I like getting my hands dirty. washing my hands. putting lotion on my tired and haggered face with my clean hands. soaking in the sauna then soaking in ice cold water. generating laughter from my friends and strangers. standing in the lights. lying in the sunshine. lying in a hammock, but enough about me and my merely foolish shananigans. what about yourself?
Music
Come hear me DJ vintage vinyl hits every Friday night at Lucky Strike Restaurant and Bar in SoHo... 59 Grand btw West Broadway and Wooster. Till 2:30am.
Also, at Mattachine Party every 3rd or 4th Thursday (Julius Bar, W10th and Waverlry Pl. in West Village) with John Cameron Mitchell and PJ DeBoy... you have to seek it out though... we don't advertise... Keeps it fresh, kinda secret and happenin'... Good Luck.
Movies
Monster. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Barbarella. Excaliber. You and Me and Everyone We Know. The Sorceress (the French classic, with English subtitles, not the 80's one). The Dragon Slayer. The Linda Blair Movies. 9 to 5. Foxy Brown. Uptown Saturday Night. Faces. Nashville. A Woman Under the Influence. The Jigsaw Seesaw. Easy Rider. Coal Miners Daughter. Carrie. All the Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder creations. Being There. The Shining. Anything by Christopher Guest. The new Amy Sedaris film soon to be out!!!!!! I love it already!
Television
Angie Dickinson, where are you? Night Flight... Soul Train, Carol Burnett uninterrupted? Where?????
Where are the Not Ready For Prime Time Players? Every episode of Maude... and all Norman Lear? The Travelling Sunshine Hour with The 5th Dimension. And that sweet genious Peewee Herman (did I spell it right?) I missed that class... spelling. The Original made for TV movie, The Stepford Wives. Guess I am a kodger, huh? Well, no. I saved the best for last! Actually one of the best of all time... Strangers With Candy. Damn! And anything David Cross... yo.
Books
The kinds with pictures of things I like to look at.
Heroes
mama. daddy. papaw. mamaw. mornin'. grandad. isabella. ronald. pam carsten. Dina Martina. howie. juan. manuel. picky snoots. Sidney Lumet. Francois Truffaut. Pam Grier. John Cassavetes. Angela Davis. Robert Altman. Francis Ford Coppola. Julie Christie. Ellen Burstyn. Sissy Spacek. Lily Tomlin. Karyn Black. JANE FONDA. Sydney Pollack. Jack Nicholson. Harvey Corman. janet smythers mantooth. gregg bellon. sissyboy. georgia lee. my loll (meow). emily blue. CAROL BURNETT. Miss Gilda (rest peacefully). AMY SEDARIS. GENE WILDER. RICHARD PRYOR. LUTHER VANDROSS. John Lennon. Roger Corman. BATCH!!! Clint Eastwood. Godard, Renoir, Kurosawa, Fellini. YOKO! Ellen Degeneres. Haley Carrollhach. Good God! Why am I even trying to do this? The world is full of heroes. Hell, I'm a friggen hero!
AMBER MARTIN's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Hometown:
Nederland, Texas
Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio
Education:
College graduate
Occupation:
Vocalist, Performance Artist, Professional DJ
AMBER MARTIN's Schools
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles,CA
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Dance/ Psychology
Minor: Communications
Clubs: LMU Dance Touring Company
1991 to 1993
Nederland H S
Nederland, TX
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Westernaires Captain
Minor: 80's Clubbin
Clubs: Student Body Treasurer, TNT - Role Model Program, Pagent Queen!
1986 to 1989
AMBER MARTIN's Companies
House of Cunt Performance Group Portland, Oregon US Co-Founder/Writer/Producer World Takeover
anal sublet New York, New York US founding member east coast division
from here to eternity
The Jingle Jangle Sisters NYC, NY US Co- Founder/ Sister Performance Art
At Every Important Showcase In NYC!!!
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About me: As a professional DJ, some of Amber's CURRENT resume highlights include: playing Will Ferrel's Radio City Music Hall private after party, SNL's private after party, Sundance Institute's Annual Gala @ Roseland with Director, John Cameron Mitchell and Host, Robert Redford. Currently, she spins her beloved vinyl every Friday night, at Lucky Strike in Soho and legendary monthly party, MATTACHINE, @ Julius with John Cameron Mitchell and PJ DeBoy.
IN AMBERS SOLO PERFORMANCE CAREER...
Most Recently, Ms. Martin appeared as Country Music Icon, Reba! On Celebrity Apprentice. Amber has been a recurring opening guest for Joan Rivers Live. Here is a clip from that show!
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Amber Martin was born in Port Arthur, Texas and raised in Nederland, Texas with roots in bluegrass, country & western, gospel and folk by a large musically-inclined family, until she discovered Journey, Blue Oyster Cult, The Babys and Foreigner. As a result, she is a dancer, vocalist, actor, activist and performance artist. Ms. Martin's forte is making people laugh, think and remember through sound, simple story-telling and avant-garde visual stimuli.
After achieving a BA in Dance at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, she endured a brief stint as a flight attendant, holding captive audiences. Having lived and performed professionally in Portland, Oregon for 11 years, Amber now lives in NYC, where she performs bi-monthly and DJ's weekly. Amby has produced, written, edited and starred in 2 critically acclaimed comic variety specials at Portland Cable Access, THE LARMITY SO FAR and JIGSAW SEESAW.
In 1999, she formed a new-genre, multi-gender performance-dance-comedy group called House of Cunt* whose politically inspired, live shows exploded onto the Portland theatre scene in 2000. {ATTN Editors: House of Cunt* asks that if you are not able to print their name in your publications and/or correspondences, please refer to them as “a performance group whose name we cannot print” rather than abbreviate, obscure or otherwise censor their name—thank you}.
Amber has produced, written, designed sound, choreographed and performed in these shows that have been described as; “the freshest night of theatre in ages...” and “a bracing surreality...that often borders on the genius...like choreographed breakdowns”, by the Willamette Week and “the funniest group in town” by the Oregonian.
Amber’s sold-out solo show, Hi! earned the artist a 2003 Portland Drammy Award for Best Solo Performance. That same year she was flown back to Port Arthur to perform a one hour set of the songs of Janis Joplin at the 16th Annual Janis Joplin Birthday Bash and Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Amber performed as a solo and duet vocalist with the Oregon Ballet Theatre. She has professionally appeared in commercials, films and plays. Her self-produced solo shows have premiered in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, New York City, Amsterdam, Mexico and Texas.
Amber opened as guest solo artist for Puppetry of the Penis, during their national tour. Her work appeared in PICA’s TBA (Time Based Art) Festival. She and House of Cunt performed twoshortshows to a standing-room-only audience of 600 plus. In January 2006, Amber, again headlined at the 19th Annual Janis Joplin Bash, along with Johnny Winter. Her sold-out restaging of Hi! in January 2003 made possible, Amber’s NYC and West Coast productions of the show. Hi! opened to critical acclaim for a 9-show, 3-week run at the Greenwich Village Center Theatre.
(OK enough about me...)
Who I'd like to meet: My uncle Bruce, who died when he was only 3. My heroes and smart, rebellious people who are ready to get off their asses and make a change. Todd Rundgren, Bette Midler, Carol Burnett, Kate Bush, Steve Perry.
Amber, If like Noah you survived the flood, then come to my art show! There will photos and paintings and drink and it's all gratis and I could imagine you in the desert so:
