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Amanda

Too many sails, not enough breeze.

About Me

"There is something genuinely freeing to me about the ocean. There are no borders - it's fucking beautiful. I'm not going to get to do space travel, so what's under the water is quite a bit more interesting to me." - Isaac BrockMy job is to gauge what goes on inside your body and clean up whatever comes out of it. I enjoy all things disgusting and strange. I'll probably give you the benefit of the doubt. My endocrine system is whack. My calves are exponentially bigger than my thighs; I'll contribute this to being awesome. I enjoy the excessive use of adjectives because I believe that every aspect of life should be described as definitively as possible. A good amount of my friends make fun of me all the time, in jest. But because of this, not much fazes me. I am more like a little boy than your little brother. I am more of a little girl than I'll let on. I love you. My passions are spelling and Tetris and chicken wings, and I think that pretty much sums up all that's important about me.

My Interests

Good intentions, sunken ships, left lane driving, coffee shops, ghosts, white and black, black and white, mindless literature, mindless rambling, cartoons, pop art, thesauri, tweed, lighthouses, the city, songs about the ocean, the ocean, remixed songs, cover songs, not the modern age, Gofugyourself.com.

I'd like to meet:

The Fun Blame Monster.Oh. OH.

Music:

BLACK EYES BLACK EYES BLACK EYES BLACK EYES BLACK EYES BLACK EYESandandTed Leo & the Pharmacists, One AM Radio, Creta Bourzia, the Books, Sufjan Stevens, Art Brut, Squarepusher, Panda Bear, Mount Eerie, MINUS THE BEAR, +/-, Ratatat, Don Caballero, Yo la Tengo, DFA1979, M. Ward, CSS, Millencolin, Cursive, Spiritualized, Mono, Sam Roberts, CocoRosie, Alias, Koushik, Built to Spill, Jose Gonzalez, Smashing Pumpkins, American Football, The Smiths, Thee More Shallows, Apostle of Hustle, Modest Mouse, Teenage Fanclub, Hey Mercedes, Why?, the Unicorns, White Hassle, Xiu Xiu, Hard-Fi, the Long Winters, Silversun Pickups, Passage, Ghosts and Vodka, Jeremy Enigk, the Isles, Hot Chip, The Rentals, 13 & God, Junior Boys, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Rosie Thomas, Jaga Jazzist, Beach House, Mos Def, Morrissey, TV on the Radio, They Might Be Giants, Dosh, Okkervil River, Menomena, the Stryder, Metric, Blood Brothers, !!!, the Wrens, Spinto Band, Herbert, Animal Collective, Songs:Ohia, Sole, Dismemberment Plan, Sparta, The Police, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Mew, Girl Talk, Devotchka, Battles, Klaxons, the Microphones, Broken Social Scene, Wilco, Maritime, the Clientele, Belle and Sebastian, Elvis Costello, Death Vessel, CEX, The Twilight Sad, Guillemots, Travis Morrison, Laura Veirs, Beirut, Andrew Bird, The Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Thom Yorke, Hadouken!, Elliott Smith, Jawbreaker, Sigur Ros, XTC, Great Lake Swimmers, M83, Smog...among other things."...But don't forget the songs that made you cry, and the songs that saved your life."

Movies:

Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, Todd Solondz; Thumbsucker, the Chumscrubber, Elephant, Mysterious Skin, Children of Men, Door in the Floor, But I'm a Cheerleader!, Gummo, Harold and Maude, American Movie

Television:

Freaks and Geeks, Pete and Pete

Books:

The Stranger

Heroes:


My Blog

Do They Know it's Hallowe'en?

Do they know it's Hallowe'en? I'm a sucker for playlists and some may think that I take it too far at times.  I've got three for Christmas, one for sleeping, one for brooding, one for takin...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:52:00 PST

Where boys fear to tread.

I got bored tonight. Getting this type of bored usually means I turn a little nostalgic, and tonight, I channeled that nostalgia into uploading all of my Smashing Pumpkins albums. Over 150 songs as so...
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:01:00 PST

XTC vs. Adam Ant

I wish that I could find somebody who truly cares about that there title; also happening to be the subject of a They Might Be Giants song.  We'd discuss, reason, and conclude.  However, I be...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:28:00 PST