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Jessica

not the same person i was 6 months ago

About Me

Not being idle or quiet when there's an obvious wrong being done to myself or someone else - mainly the disenfranchised. Honest, with many faults - pride being one of them. Believer in humanity, justice and sustainability.An inside joke repository. I'm just a curious person who likes to learn minus the artistic talent and deep intellectual qualities.

My Interests

Hiking, podcasts, Politics, Weber vs. Marx, Kant and globalization, silence, law, ethics, existentialism, deconstructing arguments other than my own, Writing, Moping, Record Shopping, Roaming Cities, Concerts, music, films, escaping, anything and everything

I'd like to meet:

Brian Jones

Music:

Joy Division, Blur, Belle & Sebastian, Voxtrot, Magnetic Fields, VU, 70s punk, Cat Power, Smiths, Morrissey, Madchester, 50s/60s pop - blues - doo wop - soul, Rolling Stones, Ronettes, British Invasion, Wall of Sound. Do we really have the time?

Movies:

The Virgin Spring, the squid and the whale, the graduate, hable con ella, Volver, mulholland dr., kurosawa, 24 hour party people, kubric...movies that speak for a generation, political commentary, questioning modern day morality, period pieces.

Television:

Podcasts (Bob Schieffer is a powerhouse). Recently into Rome and Deadwood. HBO, KQED radio.

Books:

NY Times (I'm too dumb for the New Yorker). Lately Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette by Ronnie Spector.

Heroes:

Musicians, John Lennon, Dion DiMucci, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, Walter Cronkite, Thomas L. Friedman, Peter Sellers. Steve Buscemi. Stephin Merritt.