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Amanda

I am here for Friends

About Me

the sky is grey, the sand is grey and the ocean is grey. i feel right at home in this stunning monochrome, alone in my way. i smoke and i drink and everytime i blink i have a tiny dream. but as bad as i am i'm proud of the fact that i'm worse than i seem. what kind of paradise am i looking for?
~ani d.

All of my heroes are dead and gone, but they're inside of me, they still live on.

My Interests

playing my guitar, cuddling with Samson, hanging out at Rainy Day, talking politics, cuddling, climbing trees, making out, love, learning, creating, exploring, smiling, spending hours in coffee shops with good friends, tee shirts, knitting things to keep me warm in alaska, playing board games at the bar, pretending to be a superhero, sitting in the woods, trying to find my own way to the top of mountains, coffee- preferably of the espresso type, being ridiculous, laughing and making others do the same, having fun- it's very important, the wonderful Charles Montgomery Lemue.

I'd like to meet:

tree-huggers, fire jumpers, mountain climbers, activists, protesters, drag kings, genderqueers, friends, anyone. people who are passionate, creative, intelligent, interesting, different and/or a little bit crazy. and it seems i always fall for the dark hair light eyes combo.

Music:

the dreamscapes project, ani difranco, costa, jason mraz, ben folds, the beatles, melissa ferrick, bright eyes, brett dennen, matt fisher and the telephone junkies, rent soundtrack, the decemberists, the string cheese incident, cat stevens, regina spektor, wilco, bluegrass, the shins, jay brannan, chris pureka, roscoe holcomb

Movies:

little miss sunshine, garden state, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, triplets of bellville, spun, rules of attraction, dirty dancing, steal this movie, igby goes down, big eden, moulin rouge, whalerider, fahrenheit 911, fight club, thirteen, escape to witch mountain, camp, better than chocolate, miyazaki, thank you for smoking.

Television:

appparently i get 60 free channels over at the trailer park

Books:

the unbearable lightness of being, dharma bums, welcome to the monkey house, the giving tree, the giver, the handmaid's tale, am i blue, listen up, hope for the flowers, fast food nation, michael moore, fahrenheit 451, madeline l'engle, field guides, the enchanted broccoli forest, water for elephants, the perks of being a wallflower

Heroes:

my grandmother, anyone who isn't afraid to change the world...

My Blog

thar she blows.

The east coast is getting it's first taste of winter this weekend.  The weather reminds me of Juneau in February; blowing snow, sideways freezing rain, layers of ice over everything.  It's n...
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 03:30:00 PST

long time.

I haven't written anything in a long time because I can't find the right words anymore. I can't write now and haven't been able to for a bit. Life is strange, a million things are always running thr...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:05:00 PST

it all comes in waves

I think I hit my breaking point, I hope I did because I don't want to go through it again. I have had so, so many emotions running through my head and finally it all got to be too much. Last night I s...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:03:00 PST

the end

the mountains will still remain
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:20:00 PST

tomorrow...

Tomorrow my life is going to be tipped on edge and spun around. What will be left when the spinning stops is the true question here. Will my towers still be standing? Will the grass still be green?...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:17:00 PST

why is this still such an issue....?

Yesterday I had a couple of not so fun conversations with my parents. They both revolved around me being gay. The whole basic wrap-up of them is that my mom told me she doesn't want me to be gay when ...
Posted by Amanda on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:15:00 PST

burlesque...fun?

so i spoke with john leo today, he wants me to be in the local burlesque show at thanksgiving. the plan is for me to play god then at the end strip down to a corset. it sounds like a lot of fun. bu...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:10:00 PST

i'm grumpy...

so fuck making a happy list because i wouldn't have much to put on it. here is my grumpy list: my feet are wet and cold i couldn't get sushi like i had been looking forward to all day 'cause the su...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:16:00 PST

so cool...

apparently i've been acting weird, so much so that all of my friends here feel the need to take it upon themselves to talk about it. i'm glad no one ever bothers to talk to me, nope, instead i get to...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:57:00 PST

poor charlie pup...

my dog decided to chase a porcupine up mt. juneau last night. when he came down his snoot was filled with quills, so he got to go to the emergency vet because he wouldn't let me get them out. it's a...
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:17:00 PST