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Jody

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph

About Me

I'm Jody, and I've always got one eye on the merch table.

My Interests

cats. chocolate. art in all forms. cupcakes. coffee. flat irons. Target. degrassi. when ice cream gets kinda-sorta melty. green day. london. the smell of laundry detergent. clearance items. the sound of a Hammond B3. coffee table books. wrinkly/fat dogs (pugs, bulldogs, etc). zombie flicks. old things in general. havaianas. PBS. writing. stormy days on the couch with a cup of coffee and bad morning television. my city. purses. rock and roll. Non-Interests:control top nylons. hangnails. any situation involving the aforementioned items. people who chew noisily and/or with their mouth open. spongebob. Really big birds. really big bugs. (really big) bats. bill o'reilly. Things I Don't Necessarily Enjoy But Often Find Myself Doing: sleeping. watching SVU reruns for hours at a time. Knocking things over in grocery stores. Eating bad food and regretting it later. Tripping over my words. Embarrassing myself. Making excuses not to work out.

I'd like to meet:

Really, I just want to get famous enough to go on Conan O'Brien.

Music:

My mommy was here:

Movies:

Almost Famous, Ghost World, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Boondock Saints, Amelie, Moulin Rouge, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, too many documentaries to name, most Judd Apatow productions...and The Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka, always and forever.

Television:

My television habits are generally centered around Law and Order: SVU and Simpsons reruns. A lot of Mythbusters, too, but not always for the show itself (hello, Tory Belleci). And though it went off the air years ago, Freaks and Geeks will always be my number one.

Books:

The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963. It's written for 10 year olds, but that shouldn't stop you from reading it.

Heroes:

Rory Gilmore, Anthony Bourdain.

My Blog

Rought Draft: Tour Stop San Jose

To be published in a future issue of West Coast Performer. (Let me know if you spot any errors and I'll get right on it) TOUR STOP: San Jose, CA San Jose is the third-largest city in California, but i...
Posted by Jody on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:30:00 PST

we thought this was funny

So last week we got this press shot from some band and it was so great we had to keep it. Check out the guy in the back.  He just looks like some homeless guy who wandered into the shot. Like, w...
Posted by Jody on Sat, 31 May 2008 06:51:00 PST

my dad is crazy

On the weekends, my dad works as a delivery driver for some company that rushes medical supplies...or something like that.  I'm not entirely sure what the company does, all I know is my...
Posted by Jody on Sun, 18 May 2008 04:03:00 PST

giant floating hot dog

The Oscar Mayer Weinermobile totally drove right past me today. The funny thing was, I didn't really notice it. Well, I did notice it, I just didn't react until much, much later.  It went about a...
Posted by Jody on Thu, 08 May 2008 05:59:00 PST

earth is the best!

Hi y’all. Lots of updates, not much to say. Yesterday, after Bridgette’s baby shower and scarfing a bean burrito (blegh) my dad brought home the other night, I loaded up the car, picked u...
Posted by Jody on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:10:00 PST

HAHAHAHA

I just saw this on TV and I immediately went to YouTube to see if I could track it down. This has got to be the WORST infomercial I’ve ever seen, in the best way possible. Mop Shoe PS: I kicked ...
Posted by Jody on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:57:00 PST

vintage Jody

I found a box of old pictures. That’s really all I can say about it. (I’m such a trendsetter I was taking MySpace pictures before there was even a MySpace!)...
Posted by Jody on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:25:00 PST

hipster trash

I bought a delicious pair of cheap sunglasses today.  Sometimes I come so close to being the most typical young San Francisco hipster-trash I worry a little. A little.  I bought these for $6...
Posted by Jody on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:34:00 PST

a sad day...

Today, I found on the toilet paper dispenser in the last stall in the women's restroom on the 4th floor of the Humanities building, written in the girliest handwriting you've ever seen... "I (heart) B...
Posted by Jody on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:53:00 PST

instant karma

This is what I call JUSTICE. Some of you may remember that a little over a year ago I worked for a little hole-in-the-wall "cafe" called "Cafe For All Seasons Deli and Ice Cream".  The owners wer...
Posted by Jody on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:28:00 PST