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Janine

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About Me

i like music, films, film history, modern world history (20th century), art, vinyl records, photographs, left-wing politics, playing drums, playing dress-up, drawing, painting, writing, making things, reading, tap dancing, and other ridiculous things.i'm in a band. you can listen to it here , here , and here , if you'd like.

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

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Music:

(in no particular order, of course) Rolling Stones, Beatles, T. Rex, David Bowie, Ronettes, Supremes, Can, The Nazz, Nina Simone, Joe Meek, The Bristols, Les Paul and Trio, PP Arnold, Anita O'Day, Supergrass, Pavement, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley, Tomorrow, Willie Dixon, Eddie Cochran, Black Flag, Billie Holiday, the Foundations, Ravi Shankar, MC5, the Stooges, the Sonics, Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, Fugazi, Marlene Dietrich, Muddy Waters, Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger/The Trinity, Gino Washington, Nico, Gillian Hills, Bad Brains, Television, The Remains, Shellac, Sandie Shaw, Etta James, Velvet Underground, the Modern Lovers, Little Richard, Simon & Garfunkel, the Clash, the V.I.P.'s, the Artwoods, the Buzzcocks, Billy Preston, Blossom Dearie, Buffalo Springfield, Howlin' Wolf, John Coltrane, Jonathan Richman, The Litter, Maxine Brown, Wire, Tiny Yong, Françoise Hardy, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Chris Farlowe, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, Minor Threat, Joy Division, New Order, the Cure, the Who, Jefferson Airplane, Lata Mangeshkar, New York Dolls, Ike & Tina Turner, Bo Diddley, Robert Johnson, Cream, Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Kinks, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Bad Brains, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Holly/The Crickets, Grinderman, Ricky Nelson, Del Shannon, the Jam, Jeff Beck, the Small Faces, John's Children, Love, Mary Wells, Janet Klein, Shangri-Las, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Solomon Burke, the Standells, Bessie Smith, PJ Harvey, the Creation, the Smiths, Kings of Convenience, Peter and Gordon, Judy Garland, Blur, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the Police, Astrud Gilberto, Ariane et les 10/20, Odetta, Edith Piaf, Pizzicato Five, Ditty Bops, Le Tigre, Billy Nicholls, Leadbelly, the Zombies, Talking Heads, the Moody Blues, Traffic, Spencer Davis Group, Cliff Richard/the Shadows, the Hollies, Freddie King, Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames, Van Morrison, Cilla Black, the Move, the Shirelles, Josephine Baker, Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett era), The Mighty Hannibal, Sonic Youth, Germs, Crowded House, Eartha Kitt, Portishead, Serge Gainsbourg, The Wipers, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Petula Clark, Television Personalities, Otis Redding, April March, Public Enemy, Charley Patton, George Harrison, John Lennon, Gang of Four, Sandy Nelson, Middle Class, Chocolate Watchband, the Seeds, Rocky Roberts and the Airedales, Pretenders, the 5, 6, 7, 8's, Dick Dale, Beach Boys, X, At the Drive-In, Belle & Sebastian, Sarah Vaughn, Elvis Costello, Electric Eels, Yves Montand, Dionne Warwick, Pixies, the Pretty Things, Sylvie Vartan, Peter Berry & The Shake Set, France Gall, Dave Clark Five, Sleater-Kinney, Nervous Eaters, Refused, Devo, Chuck Berry, the B-52s, the Saints, Joe Jackson, Madness, Link Wray, Marianne Faithfull...I didn't really read through that, and you probably didn't either. Plus I'm sure I forgot a ton of stuff anyway. But yeah, basically, I like rock 'n' roll. ..

Movies:

(in no particular order) Gold Diggers of 1933, The Misfits, Chinatown, Du rififi chez les hommes, Le Notti di Cabiria, La Strada, Laura, Shadows, Harold and Maude, The Cat and the Canary (1927), Dinner At Eight, Riot on Sunset Strip, The Love God?, Women In Love, Quadrophenia, Gap-Toothed Women, Wattstax, American Hardcore, Mystery Train, On The Waterfront, The Wild One, Switchblade Sisters, A Streetcar Named Desire, Whats Up Tigerlily?, Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis, Notorious, A Bucket of Blood, Midnight Cowboy, The Incident, M, Holiday, Letter to Brezhnev, Annie Hall, Delicatessen, Coffee and Cigarettes, This Is Spinal Tap, Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, Die Bchse der Pandora, Night On Earth, Run Lola Run, Good Night and Good Luck, Morning Glory, Sommarnattens leende, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Women, Lost In Translation, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, Lolita, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Singles, Malcolm X, Woman of the Year, Sabrina, The Station Agent, Un Homme et Une Femme, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask, A Hard Day's Night, All About Eve, Ghost World, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Some Like It Hot, Kitchen Stories, The Philadelphia Story, Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Help!, 8 1/2, The Best Years of Our Lives, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, The General, The Gold Rush, The Thin Man, Bringing Up Baby, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, Georgy Girl, A Bout De Souffle, The Knack...and how to get it, La Peau douce, Jules et Jim, Rope, Frenzy, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Wrong Man, Blackmail, The Merry Widow, Sunset Boulevard, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Love With The Proper Stranger, My Man Godfrey, Gimme Shelter, Don't Look Back, 200 Motels, Charlie Is My Darling, Tonite Let's All Make Love In London, Shanghai Express, Der Blaue Engel, The Saddest Music In The World, Lackawanna Blues, Stage Door, Les Quatre Cents Coups, Sommaren med Monika, Gycklarnas afton, The L-Shaped Room, Et Dieu... crèa la femme, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, It Happened One Night, all Wes Anderson films, etc.There's a lot more to name than that. I'm obviously partial to pre-1970s film, and I haven't seen nearly enough post-1970s film. I'm a bit deprived. ..

Television:

Hullabaloo, the Young Ones, Freaks and Geeks, The Twilight Zone, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Flight of the Conchords, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Quantam Leap, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, the Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous, Three's Company, Green Acres, the Munsters, Batman, I Love Lucy, All In The Family, the Dick Van Dyke show, the Andy Griffith show, Turner Classic Movies, Animal Planet ..

Books:

Currently reading:

Heroes:

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My Blog

shyness

I was talking to my mom last night, and she was telling me about how, at her school (it's a relatively small grad school with a bunch of Jungian psychologists and hippies and such), extroverts are the...
Posted by Janine on Wed, 07 May 2008 06:01:00 PST

wouldnt it be nice...

...if people didn't all decide to act like douchebags at the same time?could someone please tell me if something's going on... are the planets aligned in a certain way to put me in such a mood that i ...
Posted by Janine on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:42:00 PST

Im in [60s girl pop] heaven

In spending the last remainders of my New Year's Day (which was otherwise lackluster at best) searching the internet for 60s girl pop/yé-yé music that I a) can't find anywhere and/or b) don't wan...
Posted by Janine on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:30:00 PST

i love library bookstores

today i went shopping in a library bookstore, one of the types with all the donated records, cassettes, books and such that someone didn't want anymore or whatever the case may be. anyway, i spent abo...
Posted by Janine on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:45:00 PST

austin city limits 2007

This past weekend (14th-16th), I went to Texas for Austin City Limits. It was a good time, minus the sunburn and physical exhaustion. I took tons of pictures of bands, so I thought I would put so...
Posted by Janine on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:11:00 PST

um, yeah.

i draw silly things....
Posted by Janine on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:38:00 PST

yay.

i got my driver's license! finally! ...
Posted by Janine on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:07:00 PST

l'amour l'amour

By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing,And he vows his passion isInfinite, undying--Lady, make a note of this:One of you is lying. -Dorothy Parker...
Posted by Janine on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:33:00 PST

:(

a sad day in history: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6154522,00.h tml?gusrc=ticker-103704...
Posted by Janine on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:08:00 PST

la dee da

i was just thinking about this one time. years ago. a girl introduced me to her friend as "a mute from germany".  i guess that's what i get for not talking. (the mute from germany thin...
Posted by Janine on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:48:00 PST