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amanda

there is no beginning to an end but there is a beginning and an end to beginning. G.Stein

About Me

I fancy a rowdy scrabble game and a complex red. wine that is. vinyl makes me smile. animal flesh, cooked or raw, does not. i have a love/hate relationship with sleep, mostly love really.

My Interests

almost everything. im not particularly a fan of mathematics, conservative radio talk show hosts, or lite beer. why not just drink water?

I'd like to meet:

emma goldman

Music:

"music...must be felt rather than understood."-camus i listen to a lot. really. almost everything except country, pop and shitty rap. to elaborate, leadbelly, muddy waters, odetta, woody, miss lady day and john coltrane, bird, monk, art blakey, sun ra, pharoah sanders, ella, nina simone, lightnin hopkins, dylan, joni mitchell, neil young, m. ward, cat power, francoise hardy,gil scott-heron, bo diddley, edith piaf, arctic monkeys, clearlake, smog and pretty much anything released by domino, feist, nick drake, the arcade fire, patti smith, esp. "horses"...eek nostalgia, pj harvey, john fahey, the black rebel motorcycle club, the walkmen, erik b. and rakim, serge gainsbourg, tom jones,i have a place in my heart for most classic rock as i grew up listening to it, zeppelin, hendrix, the beatles-of course john lennon has always been my favorite, the dead-and all of the wannabe offshoots(my adolescence was one gigantic altered state, thus i listened to a lot of jam bands and reggae...but im pretty much over it now)iggy pop and the stooges, oumou sangare, bowie, haiku d'etat, mf doom, john cale, rilo kiley, elliot smith, nick cave, radiohead, blackalicious, al green, joanna newsom, tom waits, the shins, devendra banhart, benjamin biolay, gris gris, sun kil moon,the eels, les nubians, the shout out louds, the strokes, johnathan richman, camera obscura, del, talib kweli, the decemberists, johnny cash, the velvet underground/lou reed, mason jennings, bright eyes, hiero, mos def, classic common, de la, the roots, cody chesnut, belle and sebastian, regina spektor. alright, i will stop there, as there is never enough music in life, but this is a lot of words to read for some people.

Movies:

recent favorites include brick, everything is illumiated, an inconvenient truth cuz it will scare the shit out of you, look at me, musculin feminin and my summer of love. spike lee's documentary when the levee breaks will break your heart and make you so fucking furious at this administration's incompetence

Television:

is older than me...seriously i can't believe the ol zenith is still with us. the wire is brilliant.

Books:

my love. i prefer used. there can never be enough.

Heroes:

those who walk the line

My Blog

fuck rupert murdoch

i have recently found out that rupert murdoch owns myspace...that is sort of scary.  now he and his fox cronies can spy on all the budding anarchists and porn stars on myspace.  so when you ...
Posted by amanda on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:35:00 PST

this shit gets weirder every day...i have to get out

i can leave the body blank if i want to
Posted by amanda on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:05:00 PST

rrrrr

"Be still when you have nothing to say;  when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."  - D.H. Lawrence
Posted by amanda on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:33:00 PST