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andrea

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

a few years ago i made the precipitous leap from amateur music geek to highly paid music industry professional, and now work at a small but well-respected independent record label outside of Boston. in my "spare time," i still organize, book and promote a series of live shows called Boston Pop Underground , and another one called Signal To Noise , maintain the websites of a few of my favorite bands, make jewelry, paint pottery, take photographs , train for the Tour De France and map the human genome. IT'S TRUE.

My Interests

boston bands, blueberry coffee, chuck taylors, mangos, mojitos, things from cuba, guitars, electronic gadgetry, indie pop, jewelrymaking, navel contemplation, precious metal clay, pottery painting, rocking out, tivo, sushi, absurdly expensive shampoo, violet candy.

I'd like to meet:

no time to meet people, too busy surfing the internet in my pajamas and eating Cocoa Puffs straight out of the box.

Music:

aimee mann, anne heaton, ani difranco, barsuk records, ben folds five, bleu, brad jones, candy butchers, cotton mather, death cab for cutie, deb talan, einstein's sister, elliott smith, elvis costello, eric matthews, eytan mirsky, the figgs, fountains of wayne, francine, the gentlemen, the gravel pit, the gigolo aunts, glenn tilbrook, graham parker, howie beck, international pop overthrow, jason falkner, jen trynin, jennifer kimball, john brodeur, john vanderslice, jon brion, jonatha brooke, jules verdone, letters to cleo, linus of hollywood, marshall crenshaw, matthew sweet, mc paul barman, merrie amsterburg, michael penn, mike viola, millard powers, moods for moderns, nada surf, neil finn, not lame, ok go, owsley, peter mulvey, phantom planet, poundcake, power pop, q division records, rhett miller, rickie lee jones, sam phillips, school for the dead, spinal tap, spoon, squeeze, superdrag, ted leo, teenage fanclub, tenacious d, the animators, the archies, the dbs, the dismemberment plan, the ducktape messiahs, the gravel pit, the grays, the lemonheads, the long winters, the pernice brothers, the semantics, the shins, sondre lerche, the suggestions, the teenage prayers, the tories, the weakerthans, they might be giants, todd rundgren, tracy bonham, ultimate fakebook, xtc.

Movies:

almost famous, high fidelity, who's the caboose?, lost in translation, the red violin, beautiful girls, wonder boys.

Television:

project runway, america's next top model, 30 Rock, Studio 60, curb your enthusiasm and anything on bbc america.

Books:

al franken, cynthia heimel, dorothy parker, mcsweeney's, michael chabon, milan kundera, raymond carver, samuel beckett, spy magazine, salon.com, last plane to jakarta, the morning news.

Heroes:

janeane garofalo and whoever invented duct tape, not necessarily in that order