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Jamie aka Varla Vendetta

i'm looking for kicks, baby, KICKS!

About Me


HELL'S BELLES: UNDEFEATED 2008 IVY KING CUP CHAMPIONS!
I HATE VENTRILOQUIST DUMMIES, BUT MIMES ARE AOK! I am tough grrrrr....i roll with Chicago's toughest broads as No. 25 Varla Vendetta, CoCap of the Hells Belles of the Windy City Rollers. Say that twice fast. I'm a photographer, i love it as much as i love derby and it's rad that i can mix the two...check out my derby dame portraits at www.windycityrollers.com. oooooo and i am finally getting a web site together, slowly at www.jamieramsayphotography.com. I like aggressive sports and loud music. 50% of my life is spent knocking around chicks i love while skating. Thanks to rikamania, i dig wrestling too.......ROH and TNA are the tops, but i don't believe that anyone really suffers when they get an abdominal stretch. Go Bears!
ARE YOU A BEARS FAN?? VISIT MY BEARS BLOG EVERY MONDAY DURING FOOTBALL SEASON AT: http://www.timeout.com/chicago/blog/out-and-about/index.php COME RANT WITH ME!!!
I can out phonies, and I will. I think staying humble is a virtue and graciousness is classy. I am a sucker for the big emo parts in movies: i always cry when people fall in love, when somebody dies, when old buddies reunite, when justice is done, when the little guy triumphs. Someday soon i will be my own boss, photograph and travel at my own will and answer only to myself. i am not afraid to speak my mind. i do it too much, some might say. As an italian, i take loyalty seriously...my friends know it to be the truth. I dont take shit from spoiled brats in SUV's and i have been known to growl at dickheads with cellphones attached to their ears who drive black jettas and try to cut me off then call me "cretin." (i will find you, jerk bag!) But most nice, hard-working, down-to-earth people know i am a softie and will make people cookies whenever i can. I am obsessed with circumnavigating the globe (i'm like an eighth of the way there with india, south africa, and pakistan as of late). Boredom doesn't come to me. I'm up for anything. i believe in working hard, and learning from life's struggles. I respect those who fight for what they believe in and work hard to achieve it. i don't mind sweat. I overexplain most of the time and am horrible at saying goodbyes, those are usually too wordy too.....i wont let people shit on my loved ones and i stand up for my teammates (yes, that can occasionally end up in benchclearing brawls). and i love rock and roll so put another time in the juke box, baby. Oh, and i am totally freaked out by knives and watching commercials where people shave on tv - that's my deep dark irrational fear: knives (and yes, razors count too). Blue is the best color, but red and black are the colors of Champions.
Gracias al Dios que tengo el Mustacchio, el mejor hereo del mundo, a protejerme del cuchillos! aur vo chickna heigh!
HEY, DO ME THE COURTESY OF WRITING ME FIRST - I ONLY BITE OCCASIONALLY. I knock over more often.HELL YEAH, HELL'S BELLES....a finer bunch of women on skates does not existSEE THE FANTASTIC LITTLE TRAILER MY BOY RIC PUT TOGETHER FOR US ROLLERS...MAKES ME WANNA TEAR SHIT UP!! HAVE FILM VIDEO NEEDS? EMAIL HIM ON MYSPACE (he's in my top 8!)...HE'S THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO FILM-MAKING IN CHICAGO!!!
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My Interests

WANDERLUST, ROLLER DERBY,skating, photojournalism, Nikon, tattoos and the people beneath them, my three beautiful kitties, the ocean, goldfish, learning languages, wrestling, surfing, pistachio soy lattes, running, yoga, cooking, helping the world be a nicer place, and i'd be interested in fronting a badass rock band if i had the slightest bit of vocals in me so maybe Karaoke and rockin out in my car will have to do

I'd like to meet:

REAL people...genuine spirits....hipsterism: take a hike! i'd like to meet the infamous masked wrestler "el mustacchio" - one day he'll hear my call of distresso...anyone who wants me to photograph for their magazine and wants to pay me.....and cool, upfront, interesting people who let me photograph them...Rockabilly and the Slims in their studded belts and cowboy hats.someone who will give me a vintage motorcycle. fo' real.

Music:

The Killers, Naked Raygun, social distortion, ramones, la guns, AFI, bollywood hits and misses, screeching weasel, faster pussycat, detroit cobras, daler mehndi, casey chambers, white zombie, 80's glam bands that had hot leather clad long haired male lead singers, big black, the vandals, sister soleil, bob dylan, praga khan, bad religion, duran duran, misfits, alkaline trio, guns n roses (pre-epic-video-era), Cinderella, Iron Maiden, Peggy Lee, Buddy Holly, you know, good stuff

Movies:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, True Romance, The Big Blue, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Rock n Roll highschool, Rumble Fish, Goonies, Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Monsoon Wedding, The Blue Angel, City of the Lost Children, Twins, Stand By Me, Maniac, Morocco, Switchblade Sisters, Pretty in Pink, Magnolia, Legend of Billie Jean, Easy Rider, Apocolypse Now, The film catalog of Ric Horejs

Television:

Lost, The Office, Millenium, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Shield, TNA, Metal Mania on VH1, Sopranos(until the last two seasons), Survivor, Doctors without Borders, BBC News and, hell, any 24 hour news channel except FOX News, Simpsons, MST3K, Jackass, Dog the Bounty Hunter, The Dog Whisperer

Books:

The Lord of the Rings books; Roman Dirge comix; Ten Things You Can't Say in America; Lonely Planet travel guides; The Romantics by Mishra; Inferno by Nachwey; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; National Geographic: The Milestones

Heroes:

my mom and pop who give everything they can to everyone they meet; nelson mandela; anyone who earns a living doing something they are absolutely passionate about

My Blog

LT broke my heart

Yesterday's SD/Patriots Playoff game was such a downer. I had such high hopes for the Chargers. The more I read and see about LT and his emulation of our own beloved Walter Payton, the more I dig th...
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:03:00 PST

Some good this way comes

from Philly.My first grand slams ever! Two in the same jam!
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:22:00 PST

What's up with the sports world?!?!

What the fuck is up with professional athletes lately?!This whole fiasco with Pac Man Jones is disgusting. Flaunting your wealth in a strip club by showering stippers with thousands of dollars...and ...
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:20:00 PST

over the top

Last night I found this show on the Discovery Channel called "Everest: Beyond the Limit" which chronicles the efforts of a team of men who attempt to summit the tallest mountain in the world. I stopp...
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:13:00 PST

where i've been...

..and where i'm goinghere's a coupla things that I'm happy to have accomplished in my life (i think i'll add to this day to day, or maybe i make this a nice survey!):-found love-learned to surf in Sou...
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:18:00 PST

Home...oh oh oh, woah oh oh, woah oh!!!

YES!!! Thanks to the graciousness of one awesome ref raf, I fufilled a longtime wish of finally seeing NAKED FUCKING RAYGUN live in the flesh, at my newest favorite spot in Chicago Cobra lounge (dude...
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:45:00 PST

if wrestlers wore rollerskates...

Saturday night reminded me of how much I like wrestling. We went out to Chicago Ridge to watch one long, but well-worth-it-night, of ROH matches. When a Colt Cabana backflips off the ring onto your...
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:25:00 PST

PEZATTI, ABINI, STEVE DAHLONI

So, i was at work, listening to Steve Dahl on the radio when he starts talking to a guy on the radio named Jeff. Jeff starts talking about being in a band years ago and practicing at the same studio ...
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Thu, 25 May 2006 11:16:00 PST

Dammit...i got tagged

The game is tag. Post 7 quirks about yourself then tag 7 friends to post their odd quirks.7 quirky things about me:* i have this totally irrational fear of knives...at least in other people's hands......
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:41:00 PST

Xdivision

woopeeeeeeeeee!!!! i just got home from a ring of honor wrestling show, the first ever in chicago where i had the pleasure of meeting the one and only TNA Wrestlin' badboy, SAMOA JOE!!! So Rad, he w...
Posted by Jamie aka Varla Vendetta on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:29:00 PST