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Jessica Diedrich, writer

I apostrophise music.

About Me

To purchase WHEN YOU LIVE IN LOS ANGELES... Click Below$12.99 USDHi, I'm Jessica and I'm a novelist living in Los Angeles, CA. In fact, this city and the people who populate her, were the impetus for my second novel, WHEN YOU LIVE IN LOS ANGELES...For an excerpt check out the above blogs....I hope you love it as much as I loved writing it!I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4To purchase a copy of WHEN YOU LIVE IN LOS ANGELES...http://www.lulu.com/content/
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My Interests

Writing, writing, writing, Chateau Marmont, traveling, gin, tonics, pravda vodka, Helmut Newton, horseback riding, The Stones, English music, Russia, Czech Republic, contemplating the size of the universe after a few, Percy Shelley, Thomas Hardy, watching the Mavs beat the Spurs, a fantastic pinot (noir), London, Kabaret, german shepards, the Amstel in Amsterdam, boys in scarves and/or lots of necklaces, the literati, and the glitterati

Music:

There are so, so many! Rolling Stones, Mew, Richard Ashcroft, The Verve, KASABIAN, OASIS, Muse, Ringside, The Shys, Bob Dylan, Rocco Deluca & the Burden, Nick Drake, White Stripes, Libertines, The Kooks, The Strokes, Razorlight, The Who, Eric Clapton, The 88, Franz Ferdinand, Jet, Beck, Beatles, Bowie, Brendan Benson, Coldplay, Keane, Snow Patrol, Cream, 22-20's, Zutons, Travis, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters, Sonny Rollins, ...and lots more....

Movies:

Quills, The Libertine, Girl with the Pearl Earring, Pride and Prejudice (the version with Colin Firth, thank you), Igby Goes Down, Anchorman, Basketball Diaries, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat

Books:

Anything by Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Candace Bushnell, Graham Greene, Sommerset Maughm...

Heroes:

Those that inspire me...at the moment...

My Blog

Synchronicity

I've been studying this concept for the novel I'm working on. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally inexplicable to the perso...
Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Thu, 17 May 2007 12:49:00 PST

Coincidence & the Collective Unconscious

Coincidence and the Collective UnconsciousYou HAVE to check out the link. The coincidence in literature and history is spooky!http://www.geocities.com/nephilimnot/Parallels.html#C oincidence_in_Literat...
Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Thu, 17 May 2007 12:49:00 PST

The Kentucky Derby....blah!

Every year, around the beginning of May, I encounter a strong distaste for horse racing. While not a sport widely watched in America, the first Saturday in May, millions clamor around their tvs or he...
Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Sat, 05 May 2007 12:01:00 PST

Pizza, NOT the breakfast of champions

Pizza is clearly not the breakfast of champion writers, as I discovered this morning. Sure those two slices looked great a few hours ago, but now my pants feel too tight and the pain of squeezing pan...
Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Fri, 04 May 2007 12:01:00 PST

A day of writing?

I started writing my third novel a little over a month ago. I was in Minnesota, amid nature, going to parks, taking long walks beneath heavy trees, the writing was going as splendidly as writing can....
Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Thu, 03 May 2007 06:11:00 PST

Mew's SXSW Interview

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Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:59:00 PST

Musings on Nature and Solitude

From so far in the sky, so high above the Earth, the golden ball yet stretches down thousands upon thousands of miles to us, who are but minute creatures. We sit content, on this great rock circling...
Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:56:00 PST

Happy New Year!

Hey guys and gals!  Hope everyone had a fantastic New Year's, filled with fun, family, friends, and a bottle or two or three or hell, four of champagne!!  It's 2007 now, January 8th, to be e...
Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:19:00 PST

Sunset in Hollywood

Some really lovely colors the other night on the Strip in Hollywood...   Sunset on the Strip .. Coming down Laurel Canyon .. La Cienega Blvd from the top .....
Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:43:00 PST

Giant Squid & other creatures of the deep

As some of you may or may not know, I've had a interest in zoology/nature since I was a child.  I suppose it started with a love for animals when I was about three.  My parents took me to th...
Posted by Jessica Diedrich, writer on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:44:00 PST