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Amanda

it's me.

About Me

i'm not quite sure why i'm creating "myspace"...peer pressure?

My Interests

the zoo! Gordon and i are full-on zoo dorks: we had a membership to the San Diego Zoo the whole time we lived there. best. zoo. ever. plus, we have cats. other than that, i like making crafts and scrapbooking.

I'd like to meet:

Ani Difranco, Barbara Boxer, Tina Fey

Music:

Coldplay, Travis, Bob Marley, Ani Difranco, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, Dar Williams, Richard Shindell, showtunes, The Shins, The Streets, Belle & Sebastian, Badly Drawn Boy, Justin Timberlake, Lily Allen, Jay-Z, Craig David, Beastie Boys, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, R.E.M., Dave Matthews Band, Bjork, The Strokes, Massive Attack, David Gray, Emiliana Torrini, Franz Ferdinand, White Stripes, The Beatles, Nick Drake, Soul Coughing, Mike Doughty, The Police, Cake, Jeff Buckley, Morrissey, The Smiths, Erykah Badu, Morphine, Rilo Kiley, Idlewild, Jack Johnson, G. Love & Special Sauce, Pete Yorn, Snow Patrol, old Sarah Mclachlan, Morcheeba, Cry Cry Cry, The Clash, Teenage Fanclub, Sting, Ben Folds Five, The Cure, Sigur Ros, Aimee Mann

Movies:

Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Love Actually, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Princess Bride, Beetlejuice, Singin in the Rain, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Austin Powers, Wedding Singer, Office Space, Super Troopers, 28 Days Later, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Undercover Brother, Spinal Tap, Blazing Saddles, Star Wars, Old School, Elf, A Christmas Story, White Christmas, anything Muppet, Wallace & Gromit (any of them), Ice Age, Zoolander, Wet Hot American Summer, An Inconvenient Truth, Who Killed the Electric Car?, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Reno 911: Miami

Television:

Daily Show, 30 Rock, Reno 911!, Stella, BBC The Office, NBC The Office, The Soup, King of Queens, Conan O'Brian, The Simpsons, Futurama, Law & Order, Scrubs, Lost, The Colbert Report, The Apprentice, ANTM, What Not to Wear, $40 a Day, Queer Eye

Books:

anything by Nick Hornby, Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs, Fargo Rock City, Memoirs of a Geisha, She's Come Undone, Harry Potter, Dude Where's My Country?, Stupid White Men, Fast Food Nation, anything by Amy Tan, Bright Lights Big City, anything by David Sedaris, Bridget Jones' Diary (come on! it was good! forget the movie), The Bitch in the House, The Lovely Bones, The World Without Us, BUST, Time magazine, Entertainment Weekly

Heroes:

my mom, Ani Difranco, Michael Moore, Barbara Boxer, Ella Fitzgerald, Tina Fey