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General
Name: Amanda
Age: 17
Birthday: October 30, 1987
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Sexuality (Just for reference. Your answer here will in no way disqualify you from entry.): Bisexual
Music
Favorite musical genre (If rock, please specify.): Rock... I can't really specify... I love all of it... I guess mostly metal and classic rock.
Favorite bands/artists: A whole lot, but I must be specific, so... Metallica, Arch enemy, System of a down, Wumpscut, Bella morte, Green Day, Soilwork, Nirvana, Mudvayne, Ac/dc, Van Halen, Motely Crue, Kittie, Murderdolls, KoRn, Manson, Dimmu borgir, Rammstien, Nightwish, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Alice in Chains, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Apocalyptica, Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, the Misfits, King Diamond, NIN, Micheal Jackson (thriller), Moztart, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, Offspring, Sarah Brightman, vnv nation, Phantom of the Opera, Octane, Oldman's Child, Linkin Park, Evita, Godsmack, Black Sabbath, Disturbed, Bush, Jimmi Hendrix, Billy Idol, Orgy, Iron Maiden, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, Jack off Jill, Rob Zombie, The Used, U2, The Guess Who, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Judas Priest, Theatre of Tragedy, Beethoven, Flogging Molly, Les Miserables, Helloween, Danny Elfman
Three to five favorite songs (Name artists): Why must I choose? The list constantly changes.
1.) Nightwish- Ghost Love Score
2.) King Diamond- Family Ghost
3.) Blue Oyster Cult- Don't fear the Reaper
4.) Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven
5.) Metallica- One
Who’s your favorite musician and why?: King Diamond... because he writes almost all of the songs and they are amazing. The harmonies, the riffs... I respect him as a musician so much, though his voice may take a while getting used to. Of course he would be nothing without his band, but I believe they would also be nothing without him. The lyrics he writes always tell an interesting story.
Musical genre and bands you hate and why?: I hate Hip-hop and R&B because they're lyrics are horrible. They throw out anything that rhymes, even if it doesn't make sense or is incredibly stale. They're entirely to stereotypical with their bitches and Escalades. Most of the time the music is a generic drum beat with a series of sounds thrown together to create "music". There may be some songs or artists that don't fit this description, but the genre in general is all the same. I don't like things that sound too much alike. I'm also not a fan of screamo, because the voices ruin it for me... they're all the same to me... and understand that this is only my opinion, it was asked of me. I also am not too much of a fan of death metal where the singer only growls and nothing he says could be understood... a lot of the time the music is generic and too much of the same thing.
Why is music important to your life? (Be specific, this question is important.): As long as I've been alive, I've been driven by music. I always loved singing and messing around with piano's. I took up the violin when I was eight and still play. I also took up the drums and violin and taught myself some keyboards. I love music. Playing it and listening to it. Even if I don't like the genre or artist, I will appreciate music in every form. I believe without music, the world would be without a soul. I'd be lost without my guitar. Music is what I want to do with my life.
What is your opinion on...
Abortion: I don't think it's right, scrambling the fetus' brain and sucking it out of the womb. I believe a fetus is a human life. I would never do it. However, my opinion on it for society is uncertain. I wouldn't say someone else shouldn't do it if that's their choice, but at the same time I think it's horrible.
Stem Cell Research: I'm not too educated on that matter and I know not to speak about something without knowing what it really is.
Gay Marriage: I am for it for a lot of reasons. Not because I think marriage is great or because I believe "God" is okay with it, but because it is a legal matter, not religious. Homosexuals deserve every right a straight person has. Who gives man the power to judge something like marriage? Where's the seperation of church and state here?
Drugs (alcohol, tobacco, illegal, and such): I think all of that is pointless, but some of my friends smoke and drink so I don't really care. I believe the substances are harmful to the body... everyone who does them thinks they're going to be just fine. I don't like to preach to people about it though. I wouldn't be against getting drunk once in my life... it's just my dad was an alcoholic and I've seen what it can do to a family.
Government in General: I believe people need some sort of governing body or there'd be chaos. I don't agree with a lot of governments all over the world, and I know there are plenty of flaws in the US government. For one, only two political parties for an entire nation is ridiculous. Mostly I just wish there would be a stronger seperation between church and state, that way decisions that have to be made rationally wouldn't be influenced by the "oh so holy whatever people believe in"... all over the world. No more senseless wars or restrictions just because the bible says so.
Religion: I don't believe in organized religion. It defeats it's own purpose. It teaches in a structure and stays within tradition, dulling it's people to the real meaning behind the repeated message. Organized religion gets people in a habbit saying you must do this and that to be accepted... and every world religion only wants inner peace. How could that be achieved when people are so focused on the group laws and regulations... that they may never really know why they follow.
Waffles: I loves me some waffles.
Other Info
Favorite Food: Pizza *drools*
Favorite Book: hmm. Blood and Chocolate
Favorite Movies: The Matrix, Batman, Donnie Darko, X-men, Equilibrium, Montey Python and the Holy Grail, Fight Club, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, The Shining, Interview with the Vampire, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Bram Stokers Dracula, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Planet of the Apes (the original), Spiderman, Lost Boys, Gladiator, Strangeland, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissor Hands, Dogma, Beetle Juice, Pleasantville... I'm sure there are more I just can't think of them right now.
Other Likes: the autumn weather and changing of leaves, music, dreaming even having nightmares, thunderstorms, looking at the stars, the smell of burning hair, motorcycles, piercings, really old/abandoned mental hospitals and jails, death as a mythical being aka the grim reaper, guitars, wrestling with my friends over stupid things, ancient languages, torture methods, ancient sacrificial traditions, distortion on my guitar, human pillows, corsets, edgar allen poe, anne rice, lord byron, vampires, nature, werewolves, going to the movies, horror/sci fi movies, Vladislav Dracula the impaler (the dragon prince, count dracula), pizza (yerm), hiking, anything to do with skelletons or bones, metallica anything, european history, that magnificent pink you only see at sunset, having nowhere to be with nothing to do, getting wet with paint, top hats, Jack the Ripper, drawing, cartoons, music that lifts you above your own body, long and deep conversations, looking beyond what I see, playing the guitar, drums and violins, singing, writing, drawing, painting.
Dislikes: when people wallow in self pity, glitter (I despise glitter it doesn't come off), escalators and elevators, the smell of hospitals, jello, ignorance, ear wax, when people try to impress others, when people crave attention, when people accuse others of being "posers", every religion although I respect other's beliefs, when christians claim to have seen or heard "jesus" or "god" talk to them and people believe them, the bible, prejudice in any form (sexuality, race, gender, age etc), sluts, when people hate for no reason, when people are sad and I can't make them happy, stereotypes, being helpless to change all the things I see wrong with the world, melodrama.
Something funny or interesting about yourself (Interesting facts and or stories will do nicely): Umm... I just went to my senior prom in a hearse, to a catholic school. The driver of the hearse has blood splattered on her face and carried a severed head into the catering place... where nuns were gaping at her. It was fun :) I don't know what else about myself is interesting. You'd have to ask someone else that. OH! One time Mr. Softey ran over my neighbor right infront of me while I was eating the icecream I got from him. umm... hmm.
Rant about something. Anything you think would be worth our while: I don't know what would be worth your while... I found myself ranting about stuff in a few questions above... but erm... here I go.
Why are religious people so quick to label something as a miracle or result of prayer? Could it be a coincidence perhaps? Or maybe something scientifical that we just can't explain yet? People invented gods and goddesses way back when to explain what thunder was or why Autumn occured, because science could not explain what caused those things. Now we can. Maybe years from now we'll know why people are cured for seemingly no reason or what causes something like "Hauntings". Maybe science just isn't that advanced yet. Einstien said, "We still don't know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us." Perhaps science just isn't there yet. Or maybe science can't explain anything at all. Maybe people made up the law of gravity and because of that, what goes up must come down.
What if we're so programed to believe the things we're told, so driven by society's laws that we're blind to what humanity could accomplish. I heard once that there's a percentage of the brain human beings do not use, and if we were to use it, man could fly. What if it's all mind over matter? What if you determine what can or can not be? What if a strong belief in a supernatural power is just mind over matter? If anyone believes something so strongly, they can make it happen so to speak?
Wait... my brain's going to implode.
Pictures:
Kind of fuzzy, but that's me in the middle playing the G-tar at an Iron Maiden/Judas Priest tribute