Amanda Hocking

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Gender Female
Occupation Author
Location Rochester, MN, United States
Introduction Obsessive tweeter. John Hughes mourner. Batman devotee. Muppet activist. Unicorn enthusiast. Fraggin Aardvarks guitarist. New York Times Bestselling author of the Trylle Trilogy, the Hollows, the Watersong series, and the Kanin Chronicles.
Favorite Movies The Dark Knight, Labyrinth, My Own Private Idaho, American Psycho, The Crow, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lawn Dogs, Corrina Corrina, I ♥ Huckabees, Igby Goes Down, subUrbia, Fight Club, Jesus' Son, Garden State, Alpha Dog, Trainspotting, Donnie Darko, Ordinary People, I Love Your Work, Mystery Men, The Wall, Hot Rod, Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie, Little Miss Sunshine, TMNT, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, The Hills Have Eyes, Shaun of the Dead, Lenny, Natural Born Killers, Bully, Party Monster, the Royal Tenanbaums, Dahmer, Underworld, American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero, Dark Crystal, Lost Boys, Bladerunner, A Scanner Darkly, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, This is Spinal Tap, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Clerks, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Labyrinth, About a Boy, Singles, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Jaws, Jurassic Park, American History X, Believer, Virgin Suicides, Three Kings, Superbad, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Juno, Brokeback Mountain, Buffalo Soldiers, Saved, Jackass, Jackass: Number Two, BASEketball, Team America, Orgazmo, Last Days, Elephant, Batman Begins, Crash, Little Boy Blue, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ed Wood, Arsenic and Old Lace, Psycho, House Boat, The Big Hit, Jarhead, Hamburger Hill, Apocalypse Now, Black Hawk Down, Enchanted, Dumbo, Zodiac, Se7en, Twelve Monkeys, Speed Racer, The Hills Have Eyes, The Strangers, The Village, Signs, Clay Pigeons, Wedding Crashers
Favorite Music Ryan Adams, M♥rk H♥ppus, blink 182, (+44), Angels and Airwaves, Alice in Chains, Interpol, Pearl Jam, the Cure, Oasis, Sunny Day Real Estate, Justin Timberlake, Juliette Lewis, the Killers, the Matches, Green Day, Mad Season, Bloc Party, hellogoodbye, Marilyn Manson, Black Lab, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, Tool, The Faint, Spoon, Modest Mouse, Tears For Fears, Bush, Cary Brothers, John Lennon, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Badly Drawn Boy, Foo Fighters, Jane's Addiction, Hole, Nine Inch Nails, Filter, Stone Temple Pilots, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, the Smiths, Robert Palmer, Prince, Gin Blossems, Better Than Ezra, Sex Pistols, Stray Cats, Spin Doctors, Soul Asylum, Sublime, Deftones, B-52's, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shiny Toy Guns, Chris Garnaeu, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Soft Cell, Wolf Parade
Favorite Books Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger, Slaughterhouse Five: Kurt Vonnegat, Rant: Chuck Palahniuk, Mother Night: Kurt Vonnegat, Choke: Chuck Palahniuk, Franny and Zooey: J.D. Salinger, 1984: George Orwell, Animal Farm: George Orwell, How To Influence People and Talk Dirty: Lenny Bruce, A Father's Story: Lionel Dahmer, Jonathan Livingston Seagull: Richard Bach, Disco Bloodbath: James St. James, Don't Try This At Home: Dave Navarro, Desperation: Stephen King, The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath, Ariel: Sylvia Plath, The Idiot: Fydor Dostoevsky, American Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis, Rules of Attraction: Bret Easton Ellis, Trainspotting: Irvine Walsh, The Places You'll Go: Dr. Seuss, Maniac McGee: Jerry Spinelli, and anything by J. Otto Siebold, e e cummings, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Chuck Palanhuik, or Kurt Vonnegaut.

If you were a cannibal, what would you wear to dinner?

A parka and flip flops.