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AmyMacDeath

Zapata vive, la lucha sigue

About Me

TRUTH JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAYI like to read, knit, play music, see music live, stare at the walls and eat cereal.Some of the bands I like are: LOU REED the Clash, Ramones, XTC, The Only Ones, Rolling Stones, the Damned, the Cramps, Johnny Thunders, Db's, Dream Syndicate, Tom Waits, the Fall, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, the Skids, Big Country, Julian Cope, the Jam, Kinks, the Who, the Waterboys, Television, Patti Smith, MC-5, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Johnny Cash, Oh-Ok, Prefab Sprout, the Chameleons, Nick Lowe, Rockpile, Luna, Jason and the Scorchers, Super Furry Animals, Neil Young, Susanna Hoffs, The Three O'Clock, Robyn Hitchcock, the Church, the Smiths, the Replacements, Fleetwood Mac, George Harrison, Gang of Four, Echobelly, Bob Mould, Husker Du, Hoodoo Gurus, Bangles, Go-Go's, Go-Betweens, the Smiths, Jesus and Mary Chain, the Byrds, Big Star, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Raincoats, Buzzcocks, The Bluebells, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Mekons, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Let's Active, Long Ryders, The Pony's, Richard Hell, Echo & the Bunnymen, Tom Verlaine, Aztec Camera, Teardrop Explodes, the Mighty Wah, power pop, The Seeds, Chesterfield Kings, Psychedelic garage sound and on and on,I also like:Edie Sedgwick, Sojourner Truth, Angela Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Carlos Williams, Allende, Borges, Vargas Llosa, Marquez, Peter Hoeg, Updike, Miller, Howard Zinn, Robin DG Kelly, potatoes, Indian food, Tofu, Yams, things with sugar, coffee, percoset, vicodin, morphine pump, strong cool women, activists, people who DO NOT wear fur, treadmills, my new IPOD, my dogs: Katy, Hannah and Mollie, basset hounds that rock, animals, people who like animals, carrot , snap peas, stir-fried vegetables, ice cream...DISLIKES: Stupid jackass ignorant people, racists, homophobes, bad drivers, morons, people who don't say what they mean or feel, people who are afraid to try new things, people who wear fur or hunt, the woman at the register at the Turkey Hill down the street from me, bad MUZAK, top 40 schlock, the holiday season and the crazy people who wait for Walmart to open on Black Friday, crazy sports fanatics, pro-lifers, people who don't vote but complain, anyone who tries to tell me what to do, crappy TV, pretentious people, meat, the insane police officer who tried to run me off the road 3 weeks ago, root canals or surgery in general, and my hormone patch that repeatedly falls off and sticks to the treadmill when I am running.
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My Interests

music, books, antiques, animals, vegetarianism, American history, archaeology, genetics, quantum physics, medical mysteries and anomalies, 18 and 19th C transferware pottery, 19th and early 20th C Italian Pottery, Flow Blue and Irritable Bowel Syndrome and.....

I'd like to meet:

human beings

Movies:

Picnic at Hanging Rock, post-apocalyptic films with Charleton Heston, Bergman films, Peter Weir, Elvira Madigan, Ladies and Gentlemen...The Fabulous Stains, Smithereens, Secretary, Bringing Up Baby, Les Visiteurs, La Lectrice, La double vie de Veronique, Un coeur en hiver, Vagabond, My Life as a dog, Howard's End, Room with a View, Fight Club, Muriels Wedding, American History X, Apocalypse Now, Red, White and Blue, French Noir, mostly foreign shit.

Books:

Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Miller, Updike, Allende, Vargas-Llosa, Marquez, Magical realism, Tolsoy(i), Dostoyevski (y), the Phantom Tollbooth, Chronicles of Narnia, William Carlos Williams, Plath, Peter Hoeg, Far Afield by Susanna Kaysen (one of my all-time favorite books), Bridget Jones Diary, Jemimah J, Howard Zinn, Robin D G Kelly, Sugrue, Faulkner, McCullers, Flannery O'Conner, John Kennedy Toole, Eudora Welty....always adding

Heroes:

Lou Reed, Howard Zinn, Sojourner Truth, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, rockin' women, Moe Tucker, Robin D G Kelly, black women during Reconstruction, Jane Goodall, Australopithecus Afarensis, KOKO, my colon, Hannah my basset.....

My Blog

Warning graphic and sad

I live in Hampden right above Wyman Park and frequently walk after work through the Hopkins campus on Carnegie Way.  It is a paved road surrounded by woods where I frequently see wildlife (rabbit...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:31:00 PST

How I spent my sleepless night

Last night I did not sleep.  As I sit here comfortably ensconced in my new Ikea chair with a blanket and some coffee, I am thankfully able to expel a sigh of relief and nod off. I volunteered to...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Sun, 18 May 2008 09:49:00 PST

cowboy junkies

This popped up in my inbox today from a distant cousin on the Norwegian side.  My great-grandpop Edvard (Edward) who was a cowboy in N. Dakota. *Note the gun...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:39:00 PST

WTF? I need a new face

I thought I would try one of those celebrity face recognition thingies again as last time (previous blog) it came back that I most resembled Pervez Musharraf.  Well apparently I have gotten more ...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:02:00 PST

Some Sweet Day

It's no secret that I can become quite effusive when it comes to certain topics- mainly books, writers, injustice, animal rights and music.  Today's topic of choice is the cd that is garnering he...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:21:00 PST

Pissing in the River (Patapsco that is)

Went to pick up keys to my new place last night.  Hannah squatted and took a dump while I am signing lease with landlady. Is that a cosmic bad sign or just her new high fiber organic food?  ...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:48:00 PST

It’s just a little bit back from the main road, where the silence spreads and the men dig holes

Richard Lloyd came to Baltimore on Thursday night.  For those of you who don’t know who he is.....he is probably the greatest guitar player of all time.  Unfortunately,  his talen...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:48:00 PST

I love the sound of breaking glass

It’s been awhile since I blogged and frankly a few things in my life lately have been rather blog worthy and I wanted to share to the millions who read my blog.I had my surgery and I want to tha...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:43:00 PST

Help find jackass who dumped puppy pit bull

On Feb 21st a male dumped a female pitbull- most likely less than a year old who had just had puppies. A witness said he stated "I'm getting rid of this bitch do you want her?" and left her tied up ...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:36:00 PST

Meet my new best friend!!!

Imagine my joy and sense of wonder upon opening this gem festering in the inbox of my hotmail account.  I am not sure I comprehend all that he/she writes but it certainly passes the time.  ...
Posted by AmyMacDeath on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:19:00 PST