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jackiedressedincobras

About Me

"And now we ride the circus wheel / With your dark brother wrapped in white / Says it was good to be alive / But now he rides a comet's flame / And won't be coming back again / The Earth looks better from a star / That's right above from where you are / He didn't mean to make you cry / With sparks that ring and bullets fly / On empty rings around your heart / The world just screams and falls apart."

My Interests

Music:

Destroyer. The Magnetic Fields, Bob Dylan, Neko Case, The National, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, The Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jonathan Richman, The New Pornographers, M. Ward, Okkervil River, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Joanna Newsom, Alice Babs, Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, Of Montreal, Nina Simone, Velvet Underground, Feist, Elvis Perkins, Vampire Weekend, A Place to Bury Strangers, Sunset Rubdown, TV on the Radio, Cat Power, Wilco, Radiohead, Shearwater, The White Stripes, Belle and Sebastian, LCD Soundsystem, Tapes 'N Tapes, Swan Lake, Nina Nastasia, Phosphorescent, Jens Lekman, The Clientele, Pearl Jam, Sufjan Stevens, Iron and Wine, Animal Collective, Bon Iver, Jesus+Mary Chain, Panda Bear, Neil Young, Clem Snide, The Decemberists, Interpol, To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie, John Prine, Jenny Lewis, T-Rex, Band of Horses, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dresden Dolls, Joy Division, Tom Waits, Low, The Walkmen, Elliot Smith, Magnolia Electric Co., Mountain Goats, Silver Jews, The Concretes, Modest Mouse, Lavender Diamond, Mogwai, Deerhoof, The Breeders, William Eliot Whitmore, The Twilight Sad, Daniel Johnston, Carla Bruni, Sarah Vaughn, Smog, The Sea and Cake, Sleater-Kinney, Massive Attack, Rufus Wainwright, Beirut, John Vanderslice, Broken Social Scene, Califone, Voxtrot, Apostle of Hustle, Erin McKeown, The Replacements, Devendra Banhart, Voxtrot, Preston School of Industry, Beulah, Fruit Bats, Calexico, Camera Obscura, The Unicorns/Islands, Grandaddy, Kings of Convenience, Wishek, Danielson, Antony and the Johnsons, Apples in Stereo, Malajube

Heroes:

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My Blog

The Semicolon Will Rise Again!

From yesterday's NY Times (courtesy of Megan):   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html? ex=1204088400&en=5b84aa69757e416c&ei=5070&emc=et a1...
Posted by ; on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:45:00 PST

The World Outside and the Image in Our Heads

"Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality."   So writes Walter Lippmann in the first chapter of his seminal book Public Opinion...
Posted by ; on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:04:00 PST

Academic Freedom: The Real Test of the First Amendment

Academic freedom is the single most important ideology on campuses at universities in liberal democracies.  And I do mean ideology not philosophy.  A philosophy is a guiding principle; an id...
Posted by ; on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:05:00 PST

You Campaign in Poetry, But You Govern In Prose

An inappropriate, but instructive moment happened Saturday night during the Democratic debate in New Hampshire.  Scott Spradling, a local news anchor for WMUR-TV and moderator wanna-be, singled-o...
Posted by ; on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:05:00 PST

Top 25 Albums of 2007

Top 25 Albums of 2007 25. To Kill a Petit BourgeoisieThe Patron   24. DeerhoofFriend Opportunity   23. Blitzen TrapperWild Mountain Nation   22. The New PornographersChallengers &n...
Posted by ; on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:45:00 PST

Colortinis

Like many high schoolers, I kept strange hours.  Up until 2 or 3 am, I'd sleep until 1 pm.  Unlike my cooler classmates, however, I often wasn't out carousing and whatnot.  I was in my ...
Posted by ; on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:45:00 PST

Nothing is Revealed

There are stratums to Bob Dylan fandom.  I'm nowhere near the top.  I only have about 20 albums, which, two or three times a year, I open and play like Christmas presents.  There are se...
Posted by ; on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:31:00 PST

Suffering for Fashion, or Whatever

Saw three bands at P4K, here's three sentences:1.Even in a pink shirt and acoustic guitar, Stephen Malkmus is as cool today as I imagine him being in 1992.2.From a gigantic lobster claw to leather ga...
Posted by ; on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:37:00 PST

Able, COME ON!!!

On Tuesday the new National album "Boxer" came out.  You can hear their song "Fake Empire" on my main page.  I've also played "Start a War."  The last time I looked forward to a release...
Posted by ; on Mon, 28 May 2007 08:07:00 PST

My Contribution to Biometric ID Technology

I've lived in Saint Louis nearly three years and never bothered to get a new driver's license, license plates, or even current tabs.  I still roll with Oct 05 stickers plastered on my out-of-stat...
Posted by ; on Sun, 06 May 2007 04:31:00 PST