I'm a product manager for a geo-web focused internet startup.
Bangarang
IM: samantha von x.
* MUSIC! * reading anything in front of me * driving while singing * singing all by itself * scaring people with my verbiage * um? * the cinema * my family * flag football * stealin ur shrmpz * snarbarding * hilarity * being a nerd * violin/viola * road trips! * making friends * spelling correctly * travelling * hi-fiving * hiking * hanging out in the woods and waiting to be abducted by aliens * walks at night * ghost hunting! * attempting grammatical correctness to the best of my ability * talking in accents * poesia * raptors (not the dinosaur, although they're also BAMF) * keeping a tidy living space * spelling things like British people do, such as "colour" * horses * mediating my procrastination * my cat Tricky * yelling at people in traffic * blogging * pirate-laughing * elk watching *
Trent Reznor
Mike Patton
Apolo Ohno
um, a husband?
and many more common and inspiring artists and individuals...
REZNOR IS NINE INCH NAILS * 30 Seconds to Mars * Mike Patton's Faith No More, Peeping Tom & Mr Bungle * Radiohead * Ken Andrews' Failure, On, & Year of the Rabbit * Bjork * Charlotte Martin * Cave In * Panic! At the Disco * Gorillaz * Filter * A Perfect Circle * Tool * Muse * Massive Attack * Dillinger Escape Plan * Apex Twin * Chevelle * FOB * Boards of Canada * The Arcade Fire * Tori Amos * CocoRosie * Sigur Ros * Alice in Chains * Zero 7 * Nickel Creek * Portishead * Rufus Wainwright * Goldfrapp * Sasha * Jeff Buckley * Jamie Cullum * Blue Man Group * Coldplay * Emptyself * Orbital * The Orb * Incubus * Outkast * The Scissor Sisters * Stereophonics * Zero 7 * Jimmy Eat World * The Juliana Theory * Team Sleep * Thomas Newman * Michael Andrews * and Sara Drive!
The Crow * American History X * American Beauty * Fight Club * X-Men * Pi * those featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and/or Leto * Schindler's List * The 40 Year Old Virgin & anything Steve Carell * Movies that contain Will Ferrel, however, he's usually the only funny part * Jurassic Park * The Royal Tenenbaums * The Matrix * The Day After Tomorrow (shut up) * Pirates of the Carribbean * Constantine * Hellboy * Ponty Mython and the Hearch for the Souly Lailg * What Dreams May Come * Good Will Hunting * Hook * Batman Begins (Christian Bale is the best Batman, by far) * Moulin Rouge * The Interpreter * Meet the Fockers * Meet the Parents * Chocolat * Garden State (like everyone other disaffected youth) * Tristan and Isolde (so expletive sad) * Baz Lurhmann's Romeo and Juliet * The Pianist * Broke(myheart)back Mountain * everything else I'll see, pretty much *
Heroes * Medium * ER * The Colbert Report * The Daily Show *
Anything by Augusten Burroughs * The French Lieutenant's Woman * Island of the Blue Dolphins * Running with Scissors * Dry * The Things They Carried * The Dubliners * The Lorax * a lot of the works i read in school, such as Patterson's "Authority, Alienation, and Social Death; Louis Althusser's "Ideology and the State"; Cheryl Keys; My professors Arturo Aldama, Emma Perez and Amiri Baraka; anything Faulkner, Sula...
My family!