billy Drago's face
- artificial intelligence
- arts and crafts
- the art of Al Parker - ascetics
- aesthetics
- prosthetics
- asymmetry
- auteur filmmakers
- back roads
- the Barbi twins
- bats
- bento boxes
- Bill Haverchuck's big rocket
- blindfolds
- books
- breeches
- Bruce Campbell's diction
- the Buffyverse
- catacombs
- cephalic disorders
- character-enhancing scars
- chenille bedspreads!
- circusabilia
- classic pinup art
- Collegeville Halloween costumes
- cosmonauts
- crimes of fashion
- Crispin Glover
- curiosities
- Danish modern
- dark-haired boys
- David Lochary
- daytrips!
- Devo hats
- diet pills, heartsplosions
- diners
- Dorothy Stratten
- Doug Bradley's belly
- yours, too
- dusty old records that smell like wood-paneled basement
- eccentrics
- Eddie Deezen
- Edward Gorey
- Eero Aarnio!
- Elvis on velvet
- Erin O'Connor
- the evolution of Terrence Mann's hair in the Critters movies
- exploring!
- exploring the out of doors in child-goggles
- eyepatches
- fiberglass behemoths by the roadside
- film noir
- fingers across corduroy and other tactile sensations
- foreign films
- foreign objects in rectums
- x-rays of foreign objects in rectums
- fonts
- found objects & photos
- Franka Potente
- freeing the West Memphis 3
- frugality
- funeralabilia
- glass eyes
- gore effects
- grandparents
- green
- Gregory Crewdson
- Greg Proops
- Guitar Wolf
- Guy Bourdin
- Hedy Lemarr - high fashion photography
- high contrast b/w photography
- homeopathy
- horror
- iconolatry
- interests
- Jane Birkin's breasts
- Christina Lindberg's, too
- Jarvis Cocker's swagger
- Jesco White
- Jimmy the cab driver
- Jocelyn Wildenstein
- JohnWatersiana
- jolie-laide
- Kelly Brook
- Kirkbride buildings
- kisses
- kitsch
- kittens in juice glasses
- linguistics
- liquid eyeliner
- living simply
- Louis Icart
- Louisville
- mannequins
- manties
- Mark Ruffalo's sweet 'stache, bro
- Dean Learner's, too
- Matt Besser's gravity-defying coiffure
- masks
- meat-n-threes
- midcentury advertising ephemera
- midcentury modern design
- midcentury motels and signage
- midcentury housewares
- mirrors
- mod culture
- Monica Vitti
- moral ambiguity
- Mo Rocca & chupacabras
- Morrissey's bush
- mountains
- movies
- actor Nathaniel Parker in boots up to his belly button
- Nathan Larson's guitar stance
- national and state parks
- nature hikes
- naturopathy
- Neil Hannon
- Neil Hannon
- Neil Hannon
- neon or interesting old signs
- nightskies
- obscurity
- oddities
- offbeat America
- Ola Salo in assless pants
- old men in Sansabelt pants
- old Hollywood - old photographs
- Oregon
- PBS
- peacoats
- pencil-thin mustaches
- plasticene mummies
- polaroids
- Polish movie posters from the 60s
- postcards
- restoration
- roadfood!
- roadside art
- roadtrips!
- robots
- doing the robot
- rollercoasters
- Ronan Vibert...
- the Scarlet Pimpernel
- Scorpius's codpiece
- Sam Rockwell!
- Sami Sirvio
- sanatoriums and state hospitals
- sartorial adventures
- scenic byways
- scruffy, well-groomed faces
- secondhand stores
- serenity
- serendipity
- serial killers
- Shadoe Stevens
- sideshows
- silhouettes
- sleep
- old souvenir postcards and plates and and and
- space suits
- squirrels
- stories
- subterranean homesteads
- submersion
- subversion
- inversion
- aversion
- superfluous punctuation
- sushi
- sustainability
- sweater weather
- Sweden
- tall tales
- teratomas (with teeth!)
- Terence Stamp
- thalidomide babies
- theremins
- tiny woodland creatures
- Toby Huss
- Tom Savini
- tramp art
- travel
- truckloads of Mexican babies
- the twins Keno
- ugliness
- the undead
- urban decay
- rural splendor
- Vargas
- villains
- vintage clothing & accessories
- vintage bakewares
- vintage glasswares
- vintage furnishings
- vintage linens and fabrics
- vintage kitchenwares
- vintage toys
- walks in the woods
- Warholian hair
- western-style shirts with pearlescent buttons and the manchildren who wear them
- whirligigs & whimmy diddles
- saying "whirligigs & whimmy diddles"
- wildlife preservation
- taxidermy
- wandering
- the wine
- yard sales
- yellow
- your pretty, pretty lips
- zithers
- zombies
- zombies
- zombies a lot...

I'd like to meet:

Reggie Bannister -- with a guitar in one hand and a waffle cone in the other. Mountainfolk of the Pacific Northwest. Rock dwellers of Cappadocia. The male version of myself. Alan Wilder . In 1984 . A garden gnome-bearing Jaime Harding or a garden gnome bearing Jaime Harding. Those who lack both the desire and the ability to dance. Or partner. Neil Hannon. The thief of me. Pete Dinklage in a wifebeater. Dean Cameron. Innocents and ingenues. An occasion to wear a pretty dress. Explorers of abandoned places. In Russia. Someone who'll meander with me down country roads to destinations undetermined.


crushes, crushes, all.
Amy has no friends.

free the WM3

donatien

the divine comedy

Tom Savini School of Special Effects Makeup

free the WM3

Lost and Found Ohio

cassandra

the ark

madrugada

twilight singers

tony darlin'

brini maxwell

thanatos.net

interpol

marion

Wade

kent

howling bells

ampop

jarvis cocker

toby huss!

drunk on tampons!

patton oswalt

stereophonics

the charlatans

james gunn

paul scheer

craig wedren

nick.

hot one

the the.

human giant

jim gaffigan

rue morgue

santino rice

matt besser

it's a trap!

ivy.

the crash

Free the WM3 World Awareness Day

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Music:


The new Madrugada is brilliant. MTV's late "120 Minutes" and that period of alt.music defines my musical tastes. I'm into moody nordic pop/rock (particularly that of Sweden); British pop/rock; new wave; an as yet specifically general type of 60s/70s hard rock; garage rock; hard psych; any metal featuring operatic, acrobatic vocals; & showtunes. I also love the music my mother listened to when I was a small child (yacht and pop rock). My tastes and the ways in which I consume music are in transition at present.

Movies:


- Jean-Pierre Melville
- John Waters
- most anything that aired on USA's "Up All Night"
- Patrice Leconte
- Pedro Almodovar
- Guillermo del Toro
- Tom Tykwer
- George Romero
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- bad horror
- good horror
- black comedies
- Masterpiece Theater
- period pieces and the like
- '80s teen comedies
- zombie movies
- anything with Udo Kier in it
- No Country for Old Men
- Dellamorte Dellamore
- La Fille sur le Pont
- Brad Anderson
- Christopher Guest
- Wes Anderson
- brothers Coen
- Noah Baumbach
- David Cronenberg
- Tim Burton
- Whit Stillman
- Jim Jarmusch
- Guy Maddin
- The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
- (3/4 of) AI
- Amelie
- The Aviator
- Bad Education
- Barcelona
- Basquiat
- Best Laid Plans
- Better off Dead
- Breaking Away
- Bride of Re-Animator
- Bubba Ho-Tep
- Buffalo '66
- The Burbs
- The Butcher Boy
- Citizen X
- The City of Lost Children
- Clay Pigeons
- The Collector
- The Convent
- C.R.A.Z.Y.
- Cry-Baby
- The Dancing Outlaw
- Dawn of the Dead (both versions)
- Day of the Dead
- Delicatessen
- Depeche Mode 101
- The Devil's Backbone
- A Dirty Shame
- Drop Dead Fred
- East of Eden
- Evil Dead trilogy
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Ghost World
- Giant
- Hairspray
- The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
- L'Homme du Train
- Le Huitieme Jour
- Just One of the Guys
- Kicking and Screaming (1995)
- Kiss or Kill
- Knightriders
- Der Krieger und die Kaiserin
- Last Days of Disco
- Last Night
- Lawn Dogs
- The Life Aquatic
- The Limey
- The Machinist
- Mansfield Park
- Martin
- Memento
- Nightbreed
- Night of the Living Dead ('90)
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
- Perfume: the Story of a Murderer
- Pink Flamingos
- Plein Soleil
- Popcorn
- Pretty in Pink
- Pride and Prejudice (1998)
- Quills
- Raising Arizona
- Ravenous
- Re-Animator
- Reservoir Dogs
- Rock and Roll High School Forever
- Rockula
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- The Rules of Attraction
- The Saddest Music in the World
- Safe Men
- Le Samourai
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Session 9
- Shallow Grave
- Shaun of the Dead
- The Shining
- Sixteen Candles
- Ski Patrol
- Strange Days
- Subspecieseses
- A Tale of Two Sisters
- Talk to Her
- Tess of the D'urbervilles
- They Call Her One Eye
- 28 Days Later
- Twin Falls Idaho
- Versus
- Waiting for Guffman
- The Way of the Gun
- Wet Hot American Summer
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
- Wild Zero
- Winterschlafer
- The Young Poisoner's Handbook

Television:


- Farscape
- Freaks and Geeks
- Buffy
- Garth Marenghi's Darkplace!
- Man Stroke Woman
- Feasting on Asphalt
- Pete and Pete
- Arrested Development
- Angel
- Gordon Ramsay anything
- Black Books!
- Dexter!
- Parker Lewis Can't Lose
- BBC documentaries
- Bill Nye
- Brini Maxwell
- Brisco County, Jr.
- Carnivale
- Cowboy Bebop
- Daily Show
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Dirty Jobs
- Extras
- Furniture to Go
- Gilmore Girls
- Good Eats
- G vs. E
- Hellsing
- Human Giant
- Kids in the Hall
- Masterpiece Theater
- Maverick
- Mr. Bean
- Newsradio
- The Office US/UK
- Pee-Wee's Playhouse
- Project Runway
- Salute Your Shorts
- Snuff Box
- Space Ghost
- Square Pegs
- The State
- Tales from the Crypt
- Top Chef
- Trading Spaces
- UCB
- What not to Wear
- Whose Line Is It Anyway?
- the X-Files
- The Young Ones
- You Wrote It, You Watch It.

Books:

I dig old charm manuals; self-published, plastic-bound cookbooks by ladies' leagues; and travel guides. I am in the first third of at least three handfuls of real books at the moment, but I have a nasty habit of finishing nothing I start. I long to be well read.

Heroes:

Tom Savini. Mr. Bean. Little Pete Wrigley. John Waters. Brini Maxwell. ET Wickham. The family Sedaris. Ola Salo. Neil Hannon. Bill Haverchuck. Buster Bluth. Monty Clift...after the crash. Eleanor Powell. Wait for it...01:30. Oh my goodness that smile. Oh my goodness those legs.START Create Custom Interests Table --!Begin CUSTOM Table!--
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My Blog

Vintage Delights!

Hey, crafty ladies! My mother and I are working to sell some of the amazing items from my great-grandmother's estate.  She was a farmer's wife in tiny Morgantown, Kentucky.  She was a t...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 26 May 2008 04:52:00 PST

Ive Got a Feelin Youre Foolin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGn_zohuEaQ I want to live in the piano cavity or behind the potted plant. No, not live. Thrive.Did you watch through the awesome furniture reveals? ...
Posted by Amy on Thu, 15 May 2008 10:02:00 PST

Ken.

I want a beard marker. :/August 21st, 2003 (08:36 pm) Tonight I have no hair. ...unlike my favorite Ken dolls!1. Mod Hair Ken."Add stick-on moustaches, beard or sideburns to match Ken's rooted, mo...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:05:00 PST

Mummy dear.

I love life. September 27th, 2004 (11:04 pm) The university's alumni association has been calling my parents' home looking to update my profile in the alumni directory. Wow. It will be four years t...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:44:00 PST

Gay.

April 28, 2005"A popbitch reader had sex with actor Alan Cumming in New York last year. Alan was described as 'remarkably quiet' during sex, but immediately after sat on the end of the bed, and adopte...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:21:00 PST

That face is stilll there today.

August 12, 2005I spent each of the summer days of my childhood at my grandparents' house. One of my best friends, Angela, lived directly behind them, and we spent our afternoons playing through a chai...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:45:00 PST

Still more...

October 3rd, 2005 (06:40 pm) In an entry a couple of years ago, I recalled the time Elvis Presley, Jr., stopped me in the cosmetics department of a Wal-Mart to tell me he wanted to marry a girl just...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:42:00 PST

more old livejournal links and lifted text and tidbits.

Word of the day. vagitus (vuh-JI-tuhs) nounThe cry of a newborn. [From Latin vagire (to wail).]A newborn child's cry is called vagitus. Babies' cries have been heard even before their births. It's ra...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:39:00 PST

Vag.

I lifted this from my long-abandoned livejournal because I am very bored.MP3 blog No Frontin' mentioned this and sparked my interest in Ernest Hemingway.from The New Yorker:He finished a draft of To H...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:33:00 PST

cheery jubilee.

At long last my heart hurts no more.  A career that brings me no joy will soon come to an end.  I just saw a great movie, and now I'm eating refrigerated cake with a spoon twice as big as it...
Posted by Amy on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:59:00 PST