Amanda
- Age: 29
- Gender: Female
- Astrological Sign: Taurus
- Zodiac Year: Monkey
- Industry: Museums or Libraries
- Occupation: Library Assistant
- Location: Georgia : United States
About Me
Amanda lives on coffee, snark, and capacious Victorian novels. She has an aversion to telephones and communicates by owl exclusively.
Interests
- Accordion music
- Art Nouveau
- Beauregard Fitzgerald Capote the dandiest cat around
- birds
- black eyeliner
- books
- classic movies
- coffee
- dinosaurs
- fairy tales
- funky shoes
- Harry Potter
- having imaginary conversations with dead authors
- Hieronymus Bosch
- lip gloss
- mythical beasts
- poem-scribbling
- punk parenting
- retro kitsch
- sarcasm
- singing badly and often
- Sir Francis Drake
- Sylvia Plath
- tattoos
- the Precious
- Transformers
- vodka
- yarn
- zombies.
Favorite Movies
- The Birds
- Donnie Darko
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Fight Club
- Garden State
- the Golden Compass
- Harry Potter Movies
- the Hours
- the Innocents
- Juno
- Life Aquatic
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Lord of the Rings
- Napoleon Dynomite
- the Others
- Perfume
- the Prestige
- Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth version)
- the Royal Tennenbaums
- SLC Punk
- Secretary
- Transformers
- the Uninvited.
Favorite Music
- Ani DiFranco
- Animal Collective
- the Apples in Stereo
- Arcade Fire
- Art Brut
- As Tall As Lions
- Bat for Lashes
- Beirut
- Bell Orchestra
- Belle and Sebastian
- Beulah
- Black Kids
- Blonde Redhead
- the Bravery
- Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Broadcast
- Broken Social Scene
- Cat Power
- the Clean
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- the Clash
- CSS
- the Cure
- Cursive
- the Dandy Warhols
- Death Cab for Cutie
- the Decemberists
- Devendra Banhart
- the Doors
- Echo and the Bunnymen
- Eels
- Elefant
- Elf Power
- Elliot Smith
- Enon
- Essex Green
- Flaming Lips
- the Gerbils
- Go! Team
- the Hives
- the Hush Sound
- Interpol
- Joanna Newsom
- Joy Division
- Lamb
- Lavender Diamond
- Le Tigre
- Leonard Cohen
- the Like
- Maccabees
- Magnetic Fields
- Manchester Orchestra
- Marbles
- Mason Proper
- Metric
- the Minders
- Modest Mouse
- Mum
- the National
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Nine Black Alps
- Of Montreal
- Olivia Tremor Control
- Pedro the Lion
- Pete Yorn
- the Pixies
- PJ Harvey
- Poe
- Polyphonic Spree
- Portishead
- Ra Ra Riot
- Radiohead
- the Ramones
- Regina Spektor
- the Shins
- Sigur Ros
- Silversun Pickups
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Sonic Youth
- Spoon
- Sufjan Stevens
- System of a Down
- Talkdemonic
- Thom Yorke
- Tokyo Police Club
- Tori Amos
- Vampire Weekend
- White Rose Movement
- Wolf Parade
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Favorite Books
- Fiction: Alexandre Dumas
- Angela Carter
- the Brontës
- Charles Dickens
- Donna Tartt
- Edith Wharton
- Elizabeth Bowen
- E.M. Forster
- Evelyn Waugh
- George Eliot
- Henry James
- Jane Austen
- Jeanette Winterson
- JK Rowling
- John Galsworthy
- Joyce Carol Oates
- JRR Tolkein
- Leo Tolstoy
- Margaret Atwood
- Oscar Wilde
- Philip Pullman
- Rebecca West
- Richard Hughes
- Shirley Jackson
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Sylvia Townsend-Warner
- Virginia Woolf. Poets: Anne Sexton
- Dylan Thomas
- ee cummings
- Ezra Pound
- H.D.
- Nick Flynn
- Richard Garcia
- Sylvia Plath
- T.S. Eliot
- William Blake
- W.B. Yeats.
