Ambercita
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | "It's not where I'm from - but where I've been that should be of interest." - Georgia O'Keefe |
| Interests | reading, writing, kayaking,travel, music, being outside and exploring, creating: paper crafts (see: somerset studios, stamps, ink, paper and glue), cooking, riding my scooter...still learning that one though! next up: learning to fly...but let me perfect the turns on the scooter first! |
| Favorite movies | The Right Stuff, The Color Purple, An American in Paris,Closer, Good Will Hunting,Weeds, The Cooler, Paris- I love You, Gotcha!, Top Secret, Amelie, High Art, The Sopranos, The Jane Austen Book Club (Maria Bello...meow!!!),Under the Volcano, Bandits, Frida, Big Red One, Annie (and most anything else starring Albert Finney), Sling Blade, Goonies, Breakfeast Club, The Godfather I & II, A Bronx Tale, Antwone Fisher, Office Space, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Lost in Translation, Billy Elliot, Shawshank Redemption, As Good As It Gets, Sleep With Me, Wall Street, Traffic, Under the Tuscan Sun, The Namesake, Saving Grace, Serendipity, Running on Empty, The Last Emporer, Grease, Peggy Sue Got Married, Escape from Alcatraz, Gloria (original version), mob flicks, Love, Actually, Moonstruck, So...I Married an Axe Murderer, Eat-Drink-Man-Woman, Places in the Heart, Steel Magnolias, Notting Hill (that group of friends ROCKED --they could roll with my posse anytime)...shall I go on...movies are magic. |
| Favorite music | not enough space here....Pixies remain my favorite of all time...add several soundtracks in between. I am a soundtrack junkie - last 2 purchased were Elizabethtown and A Bronx Tale. Track 11 on the Elizabetown soundtrack is a must!! Kate Bush, Van Morrison, John Hiatt,Cocteau Twins, Keb Mo', Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Black Eyed Peas, Public Enemy, the standard crooners - Dino, Frank, Tony et. al. Rolling Stones, Concrete Blonde, The The, Peter Murphey, Big Audio Dynamite & The Clash, Beatles, Stone Roses...who doesn't "wanna be adored"? Feist, Tracy Chapman, DMB, Slick Rick,Lauryn Hill, Lou Reed, Mike Doughty,Cat Stevens, Echo & the Bunnyman, New Order, Michael Jackson -before he publicly weirded out, Amos Lee, David Gray, Cardigans cover of Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man', Joe Jackson, Marc Almond, Celebrate the Nun, Orbital,Natalie Merchant, AC/DC,XTC,Pink Martini, Patsy Cline, Rosemary Clooney, Rush, Oingo Boingo, Portishead, Morphine, Talking Heads - David Byrne, Bruce Hornsby, ...most things to do with horns, drums and violins. |
| Favorite books | most anything by Bill Bryson, bell hooks. Lonely Planet travel guides, Rebecca Walker, Jennifer Weiner, Ronald Takaki, Asha Bandele, Nandi Crosby, Rotten Ralph, Amelia Bedelia, Griffin & Sabine |