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Jessica

I am here for Friends

About Me



I can't survive too long without music...I love to play it, collect it, listen to it (heaphones...mmm) and talk about it all day long. I relish in the fact that i know the most random, useless things...and love referencing them all during everyday conversation. I always wish I could play some raquetball, but apparently you can only do that if you join a gym and befriend old men. I am very sarcastic and nuts and I like to learn, just not necessarily in school. I love NPR and secretly wish I had a good radio voice like Michele Norris. I miss the east coast and all the people I love who live on it. But, while I'm out here, I oughta make the best of it. Feel free to help.

When all is said and done, though, I love life and want to do a lot of living!

My Interests

Music, guitar, biking, hiking, learning, food, karaoke, traveling, npr, podcasts, sleeping, photos, scenic drives, being active, subdued craziness, the magic of google image search and photoshop

I'd like to meet:

People with their imaginations still intact...who like to share thoughts, ideas and stories. people to hike with, people who like to make plans just for the sake of having something interesting to do...and someone to play music with (and if you noticed that i ended that sentence with a preposition and it's making you twitch a little...that's cool too).
People who come to the Derby on April 30th to watch Briana and her band kick some butt!

Music:


CDs I've recently acquired...
Beirut - "Gulag Orkestar"
The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow"
Little Shop of Horrors Movie Soundtrack
Def Leppard - "Hysteria"
Air - "Talkie Walkie"
Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
Dixie Chicks - "Fly"
Talib Kweli - "Quality"
Tarzan Movie Soundtrack
KT Tunstall - "Drastic Fantastic"
Genesis - "Duke," "Invisible Touch," and "Genesis"
Sia - "Some People Have Real Problems"
Editors - "The Back Room"
Jewel - "This Way"
And...in no particular order...
BRIANA NADEAU!, Ray Charles, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Alanis Morissette, the Cranberries, Madonna, Guster, Dave Matthews Band, Phish Coldplay, Zero 7, Olive, Morcheeba, Koop, Royksopp, Gnarls Barkley, Cibo Matto, Jamiroquai, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, India.Arie, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Seal, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Billy Joel, Elton John, Sting, The Police, Phil Collins, Genesis, Wham!, George Michael, Erasure, Kelly Clarkson, Natasha Bedingfield, Nelly Furtado, Esthero, Imogen Heap, Feist, Sia, Hem, Deep Forest, Enya, Paul Simon,Keane, No Doubt, Maroon 5, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Rufus Wainwright, Ben Folds, Toby Lightman, Flaming Lips, Silverchair, The Dissociatives, Jimmy Eat World, Incubus, The Darkness, Mars Volta, Billy Talent, Muse, Radiohead, Weezer, U2, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, The Beatles, Josh Groban, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Nickel Creek, Dixie Chicks, Prodigy, Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, the Spooks, Jurassic 5, Beastie Boys, MF Doom and his incarnations, the Roots, Jay-Z, Talib Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, Common, Lifesavas, all kinds of world music (anything percussive blows my mind), classical music, yanni, 80s cheese, abba, cher, pm dawn, britney, nsync...etc, etc, etc.

Movies:

Recently seen & recommend...
Lives of Others

God Grew Tired of Us

la Vie en Rose

Television:

I don't really have TV anymore. But, if i did, i'd watch Daily Show, all things pbs and history channel, random VH1 and MTV trash, Huff, sex and the city, friends, will and grace, family guy and Flight of the Conchords

And on HBO until the end of April, please watch "Autism: The Musical" at some point. It was REALLY good!

Books:

tree grows in brooklyn, the harry potters, dave barry anything, the far side (yeah, the cartoons...god bless you, gary larson)

Heroes:

people who are proud of who they are

My Blog

this is just messed up...

Reports: Aid used to entice voters"As aid groups struggled to distribute supplies to cyclone victims despite government obstacles, Myanmar TV was broadcasting messages urging people to vote "yes" in a...
Posted by Jessica on Sun, 11 May 2008 06:14:00 PST

great lesson for the kids...

This is just pure ridiculousness... Kids turn to lawyers in battle for Beckham jerseyFrivolous lawsuit anyone? This jersey should be donated to charity, and the parents involved in this stupid situati...
Posted by Jessica on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:40:00 PST

when logical computer nerds meet music...

If you ever see any of those videos of dudes who can become an Expert at the Dragonforce song on Guitar Hero III and wonder how in the hell they can do that - let me direct your attention to these two...
Posted by Jessica on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:02:00 PST

military industrial complex much?

If you've seen "Why We Fight," read this CNN article. If you haven't seen it, read this article, watch the movie, and then think about it. Generals warn of 'geriatric Air Force'Story HighlightsJet fig...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:25:00 PST

politics as sport

I was just watching Washington Week on PBS, figuring that PBS would be a good place to get an intelligent wrap-up of the Iowa primary results. But, it sounded more like the show was PBS's lame attempt...
Posted by Jessica on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:25:00 PST

bloggers response to halle berrys "anti-semitism"

From the New York Post today: Halle Berry was apologizing last night after she'd made an apparent anti-Semitic joke while taping "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Friday afternoon. The Oscar-winning s...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:57:00 PST

life...

i'm in total what-the-fuck-is-going-on mode right now. neither my head nor my heart have any idea what they are doing or what they want. it's starting to get kinda old. pick a road and fucking stay on...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:59:00 PST

babies & scrabble...

so, i just used the dictionary feature on the scrabble website, and the page that popped up with my definition had this banner at the top: ??? what's with that picture? do people often play scrabble ...
Posted by Jessica on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:36:00 PST

crumbling infrastructure...

August 2, 2007 Reid: Country needs to look at infrastructure WASHINGTON (CNN)  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said Thursday that the Minneapolis bridge collapse should be a "wake...
Posted by Jessica on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:45:00 PST

scrapes and bruises...

today, for the first time in years...i fell off my bike. i was around the corner in the jewborhood, riding back from the park. i bit it and, thankfully, the only person around was an orthodox man walk...
Posted by Jessica on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:36:00 PST