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Amanda

I am here for Friends

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The Dresden Dolls, Betsey Johnson, Judy Chicago, Janine Antoni (oh wait, I already met her), David Bowie, Kiki Smith, Andy Warhol, Carolee Schnemann (even if she is bitchy and crazy), Cindy Sherman, David LaChapelle, the photography editor of W magazine,Niel Gaimen, Tori Amos.

Music:

Andy Williams, The Dresden Dolls, NIN, David Bowie, The Ravonettes, The Killers, The Postal Service, Stars, Tori Amos, Le Tigre, Brat Mobile, Rasputina, Sleater Kinney, The Bravery, The Ponys, Craig David, Fiest, Gorillaz, Ivy, Nightmare of You, Tony Lucca, JC Chasez, Air, Basement Jaxx, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper, Billy Joel, Bright Eyes, BT, The Cure, Cyndi Lauper, Dee-Lite, The Ditty Bops, Erasure, Eurythmics, Flaming Lips, Joey Fatone, Mars Volta, A Perfect Circle, Moby, My Chemical Romance (guilty pleasure), Pink, Sade, Smashing Pumpkins, Tracy Chapman, Urge, Used, Violent Femmes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Panic! At the Disco, Tegan and Sara, Suzanne Vega, Ani Difranco, Courtney Love in all her teenage angsty glory...I like all kinds of music, I even like old country, just not the new stuff.

Movies:

Annie, Boondock Saints, musicals, Labyrinth, Requiem For A Dream, Home Alone 2; Lost In New York , Animal House, Chicago, From Justin to Kelly (hehehe), any muppet movie, Jawbreaker, Phantom of the Opera, Romeo and Juliet, Shirley Temple movies, Song of Bernadette, Sweet Home Alabama, Unfaithful, What Lies Below, Gone With the Wind, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Indiana Jones Triology, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Madagascar, Beauty and the Beast, Basquiat, Chelsea Girls, Royal Tenenbaums, Old School, Elf, christmas movies of all kinds, Arthouse, The Producers, Dresden Dolls in Paradise, Max, any other suggestions?

Television:

Beverly Hills 90210, The L Word, Sex and the City, Bridezilla, Journey Man, Heroes

Books:

Warhol's Sixties, Through the Flower, The Wide Sargrasso Sea, Middlesex, Jane Eyre, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Wicked, Harry Potter, Cunt, Phantom, Phantom of the Opera, Spin Sisters, The Witching Hour, Exit to Eden, Belinda, Violin, comic books including JLA, Wonder Woman, Strangers In Paradise, Books of Magic: Life During Wartime, Water for Elephants, The Memory Keepers Daughter, Lolita.

Heroes:

Judy Chicago, the pop artists, my friends

My Blog

Honest to blog

A foreword...I don't like to blog because I feel like I sound as if I haven't lived down my teenaged angst days.  In fact, a good 75% of the blogs I do write, never get published.  But today...
Posted by Amanda on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:52:00 PST

Feminism

I was going to write a blog about feminism. Wifeswap has a crazy conservative Christian family on and the (girl) children are taught that the woman's ONLY place in the world is to take care of her hu...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:04:00 PST

Batman and the Joker

Several weeks ago I woke to remember a strange dream.  I was in a warehouse with a bunch of punk kids.  I was constantly moving through the building trying to get plans together.  At se...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:20:00 PST

Negativity

The Negative List of Random Things... 1. This morning at 6 am I tried to take a shower and it wouldn't work properly.  I called the maintenence man two weeks ago about this problem.  He "fix...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:02:00 PST

Randomosity

I felt the need to post a blog full of random pieces of things I am thinking.  I like walking over the bridge on Madison from Olgilvie Trans Center.  It makes my stomach do a flip.  I...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:11:00 PST

Damn magazines!

When I first started working here I was given the task of sending in our ads to all of the magazines.  Well, one magazine decided to run both of our ads even though I told them to hold of on the ...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:53:00 PST

Ouch.

Nothing hurts the soul more than a two and a half year old asking you nicely to come home. Thanks alot Gwenie.
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:30:00 PST

THis is hard.

THis is alot harder than I thought it would be. Really. job wise and money wise. I thought this job would be easy and fun and i would just do make up all day. Oh no. I have numbers and goals and ...
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:41:00 PST

Expect many blogs.

Tonight i got lost on the bus. Fun times. I was supposed to go out with Bridget, but instead I ended up at some bar in ... actually, I have no idea but it was with my cousin Mike. Loads of fun and I...
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:08:00 PST

That was bizarre.

Inside of Macy's on State there are ... THREE Starbucks,SEVEN Restaurants,a chocolate factory,a 45 foot tree,a vintage Tiffany's ceiling,the space of 16 and 1/2 city blocks ... that's right, inside th...
Posted by Amanda on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:33:00 PST