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Amanda

Guitar, Wine, Words and the world....await

About Me

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I write poetry, erotic fiction, songs. My erotic fiction has appeared in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Cream: Best of The Erotica Readers and Writers Association, various sites online, including Unlikely Stories.org, Bluefood.cc, Oysters and Chocolate, Xodtica and Good Vibrations. My poetry has been published by Quills Canadian Poetry, Jones Ave Quarterly, Pouet Cafee, Spire Poetry Poster, local zines such as In/Words, the Dusty Owl Quarterly and also on line on various sites. I run a poetry site and journal with a little help from my friends. (I get by with a little help from my friends). I'm happily married and polyamorous. Drafts of poems I write get posted here: http://eleanorincognito.blogspot.com/

My Interests

Music, Poetry, Erotica, Canadian Fiction, Playing Guitar, Small Press, Knitting, Birds, Wine, French language and literature, Food, especially Thai, Indian, Ethopian, Sri Lankan, Japanese, Vietnamese.

I'd like to meet:

Kindred spirits, friends, fellow synesthetes, sound worshipers, erotica writers, poets, musicians, hedonists, sensualists, romantics, poly folk.object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cab s/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="424" height="360" id="dl_flvwidget" align="middle"

Music:



Ron Sexsmith, Andy Stochanksy, Trevor Tchir, Joshua Bartholomew, Ana Egge, Hawksley Workman, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Serena Ryder, Melissa Laveaux, Rosalnd MacPhail, Lindsay Ferguson, Peter Webb, Peter Katz, Peter Elkas, Bob Dylan, Ane Brune, Martin Sexton, Jeff Buckley, Annie Lennox, Cat Power, Dar Williams, Dahmnait Doyle, Eccodeck, Beautiful Nubia, Scott Edmonds, Emm Gryner, Aimee Mann, Alise Marlane, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Jane Sibbery, James Correa, Joseph Arthur, Joan Armitrading, Jimmy Hendrix, Kate Fenner, Kirin Ahluwalia, Lee Hayes, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn, Lindi, Lisa Loeb, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Lynn Miles, Mazzy Star, Nina Simone, Sophie B. Hawkins, The Beatles, The Doors, The Kinks, The Henrys, Tom Waits, Verve, Velvet Underground, Sam Roberts, Feist,Fiona Apple, Jon Rae and the River, Lily Frost

Movies:

Ordinary People, To Kill A Mockingbird, To Sir With Love, Elizabethtown, Dr. Zhivago, sappy chick flicks, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride

Television:

The L Word, Couplings, All My Children

Books:

http://www.librarything.com/profile.php?view=Amanda-ottawa for poetry; Fiction: Robertson Davies, Alice Hoffman, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, The Brontes, Victor Hugo, Eugene Balzac, Stendhal. Non Fiction: Diane Ackerman, SARK

Heroes:

Muriel Rukeyser, SARK, Anais Nin, Kiki de Montparnasse, Susie Bright

My Blog

top ten july

apparently i forgot to post top ten july 08  ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> bettye lavette - they call it love buddy guy  feels like rain lou reed  w...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:24:00 PST

top ten aug 08

Ida  Road to Ruin Women  Black Rice Conor Oberst  Get-Well-Cards Construction and Deconstruction  Ring Around the Moon Mike Yates and the Candidates - Art of Conversation Matt Mays and El Torpedo ...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:23:00 PST

top ten june 08

top ten june 08   the weight / the band standing in the doorway / bob dylan the river / bruce springsteen one nerve / clayhill kooks / david bowie you are one of the few outsiders who really...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:27:00 PST

top ten may 08

psychotic girl, the black keys god like, gogol bordello start wearing purple, gogol bordello vicious, lou reed spread your love, black rebel motorcycle club drinking at the dam, smog at the pines, smo...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 20 May 2008 12:27:00 PST

april 08 top ten

some old favs on this, sparked by a sharing music, camraderie and desire in the spring light how lucky am i Maggie Gyllenhaal   just the way you are (cover of Billy Joel song) Maggie Gyllenh...
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:26:00 PST

March top ten

Harold, Coco  Claire Jenkins avec Band Alaska  Kate Fenner It’ll All Work Out  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Easily Bruised- Matthew Barber Genevieve  Proof of Ghosts State of Grace  Cora...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:06:00 PST

top ten february 2008

anyone else but you  the moldy peaches all the young dudes  mott the hoople all damn day long  the pack a.d. all the trees are  hers  hawksley workman best tasting wool in the whole world ...
Posted by Amanda on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:28:00 PST

top ten january 2008

swimming like a needle in the haystack of the sea  -  nathan law and the minotaurs umbrella  wax mannequin the cornflakes song (feat. Glen Phillips) -  Dick Prall worrier's feast  ...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:22:00 PST

top ten december 2007

are all xmas tunes and there are more than ten in the spirit of the season....   Hawksley Workman  Silent Night, Almost A Full Moon Shawn Colvin  All Through The Night, Holiday Songs and Lullab...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:30:00 PST

november top ten

stay tuned for december's all holiday top ten! misguided angel, cowboy junkies dark road, annie lennox smithereens, annie lennox one scotch, one bourbon, one beer, amos milburn boy with a coin, iron a...
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:07:00 PST