Amanda

About Me

I grew up in the Blue Grass Valley. Surrounded by mountains, pastures, sheep, and stellar views all around. Now I live in "the ville" surrounded by perfectly primped women, BMWs, and everything else of the overpriced, superficiality that has become the good ole USA. But, thankfully I have a cabin in the woods. Tweed the hounddog comes by often, as do the neighbor's chickens, so I feel right at home. I love the music here, the food, the great films and live arts plays that keep me occupied. But most of all I love me here.

My Interests

Everything!
You Should Drive a DeLorean
You don't take yourself too seriously, and you prefer a fun, unusual car... like this Back to the Future gem! What Sports Car Should You Drive?

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Music:

Andrew Bird, M. Ward, The Gourds, Avett Brothers, Martha Scanlan, Eilen Jewell, Radiohead, Wilco, Ryan Adams, Daniel Johnston, Old Crow Medicine Show, Hank Williams III, The Clash, Arcade Fire, The Shins, the list goes on and on.

Movies:

Dead Man, Manhattan, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Dark Days, Dr. Strangelove, The Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie.

Television:

TV is evil.

Books:

Ham on Rye, The Dharma Bums, Watt, Love in the time of Cholera, Cat and Mouse, As I Lay Dying, Cruising Paradise, Lolita, The Grapes of Wrath, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I simply love language especially the words of Kerouac, Bukowski, Faulkner, Nobokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sam Shepard, Martin McDonaugh,Beckett, Gunter Grass, Burroughs, T.S. Elliot.

Heroes:

Ryan Adams Com Pick Me Up

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My Blog

Unbearable Lightness

"The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:47:00 PST

Lexicographer...

"a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words" If you love language read "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon W...
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:22:00 PST

Light In August

Sometimes I want to sluff off a weight heavy like cast iron upon my shoulders. I am a f'n Hevener. And well we tend to worry and think and over analyze everything. We want to understsan...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:04:00 PST

Home again home again...

All I can say is that these past weeks have been eye opening, grueling, beautiful, depressing, and thought provoking. I am soooo happy to be going home! Yay! Yippee! Bye bye Wilmington DE. All you wil...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:43:00 PST

The Streets of Wilmington

With high rises towering all around labeled with the name of every bank imaginable you would think this city would have some type of night life. But, as soon as the executives hop into their BMWs...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:10:00 PST

There is hope in decay...

Detroit is where change is most urgent and therefore most viable. The rest of us will get there later, when necessity drives us too, and by that time Detroit may be the shining example we can look to,...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:27:00 PST

Harper's Junkie

So, I am an obessed Harper's magazine reader.Yeah, I'll say it. I'm a dork. My favorite thing ito flip to as soon as the magazine arrives is the "Harper's Index." Typically I am not one for statistics...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:32:00 PST

50 things to do this year

50 things to do this year (highlighted items are finished) 1. Camp at Crabtree Falls 2. Have a dinner party 3. ...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:04:00 PST

Thai Siam

So yesterday I was feeling a bit in a bad mood. Gas prices are rising, my pocket book is feeling a bit on the empty side, and work was really really slow. I picked up my sweet sweet Shaun from work wi...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 25 May 2007 05:45:00 PST

Vacation Time!!!