Does anyone really want to leave the house? It's a Tuesday night, a holiday week. But if I can manage to tear myself away from my udon noodle soup and collection of DVDs from the Seattle Public Library, my pick for tonight would be Amanda Blank. She's opening for Peaches, who is also worth another go if you haven't seen her recently. [On an X-Y graph of inverse proportion, Peaches' songs are getting increasingly commercial while everything around them (videos, live show) just gets weirder and weirder. I reviewed her last Seattle appearance, which was pretty ass-kicking, here.]

Anyway, don't look Ms. Blank up on YouTube. The existing video pretty much makes me puke; there's a lot of acting cute and flirting with balloons, which is so not what I'd expect from the aggressive, leggy Philadelphia rapper with the husky voice and hardcore-by-way-of-party-girl lyrics. Amanda pretty much killed it at Rock the Bells last year, sharing the stage with Spank Rock and Devlin & Darko, looking like brunette Axl Rose. She also came across as genuinely friendly, taking the time to talk excitedly with fans after her set.

I liked her then and am primed to like her now. Her first full length album, I Love You, released in August 2009, is fun although detractors might note that it shows more potential and positioning than delivery. She covers Vanity 6, interpolates LL Cool J's "I Need Love" and generally promotes having a rowdy, slutty good time. (Which you can do tonight at the Showbox, if udon noodle soup doesn't win.)