J.ames, J.ames, and more J.ames
i am:
*a music addict
*a concert junkie
*a cute expert
*a professional pouter
*very quite cuddly
*soft, soft, soft
*the jealous type
*a collector of jackets
*a girl who actually likes other girls
*an avocado fiend
*nocturnal
*often without clothes when in my apt
*a devoted girlfriend
*a karaoke queen
*obsessed with purple
*permanently attached to my nano and digicam
*dating my macbook pro
*a cat person
*a sap
*often thin-skinned
*drawn to quick wit
*not ashamed of how much i love bad tv shows
*or cheesy high school movies
*proficient at matching you with your celebrity twin
i can:
*speak kitten
*swear like a sailor
*beat you at tetris
*spot a hapa from a mile away
*assemble any piece of ikea furniture.. all by myself
*hold an entire conversation with recited movie quotes
*remember really weird, trivial shit about you for years
*drive- regardless of what you think about asian female drivers
*take a shower/bath in water that would probably scald you
*take your picture pretty damn well
*spot any b, c, or d-list celebrity in a crowd
*sing almost any song that comes on the radio
i dream:
*everynight
*vividly.. about people in my life
*of always knowing the right come-back
*of owning a karman ghia
*of living in a huge house with a view and a giant bathtub
*of having a job that revolves around me listening to music (ha! i'm almost there, people!!)
*of loyalty, compassion, empathy, and love
a. the kid on the right:
psst... i met him
b. people who know who Brad Mehldau and Jon Brion are...
c. people who know how to use the word "you're" as opposed to the word "your"
d. Michael Cera & Andy Samberg.
e. more people like SAM!!
RADIOHEAD, BJORK, BECK, BRAD MEHLDAU, aimee mann, alice in chains, alicia keys, AMON TOBIN, aqualung, THE ARCADE FIRE, THE BEATLES, the beta band, the bird and the bee, bitter sweet, bob marley, the cars, chris cornell, cold war kids, cole porter, JOHN COLTRANE, elvis costello, crowded house, The Cure, MILES DAVIS, David Bowie, David Byrne, the decemberists, deerhoof, (pre-violator) depeche mode, diana krall, dj shadow, dntel, dogfysh, dredg, editors, eels, elbow, ella fitzgerald, elliott smith, erykah badu, esthero, everything but the girl, the faint, FIONA APPLE, serge gainsbourg, billie holiday, heart, jamiroquai, jeff buckley, JON BRION, ladytron, latyrx, lauryn hill, led zeppelin, lovage, maude maggart, Medeski Martin & Wood, (pre-crazy) michael jackson, minipop, miss kitten, the monkees, morrissey, NIN, nirvana, Pearl Jam, peeping tom, peter bjorn and john, peter gabriel, The Pharcyde, The Police, Portishead, the postal service, rem, The Roots, john scofield, sean lennon, the shins, silversun pickups, Smashing Pumpkins, the SMITHS, soundgarden, spoon, stereolab, stone temple pilots, suzanne vega, Talking Kids, THOM YORKE, tom petty, tori amos, tribe called quest, u.n.k.l.e, vagenius, violent femmes, weezer, the white stripes, The Who. i also love justin timberlake, gwen stefani, and britney spears.
***current heavy rotation album: RADIOHEAD - IN RAINBOWS...***
current singles i like: radiohead - "down is the new up"
the bird and the bee - "polite dance song"
chromeo - "fancy footwork"
louis iv - "air traffic control"
css - "music is my hot hot sex"
Almost Famous (and basically anything cameron crowe), Say Anything, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink, Better Off Dead, Breakfast Club, The Lost Boys, Weird Science, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Drop Dead Fred (i heart phoebe cates), Labyrinth, Legend, Amadeus, American Psycho, Amelie, Basquiat, The Last Emperor, Little Miss Sunshine, Trainspotting, The Shining, Grosse Point Blank, High Fidelity, Love Actually, The Holiday, The Notebook, Run Lola Run, Hedwig, Mommy Dearest, Dangerous Liaisons, Sin City, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, i heart huckabees, Bottle Rocket, Life Aquatic (and anything wes anderson), Siblings, Character, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Heathers, Clueless, Mean Girls (and almost any cheesy high school movie), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (and practically anything wtih johnny depp), Tim Burton movies, Winter Passing, Little Children, The Good Girl, Secretary, Chung King Express, Hard Candy, Kamikaze Girls, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Sneakers, Stand By Me (basically, any river phoenix movie), Clerks, 40 Year-Old Virgin, School of Rock, Napoleon Dynamite ... i LOVE the following actors and will probably watch any movie they are in: Zooey Deschanel, Anna Faris, Christian Bale, takeshi kaneshiro... and i really like Amanda Bynes for some reason... no idea what. oh yea, and i love the 80's movies Staying Alive and Overboard
****Last movie watched: Superbad - GO SEE THIS MOVIE... NOW! (i heart michael cera)
HOUSE, Arrested Development, project runway, dead like me, Kids in the Hall, Aeon Flux, Dr. 90210, L Word, Entourage, Simpsons, Futurama, Freaks & Geeks, Sex and the City, My So-Called Life, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Space Ghost, south park, Daria, Pinwheel, Encyclopedia, animaniacs, beverly hills teens, Trigger Happy TV, laguna beach.
Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman; Perfume by Patrick Suskind, The Tao te Ching, by Lao Tzu; Jitterbug Perfume. by Tom Robbins, the Republic, by Plato; Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis; The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand; The Metamorphoses, by Franz Kafka; Farenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury; The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran.
my mother, thom yorke, jon brion, brad mehldau, bjork, beck, tina fey, michel gondry, mark ryden.