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Jen Smiles

Call me calamity Jane

About Me

Visitor of countries, student of life

My Interests

Drawing, Design, Traveling, Reading, The Beach/outdoors, I'm a big sponge just soaking it all in as I jump from experience to experience

I'd like to meet:

Someone who knows what they want.

Music:

Snake River Conspiracy, Sneaker Pimps, PJ Harvey, Garbage, The vaselines, Liz Phair, The sundays, Pixies, YYY's, Death cab for cutie, Beck, Elliot smith, Portishead, RJD2, NIN, Radiohead, Tool, Caporezza, linea 77, 99 posse, the streets, K-os, Mudhoney, Velvet Acid Christ, Dredg, DnB,Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Ella Fitzgerald

Movies:

Fear, Gattica, Thirteen, Minority Reports, Fast times at ridgemont high, white oleander, matchstick men, Shawshank Redemption, Puppet Master (cheesy scary films kick big booty), 28 days, Ichi the killer, Battle Royal, Chasing Amy, American History X, Fight club, provide me with anything obscure and strange and my attention is all yours

Television:

Discovery Ch., Adult Swim, History Ch., Rocco's Modern Life, Top Bravo shows, Conan O'Brian

Books:

I never promised you a rose garden, Survivor, die Brüder Grimm, 1984, Animal Farm, When Rabbit Howls, Brave New World, Guns Germs & Steel, Fortune is a river, memoirs of a geisha, slaughterhouse 5, life of pi, Tao of pooh, Te of Piglet, Fierce invalids home from hot climates, Snow Crash, Diary, Lamb

My Blog

The once and future 'about me'

Once upon a time my profile read as folows- (but I got bored)I like running off and throwing myself into completely foreign situations. It's probably my way of testing if what I believe of myself is...
Posted by Jen Smiles on Sat, 13 May 2006 02:39:00 PST

It's one of those nights haha

You Are the Swedish Chef"Bork! Bork! Bork!"Your happy and energetic - with borderline manic tendencies.No one really gets you. And frankly, you don't even get you.But, you sure can whip up a great cho...
Posted by Jen Smiles on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:00:00 PST

Florida

Here I am, the place I always rebelled from, content, complete, fulfilled. You are what you make of your surroundings, you are what you make of yourself. I've learned throughout these tumultuous yea...
Posted by Jen Smiles on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:33:00 PST

In my perfect world

The whys of others would still be countered by the why nots of my thoughts and actions. There would be one someone with which to share the excitement of planning and discovering a new adventure to...
Posted by Jen Smiles on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 01:49:00 PST

These are the things....

that I'll miss about D.C. The cherry blossoms blooming along the potomac, leaving trails of beautiful petals in varying shades of pink, white, and green. 3 am walks to the monuments, which I hav...
Posted by Jen Smiles on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:01:00 PST

Graduating College

Graduating from college may well be the most anti climactic event in my life. The actual moment itself, the final moment, ended my years at GW just as they began- with me sitting in the first row, pe...
Posted by Jen Smiles on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Insomnia

These are the hours when momentary distractions become your personal savior breaking the deafening silence of nightfall and surrounding slumber serving as a painful reminder of everything that isnt, ...
Posted by Jen Smiles on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST