by Mighty Amy

Note: The title for Overboard in spanish speaking countries translates to “A Sea
of Trouble.”

My interest in Overboard was re-kindled during a Kurt-Russel-Movie-Knowing Contest that I was having against a co-worker in my company’s North Carolina office. I lost the contest at the point when the guy said “I should get back to work.” That is also a moment when I felt very embarrassed about who I am in society.

Speaking of society, I believe today’s would not tolerate a RomCom whose premise is really the common-law felony of false imprisonment paired with a hearty helping of Stockholm Syndrome. But I could be wrong. We are a society that tolerated the movie Old Dogs.
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by Mighty Amy

The first Fast and the Furious brought us Vin Diesel as the king of an underground high jacking street-racer gang. That sounds good right? Hijacking Ferraris?! Hijacking Japanese import cars? Hijacking gold? Russian whores?!

This gang was hijacking DVD players, which were widely available in Walgreens for reasonable prices in 2001, the year the movie came out. DVD players aside, the movie was full of cars and nitrous oxide systems (NOS!). Even the most crappy, non-existant acting can’t ruin lines like: “I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I’m free.”
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by Mighty Amy

The following is a review of three Harrison Ford movies in the order that I saw them.
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by Mighty Amy

“I know I’m human. And if you were all these things, then you’d just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn’t want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It’ll fight if it has to, but it’s vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it’s won.” - RJ MacReady
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second play-through of old, sloppy lyrics:

Hey Everyone, As you may know, I am in charge of AMR internet stylings. What you may not know about me, is that I don’t really know that much about the internet, or web pagery. My point here is this: the old mailing list was cobbled together with a combination of chewed fruit stripe gum, twigs, and a whiffle ball bat. The new mailing list is way better, but it comes with a curse. The curse is that you need to re-subscribe to the mailing list. I realize that this seems like a pain, but the result will be many fun and exciting emails from your friends at AMR. So let’s do this thing one more time. Sincerely,Amy 

presents “Life Finds a Way (to Step Correctly).”

A great miracle happened on 1/11/08 in Ponkiesbergh, NY, where we recorded this album as a series of one track, one take jams. This was also our first – sometimes regrettable – contact with a drum machine. We hope you enjoy it, n00b$.

1. the truth, honestly told

2. power/knowledge

3. life of the party

4. movers & shakers

5. (please stop saying) social justice

6. sailor song

7. gravity train

8. expectations

No Sexy Regrets is amy rose, bat matthews, and nick courage

These mp3s will be available on www.amutualrespect.org within the next couple of days, and are also attractively packaged with variously purposed office supplies (if you think you’d like a hardcopy, e-mail me at nickrichardson@gmail.com with your mailing address).

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings in the most precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. My
beloved, I know that this letter will come to you as a surprise, but I
crave your indulgent to read this. I am Mrs. Marie Jones, a widow from
Federal Republic Benin Cotonuo to late Tanko M. Jones. I am 62 years
old, I am now a new Christian convert, suffering from long time cancer
of the breast, from all indication my conditions is really
deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I won’t live more than six
months, according to my doctors, this is because the cancer stage has
gotten to a very bad stage. My late husband killed during the U.S raid
against terrorism in Afghanistan, and during the period of our
marriage we could not produce any child. My late husband was very
wealthy and after his death, I inherited all his business and wealth.

The doctors has advised me that I may not live for more than six
months, so I now decided to divide the part of this wealth, to
contribute to the development of the churches in the world. After
praying to our father in heaven, I opened my laptop and browsed to the
chamber of commerce where I found you and selected you after visiting
web site and I prayed over it. I am willing to donate the sum of
$6.700.000.00 us dollars, to the less privileged. Please I want you to
note that fund is lying in a bank.

I am offering you 30% of the fund goes to you to for your assistant,
70% of this money will be used in all sincerity to fund philanthropic
organization, orphanages. I am taking this decision because I don’t
have any child or devoted relations whose behavior has left much to be
desired while I am ill and above all I don’t want a situation where
this money will be used in an ungodly manner, hence this bold decision.

Please note that as soon as I receive a response from you I will
forward to you the contact details of my attorney who will fill in an
application on your behalf at the court of law for the change of all
legal documentation in your name as the new beneficiary of the fund.

I honestly pray that this money when transferred will be used for the
said purpose, because I have come to find out that wealth acquisition
without Christ is vanity. May the grace of our Lord Jesus the love of
God and the fellowship of God is with you and your family.

NB: All correspondence must be by strictly by email due to the
condition of my health, but If you want to speak with my Attorney,
that is fine and okay by me. His chambers will be representing my
interest with you.

I await your urgent reply.

Yours in Christ.
Mrs. Marie Jones

Is it true that you don’t need to be able to sing, or play the guitar well, or have any rhythm at all to make an album? Yes.

Here is an album that I made, the band is called Hearts of Palm. The band is me, with the help of my husband Matthew. Gilda the dog did not really help much, but she did learn to not bark at the drum machine so she deserves some credit.

These songs are not about you, okay? They’re just about living free and about how I don’t like Bob Dylan. If you don’t like them you shouldn’t listen to them. If you do like them, then good.

• bridge
• expectations
• social justice