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amanda mello

Woman of Leisure.

About Me


Crafty.
I really think underpants should be an acceptable article of clothing to wear in public.

My Interests

amandamals
beautiful people
birds
black ultra fine point sharpie markers
black & white
collecting cameras
correspondences
crafting
dream world lives
enjoying my existence
excessivly using the word "glad"
fortune cookies
homebrewing (beers and iced teas)
ice cream
illicit activities
impossibilities
jello
lip biting (my own)
list making
mathematical games in my head
messy hair
midwest dreams
moleskine notebooks
naps
nests
not eating meat
not sharing opaque beverages
octopi
otters
picture taking
repeating myself
riding bikes
scrabble
scrapes and bruises
tears at endings
teas
teeth
the color yellow
tiny erasers

I'd like to meet:


Crafters.
Those who'd like to wear underpants in public.

Music:

avril lavigne
belle & sebastian
bikini kill
bratmobile
daniel johnston
discount
the electrocutes
the flaming lips
jolie holland
kelly clarkson
laura veirs
le tigre
the magnetic fields
mason jennings
the mountain goats
of montreal
queen
rentals
rilo kiley
sleater-kinney
why?

Movies:

amelie
annie hall
beat
breathless
buffalo 66
bukowski: born into this
the devil and daniel johnston
drop dead fred
grindhouse
husbands and wives
little miss sunshine
me & you & everyone we know
pee wee's big adventure
reality bites
rent
scenes from a marriage
the science of sleep
sin city
sketches of frank gehry
the squid and the whale

Television:

public television programs

Books:

ask the dust - john fante
dangling in the tournefortia - charles bukowski
the fountainhead - ayn rand
self-help - lorrie moore
the year of magical thinking - joan didion

things like: feminism, gender studies, memoirs, nonfiction, short fiction, journals, diaries, philisophical fiction, poetry, autobiographical fiction, found things, postcards, letters, secrets

Heroes:

my friends.