Hi everyone I'm Emily Kinney and I'm at Amoeba and this is What's in My Bag.
One of my all-time favorite movies is 'True Romance.'
I love this movie. Patricia Arquette is one of my favorite actresses
and there's a part when they're kind of telling each other that they like each other
Call girl.
You're a whore?
and she says...
No I'm a call girl and there's a difference y'know.
I love that part. "...and there's a difference."
I could watch it over and over again. I kind of want to go home and
just not do anything this afternoon and watch this movie.
I also got 'That Thing You Do' 'cause I was just on tour actually.
In the van we had a TV and a DVD player and this is one of the movies that we just happened to have with us
and so we watched it quite a lot, so those songs just get stuck in your head too.
There's something about this movie that's really fun and
you relate to it, being in bands.
Thank you, thank you. We're The Wonders.
The Wonders? Did you know they're The Wonders?
The first thing I thought of when I thought of, oh I want to find some vinyl, some records were The Carpenters
because when I was really little, like four or five years old
my parents only kept a few records but one of them was a Carpenters' greatest hits album
and I just sat there and listened and memorized all the words.
They had all the lyrics written out, just sitting there, listening and learning every single song.
Like 'Yesterday Once More' and 'Sing, sing a song, sing out loud...'
That one got into my body and my brain and my voice very early on.
I started thinking about other music I listened to when I was little
and a lot of it was my parents' taste, y'know, so I found Jim Croce.
I had to find the one, though, that had 'Operator' because I remember my dad really liked that song
and my dad has really, really good taste in music, or at least what I like and
we had, not this particular album, again, but a lot of the same songs.
Oh, I also found Carole King.
This exact album, actually, we had a CD, just like this in my house
so I've always loved Carole King. 'You've Got a Friend' is pretty sweet.
'I Feel the Earth Move.' I feel like I saw that a lot though, growing up going to talent shows
and going to auditions, you'd hear someone...
People sing that song a lot for auditions I think because it's really up and you can really sing it out.
I actually remember my older sister having this Weezer album.
I stole her little tape deck Walkman
and this tape was, like the actual tape was in it and I listened to it over and over again.
I was walking back and forth from the middle school.
So this specifically makes me think of the walk from my house to the middle school.
This album. And I love Weezer they're really, really good.
I was like, ok I need some new music just for in the van
and a friend of mine said, oh hey the new Blur album is really, really good.
I've been listening to this a lot just on my iPod.
Really good. My favorite track is 'Terracotta Heart.'
Tom Waits, of course.
I love this album. Obviously I got to sing a lot of Tom Waits when I was working on 'The Walking Dead.'
The character I played, Beth, she was also obviously a fan of Tom Waits
because she sang a couple Tom Waits songs. 'Hold On' of course, and 'I Don't Want to Grow Up.'
'House Where Nobody Lives' is one of my favorite tracks from that.
I remember going to video stores and just looking around and being like
huh, that would be good to watch, I haven't seen that in a while
so it was really fun being the video section, being like, oh yeah I want to see that
'Hook.'
I loved 'Hook' growing up. I love everything having to do with Peter Pan.
It's always been sort of my dream as an actor to someday play a fairy
especially a fairy like this, with Julia Roberts, because she's like kind of a badass fairy
Someday, I hope before I get too old. I have to play a fairy.
Or I could be like an old little lady fairy, I guess.
Oh dear me, I did it.
Tink, look what happened. You broke your house.
And then I loved scary movies growing up, so I got 'Scream.'
I haven't seen the new TV show but I love 1, 2, & 3. 'Scream' 1, 2 & 3 are pretty awesome.
Why do you want to know my name?
Because I want to know who I'm looking at.
What did you say?
I just realized I also grabbed the first season of 'Dawson's Creek'
and they're both written by Kevin Williamson, so obviously I'm a Kevin Williamson fan.
I loved the way the teenagers talked.
It's so unpredictable. The audience is never gonna see it coming. It's like Janet Leigh in 'Psycho.'
Drew Barrymore in 'Scream.'
Ah, a ripoff of a ripoff.
The way they sort of analyzed all the situations that they were going through.
I know some people maybe think Dawson's Creek a little cheesy or whatever
but I loved it because, as a teenager you felt like they're very smart and articulate and
articulating y'know everything that they're going through and in some ways were smarter than their parents.
Your reasons for doing what you're doing
they can't possibly outweigh the everlasting damage that you're creating.
Oh yeah, and 'Big.'
I actually saw this because I was just talking with a friend last night about this movie
I just moved into an apartment here in LA, then we started talking about this movie
and about how when he gets his apartment he fills it with...
he has a big trampoline and a bunch of toys.
there's a part too, where he's playing on the big giant piano in New York City
and at the time I hadn't ever been to New York City
so I just thought the whole thing was really exciting.
I loved this because I always felt like I wanted to be older
and now that I am, I feel like I stalled now I'm really immature for my age.
I'm gonna be thirty years old for the rest of my life.
but it's all fun.
I got enough to eat and am perfectly safe.
Those are my Amoeba finds.
Thank you so much for sharing with us.
Yeah, thanks for having me.