About Me
- About Me: Hey! I'm Amy. I LOVE Lord of the Rings! My greatest hopes: to crave God, revere truth, desire beauty, and to consistently live out that worldview everyday. I also have another xanga, spitfire_phoenix, but this one is mostly a platform for me to share great stuff from British literature... come in, leave a comment, read some great literature!
Television
- Favorite Shows: Frasier, *Doctor Who* Numb3rs, NCIS, Alias (the first two seasons), Foyle's War, Monarch of the Glen, Duchess of Duke Street, Red Green, British comedies [Last of Summer Wine, As Time Goes By, To the Manor Born, Are You Being Served, Vicar of Dibley, Waiting for God, Fawlty Towers, sometimes Blackadder, and a bunch of others]
- Favorite Channels: PBS, TCM, History Channel, A&E, if we got the British version of BBC it would be cool (not BBC America)
- Most Addictive Show: Doctor Who (which is incredibly addictive), NCIS, Frasier
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: There's a big list of these. WISHBONE!!!! Horatio Hornblower, The Tennesse Ernie Ford Show, Joan of Arcadia....
Books
- Favorite Books: There are way too many to name.
- Favorite Authors: Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare, Tolkien, John Piper, Jonathan Edwards, J.K. Rowling, E. Nesbit, Diana Wynne Jones, Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, C.S. Lewis, Spenser, *Elizabeth Gaskell*, Alexandre Dumas, Agatha Christie, Gilbert Morris, I don't know there are so many of them........
- Favorite Genres: Classics, fantasy especially, but really anything except science fiction
- Favorite Characters: FARAMIR!!!!
- Recent Reads: Victoria, a Celebration by Deborah Jaffe; Egyptian Mythology; The Byzantine Empire; various short stories by Agatha Christie
Music
- Favorite Artists: I have so many various artists that I like, I'll have to specify just one genre of music to answer. My favorite classical composers are Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Bach, Mozart, Copland, Liszt and Mahler, with a few variations depending on mood... I'm begining to really like Edward Elgar and Telemann
- Favorite Genre: Celtic, classical, soundtracks, Cajun, Gilbert and Sullivan operas, Romanian,Hungarian, Christian rock, whatever genre Coldplay and Flogging Molly are in, Australian folk, German yodeling (that's for you, Becca), swing, all sorts really
- Favorite Songs: At the moment, "Hallelujah" by The Newsboys and "The Wanderer" by Johnny Cash and U2
- Songs I hate: Most of the popular ones
- Guilty Pleasure: Does Weird Al count?
Food
- Favorite Desserts: Gillato makes me very happy. ;-}
- Favorite Drinks: tea, Italian Cream Sodas.
- Foods I hate: Anything that begins with sauerkraut (sp?)
Travel
- Places I've been: Mexico, most of the states
- Places to see before I die: Britain, Alaska, Russia, New Zealand
- Dream Vacation: An entire summer with Jessie and Becca just meandering around the British Isles at our own pace, soaking up local colour.
More About Me
- Nicknames: Amers, Ricey, Riceronni, Rupert, Spitfire, Little Woman, Half-Pint, Short Stuff, Shortcake, etc. (There are a lot)
- Nationality: Can I say Valinor?
- Religion: Reformed Baptist
- Heroes: Faramir, Mr. Darcy, Colonel Brandon, Samwise Gamgee, Mr. Thornton (from North & South by E. Gaskell), John Harmon (Our Mutual Friend by Dickens) Francis Schaeffer,Archie Kennedy from Hornblower, Aristotle, Calvin, Luther, Jonathan Edwards, Eric Liddell, William Wilberforce, Van Til , Churchill, *my dad*, Pastor Swygard, Dumbledore, Fred and George Weasley, King George VI...
- Interests: Well this part is going to be rather difficult, as I am interested in practically anything.. interesting.. I am most interested in Jesus Christ and how best to serve Him, British history(Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and Tudor) and British literature (Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare,Elizabeth Gaskell [my favourite], Tolkien, Walter Scott, Hardy, Lewis, Agatha Christie, Diana Wynne Jones, all that good stuff), the history of the Royal Navy,my family and friends, and doing strange things with FIRE. Scotland and sword-fighting. I enjoy Flogging Molly, Steeleye Span, Gaelic Storm, Enter the Haggis, Relient K, Newsboys, Gilbert and Sullivan, and a few others. I watch: Numb3rs, Red Green, NCIS,British comedies, and British Parliament. Lord of the Rings is the best book/movie ever... And Harry Potter is good too... I'm shutting up now.
- Expertise: History, literature, Britain, J.R.R.Tolkien, HOBBITS, Irish drinking songs,theology (especially Calvanist), philosophy, and all that stuff.
Movies
- Favorite Movies: LOTR, Hornblower, Master and Commander, Ivanhoe (A&E) Pride and Prejudice (A&E), Fiddler on the Roof, Sense and Sensibility, North and South (BBC), Amazing Grace
- Favorite Actors: *Michael Kitchen*, Robert Lindsay, Ian Hart, Dame Judy Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branaugh, Emma Thompson, James McAvoy, Grace Kelly, Greer Garson, Christian Bale, Ioan Griffudd, Jimmy Stewart... too many to name
- Favorite Genre: I think I'd have to go with drama.. BBC period movies..
- Favorite Soundtracks: LOTR, Chronicles of Narnia, Master and Commander, Fiddler on the Roof, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, original Pink Panther, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven
- Movies I can watch over and over: LOTR, Ivanhoe (A&E), Pride and Prejudice (A&E), Sense and Sensibility, North and South (BBC).... again, too many to name
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Maggie Smith? (just kidding) Justine Waddell, I hope.
High School
- School Name: American Christian School Of Bartlesville
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 2004
- Attended: 1997 - 2004
- Sports: I played soccer and basketball in PE...
- Organizations: Speech & Debate, newspaper, drama, choir
Style
- Where I shop: Goodwill, Walmart - I'm cheap, what can I say..
- I like to wear: Hats!! I am definitely a hat person- berets, fedoras, tams, anything goes.
Contact Info
- Yahoo: davydaweed
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