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Jes

I am a delicate fucking flower!

About Me

I have lived in Northern Cambria, Brookville, & Clarion, Pennsylvania. I also lived in Illinois for a month. Now I'm back where I started, and I can't wait to go back to college or at least move to a city. (I'm planning on moving to Pittsburgh this summer. Yayyyy!)psst. i have a wishlist.

My Interests

knitting, people, outsider art, record collecting, lots of reading, Kingdom of Loathing, drinking, good live music, travel (anywhere but here) teh intraweb, money.

I'd like to meet:

Nice people.

Music:

A.C. Newman, Adam Green, Antony and the Johnsons, Asobi Seksu, The Aislers Set, All Girl Summer Fun Band, The Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Band of Horses, Beach House, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, the Black Keys, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Blonde Redhead, Bon Iver, The Boy Least Likely To, Brian Eno, British Sea Power, Broken Social Scene, Camera Obscura, !!!, Chapterhouse, The Charlatans, The Clash, Clinic, CocoRosie, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Cut Copy, Daniel Johnston, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, Depeche Mode, Devendra Banhart, Devo, Devotchka,Dinosaur Jr., Dressy Bessy, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Enon, Explosions in the Sky, The Fall, The Flaming Lips, Flying Saucer Attack, Frank Black, Freezepop, Frightened Rabbit, Galaxie 500, Gang of Four, The Gentle Waves, godspeed you! black emperor, Guided by Voices, The Gutter Twins, Heavenly, Hercules and Love Affair, Hinterland,The Hope Blister, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, Jeffrey Lewis, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joni Mitchell, Jose Gonzalez, Joy Division, Kimya Dawson, The Lassie Foundation, Leonard Cohen, Low, Luna, Lush, M. Ward, M.I.A., M83, The Magnetic Fields, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Metric, Mew, Miles Davis, Mindless Self Indulgence, Ministry, Mojave 3, The Moldy Peaches,Morphine, Monster Movie, My Bloody Valentine, Neko Case, The National, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Pornographers, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Noisettes, A Northern Chorus, Of Montreal, Okkervil River, Pavement, Pixies, The Pogues, Portishead, Ratatat, Red House Painters, The Replacements, Ride, Rilo Kiley, She and Him, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Slowdive, the Smiths, Spoon, Stars, Stereolab, Sun Kil Moon, Sunset Rubdown, Talking Heads, The Telepathic Butterflies, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band, This Mortal Coil, Tiger Trap, Tilly and the Wall, Tom Waits, TV on the Radio, The Vaselines, Vashti Bunyan, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, Wolf Parade, Voxtrot.Seen live: Aloha, Clinic, Ratatat, Architecture in Helsinki, Dr. Dog, Six Organs of Admittance, The Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, The French Kicks, Pedro the Lion, Low, TV on the Radio, Noisettes, Sunset Rubdown, A Northern Chorus.

Movies:

Star Wars trilogy (you know, the good ones,) Troma movies, Blade Runner, High Fidelity, My Neighbor Totoro, almost everything by Jim Jarmusch, 8 1/2, Harold and Maude, The Seventh Seal, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, and oh so many more.

Television:

the adventures of pete and pete. mythbusters. scrubs. mr. show. sopranos. six feet under. the daily show. the colbert report.

Books:

douglas adams. true crime books. hunter s. thompson. v.c. andrews. edna st. vincent millay. sylvia plath. beverly cleary. kurt vonnegut. poppy z. brite. jaqueline susanne. ken kesey. christopher moore. j.k. rowling. f. scott fitzgerald. garrison keillor. william gibson. i think i'm supposed to say 'catcher in the rye,' aren't i? it was good, too.

Heroes:

Bill. igor stravinsky. martha graham. lloyd kaufman. and hello kitty. ramona quimby. and siouxsie, my faithful bunny companion.

My Blog

Nothing to do.

*sigh* The Mark Kozelek show was canceled due to him being sick.  Since when do awesome musicians get sick?  It boggles the mind.  So now I have to find something else for us to do toni...
Posted by Jes on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:20:00 PST

Beer buzz

I'm in Pittsburgh right now, at Ben's apartment.  I'm anxiously awaiting the Mark Kozelek show that's going on tonight.  So last night, we went to one of Ben's haunts, the Harris Grill. ...
Posted by Jes on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:38:00 PST

Hello from internetland.

...And I was just looking at the information for my blog.  It's gotten viewed 47 times this week, 4 times today.  Yet the same 5 people comment on it every time.  Not that I don't appre...
Posted by Jes on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:50:00 PST

RIP and WTF

1.  It really sucks that Tim Russert died.  I really enjoyed hearing his election coverage, white boards and all.  I actually sat there watching the NBC Nightly News show that was total...
Posted by Jes on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:42:00 PST

Webcomic

http://catandgirl.com/index.phpIf you've come to this link too late, the title is "Reincarnation."  Go to the archives and find it, bitches. =)
Posted by Jes on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:52:00 PST

Just a taste of what I’m moving away from...

Because I couldn't find the corresponding link for this, I'm just going to transcribe what I saw on the front page of the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat today.To put it into context, imagine a picture of ...
Posted by Jes on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:07:00 PST

Another day, another band concert.

This time, at Northern Cambria.  It was my brother's last high school band concert.  I don't know what it is about these things that just brings out the rage in me.Of course, there was the o...
Posted by Jes on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:50:00 PST

A post about Siouxsie (mostly)

I was really proud of myself today.  I woke up at 7:00am.  The only reason I would do something this crazy is because someone I care about was sick.  That would be Siouxsie.  Lucki...
Posted by Jes on Wed, 21 May 2008 07:32:00 PST

On the etiquette of a high school band/chorus concert. And other things.

After a few days of being down in the dumps (which I'm going to blame on my period,) I actually got out of the house tonight.  My cousin Heather was singing with the chorus and playing flute with...
Posted by Jes on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:31:00 PST

A little rant.

This is kind of an issue that I've been thinking about lately, so bear with me.I've been getting some opinions, really ever since it started.I take medication for bipolar, for those of you who didn't ...
Posted by Jes on Fri, 09 May 2008 05:06:00 PST