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Amy

I am here for Friends

About Me

Have you ever wanted to quit your job and do something more interesting?? ME TOO!!! So I'm doing it. In June 2008 I leave on a tour of organic vegetable farms through a program called WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms): www.wwoof.org. I want to feel what it's like to grow my own food in an environmentally sustainable way -- all organic with no pesticides. I'm planning the farm jumping to hit some areas I've always wanted to see ... the redwood forests, and the California and Oregon coast. To make time to travel, and also because it's eating my soul alive, I'm quitting my job as a newspaper designer and using my savings to pay for gas and national park fees; the farms provide food and shelter in exchange for 20-30 hours/week. When I'm not pulling weeds, knee-deep in manure, or doing other sweaty back-breaking labor, I'll be reading, exploring the great outdoors, biking, taking pictures, playing guitar, meditating and bonding with the earth =). I am starting a blog and photo sharing site during my trip so if you'd like to come along on my WWOOF journey, myspace me your e-mail! Peace and love

My Interests

Thinking, reading, laughing, kissing

I'd like to meet:

Storytellers, freethinkers, electric car enthusiasts, poets, artisans, indie filmmakers, dancers, writers, peacemongers, vegetarians, carnies, musicians, searchers, jam band fans, hippie nouveaux, readers of alternative fiction, tree huggers, random-anonymous-act-of-kindness doers and activists.

Music:

Folk rock, jam bands, bluegrass, acoustic, alt country, classical, jazz. Mofro, Ani DiFranco, Anais Mitchell, Ryan Adams, Wilco, Damien Rice, Leftover Salmon, Tegan and Sarah, Ben Harper, Bright Eyes, Andrew Bird, Bob Marley, Coldplay, Iron and Wine, Jack Johnson, Phish, String Cheese Incident, Death Cab, Modest Mouse, Portishead, Fiona Apple, Garbage, PJ Harvey, Mediski, Martin and Wood.

Movies:



Please watch this. Pretty please? PLEASE!!? Only 5 minutes ... I love documentaries and really good drama. I'm picky. Who Killed The Electric Car?; Born Into Brothels; Iron-Jawed Angels; Amelie; Into the Wild; The Corporation; Promises; American History X; Bowling for Columbine; Farenheit 911; The Color Purple

Television:

is crap

Books:

Raymond Carver is hands down my favorite short-story writer of all time. Addicted to Salinger. Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." Elizabeth Bishop. Plath. Thoreau. Whitman. Ginsberg. Arundhati Roy. ZZ Packer. Toni Morrison. Sandra Cisneros

Heroes:

Wangari Maathai, Mahatma Ghandi, Grace Lee Boggs, Steven Biko, Betty Friedan, Bob Geldof, Vandana Shiva, Gloria Steinem. And smart people with the answers to life: Noam Chomsky, Joseph Campbell.

MySpaceTV Videos: Searching for Assassin - Episode 10 by Depleting Shadow Films
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids....

My heroes... local artists and filmmakers in Phoenix! It's a struggle but indie film is where it's at!! Take a look at Assassin... it's gonna be awesome!!

My Blog

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

I, Rose Rosenfeld, am one of the workerswho survived. Before the inferno broke out,factory doors had been locked by the owners, to keep us at our sewing machines, to keep us from stealing scraps of ...
Posted by Amy on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:00:00 PST

Universe

Behavioral challenges, fightingInsecuritiesGod is not concerned with fairnessIt's an illusion, this individualityThings from ancient times:Sky, earth, spirit, 10,000 rocksMan only interferes, with his...
Posted by Amy on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:23:00 PST

Trestle

Picking blackberries on the trestle rail Didn't think of danger in those days Pressed our ears to metal, the whisper Meant we better run like hell   We laughed and ran until we fell Grass s...
Posted by Amy on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:59:00 PST

Opiates

I want to unlearn being human Or start loving pain. Opiates help me Books waffles hot tea movies To escape Alone. Crying feels orgasmic Caresses synapses to Fire. Fool me. Tell me:...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:59:00 PST

a day in the effing life

this email is from some big cheese design guy at work. i don't know why i think it's so funny but....Coming soon, we will talk about innovation in a new way. (talk about innovation in a new way? an......
Posted by Amy on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:12:00 PST

Double Standard

"She'll leave soon, Women only stay at work until they get married," My boss said loudly today. Chuckle, chortle, snort. Cube peons peek over fuzzy brown blinders. Har har. I drift. Flashbu...
Posted by Amy on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:52:00 PST

Graveyard

Tombstones glow eerie blue Caught by a beam of silver moon. Ocean hangs like syrup in sea-silent air. We cut through jaggy jungle, shoreline shrubs Wrought iron gate squawks, we poke inside...
Posted by Amy on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:53:00 PST

Nellies Kitchen

Nellie's Kitchen Lemon drops, boiled anise, biscott, just browned A coconut rainbow  green, yellow, blue But cookies aren't the only colors filling the room The scratches on my grandma's calf ha...
Posted by Amy on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:05:00 PST

Daybirth

  Sniffing, creeping, I feel him cutting the darkness of my room. His dim blue light pervades our thick-walled womb. Daybreak! Traitor. How did you discover us so soon?   Rain taps my win...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:12:00 PST

Search

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why -James Thurber...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:33:00 PST