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Jess Angell

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About Me

Le Monstre

My Interests

creation.
intuition.
charisma.
truth.
hubris.
photography, redheads, piano keys, painting and sculpture, image, interpretation, exploring independants, social graces, fashion, texture, text, surprise,
astronomy, naked people, 1920s hoodoo, picking up bad habits and a worse vocabulary, robots, power, sidewalk chalk, honey wine ("a mans drink"), and out of towners

I'd like to meet:

my muse

Music:

dresden dolls, arcade fire, mars volta, peggy lee, magnetic fields, liz phair, tegan and sarah, viva voice, elliot smith, sigur ros, le tigre, interpol, franz ferdinand, daft punk, roy orbison, nancy sinatra, bjork, portishead, coldplay, radiohead, keane, stevie wonder, my bloody valentine, pulp, london suede, bill withers, marvin gaye, massive attack, nick cave & the bad seeds, tom waits, pj harvey, miles davis, cole porter, modest mouse, vnv nation, thelonious monk, the cure, the smiths, a perfect circle, leonard cohen, the yeah yeah yeahs, nin, apoptygma berserk, al green, echo and the bunnyman, ladytron, johnny cash, elvis costello, melotron, the pixies, joanna newsom, the oohlas, the duke spirit, mogwai, grand national, daedalus

Movies:

harold and maude, little otik, city of god, lovers at the bridge, heart of winter, punch drunk love, true romance, secretary, the philadelphia story, anniversery party, the last unicorn, escape to witch mountain, waking life, city of lost children, the last time i commited suicide, dream for an insomniac, frida, lotr, napolean dynamite, spirited away, 007, pride and prejudice, kill bill.

Television:

Carnival, Lost, Heroes, Nova

Books:

preacher, strangers in paradise, hellboy, the boondocks, the fountainhead, east of eden, catch-22, invisible cities, american gods, the chomsky reader, secret of n.i.m.h, the good earth, storm of swords series, hitchikers guide to the galaxy, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, a god shaped hole, lost in a good book, cuba libre, the velveteen rabbit, ishmael, hot water music, sexus, choke, wicked, eleven minutes, cat's cradle, beggars of spain, diamond age, CS Lewis, Jrr Tolkien, Charles De Lint.

Heroes:

Howard Roark

My Blog

Monsters

I'm obsessed.I want ugly, I want dirty, I want silly, I want wrong.Show me something worse. Give me proof and something to measure them by.MONSTERS!
Posted by Jess Angell on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:52:00 PST

Wardrobe overhaul....

Virtually skipping into Anthropologie, starry eyed and smiling I fell upon their clothes. I felt soft fabrics, I held delicate dresses up to see the length, I drooled, I pondered, I lusted. I finally ...
Posted by Jess Angell on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:39:00 PST

How fucking rad is this?

Pre-Christmas Eve presents... here's my gift from Eric (if you get the reference you're a big nerd like me)! He bought the books and mug from ABC but made the food/labels/crate.and finally...
Posted by Jess Angell on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:27:00 PST

It's not fair....

As you get older you lose connections with people. Sometimes the connection stays as long as your last conversation (which may have been years ago) but at other times the connection and intimacy fades...
Posted by Jess Angell on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:02:00 PST

Please come out to NYC!

Friday, December 15th at The Mercury LoungeThe OohlasIf I can wrangle enough folks maybe we can take a bus, ala The Headwounds... whatcha think about that?Xo,Jess Angell...
Posted by Jess Angell on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:32:00 PST

You thought I was all highbrow with that last one....

Cranberry wrestling at Defekto's Sideshow via Niki...Here's the link to all of the photos. This WayAnd here are some quality photos of the Danger Dyke Duo at Defekto's Sideshow....
Posted by Jess Angell on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:56:00 PST

Broadway.com review by James Howard!!! YAY!

Monday, November 20, 2006; Posted: 5:38 PM - by James Howard If Eugene Morris Jerome (of Neil Simon fame) had a Hispanic cousin, she would likely be Ana in Real Women Have Curves, the comed...
Posted by Jess Angell on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:15:00 PST

It's 4 in the morning

and all I want to do is read my 'new messages'. OH THE TORTURE!Hey man, Club Charles is doing that Macabre thing on Monday but the rad thing is that instead of slinging drinks all night I'm going to r...
Posted by Jess Angell on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:23:00 PST

Hermitville - population one

So.. Club Charles (my employer and second home) was closed for a total of seven days and it was good. The workers took to the wind like so many seeds, a few drifting to New York and others to their ho...
Posted by Jess Angell on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:46:00 PST

Circle of Evil - Inferno-a-go-go Fashion Show

There will be more pictures of Beppi's fashion forays in the future, but in the meantime, here are some pictures her photographer caught of the 'wig of doom'!...
Posted by Jess Angell on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:35:00 PST