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Jenntastic

Etako lia muine omangu, utima ka wa muine omangu.

About Me

Tell me a story, and I’ll listen. Let me look into your eyes and be fascinated by their story. Fascinate me, and I’ll be your friend forever.I am: a dreamer, outspoken, independent, stronger in the broken places, an amalgam of humanity, empathetic, a photographer, loyal, mercurial and capricious in the best ways, sarcastic, frequently late, insatiably curious, multi-faceted. Penchant for: crossword puzzles, red wine, neckties and other “old man” apparel, hot tea (especially Chinese reds or African Red Bush), late night driving, live music, drinking with friends.Enjoy: Reading, philosophy, photography, politics, making a difference and contributing to the collective voice, sometimes riding the flow like waves, other times making waves (as well as pushing envelopes), studying Sociology and Human Sexuality, participant observation, cooking, yoga, saying fuck, car karaoke/air band, dancing.Can’t live without: traveling, diet dr. pepper, music, silver halide, a camera, the beach, the snow, Goldfish crackers.Suffers from: a slight case of OCD that manifests itself in the most interesting of ways, too many thoughts or ideas at the same time so as to prevent productivity or sleeping.Perplexed by: racism, inequality, hatred, ignorance, people who accept anything that they are spoon-fed and never question what else there might be.I refuse: to settle, to accept what I am told is “normal”, to accept someone else’s ideas for what should govern my life, to stay silent, to allow my ridiculously bad luck to keep me from being optimistic, to live without passion, to apologize for being myself.
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My Interests

B/W Photography, Traveling, Philosophy, Concerts and music, sports, friends, cooking, dancing, big cities... and when all these things converge. "Your very silence shows you agree." Euripides... "Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most."-Bob Dylan... "Do not wish for events to happen as you want them to happen, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well." -Epictetus

I'd like to meet:

People with a story to tell or something to teach me. Someone that challenges me. Like-minded people to share conversation and red wine, to go to concerts and shows with. A muse to inspire creativity. The right reader. "Talent likes talent, creative likes creative and genius likes genius. And to settle for anything less is to set yourself up for boredom." David LaChapelle

Music:

Just a taste of Jenn's Music Soup: Rock in any form(classic, indie, alt, prog, art, punk, proto-punk, ...and roll) Jack Johnson, John Mayer, John Lennon, Ben Kweller, The Slits, Broken Social Scene, Ben Harper, Ray Lamontagne, Bob Marley, Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, My Chemical Romance, Tenacious D, Bowie, Raconteurs, White Stripes, Violent Femmes, Yeah yeah yeahs, Beastie Boys, Flaming Lips, Incubus, Joe Satriani, Santana, Eagles, Beatles, Taking Back Sunday, Foo Fighters, almost anything local(Support local musicians!) 311, SUBLIME, APC, THE RAMONES!!!, The Cure, Strokes, The Doors, Jamiroquai, The Who, Guess Who, Pink Floyd, Modest Mouse, Postal Service, Velvet Revolver, Velvet Underground, Stone Temple Pilots, Flux of Pink Indians and the Epileptics, The Clash, Dashboard Confessional, Phish, notorious B.I.G., Maroon 5, Jet, Guster, Garth Brooks, the Darkness, Pepper, Bikini Kill, me singing in the shower, you singing in my shower, she wants revenge, gorrillaz, beck, tom petty, bon jovi, rolling stones, mozart, beethoven, chopin, Talking Heads, ella fitzgerald, aretha franklin, billie holiday, john coltrane, miles davis, frank sinatra, al green, marvin gaye, have i repeated myself yet?

Movies:

Shortbus, Indie films, Foreign films, Wedding Crashers, The Great Raid, ANIMAL HOUSE, Top Gun, Rainman, anything with John Cusack (i.e. Say Anything and High Fidelity), Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Bridge Too Far, DEAD POET'S SOCIETY, Pulp Fiction (Tarantino movies), Good Will Hunting, Reservoir Dogs, GARDEN STATE, Dazed and Confused, Empire Records, The Godfather, Super Troopers, Anchorman, Van wilder, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, surf documentaries like Endless Summer, Billabong Odyssey. ....

Television:

Family Guy, Grey's anatomy, Travel channel, Food Network..not really big on TV

Books:

Currently Reading: Forms and Functions of Social Inequality, Sophocles, Bhagavad Gita, Running with Scissors. Like: Epictetus, Iwan Bloch, Dostoevsky, The Great Game: The myths and reality of espionage, Twelfth Night-Shakespeare...anything Shakespeare, coffee table art books, Candide-Voltaire, Hardball-Chris Matthews, The Catcher in the Rye, Invisible Man, classics, Dickens, E. Poe, Frost, Marquis de Sade, Kerouac, The unbearable lightness of being, the great gatsby, Travel as Metaphor, Jane Eyre, Plato's dialogues, Descartes meditations(makes u think); The Prince-Machiavelli, One's Very Own Journey, Closing Time (sequel to Catch 22), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Freud, Skinner's works on Applied Behavior Analysis, works from the Decadent authors, works from the Enlightenment

Heroes:

My mom. Socrates, Shakespeare, Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Daniel Bernoulli, Ben and Jerry. People who subscribe to the ideology of being one's self, and realize that people who try desperately to be nonconformists fail to achieve, because they conform to the ideals of non-conformity......

My Blog

Congressional Amendments

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bill.xc?billnum=H.R.171& amp;congress=110 (click View Bill Text to be taken to full text on Lib of Congress site) http://www.nea.org/lac/idea/index.html -m...
Posted by Jenntastic on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:05:00 PST

To be determined

Thirteen steps, black robes shroudding A last minute pardon granted Walk together, fractured unit Been given a second chance Intake of air, quick look back I realize I've been holding my breath None l...
Posted by Jenntastic on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:19:00 PST

Dream angel..

I spent my workday today satiating my curiosity about the strange dream I had last night for the hell of it. I looked to see what each piece that was emphasized might have meant. Dream: I got a tatto...
Posted by Jenntastic on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:52:00 PST

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear...

Suddenly, I could feel gravity's grasp loosen and momentarily lose its control over my form. I was elated and perplexed at the same time. I was flying. Just as quick as it departed, gra...
Posted by Jenntastic on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:13:00 PST

The Artist's Big O

I've been completely absorbed and in my own head lately, but in the best way possible; dreaming, thinking, envisioning, planning, plotting, wanting. This is the only problem with creative energy: Some...
Posted by Jenntastic on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:40:00 PST

Ah sweet surrender

It's been so long since I've felt like I do now. Sure, my future is up in the air and I have two paths laying before me...but they are both amazing options, and the only way I can make a choice i...
Posted by Jenntastic on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:18:00 PST

On the road again...

Yes my friends... it is official. I am no longer hindered by this little thing we call a "starter". The magic white truck is back in commission and it's time to run it back into the ground! Ahhh how s...
Posted by Jenntastic on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:28:00 PST

Vote NO VA!

This was the bulletin I posted today. It may have been a little crazy and all over the place, but that is just because I get so upset when I think about it and can't seem to get the words out fast eno...
Posted by Jenntastic on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:44:00 PST

It's about that time...

Yes, time for an update!!! Ok, so in the wacky world of Jenn, much has happened since summer first began many many months ago. I would first like to take a moment to thank everyone for their awesome s...
Posted by Jenntastic on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:45:00 PST

Warp Speed Ahead!

I am finshing up everything for my upcoming opening. It is a show comprised of black and whites taken over the past few years, no set theme this time around. Plans were in the works for another show,...
Posted by Jenntastic on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:55:00 PST