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Jessina

Jessina

About Me

TransWoman living in Los Angeles w/ partner and cats. I work in the field of psychology. I'm also a singer/songwriter/producer/arranger/musician etc. working on an album of my songs using a ProTools system at home. TransWoman means Male-to-Female Transsexual for the uninitiated.

My Interests

Music, Dance (free-form/modern), Poetry, Reading, Art, Theatre, Film, Psychology, Public Speaking, Transgender/Transsexual [I prefer just "Trans"] Issues and Causes, Travel.

I'd like to meet:

Musical collaborators only.Myspace Contact Tables

Music:

Recent: Bjork, Radiohead, Blonde Redhead, Laura Veirs, Audrey [Sweden], Babyshambles, Sigur Ros, Daylight's for the Birds, Joanna Newsom, Coco Rosie, Mirah, Lisa Germano, Emily Haines, Cat Power, Fiery Furnaces, Cat Power, Josephine Foster, Karla Schickele/Ida, Carla Kihlstedt/Tin Hat Trio, Sam Phillips, Non Credo, Maple Bee, Hanne Hukkelberg, Bat For Lashes, Orenda Fink (60s) Beatles, Velvet Underground, Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield/Neil Young, Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick!), Stones, Doors, Who, Kinks, Joni Mitchell, Nico, Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood, Bob Dylan, Byrds, Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart, Vashti Bunyan, most things psychedelic (70s) David Bowie, Roxy Music, Peter Hammill/Van Der Graaf Generator, Eno, Henry Cow/Slapp Happy, King Crimson, Nick Drake, Joy Division, Sex Pistols, Magazine (80s) Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, Luxuria, Peter Gabriel, Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Dead Can Dance, REM, Luxuria (90s) Nirvana, House of Love, Pavement. Tom Waits. ALSO: classical, 50s/60s and earlier jazz, lounge, ambient, some techno.

Movies:

Citizen Kane and all Orson Welles, Apocalypse Now, Godfathers I & II, Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Oddity, Taxi Driver, Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, Woodstock, Lord of the Rings, Dr. Strangelove, Naked and most any Mike Leigh and Ken Loach films, A Hard Day's Night, Yellow Submarine, The Tale of the Weeping Camel, M.A.S.H., Brazil, The Player, most new wave French films from the 60s and 70s, Truffaut, Fellini, Antonioni, Trainspotting, Invasion of the Barbarians, The Corporation...will post more as soon as I can remember them! LOL!

Television:

Six Feet Under (best series in the history of the universe), Sopranos, Oz, Homicide: Life on the Streets, The Prisoner, Fawlty Towers, Absolutely Fabulous, Simpsons (early seasons), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Northern Exposure, TransGenerations, Queer As Folk (UK version), The Avengers (original series), Monty Python's Flying Circus...

Books:

Too many to list here - I read books like a fish breathes water. Lots of poetry! Favorite book of all time: Ulysses (James Joyce) with a hundred others tied for second place.

Heroes:

Bjork, Kate Bush, Louise Gluck, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon/Beatles, Bill Hicks, Grace Slick, Rosa Parks, Joni Mitchell, Christine Jorgenson, Orson Welles, Renee Richards, Tula, Catherine Denueve, Sophia Loren, Julie Christie, Vanessa Redgrave, Susannah York, Ann Margaret, Ingrid Bergman, Lee Grant, Jane Fonda, Spike Lee, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Angelica Huston, Susan Sarandon, Juliette Binoche, Kate Winslet, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins, Shaun Penn, Denis Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Cecily Tyson, Frank Miller, David Mack, Los Hernandez Bros, Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Anais Nin ...will add more as I think of them!

My Blog

My favorite new/recent music...

The past 6 months I've been almost exclusively into music by female artists and bands [or female-led bands]. So many of the male bands of today just strike me as too retro, too mellow, too pretentious...
Posted by Jessina on Wed, 30 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

Jessina Song Lyrics

jessina lyrics[NOTE: all lyrics copyrighted & not for reprinting or any other use except by author's permission][This is a sampling of songs I've written post-transition as well as a couple of my pre-...
Posted by Jessina on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:31:00 PST

Jessina Poems

jessina poems[NOTE: all poems copyrighted & not for reprinting or any other use except by author's permission]INTRODUCTION by my FATHER:Dear Jessina,Some really remarkable stuff! Not all evenly burni...
Posted by Jessina on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:15:00 PST

Back to LaLaLand

Well now that I finally appear to be through the worst of my health issues (neck + back surgeries/chronic pain/spinal degeneration disease, etc.) and am able to work again, I have been reoffered my wo...
Posted by Jessina on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:19:00 PST

Psychodelicatessen

Yes, Nick (who commented on my wacky blog colour scheme), I just figured I'd bring the 1960s back in one fell swoop! To the rest of you: do not adjust your screen - I control the vertical and the hori...
Posted by Jessina on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Blog-A-Go-Go! My First Time!

My first blog - wow - I never thought I'd see the day. Anyway I've just joined myspace - had heard about it but didn't get around to ever checking it out until my friend Nick told me about it and well...
Posted by Jessina on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST