Amanda - ProfilesArchive

About Me

www.musecomics.com, aim contact molly314159

My Interests

Comics, Mini Comics, Comics Retail, Small Business, Physics, Video Games, Local Art, FOOD

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who loves comics, or creates them, publishes them or sells them. People who dig physics and astronomy, too.

Music:

My favorite song is Shake 'Em Up by the Johnny Nocturne Band. Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, big band swing and anything that's playing today. I like songs that tell stories.

Movies:

Miller's Crossing, Godfather, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Amelie

Television:

CSI, NCIS, House, Bones, Good Eats, Desperate Housewives, Arrested Development, SG1, Buffy, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, Sports Night

Books:

Strangers in Paradise, Y The Last Man, Lucifer, Tezuka's Buddha, Sandman, Local, Oh My Goddess, Transmetropolitan, Come In Alone, Blankets, Kabuki, From Hell, Alec: How To Be An Artist, Queen & Country, Noble Causes, Jane's World, Three Days in Europe...wow, it's hard to list all of my favorite books! Greg Rucka's comics & all of his prose novels; almost all of Oni Press's books; books with Scott Morse's and Mike Hawthore's art; Mike Carey's, Brian Wood's, Brian Vaughn's and Anthony Johnston's writing; Warren Ellis's sci-fi and non-fiction; anything with David Mack art; many of Adrian Tomine's and Andi Watson's books, anything that Jim Ottaviani writes or publishes; I love most of First Second's stuff, too.

Heroes:

Richard Feynman, Physicist; Diane Friend, Astronomer; Felicity Huffman, Actress; Elizabeth Fugate, Teacher; Marie Curie, Physicist

My Blog

How is Monte not winning?

Saw the UM Marching Band's bulletin for the capitalonebowl.com mascot competition, and after you vote you can see the current tally. Monte's losing to some Gopher whose signature move is to rotate his...
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:58:00 PST

Gee, thanks, Erik.

It's nice when your friends take the time to reassure you: http://www.teraph.com/special/amanda/ (push play & listen)
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:17:00 PST

Yay!

My new toy!
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:30:00 PST

No More Shots!

My plan for my wake was to have a drink or two and hang out, eat food, and talk to friends. I forgot about the Birthday Shot, though, and how everyone insists on buying you one. I'm not much of a...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:33:00 PST

Leaving 9-9

I'll be gone for a few weeks starting Sunday, September 9th. So, if you're used to contacting me at the store, don't! Jeff and the guys will be running the show; you can still call there for any biz s...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:57:00 PST

You Are Invited

Posted by Amanda on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:59:00 PST

Thank you, Matt Lehman!

My friend Matt (of Comicopia in Boston) knew that my birthday is coming up and that I'm taking several trips down to Colorado Springs and back to Missoula lately, so he sent me an audio book of Walter...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:52:00 PST

I killed my cell phone!

Earlier this week (right before I left town for 5 days) I was messing with my windows mobile phone which had very little memory left and I hit "clear storage memory" or something like that, thinking i...
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:59:00 PST

SDCC, why do you mock me?

Another way to have it crushed into your face that you're not AT the San Diego Comic Con is to have people call you all night FROM the parties at SDCC asking, "hey, where are you? You should come...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:21:00 PST

Novel-wise,

...last week I read Mike Carey's new book, "Devil You Know," "Northanger Abby" and the first part of "the Complete Sherlock Holmes." (I don't even remember the comics I read, so nothing must've stood ...
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:55:00 PST