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:: Jessica ::

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About Me


I used to be cool.

My Interests

Run the gamut.

Graphic Design :: Art :: Subcultures :: Keeping up on Current Events and Politics :: Listening to NPR and Public Radio :: Health/Fitness/Jogging :: Organic/Vegetarian/Vegan/Raw fare :: Dry Humor :: Satire :: Mid-Century Modern :: Architecture :: Googie :: avoiding the Urge to Thrift and shop for Vintage Clothes :: The sixties and the twentieth century decades preceding it :: Record Collecting :: Americana :: Bowling :: The East Coast (NY-someday) :: Museums :: Kitties :: Bauhaus :: Germany :: History :: Old Movie Screenings :: Education :: Travel and Foreign Cultures :: Science :: Sustainability :: Photography :: Linguistics :: Scrabble :: the Media :: Technology :: Macs (as in Apple, not the hamburger) :: Fine Wine and Good Beer :: Ratfink-Era Garbage :: Hole-In-The-Wall Dive Bars :: Time-Warping Eateries :: Dumping Money Into and Occasionally Driving my '63 Ford Falcon ::

I'd like to meet:

Borderline intellectuals, the wise and witty, confident creatives, ambitious amateurs, rational communicators, record geeks, rock and rollers with a little salt and pepper, news junkies and NPR subscribers, street-smart geeks, mediocre scrabble players, keen observers, those that take the stairs over the elevator, oh, and Don Rickles fans.

Music:

Despite my vicious past as a music snob, I listen to just about everything these days. I guess I'm just getting old and losing my hearing.

Indie Rock/Pop :: Chamber Pop :: Shoegaze :: Swedish bands :: 70s Punk :: Post-Punk :: Hardcore :: New Wave :: Noise :: Glam/Glitter :: 60s Garage :: Garage Revival :: Garage Punk :: Rhythm and Blues :: Soul :: Northern Soul :: Motown :: Mod Revival :: Ska :: Rocksteady :: Reggae :: Two-Tone :: Power Pop :: Brit Pop :: Freakbeat :: Psyche :: Surf :: Instrumental :: Girl Groups :: Ye-Ye :: Group Sounds :: Shibuya-Kei :: Frat Rock :: Twist :: Bubblegum :: Fuzz and Wah-Wah pedals :: Boogaloo :: Funk :: Jazz :: Acid Jazz :: Latin Jazz :: Lounge :: Organs :: Italiano :: Jump Blues :: 50s Rockabilly :: Neo-Rockabilly :: Rock 'n' Roll :: Psychobilly :: pre-1970s Country Western :: Big Band :: Swing :: Western Swing :: Exotica :: Moog :: Electronica :: Synth Pop :: underground Hip Hop :: 60s/70s Easy Listening :: Classical ::

Beat-ta-hell $0.99 thrift store records :: You know, the ones with good covers ::

:: The Cramps :: Tom Jones :: Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass :: The Ventures :: Blondie :: DEVO ::

Movies:

Independent and Classics.

Alfred Hitchcock :: The Apartment :: An Affair to Remember :: Amelie :: Beach Party :: Beloved Invaders :: The Big Lebowski :: Blues Brothers :: Breakfast at Tiffany's :: Broken Flowers :: Cary Grant :: Charade :: Dog Day Afternoon :: Ghost World :: The Graduate :: Heavy Metal Parking Lot :: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World :: Jack Lemmon :: John Waters :: Life Aquatic :: Lolita :: Lost in Translation :: Mad Monster Party :: Manhattan :: My Breakfast With Blassie :: Network :: North by Northwest :: The Odd Couple :: Office Space :: The Party :: Peter Sellers :: Pillow Talk :: Pink Panther :: The Prisoner of Second Avenue :: Roman Holiday :: Russ Meyer :: Sabrina :: Serpico :: Sideways :: Silent Movies :: Some Like it Hot :: Stalag 17 :: Spellbound :: Super Size Me :: Taxi Driver :: Team America :: That Touch Of Mink :: What's New Pussycat? :: Wild Angels :: Woody Allen :: Wordplay ::

Television:

PBS :: Discovery :: History :: Mythbusters :: Curb Your Enthusiasm :: Seinfeld :: Frontline :: Roadtrip Nation :: Mystery Science Theater 3000 :: Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations :: Passport to Europe :: Huell Howser :: Charlie Rose :: The Wire :: Intervention :: Six Feet Under :: The Sarah Silverman Program :: Oz :: Sex and the City :: Reno 911 :: Arrested Development :: The Daily Show :: Conan O'Brian :: Letterman :: Wonder Showzen :: Buscando Amor :: The First 48 :: The Munsters :: Addams Family :: Get Smart :: Dragnet :: Hogan's Heroes :: Twilight Zone :: Sanford and Son :: Match Game :: Green Acres :: Family Feud with Richard Dawson ::

Books:

Art and Design oriented :: The newspaper :: geeky magazines :: Charles Bukowski :: David Sedaris :: Jack Kerouac :: Nick Hornby :: Microserfs (Douglas Coupland) :: Fast Food Nation :: Coffee Tea or Me? :: Non-Fiction ::

Heroes:



My Blog

Hard drive failure, or, My lifes work gone in the blink of an eye.

[A little background information: My life's ambition as you may know, has been to become a graphic designer and I've been slaving away the past few years to get a good portfolio together to get into t...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Tue, 06 May 2008 01:00:00 PST

RISD!

I just got my letter from admissions at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). I am both happy and somewhat disappointed at the same time because I've been put on the waiting list: "You are one of a sm...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:50:00 PST

My Design Junk: Queen Mary Brochure

So you know how I'm always talking about how busy I am working on stuff, right? Okay, maybe you don't. But maybe you do and you just want to say, "Shut up already about your graphic design junk". Well...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:25:00 PST

Plastic water bottles, Bisphenol A!

Earlier today I heard news about the problems with plastic leaching the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) into food and water. So of course, I did a little research. I do not drink straight tap water (to avo...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:08:00 PST

The great Google gives us free 411. Am I the last to know about this?

No this isn't spam. I just think this is another great step forward in Google's world-domination. Free 411 calls! Why am I just now hearing about this? Apparently the beta-version was rolled out back ...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:41:00 PST

Facebook anyone?

Is anyone on Facebook? It's very different dare I say, even nicer (!) than myspace? Is this blog going to be erased now that I've said that? Facebook is devoid of these terrible ads (look to your lef...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:53:00 PST

Cat attacks me upon hearing "Ace of Spades" or cheesey ringtone on Blackberry phone.

My cat just attacked me for the second time after hearing my stupid Blackberry ringing. The first time I thought it was just because he didn't like Motorhead's "Ace of Spades" (it really does sound sc...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:26:00 PST

New alternative weekly for Long Beach

I'm looking forward to this new weekly- seems long overdue.From: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/new_paper_for_long _beach_1.php---------------------------------New paper for Long Beach *Kevi...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:17:00 PST

Mac advertisement on the homepage

Wow. I have finally seen an ad on here that does not involve some cartoon character annoying the crap out of me by repeatedly doing some idiotic task to try to get me to download a ring tone!Are you p...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:57:00 PST

Psychedelic Laptops!?

I just heard "You're Gonna Miss Me" by the 13th Floor Elevators in a Dell commercial. First it was The Buzzcocks and The Sonics in car commercials, then we had Iggy Pop for cruise lines. What's next?!...
Posted by :: Jessica :: on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:00:00 PST