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Jilly

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About Me

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I am Jillian, sometimes called Jilly or Jillycat, but please don't call me Jill - I won't answer.

I always say "good morning", because I like the sound of it, it's bright and cheerful, I'm known in some circles for singing "Good Morning, Starshine" and well - it's always morning somewhere.

I am:

~ a 28-going-on-22 hot mess
~ a chubby little imp-fairy-thing temporarily alight in the middle of New Jersey to get her sew on.
~ the kind of girl who cuts her own hair with craft scissors at 4:00 in the morning.
~ not. white. So take your ass-umptions somewhere else.
~ in one word, idiosyncratic.
~ possessing of a brain that is somehow a magical magnet for ridiculous pop culture knowledge, up to and including things I just don't care about.
~ the wardrobe girl, and one day I will be the costume lady.
~ inordinately fond of paisley. *See background of page for reference*
~ always ready to whip out Starbucks literature and school your ass.
~ just a drag queen at heart.
~ more in love with busking three levels underground for unsteady tips than with playing a gig at a club.
~ going to have my own sewing room... one day...
~ a big fan of garish colourways.
~ ready to take on the world with an 18-gallon plastic tote of yarn, a bag of crochet hooks and armfuls of knitting needles, dammit.
~ peripatetic, poetic and chic (points for you if you can tell me the source)

Unable to leave it at that, I will also add that I'm ridiculously awkward, I can read many more languages than I can speak, I collect tap shoes, I love reading cookbooks, I have Tourette's-like outbursts of unintelligible sounds when I see cute things, and my scarf collection will NEVER be too big, nor will my hat collection.

I didn't belong in musical theatre, pop music, chain restaurants, Evangelical Christianity, high school, ballet class, the soprano section, Central Illinois, or behind the mic at a Jersey Shore bar. Realising this has made me a very happy person.

Every dog in New York City knows who I am.

I do not like:

~ ketchup
~ The Hills
~ finding dead mice in my room
~ white chocolate
~ waist-length winter coats
~ racism, homophobia, or ANY sort of bigotry
~ Anne Geddes photos
~ the belief that chicken fingers and macaroni & cheese are the required staple diet for children
~ wine snobs and yarn snobs; the thought of meeting someone who is both downright terrifies me
~ Vera Bradley bags... no, no... ALL designer purses
~ the words moist and milk - ugh
~ Girls Gone Wild
~ monkeys!!!!!!!!

I think that's about it for me... until the next update!

This is my family:


This is perfection:


I believe in love:


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My Interests

singing, wandering, geeking out over music, sewing, befriending felines, stopping to talk to every dog ever, fabric shopping, coffee and its surrounding culture, busking, languages that aren't English, everything musical theatre, getting lost in Wikipedia, sequins, karaoke, getting intentionally lost, salad bars and buffet tables, finding a bra that fits, tap dancing, people-watching, diner-ing, typing really fast, colouring my hair, searching fruitlessly for my glasses, running wardrobe, taking random pictures, and dreaming of an apartment in Chinatown...

I'd like to meet:

People I already know
People with pachinko machines
Girls who write song lyrics on the bottom of their shoe
Inordinate lovers of music
People who actually read through the bios in their theatre programme, and thus recognise random ensemble members
City dwellers
Would-be city dwellers
Swashbucklers
Transients
Buskers
Angsty teenagers who are old enough to legally drink
Those who would road trip
Unapologetic Asian snack food junkies
People who remember when I wore striped tights every day
People who think my kitsch is what makes me awesome
Drag queens - glittery ones
Stagehands who want to stab ballerinas with sporks
People who dance like idiots in public intentionally
Diner philosophers
Fighting game aficionadoes
Someone who remembers the pattern for the last board of Super Mario Bros. on the NES
Anyone who's ever marched in the ninja parade
Those who find costumes a necessity in some way or another
Wandering folk
Kindreds
People with Dog Tourette's
Welsh Corgis



... and that bespectacled lad I've adored since Kindergarten:

Music:

Deep breath... here we go, in COMPLETELY random order:

The Beatles, Corinne Bailey Rae, Buddy Holly, Vanessa Carlton, U2, The Sundays, Over the Rhine, Marshall Crenshaw, 10,000 Maniacs, Depeche Mode, Rush, Led Zeppelin, John Legend, Coldplay, Wyclef Jean, Imogen Heap, Tori Amos, Stars, Pink Floyd, Shonen Knife, The Clash, Blondie, Regina Spektor, The Cure, Sixpence None the Richer, Five Iron Frenzy, Muse, Natalie Merchant, Frou Frou, CKY, Belle & Sebastian, The Supremes, The Byrds, John Lennon, Travis, Marvin Gaye, Prince, india.arie, Sarah McLachlan, Arrested Development, Weezer, Black Eyed Peas, Turin Brakes, Queen, Christina Aguilera, Enya, Dixie Chicks, Pharrell/Neptunes, Radiohead, New Kids on the Block, Elliott Smith, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Leigh Nash, Dave Matthews Band, George Harrison, The Smiths, Sam Cooke, Norah Jones, Damien Rice, IAMX, Blink 182, Jeff Buckley, Nickel Creek, Justin Timberlake, Snow Patrol, New Order, Flogging Molly, Fleetwood Mac, Blur, Sarah Masen, Death Cab For Cutie, David Bowie, Eisley, Dropkick Murphys, Burlap To Cashmere, Amy Winehouse, Cibo Matto, Bjork, Alicia Keys, Los Lobos, Ben Folds [Five], Jay-Z, Aqualung, Lauryn Hill, Nine Inch Nails, Paramore, KT Tunstall, Massive Attack, The Shins, The Murmurs, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Oasis, Portishead, The Who, English Beat, Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Rancid, Natalie Imbruglia, Sly & The Family Stone, Bob Dylan, Lizz Wright, N.E.R.D., Green Day, Rilo Kiley, The Jackson 5, The Spice Girls, Ben Lee, No Doubt, Smashing Pumpkins, Nouvelle Vague, Swingle Singers, Puffy AmiYumi, Elbow, Cat Stevens, ELO, Pet Shop Boys, Madness, Violent Femmes, The Doors, Dusty Springfield, Soundgarden, Morrissey, Ricky Nelson, Harry Chapin, Keane, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Juliana Hatfield, The Postal Service, Ani Difranco, Roy Orbison, The Police, Chantal Kreviazuk, Sunny Day Real Estate, Feist, Camera Obscura, They Might Be Giants, Bic Runga, Semisonic, Nirvana, Meat Loaf, The Killers, Ash, Ice-T, Elvis Costello, R.E.M., The Monkees, Veruca Salt, Rolling Stones, Traveling Wilburys, The Pillows...

Oh, and I can't forget the soundtracks to Hair, Pippin, Rent, Wicked, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, No, No, Nanette, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror [Picture] Show, She Loves Me, Song & Dance, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Five Years, Tick... Tick... BOOM!, Guys & Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie, Les Miserables, And The World Goes 'Round, Starting Here, Starting Now, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (but ONLY the original B'way one!), Oliver!, Grease (the movie), Godspell, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Avenue Q, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Man of La Mancha, City of Angels (not the movie, the musical), Grease 2 (UNASHAMED)... and I am sure of countless other musicals I've forgotten...

Basically, I dig most of the '60s British Invasion (and much of the '90s one, as well), intelligent rap, jazz/soul/R&B that say something new and deviate from the formula, old school country, chill beats, ambient ethereal sounds that don't make you think of crystal-healers, traditional Celtic music, Mariachi bands, Bollywood musicals, Latin jazz, cheesy pop if it's a good song, DDR music with brains, epic metal when it makes sense, the more accessible anime J-pop, film scores, choral music, Big Band, melodic symphonies and fugues and caprices and... dammit, I JUST LIKE GOOD MUSIC!!!

Movies:

Empire Records, So I Married An Axe Murderer, The Chipmunk Adventure, Amélie, The Wizard of Oz, The Believer, Haggard, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Breakfast Club, Center Stage, Requiem For A Dream, Fight Club, Pokémon: The First Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Howl's Moving Castle, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Wedding Singer, Spirited Away, Tokyo Godfathers, The Guru, Grease, Grease 2 (I'm the only person who likes this), Moulin Rouge, Austin Powers movies, Lord of the Rings movies (when I'm Very Caffeinated), And I Hate You So, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Chicago, Singin' In The Rain, On The Town, Rent, and I'm sure I could take up my entire page with more stupid movies, musicals and teen drivel that I just absolutely love, so I'll stop.

Television:

The L Word, CSI, Heroes, Vision of Escaflowne, Neon Genesis Evangelion, My So-Called Life, VH1 clip shows, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and that's really about it. I don't have a TV.

Books:


I'll admit, I have found little in the world of grownup books that appeals to me... but I'm making a concerted effort to change that.

Some favourites:
Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker
Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife
Connie Willis - To Say Nothing Of The Dog
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Barbara Kingsolver - The Bean Trees
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
CS Lewis - The Narnia Chronicles
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
Spider Robinson - The Callahan's Series
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker Trilogy
Assorted textbooks, usually involving Sociology, Psychology, History (prefer non-American), Visual Art, Fashion/Costuming, wartime culture, etc. etc. etc...

Heroes:

Cyndi Lauper
Hedwig
Pippi Longstocking
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anne Shirley
Bruce Dickinson
The Artful Dodger
Leigh Nash
Sheila Franklin
Ann Wilson
Hiro Nakamura
Claude Hooper Bukowski
Bob Marley
José and Margaret Paguio

My Blog

listy list time!

Time for more random things that make me happy, in no order:making cappuccino milkfinding giftcards with money still on themearflap hatsmauve eyeshadowthe blush brush I got for free with some razor ye...
Posted by Jilly on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:04:00 PST

melody haunts my reverie

Anyone who knows me can probably guess that my favourite thing about working at Starbucks aside from the free coffee is the music - I am unashamed to admit that while I have ridiculous, eclectic music...
Posted by Jilly on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:10:00 PST

a yarn

I was thinking earlier, and I came up with this:Of all the things I could say I can't stand about myself, the list is topped not by my ridiculous voice, fat ass, snaggletooth, paranoid nature or even ...
Posted by Jilly on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:47:00 PST

good morning starshine

This is someone's kitten doing a pretty spot-on impersonation of me when I wake up in the morning afternoon:Really, I mean it. Ask anyone who's been around when it's time for me to wake up. ...
Posted by Jilly on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:05:00 PST

more random things that make me happy

The texture of Concord grapesChildrens' reactions to my hot pink hairChirping kittycatsAndrogynous gravyPeople whose nose rings are actually rings and not studsMothsHaving a Beatles playlist running a...
Posted by Jilly on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:05:00 PST

some random things that make me happy (in no order)

blue shoesextra-large pyjamasJamaican beef pattiesglittercats right after they wake upJapanese babies' hairstreet fairsold farts holding handsmixed people who don't look mixedginger ice creammy accide...
Posted by Jilly on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:23:00 PST