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Amanda

mad, bad, and dangerous to know

About Me

If I could go back in time I would go to the ice age (as long as I could be assured of not being eaten by a saber-tooth tiger or some other class of man-killing beast). In fact, I would be prepared for the environment since I lived in the gulag for two years…I mean, I served two years in the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe – in Moldova to be exact, where I used to spar with an evil goose every morning on my way to the outhouse (the bird flu got him eventually). After a year-long tour of the third world, paid for with your tax dollars compliments of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, my semi-permanent abode is LA, which is almost as much fun as my secret desire to live in a hut on a secluded tropical beach.

My Interests

traveling, scuba diving, learning foreign languages, live music, salsa dancing with well-heeled latin men, hiking, reading, eating good food, relaxing, laughing, swimming (but only in warm water), intrigued by anything exotic (sorry fellas, not exotic dancing!)

I'd like to meet:

Well, I already met the king of the gypsies… so my life’s ambition has been accomplished. Anyone who wants to fund my new quest to conquer all extreme sports. No wankers please.

Music:

Radiohead, Aqualung, Muse, Keane, Jem, Portishead, Massive Attack, Basement Jaxx, Faithless, Coldplay, Maroon 5, Travis, anything latin but especially Juanes, Mana, Reik, and La Oreja de Van Gogh, Supergrass, Powderfinger, PaloAlto, Starsailor, Jeff Buckley, The Killers, Feeder, Doves, Stevie Wonder, The Streets, Francis Cabrel, Stereophonics, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sting, Nikka Costa, Fatboy Slim, G. Love, Ben Harper, Damien Rice, Dishwalla, Elbow, Turin Brakes, Snow Patrol, Belarus, KT Tunstall

Movies:

Run Lola Run, Whale Rider, The Motorcycle Diaries, Waking Ned Devine, Two Hands, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Ten Things I Hate About You, Something's Gotta Give, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, French Kiss, Pirates of the Caribbean, Romancing the Stone

Television:

Grey's Anatomy; Law & Order; Sex and the City; Six Feet Under

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole; A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn; anything by P.G. Wodehouse; Lamb -Christopher Moore; The Jungle - Upton Sinclair; Made in America - Bill Bryson; The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver; Harry Potter; Lord of the Rings

Heroes:

Jacques Cousteau, Che Guevara