I’m Amanda. I’ve got wide eyes, a smart mouth, and a MetroCard. And I’m not afraid to use them.
I’ve always loved to sing in acoustically-pleasing bathrooms. So much so that I once got busted belting out showtunes at a Taco Bell.
Immediately after, I stopped listening to musical theater and started eschewing Mexican fast food, except when on road trips in suburbia. Cause then it’s an extenuating circumstance, esé.
Ellen Degeneres’ Bathroom Concert Series is brilliant. Awesomely how-did-I-just-discover-this? brilliant. Her performance with Jennifer Hudson has got to be the best.
Love Cee Lo’s new single “Fuck You”?
Of course you do.
The album comes out Tuesday, but you can listen to it for free on npr.org until then. I would’ve told you sooner, but I was too busy dancing in my underwear at home.
Just in case you ever want to write a screenplay, but you’re worried your idea is dumb…
I love Cee Lo.
He’s quirky and fun, and this video beats watching anyone lip-sync.
Not sure if you know, but I was once a big Shakespeare nerd. My degree required it. Every English major had to take an in-depth Shakespeare class, and I took mine with this incredible British scholar who lived for the Bard. She was Bard to the bone.
I read a lot of Shakespeare. Then I wrote a lot of papers - at least one a week. Lemme tell you, it feels really good to get Shakespeare, and anyone can if they read closely. After that class, I overcame the doubt that sometimes told me my analysis of literature would never be smart or interesting or unique enough.
Then I took a class that required reading a lot of Gertrude Stein and I was back to where I started. I hated reading Gertrude Stein.
Anyway, what if Shakespeare’s doomed heroines had a sassy gay friend? My kingdom for a hilarious stereotype!
And there’s Moor, err more!
I love me some tunes about the inanity of social media.
Remember “Are You Fucking Kidding Me (The Facebook Song)” by Kate Miller-Heidke? I got to hear it live when I saw Miller-Heidke open for Ben Folds last month. It brought the house down.
You’re going to cringe in remembrance.
If Noisiest Passenger existed in 1996, courtesy of Jeremy.
What’s worse - MIDI files or Alanis Morissette misusing the word “ironic”?
“Empire State of Mind” has become this ubiquitous tune I hear everywhere. It’s all over the radio, being sung in subway cars, implanting itself in my brain.
Normally, I’d burn out, but I’m still digging it. Alicia Keys has her own version, which I got to hear live when I went to a Late Show with David Letterman taping.
It was wow.
A Christmas song for people who don’t care about Christmas songs:
