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