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Jess

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About Me

"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." ~Albert Einstein
"Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
Egos are excluded in my world.
~~~Turn up the Sigur' Ros and breathe....~~~
As the cold air hits the sweat on my face I close my eyes for a second and breathe in as deep as I can, when I let the air out I look up and see everything around me in a whole new perspective.
I just recently moved from the far East coast of the hot and sticky hell hole (that seems to be improving rapidly), by the name of Florida, to the beautiful, scenic yet cold, grey, gloomyand rainy Pacific North West... What a difference I must say! Not so sure if I really like the winters here.....
I am an art student at Oregon College of Art and Craft. It keeps me busy... busy enough to not hold a full time or even a part time job... However, I have been doing a lot of side work, including mirals, album covers, jackets and disks.. I guess people like what I do :)
I am no where near where I want to be artistically, But growth is my main goal, and I feel that being in school is truly helping me become a mature, educated artist. I have a long journey a head of me.I am a fan of constructive criticism, it's needed for imrovement...
Music is very inspirational to my life and my art work.
Lyrics most certainly change the way I look at life if and when they are powerful enough. They tend to bring lost memories to my mind and that is one of the greatest things that anyone can ever achieve, and what's funny is that the people that do this for a living quite possibly do not know or comprehend how many people's lives they have effected.
It's interesting to me, to hear the way that other people view life and situations. Looking into situations and finding why people are the way that they are is a habit that I have. My goal is to utilize my artwork in some type of a career after I graduate in 2009. I was very much interested in art therapy, and still am, but now I'm just now exploring any options ...
I like to peel the old hardened acrylic paint off of the glass pallet... They turn into hard shiny plastic and for some reason it makes me giggle. Just like bubble wrap.. Oh yeah, I said it.. Bubble wrap totally makes me giggle... stomp on that for a few minutes and all stress goes away and nothing but smiles come out...It's just one of those things...
I have been in recovery from a pretty severe car accident that happened in October 2007,and it's limited my fun times :( but the recovery is going well and I am awaiting the day that I get the fat check in the mail for my settlement.
I am a bit deranged, I like being that way. I am a huge fan of shock value. I wear converse, all types, that and boots... I am not your typical girl, I have strange taste, but it's good taste in my opinion ...
"When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge."Chuck P." !

My Interests

Artwork....learning different techniques for my work. crystals. Zodiac. Music riding my bike, eating peanut butter with a spoon, cooking japanese meals and eating with chopsticks. Sitting at home and watching Six Feet Under, Pretending like I Know how to use a camera, talking on the phone late at night. Organzing all of my cd's and finding new music to listen to. Playing dress up here and there.
Going for sushi with my best friend Stef... and hanging out with Corbin (Stef's now 6 year old son)Painting, mixed mediums, photography, concerts, sleeping, going downtown, going to secret places where jasmines, roses and gardinias fill the air... special water taxi rides :) Jake Gyllenhaal ( I can't help it)Derek Hess. Dali. Picasso ATTABOY** amazing surrealist Jim Brandenburg- National Geographic

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I'd like to meet:

Anyone that inspires me really.... To be able to hold a conversation about anything of importance...

Music:



30 seconds to mars,311,Action Action,a.f.i.,a perfect circle,abba,acoustica,aiden,alanis morriesste,all-time quarterback,ambulette,ani difranco,animal alpha,annie lennox,aphex twin,Asian dub foundation,atari teenage riot,atmosphere,Audrye Sessions,autolux,bt,ben folds five,ben harper,ben_gibbard,binary finary,bird & bee,björk,blink 182,blue october,bright eyes,bush,butthole surfers,cake,carina round,carlilse,celldweller,coal chamber,cold,cold war kids,coldplay,coorprate avenger,dj krush,dj tiesto,dntel,daft punk,death cab for cutie,deep dish,deftones,delerium,denali,depeche mode,desaparecidos,dillenger escape plan,dope,dredg,econoline crush,eminem,evanessence,fat boy slim,felix da housecat,finch,fiona apple,fischerspooner,flyleaf,foo fighters,fort minor,front line assembly,frou frou,garbage,gary numan,gary numan,george michael,global underground,gnarls barkley,godsmack,goldfrapp,grand national,grand national,gus gus,her space holiday,hybrid,imogen heap,incubus,iron and wine,jakalope it dreams,jets to brazil,jimmy eat world,jimmy eat world,john brion,josh wink,joydrop,k's choice,kenna,killswitch engage,kittie,kosheen,lamb,lady sovereign,lali puna,lamb,lifehouse,limp bizkit,lords of acid,marcy playground,marilyn manson,matchbox 20,maura davis,maynord,mazzy star,michale jackson,mila jovovitch,mindless self indulgence,modest mouse,mono,mr. bungle,muse,my chemical romance,natalie imbruglia,Nellie Mckay, nine inch nails,nirvana,oasis,olive,our lady peace,panic! at the disco,peterbuilt,pink floyd,placebo,plain white t's,polyphonic spree,pop will eat it self,portishead,prodigy,queen,rabbit in the moon,radiohead,rage against the machine,rainer maria,rammstein,rancid,rasputina,red hot chili peppers,redo,rob dougan,rob zombie,she: a female experience,sage francis,sarah mclachlan,saul williams,saves the day,sean penn,sensurround,sevendust,she wants revenge,shiny toy guns,sia,sigur rós,silver sun pickups,silverchair,slowdive a dream upon waking,sneaker pimps,stabbing westward,state of emergency,static x,stereophonics,strangeland soundtrack,straylight run,styrofoam,sublime,sunny day real estate,system of a down,taking back sunday,taproot,team sleep,team sleep,telefone telavive,tenacious d,the arcade fire,the bad & the queen,the bloodhound gang,the cure,the dresden dolls,the dust brothers,the electric light orchestra,the faint,the getup kids,the good,the hippos,the killers,,The Knife, the living end,the postal service,the rockafeller skank,the shins,the smashing pumpkins,the stills,the white stripes,the white stripes,the cranberries,third eye blind,tool,triptaka,trust company,veruca salt,voo boo,weezer,wheatus,wicker park soundtrack,yeah yeah yeahs,zia,ohgr,tori amos,trafik,

Movies:

21 grams, A Love Song For Bobby Long, A Scanner Darkley, ANY Audrey Tautou flicks, Aladdin, Amellie, Battle Royal, Brokeback Mountain, City Of God, Clerks, Dahmer, David Lynch's films Dawn Of the Dead, Deep Throat Documentary, Departed, Disney Propaganda, Donie Darko, Dot the i, Dracula, Dummy, ElizabethTown, Empire Records, Empire Records, The Crow, Eternal Sunshine of The spotless Mind, Evangelion, Everything is Illuminated, Fight Club, Freddie got Fingered, GIA, Garden State, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Haibane Renmei Hero, High Art, High Fidelity, House of Flying Daggers, Ichi The Killer, Irreversable, Jarhead, Lain, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Matchstick men, Mirrormask, Monster, Morvern Callar, Morvern Callar, PIE, Party Monster, Photo, Romey and Michelle's High school reunion, September Tapes ( highly recommended), Sex and Lucia, Shawn Of the Dead, Snow White, Stand By Me, Summer Of SAm , Super SIze Me, Super Troopers, Swimming Pool, Swimming Pool, The City of God, The Craft, The Grudge, The Heart is Despiteful among all things, The Lost highway, The Notebook, The Wicker Man, Marie Antionette, THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE,Candy, A Scanner Darkley, The Waking LIfe, The Wickerman, I love Huckabees..... The little Mermaid, Thirteen, Three Extremes Three Extremes, Trainspotting, Very Obscene flicks, Lots of Strange Occurrances, and confusion in films.. always a good thing Way of the Gun, What the Bleep, Winged Migration, Winter Passing, cowboy bebop, half baked, hellen keller, pulp Fiction, the wizard of oz

Television:

Family Guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger forceSix Feet Under and Carnivale HOUSE, Dexter, Robot Chicken, Southpark, The Sapranos,...I watch movies instead...

Books:

ALL OF Chuck PalahniukThe Sun Book*High Fidelity*The alchemist*The Art of Happiness*The Modern Art Dictionary *The Great Divorce*The Celestine Prophecy
*The RoadLess Traveled *Anything artistically educational

Heroes:

Tori Amos, Trent Reznor, My boyfriend

My Blog

tears on my pillow

So, I'm ready.... I'm ready for something in my life to change... I don't think that I am happy here, in this lifestyle of staring at my computer. My back kills from the accident, more than  I re...
Posted by Jess on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:41:00 PST

Whats been bothering me, and how I can fix it...Jung philosophy

in a relationship we all tend to project onto others part of what is really in ourselvesprojection is an unconscious, automatic process whereby a content that is unconscious to the subject ...
Posted by Jess on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:36:00 PST

The bible and what it’s been latley....-+

So, I have had quite a few responses about a recent picture that I posted. It was a bible with a warning label on it.I apologize if I have offended anyone, I really thought that the picture was quite ...
Posted by Jess on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:37:00 PST

Thank you

My Florida peeps for hanging with me. I am sorry to the people I didn't get the chance to see, or see more than once. It was a great trip,I am holding everything inside to not buy a  plane ticket...
Posted by Jess on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:15:00 PST

Home.

So, today is Dec 18th. I guess I am a bit bummed out that this will be my first x-mas all alone. I think that I may sleep all day unless I can come up with something better.I am however very excited t...
Posted by Jess on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:50:00 PST

Goodbye Mr. Poe

    So, it was a happy time. The same day that I bought my new car, I got an amazing kitty. I named him Mr. Poe. Unfortunatly, he was a stressed kitty who had previously been an outside...
Posted by Jess on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:28:00 PST

bruised lips

So yes... Last night, the centennial celebration of my school and it's campus... Lots of rich folks eating great food and drinking great wine.Somehow, the students that were the clean up crew (me) got...
Posted by Jess on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:35:00 PST

Balance

I've recently been to an amazing naturpath doctor. She is helping me with multiple things... I have been having some medical issues in which cause me a lot of pain. Stress, is a big factor in this pai...
Posted by Jess on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:48:00 PST

Jamie’s 25th Birthday

 I miss you. It's been three years since you've gone away. I've not looked at your pictures for a while. I did today, oh yes... I did. Your eyes shimmered though the pictures just as much as the ...
Posted by Jess on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:20:00 PST

first day back

    To school was great! It was so nice to be surrounded by my classmates again. I guess I was very excited to be back, but I realized yesterday how nice it is to be around my fellow ar...
Posted by Jess on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:33:00 PST