Amanda Merten Brooklyn NY

Where did you grow up?
Las Vegas, NV

Where do you live?
Brooklyn, NY

What is your personal soundtrack at the moment?
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
Love and Rockets – So Alive
Information Society – Running
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels
Black Flag – Nervous Breakdown
Minor Threat – I Don’t Wanna Hear It
Fugazi – Waiting Room
Operation Ivy – Hoboken
The Dead Milkmen – I Walk the Thinnest Line

Your star sign?
Aquarius

Who is your style icon?
Debbie Harry circa Max’s Kansas City

What do you do or what would you like to do when you grow up?
Figuring it all out. Soaking it all up. Someday I would like to be well traveled, satisfied, forever creating, and above all – forever young at heart.

Links.

AMANDAMERTEN.TUMBLR.COM

MANDAKNOWSBEST.TUMBLR.COM

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Lia Griesser Brooklyn NY

Where did you grow up?
Tucson, Arizona

Where do you live?
In between: Tucson, Brooklyn, Joshua Tree, Portland

What is your personal soundtrack at the moment?
Lots of Afro Beat and Tropicalia. Waylon Jennings & Lyle Lovett. Howe Gelb/Giant Sand, Aksak Maboul, Lenguas Largas, Scout Niblett, Otherly Love, Rainer Ptacek, Scavenger Cunt, Clay Koweek’s Donkey Tonk, Kiss & the Tells, Will Elliott & The Heretics, Slapp Happy, Hank Topless. Also, going to New Orleans soon, so important business to be had catching up on my bounce with Big Freedia & Katey Red.

Your star sign?
Cancer, cusp of Gemini. Nesting traveler.

Who is your style icon?
Half my closet’s been silently stolen from my mamas… turquoise beads the size of chicken eggs and threadbare Amado Pena tshirts. Lee Miller, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, little girls, Nefertiti, Ursina Gysi, Goldie Hill, the costumes of Orfeu Negro.

What do you do or what would you like to do when you grow up?
Always growing younger.

Links.

High Desert Test Sites