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Amanda Valentine

Never had a drink that I didn't like...

About Me

About me, eh?
Photographer
Model
Wardrobe Stylist
Creative Management and Set Styling
Graphic Artist
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My Interests

familiar voices, unfamiliar faces, and change

I'd like to meet:

The person I would be today if I had never met you, or you, or you..but mostly you. "What else in this fucking empty room, reminds me of, fucking, you."
Get Your Own Voice Player Manage
and people that are totally OK with the fact that I do this kind of shit....ALL THE TIME!
..

Music:

Cake Bake Betty, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Mineral, Grade, Kite Flying Society, Owen, Ani Difranco, Boy Sets Fire, Every Time I Die, Tori Amos, The Jealous Sound, Orgy, The Dresden Dolls, This Day Forward, Okkerville River, The Minus Story, The Thermals

Movies:

Garden State, The Jacket, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Great Expectations, Edward Scissor Hands, American History X, Before Sunrise, Stigmatta, I Shot Andy Warhol, Closer. Battle Royal.

Television:

Invader Zim (...I want to make babies with Grrrr)
CNN
World News
Oprah

Books:

Invisible Monsters and Celestine Prophecy and Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet and Ishmael and Elizabeth Jenkin's, "Initiation" and Cunt (by Inga Muscio)

Heroes:

Merit MacAlpine
And people who...

"when it falls it hits so hard that it seems always both you and i see stars and across the space we reach out hands and fall sobbing into the air take turns being saviors till we can no longer breathe blue in the face waiting for someone to look over and see" -Merit

My Blog

Tin Foil

You would trade your best friend in for a piece of torn tin foil... just because it's shiny.        Well shine baby, shine. I'll stick with the dirt we both used to...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:28:00 PST

I’m getting better at talking.

I'm getting better at saying nothing. If I were to speak to certain professionals they would tell me to just forget about most of you, I'm sure. They'd tell me to stop avoiding the ones I'm affra...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:56:00 PST

"I’m great...thanks for asking!"

This songs just came up on the "Cake Bake Betty" Pandora music station and I wish more than anything that I couldn't relate to it 100%. So to those of you who wonder how I feel lately...this about sum...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:59:00 PST

Tell me how you really feel when you can’t feel at all...

I woke up in the middle of a dream about Shadyn...and begged Justin to let me stay in bed longer, like a small child being woken for school, "just 20 more minutes please"...so he did. I tried to fall ...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:08:00 PST

Maybe I’ve changed too much...

... maybe I was a terrible person at one point in my life. Or at most points?You know it's bad when everyone expects the worst from you. I swear I said I left drama behind awhile back... via blog. via...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:36:00 PST

The Machine

I am a machine. Take me apart.It's time to rebuild this...a slow but going process half way done.Remove the parts that matter and replace them with what's left.Liver for a heart. Toes nails for tear d...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:51:00 PST

Sober Life Theory - A Plan for the Future PART 2

An updated journey to everywhere I'll ever go...So I know we have 11 months to sell everything we own...and I know that seems like A LOT of time...but we started two weeks ago just the ...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:43:00 PST

Sober Life Theory - A Plan for the Future

I have been sober for over a month. I am less happy but more optimistic...if that makes sense. Honestly, I think I prefer this...but I'd like to find a happy-medium. I'd like to be a bit happier and a...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:07:00 PST

Sending out good energy.

Things aren't exactly looking "up" just yet...but we are checking out an adorable apartment tomorrow...two bedrooms for $900 a month! All hardwoord floors...cutest kitchen ever. So let's all pray it's...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:37:00 PST

Nothing could ever be LOUD enough...

to muffle out our last embrace...or these cries of fury that wasn't suposed to really "mean" good bye, our "last" good bye, because I told you to take care of yourself... ..words ignored? wo...
Posted by Amanda Valentine on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:09:00 PST