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Jenna the Photog

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About Me

Nobody writes songs about girls named Jenna.
My husband and I were separated when he died from Marfan's at the age of 34 and changed the rest of my life forever. I spent my entire adult life with him and most of what I know I learned from "us". The rest I have learned from my friends and from trial and error and lots and lots of laughing.
I love to listen to NPR and college radio and independent radio stations out of Boston.
I love skanky nightclubs where you wear big boots to keep your toes safe from stomping. I love them more when they're steamy and loud and you stick to the floor and drink beer and leave with ringing ears.
I love art.
I love looking at old trucks rotting in people's yards. I love flea markets and fair food.
I love my dogs and my very old, ornery, yet wonderful blind cat. I frequently ask Gromit the dog why I didn't get another cat instead though, dogs are weird little creatures.
I love mid century modern furniture and art and collect West Virginia Glassware Co. glasses and dishes. I love my chip and dip bowl especially, it cracks me up and comes out at every house party I throw.
I also love Lamchop, the Sharri Lewis puppet and yes I have one. My husband had a ventriloquist dummy he made look like himself, and he is in my coat closet with his head removed from his body in case he gets out and walks around one night to kill me. He won't be able to see where he's going.
My friends and I are getting old, sometimes I think so anyway. But then I get carded when I buy a bottle of wine, so maybe not.
I hate to clean house but dammit I can cook! I love food, I love to cook, I love to share meals with friends and family.
I think A Christmas Story is one of the best movies in the world and I have a Christmas Story lunchbox and the front of it is Ralphie eating the soap. It amuses me that a kid eating soap is on a lunchbox.
I love to dress up and go out, the dressier the better. I have a closet full of nice dresses and shoes, which so doesn't fit with the rest of me, but "she" the girly part of me, is there somewhere. Oh, and I love pink and my pink nano iPod.
I think Vernor's Ginger Ale is the finest soda on the face of the planet and I think Corn Dogs should be eaten regularly.
I love roller coasters and hot weather and fireworks, they all make me think of my birthday.
"Will there be another race to come along and take over for us? Maybe Martians could do better than we've done, we'll make great pets."
I'm a photographer, or as Kramer said, "I fancy myself to be a bit of a photog," hence the name.
I'm a Mac user, I have four of them. I work for an auction house, and shoot weddings on the side. I LOVE my Nikon F5 and my Fuji S2 Pro.
I also LOVE Tai Chi Chi Kung. It's just a fancy way of describing the type of Tai Chi I take. I've been doing it for a few years with my best friend, Melissa, and I do it at home daily even when I'm not enrolled in the class. The spirituality, well, it is what it is, but the relaxation, control, and strength the Tai Chi gives you makes the effort to learn the form worth it.
I don't want children of my own, but I have a very cool step daughter who just turned 14. I like that age, I remember being 14. I get it.
You are Bettie Page
Girl next door with a wild streak
You're a famous beauty - with unique look
And the people like you are cultish about it What Famous Pinup Are You?

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My Interests

Music, food, travel, you know, the generic stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Henry Rollins. Perry Farrell. David Byrne. Walter Schreifels.

Music:

Pixies, Jane's Addiction, The Cure, Dinosaur Jr, Fugazi, Weezer, Interpol, Clutch, Smiths, Morrissey, The Damned, Talking Heads, The Strokes, Depeche Mode, obscure 80s nuwave, Franz Ferdinand, Beck, Elvis Costello, Kasabian, Foo Fighters, Gorilla Biscuits, Cake, The Killers, the Misfits, Dead Milkmen, Sam Black Church, Minor Threat, Porno for Pyros, Quicksand, Rival Schools, Bad Religion, Belle and Sebastian, Diana Krall, Violent Femmes, the list is endless

Movies:

American Movie, Freaks (the classic B+W), True Stories, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, Princess Bride, What About Bob?, Ghost World, Once Were Warriors, Dummy, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Big Lebowski, A Christmas Story, Gift, the list is longer than this but this is all I could think of.

Television:

Seinfeld. Arrested Development. Carnivale. Family Guy. And because I'm a lame-o I am addicted to both Grey's Anatomy AND Brothers and Sisters.

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, Ethan Frome, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Time Enough for Love, To Kill a Mockingbird, Clotilda, Bitter With Baggage Seeks Same the Life and Times of Some Chickens, Food Court Druids and Cherohonkees and other creatures unique to the republic, there are more too...

My Blog

adventures in dating, Jenna style

Okay, so it wasn't a date, but here's the story of the year:This morning I had to go to the town offices in Alton to license the dogs and register my car. This nut job starts talking to me, introduces...
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:33:00 PST

AHA!!! It's OFFICIAL! SAM BLACK CHURCH REUNION!!!

That's right!!! September 22nd. No details yet, but you bet your ASS I'm going to be there with the gang. Kick fucking ass. SBC is back!!!
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:28:00 PST

Interpol, here I come! (thank you, advance ticket sales!)

YAY!!!!So I preordered the new Interpol on iTunes. I've only been waiting, what, 2, 3 years for their new album??? And in exchange I got a presale ticketing password for ticketmaster. And today the mi...
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:59:00 PST

100 Ways...

This photo and dialogue is my most popular image ever on my Flickr page. The response has been incredible, so I decided to share it here, too. Why not? My life is an open book after all...I was inspir...
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:57:00 PST

SAM BLACK CHURCH REUNION

I hear rumor that SBC is going to do a reunion show this summer or fall...pass it on!!!
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Sun, 13 May 2007 02:04:00 PST

"if you keep that shit up the man is going to get you"

I was asked tonight in a thread on a photo website I visit frequently what threats I got from my parents as a child. People were sharing their "don't eat your veggies and you won't get any pudding" ty...
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Sun, 06 May 2007 07:32:00 PST

I am too old for this shit.

Okay, so I am officially old. Saturday I got up at the crack of dawn to walk the dogs, feed them, pack their doggie belongings, and get dressed like a whore. I was successful on all tasks. I drove to ...
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:54:00 PST

VIIIIVAAAAAAAA, LAS VEGAS!!!

So it's official, the post-show slump has set in. Not the puppy, not the amount of things that belonged to Dave that I still need to sort, not work, nothing can keep me quite as occupied as I'd like t...
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:12:00 PST

where for art thou, Phill?

My life has been full of people who have popped in and out. Unfortunately my mind holds onto each and every one of them, I frequently run into someone I know immediately and they stare at me like I'm ...
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:56:00 PST

No chicks for you...I'm thinking pigs.

I house sat this weekend for my girlfriend Tamara. This entailed taking care of two of her four dogs, her two cats, two kids, my two dogs, and the house. I kept the kids busy all weekend so I wouldn't...
Posted by Jenna the Photog on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:13:00 PST