Amy O - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I spend most of my time focused on what I'm most passionate about- music.
I like saving kittens, baking pies, eating pies, organizing itunes, making mix cds, watching CNN while I'm at the gym, rhyming the word silver, playing board games, bouncing raisins in champagne, drinking wine, chewing gum, going to concerts, going to museums, watching pandas on the pandacam, crocheting, and asking questions.
"Kites fly highest against the wind, not with it." -Winston Churchill
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." -Albert Einstein
"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before." -Joseph Campbell
"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." -Joseph Campbell
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." -Thomas Jefferson
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -Thomas Jefferson
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." -Thomas Jefferson
I AM SO PROUD OF THE COUNTRY FOR EXERCISING OUR PRECIOUS RIGHT TO VOTE IN RECORD NUMBERS ON 11/4/08. CHEERS!
"It is never too late to have a happy childhood." - Tom Robbins
Love is the answer.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/21/2005
Band Website:
www.wmg.com"rhino.com

wmg.com
Influences: Aide Whittaker, Dr. Rita Hucherson, Marie Jo Thum, Leonidas Lipovetsky & Bob Winter and all of the other wonderful professors that I learned from at FSU and Berklee College of Music.

Beethoven. The Beatles. U2. The Pixies. Madonna. Rachel Portman. Sufjan. Elliott. Stevie Wonder. Matt Joy. MOVING PICTURE SHOW . And so, so, so many others.

Recently: Bird & Bee Panda Bear, Blonde Redhead, The New Pornographers, Vampire Weekend, the new Panic at the Disco, Bowie, Sinatra & Jeff Buckley.

A. Einstein+W. Heisenberg+T. Jefferson+C. Jung+J. Campbell+T. Robbins...
Sounds Like: the music you're hearing on my myspace player :-)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Fuck Fox News.

I think that the BBC, PBS and CNN are the most balanced news sources. I like MSNBC- I'm down with Keith Oberman. But, I think it's important to balance out MSNBC's left-wing voice with FOX's right-win...
Posted by Amy O on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:13:00 PST

Hancock, Blanchard & Miracle at St. Ana

I went to a screening tonight for "Miracle At St. Ana." It's a wonderful, moving film- all 2 hours and 40 minutes of it. Kudos to Spike Lee. And, Terence Blanchard's 100 minute score is equally impres...
Posted by Amy O on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:58:00 PST

MYSTERY

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt...
Posted by Amy O on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:04:00 PST

071108

friday nightcandle lightheating up my loving cupmelodies imbuesentiments ensuerecollections of youauspiciously lonelywith my one and onlyone
Posted by Amy O on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:57:00 PST

Personal Motto.

"My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that bu...
Posted by Amy O on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:25:00 PST

Playlist 1988!

The inspiration for this came from the mix tapes (okay, mix CDs) that I just made for Amy West. This time 20 years ago, I LOVED the following songs. Most of them came out in 1988. I had 45 records or ...
Posted by Amy O on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:53:00 PST

061005

A little poem...INFINTELY SPANNEDA HINTERLANDAN ENDLESS SEAIT SEEMS TO BE. BUT DO BOUNDSINTENTIONALLY SURROUNDTHIS ILLUSIONARY SPACEWHERE I FIND MY PLACE
Posted by Amy O on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:44:00 PST

My Top Albums of 2007:

REVISED: In no particular order, these are the albums that I enjoyed most in 2007 :-) The New Pornographers - ChallengersRadiohead - In RainbowsGreat Northern - Trading Twilight For DaylightBird & Bee...
Posted by Amy O on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:49:00 PST

III Is The Magic Number

I started researching the occurances of the number III in the world a couple of years ago. This isn't by any means complete, but it's a start.III IS THE MAGIC NUMBERA compliation of the occurances and...
Posted by Amy O on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:54:00 PST

Destiny & Freewill

Some unedited ramblings in response to my dear friend's question, 'Do you think there is a pre-determined path for everyone or that we create our own destiny?'i say there is no OR. i believe it's bot...
Posted by Amy O on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:17:00 PST