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Amanda

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About Me

Life should have more 2 minute dance parties....

My Interests

sounds, books, fancy footwork, hobos, and bikes. (preferably all at once)

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Albert Hammond Jr., All-Time Quarterback, Al Green, American Analog Set, American Football, Andrew Bird, Andrew Kenny, Appleseed Cast, Arcade Fire, The Avett Brothers, Band of Horses, Bat for Lashes, Beach House, Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Gibbard, Ben Kweller, Bishop Allen, The Blow, The Boy Least Likely To, Brian Eno, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, Cake, Calexico, Califone, Camera Obscura, Cary Brothers, Cat Power, The Changes, Chin Up Chin Up, Chris Walla, Chromeo, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Coconut Records, Cold War Kids, CSS, The Cure, Damien Rice, Death Cab, Death from above 1979, The Decemberists, DeVotchka, Dinosaur Jr, The Dismemberment Plan, Dntel, Dresden Dolls, East River Pipe, Editors, Eels, Eisley, The Elected, Electric Six, Electric President, Elefant, Elliott Smith, The Exit, Explosions in the Sky, The Faint, Feist, Field Music, Foals, The Format, The Frames, Frank Sinatra, Frou Frou, Fruit Bats, Fujiya & Miyagi, The Get Up Kids, Girl Talk, The Go! Team, Goldfrapp, The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Grandaddy, Great Lake Swimmers, Grizzly Bear, The Harlem Shakes, The Helio Sequence, The Hold Steady, Hot Chip, Hot Hot Heat, Idlewild, I'm from Barcelona, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, Imogen Heap, Inkwell, Iron and Wine, Islands, Jack's Mannequin, The Jackson 5, James Figurine, Japancakes, Jenny Lewis, Jens Lekman, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Jolly Rogers, Joshua Radin, Justice, Kanye, Kate Nash, Kings of Leon, Klaxons, The Knife, The Kooks, LCD Soundsystem, Les Savy Fav, Lily Allen, The Long Winters, Low, Lucero, The Magnetic Fields, M. Craft, The Maccabees, Madonna, Magnetic Fields, Magnolia Electric Co., Malajube, Margot & The Nuclear So & So's, Maritime, Mark Ronson, Mates Of State, Matt & Kim, Matt Pond PA, Maximo Park, Menomena, Mew, Miles Davis, Minus The Bear, Modest Mouse, The Moldy Peaches, Morrissey, The Mother Hips, The Mountain Goats, Mouthful of Bees, My Hotel Year, My Morning Jacket, Nada Surf, The National, The New Pornographers, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Norfolk & Western, Of Montreal, Oh No!Oh My!, Okkervil River, Only Son, Oxford Collapse, Panda Bear, Paolo, Pete Yorn, Peter, Bjorn & John, Peter Gabriel, Pernice Brothers, Phoenix, The Pipettes, The Police, Portishead, The Postal Service, The Postmarks, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Promise Ring, Q and Not U, Radiohead, The Ramones, The Rapture, Ray LaMontagne, Regina Spektor, Reindeer Section, Rilo Kiley, Robbers on High Street, Roque Wave, Saturday Looks Good to Me, The Sea and Cake, Sea Wolf, The Shins, Shout Out Louds, Simon and Garfunkel, The Smiths, Smoosh, Social Distortion, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Sonic Youth, Sons and Daughters, Spinto Band, Spoon, Stars, The Stills, The Streets, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Swords Project, Tapes n' Tapes, Tarkio, Ted Leo, Tegan and Sara, Tilly and the Wall, Tokyo Police Club, Vampire Weekend, Viva Voce, Voxtrot, The Walkmen, We Are Scientists, The Weakerthans, Weezer, Wilco, Wolf Parade, Wolfmother, Yael Naim, Yann Tiersen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yeasayer, Yo La Tengo, Youth Group, Zero 7

Movies:

Shawshank Redemption, Amelie, Pretty Woman, Princess Bride, Royal Tenenbaums, Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Coming to America, The Science of Sleep, Running with Scissors, The Life Aquatic, White Oleander...

Television:

30 Rock, Curb, The Office, Flight of The Conchords, Arrested Development & of course, the mother fuckin' Golden Girls...

Books:

Klosterman, Sedaris, Burroughs, Palahniuk, Nin, Kerouac, Kafka...and books for kids... preferably with shapes and numbers... mmm shapes.

Heroes:

you, you myspace stalking winner you.

My Blog

Top Albums of 2007... according to me, but i’m the only one who matters. :)

2007 was a fucking stellar year for music... here are my tops for the year :) Love them, embrace them, and never call them again. These aren't really in order so much... orders hurt feelings... yes, e...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:52:00 PST

Ummm...

Observations made in the last 24 hours that might be of some importance ... to someone... someday...1) A 9 hour drive is not that bad... during normal waking hours... at night... super craptacular... ...
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:02:00 PST

A top ten... of a new variety... oooo!

For once a top ten completely unrelated to alcohol consumption and its coinciding tales of making a total ass out of myself&   Although this could make me look like an ass, to some& either way, ...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:53:00 PST

I need some help here people ...

Not the clinical variety ... put your meds away... I have visited the following websites since 9:00 this morning ... this is not only an exhibition of how much time I have at work but also how I have...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:59:00 PST

ALEX TREBECK!!!... the lessons 10/6

A weekend full of the douche-mobile and big black dick... and plenty of lessons... 1) There is no way, as a supervisor, to deal with a situation where one co-worker calls another a tranny who looks l...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:50:00 PST

Keyser Soze says ... read the lessons for 9/29 damn it.

1) Being sober while everyone else is drunk is quite an experience... I really don't know how all you straight edgers do it... unless it's some torturous social observation project i'm unaware of. 2...
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:21:00 PST

weekend update 8.18

With moving I haven't been able to do one of these in awhile... my apologies :)1) When instructed by a person in high authority (i.e. myself) that you must come pick up your child who committed grand ...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:49:00 PST

Just another day at the office...

So today I had to have a heart to heart with a murderer.... um .... wow. I'm not sure if getting out of tickets is worth it if I have to explain to a 14 year old that she's not going home because she ...
Posted by Amanda on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:57:00 PST

Weekend Update... all that was 7/14

The ten lessons to be learned for the weekend of 7/14....1) Tooth pain is the worst pain in the world ... in fact it is the only kind of pain that makes Amanda physically cry and state she will spend ...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:43:00 PST

Things I learned this weekend... Part One.

I think each Sunday i'll do a top ten ... to remind myself that what I think might be a weekend described as "fun" was in fact a lot more... 1) It's not ok to call someone when you drunkenly think yo...
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:02:00 PST