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Jen Why Not?

I'm smart enough, and doggone it ..people like me.

About Me

I like to create images and read books. Spending time with people that actually care about me is very important. I wear a headset and answer phones all day. In my spare time I am teaching myself the Glockenspiel. I also like to whistle, I could whistle before I could talk... http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenwhy/

My Interests

Spider Solitaire has become my number one time waster. Freecell is for chumps!

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

"Don't get me started...don't even get me started.."I think i could go on and on about music. instead i'll just list: Air, AddNtoX,Arcade Fire Beasties, Beck, Belle&Sebastian, Biz Markie, Bjork, Blur, Boo Radleys, Bowie,Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, Buffalo Daughter, CharlatansUK, Cibo Matto, Coltrane, Common, Cornelius, Costello, Cure, Daft Punk, Darling Buds, Dj Food, Dj Shadow, De la Soul, Digable Planets,Dr. Octagon, Doves, Nick Drake, Miles Davis, Dub Narcotic, Elastica,Electralane, Euphone, Feist,Fila Brazillia, Flaming Lips, Ghostface Killah, God Speed.., Grandaddy, High Llamas,Hot Chip, I'm from Barcelona, James, Jay-Z, Jurrasic5, Kings of Convenience,Kid Koala, Kool and the Gang, Kahimi Karie, Kreidler, Talib Kweli, Ladybug Transistor, Looper, Ludacris, Luna, Luscious Jackson, Lush, Medeski Martin&Wood, Mercury Rev, Method man, Takako Minikawa, Modest Mouse, Morcheeba, Orb,Erlend Oye, New Order, Oukast, Pavement, Pedro the Lion, Pharcyde, Pixies, Pizzicato 5, PrimalScream, Pulp, Radiohead, Gruff Rhys, Roots, Saint Etienne, Stereolab, Sea and Cake, Elliot Smith, Jon Spencer, Suede, Sugar, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, Smiths,Tortoise, The the, Wedding Present, Ween, Weezer, The Whitest Boy Alive,Who, Yo la Tengo

Movies:

I watch the most random movies. I like Playtime, Bourne Identity, Grand Prix, Smokey and the Bandit, Big Lebowski, Slacker, Room with a View, Naked, Auntie Mame, All Kieslowski movies. I would like to list more but my brain isn't working.

Television:

Lost, Heroes, Kids in the Hall, Dr Katz, Get a life, The Office, 30Rock, SNL, The Young Ones, Pete & Pete.

Books:

Currently reading If You liked School You'll Love Work by Irvine Welsh. I have read the first story so far and like it. I usually like his short stories anyway so this should be a good one. I am also reading a bio of Skip James. He was an obscure blues singer and apparently a sociopath. Hmm.. At my local library I picked up a book full of Francis Bacon interviews. I have been reading bits of them too in between the other two books. Previously I read Shutterbabe by Deborah Copaken Kogan. This memoir is very inspiring. All about a single and naive at times woman discovery herself and the world while working as a photojournalist. I also read Dekooning's Bicycle a nice bio on the Hamptons and some of the artists that lived there. I feel like this book touched the surface on Dekooning and told lesser known stories about Pollack. Just read volume one and two of John Richardson's A Life of Picasso. This book is wonderful. Makes you feel like you are there with Picasso. I also read I, Tina the biography of Tina Turner. On the fiction front I read Drop City by T.C Boyle. I have been daydreaming of Alaska since. I also devoured the Phillip Pullman series Dark Materials. This was a great series and I am glad I read it before the movie release. What a great book for young kids, makes you question authority. Something I think more people need to do.

My Blog

weird dream-fyi do not read this if eating!

I had a dream last night that really grossed me out. In the dream I felt a itch on my chin, sorta by where I already have a mole. I looked into a mirror and saw there were worms in my skin. They were ...
Posted by Jen Why Not? on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:39:00 PST

Super Furry Animals @ Metro

  Saturday night I went to see Super Furry Animals at the Metro. Went to the show with my bro. We got these passes when we got in to attend a DJ set by the band after the show. They looked like l...
Posted by Jen Why Not? on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:30:00 PST

Karma is a bitch just waiting to punch you in the face!

I'm so tired of people getting stepped on. I don't like being the victim or seing the ones I care about being victimized. Fuck Yeah I'm gonna stand up! Old landlord can suck it, Ex Inlaws can suck it,...
Posted by Jen Why Not? on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:02:00 PST

Dad and music (revised edition)

So, I opened my email today and found about five or six emails from my Dad. He has discovered YouTube! They all had a link to a video with a little comment. Things like, "I bought this album a long ti...
Posted by Jen Why Not? on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:07:00 PST

Cornelius at the Park West

Ah Monday night, the perfect night to see a show?     I wouldn't have thought so but yes it was. I heard that Cornelius was coming into town awhile ago and procrastinated buying a ticke...
Posted by Jen Why Not? on Sun, 13 May 2007 01:58:00 PST

Undertow Orchestra

I can't believe it either...i left the house again.!   My brother called me up last night and asked if  I'd be interested in going to the Undertow Orchestra show. I had nothing to do as my ...
Posted by Jen Why Not? on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:20:00 PST

Saint Etienne has dissapointed me

   Scott and I went to see Saint Etienne last night. I got to his apt. and said hi to Mikey and Mo, they were eating Taco Bell and watching the Olympics. I still cannot figure how one decide...
Posted by Jen Why Not? on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:16:00 PST

"vacation"

    Ahh currently I am on 'vacation'. While in my hometown for about 5 days I will be at the hospital with my Dad and hopefully at some point I'll make it to the Lincoln Presidential Li...
Posted by Jen Why Not? on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:52:00 PST