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jen mccabe

catch a tiger by the tail...

About Me


I just moved back to the West Coast
after 5 years in the Midwest.
Phew.

Wishful thinker. Starry-eyed dreamer. Little sod.

I write, make music and take pictures .

My Interests

crisp days, twilight, stars, sunshine and a breeze, honeyed brogues, cunning, theremin, fevered tussles, anticipation, cherry stems, photos, gin, mysteries of the sea, smoke signals, canyons, good tea, shiny things, rolling blackouts, heavy drones, blue satin, furtive glances, road trips, big waves, birds, the smell of blackberry bushes, getting lost, delay, transistor radios, surrealism, curry, fog, stripes, nets, shipwrecks, fancy things, dada, ventriloquist dummies, kissing, vaudeville, carnival lights, sea shanties, constellations, staring contests, ghost stories, hearts on sleeves, telepathy, walls of sound, design, bravado, scars, portholes, genuflection, pocket pool, dreaming, travel, love letters, maps...

.... or whatever.

I'd like to meet:


Misfits with giant hearts.

The good intentioned flawed.

Fops, dandies, tall poppies & bright young things.

Music:


Somebody had better be wasted...
...on too much heaven or even more hell.

Movies:



Television:

Star Blazers, Pushing Daisies, Dexter, Project Runway, Torchwood, X-Files, Twin Peaks, The Outer Limits (old), Hustle, The Office, Six Feet Under, Buffy, The Wire, The Avengers, First Person, MI:5 (Spooks), The Prisoner, Prime Suspect, Little Britain, Perry Mason, No Reservations... Gossip Girl (i know, i know).

Books:


Lots of biographies and autobiographies about music, art, designers and old movie people. Dorothy Parker, Lynda Barry, Salinger, Kerouac, Dahl, Wilde, Sedaris, E.M. Forster, Nin, Cummings, Cocteau. How many times can you read 'Please Kill Me' in one lifetime? A zillion.

I dig Esopus & Under the Radar magazines. I miss Nest. Dwell has its moments. Ugly Things. Arthur. Smithsonian. Comic books.

Heroes:

Almost everyone has something heroic about them.

My Blog

stop your crying...

Hi. Longtime no blog. I know, I know. SHHhhhhhh.... I KNOOOOOW.Well, for those of you who don't know - I finally made it to Portland. Its been a roller coaster of emotions... or, more succinctly, I ha...
Posted by jen mccabe on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:10:00 PST

lions & tigers...

While I was in Chicago last week, I went to Lincoln Park Zoo. About thirty paces through the gate I questioned if this zoo has no admission fee... because you are likely to be killed or maimed (like w...
Posted by jen mccabe on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:05:00 PST

vanity insanity...

I found this picture on los internets. I thought I would share it... I like to think that she is practicing her Sherry Lewis routine and her hand just told her a funny joke. What is happening in this ...
Posted by jen mccabe on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:44:00 PST

gilding the lily...

"Oh, Miss Maizy - you lazy daisy. Don't hang your head - get in your chain. Why can't you be more like the others? Buck up or I'll send you off to The Orange Rose Brigade..."Yep - I even started namin...
Posted by jen mccabe on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:08:00 PST

the other one...

Hmmmmm..... just wondering how similar these will be.......
Posted by jen mccabe on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:49:00 PST

peeping tom...

ASSHOLE....
Posted by jen mccabe on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:53:00 PST

8 random thoughts...

I thought I would jot down some random thoughts from the past week... because this is all I am mentally capable of right now!1. Oh my God. My first grey hair. Oh my God. This is THAT moment. (upon fur...
Posted by jen mccabe on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:49:00 PST

squirrel witch project...

Seriously. The squirrels here are assholes. This motherfucker has been bullying me & Zelda for a couple years now. Sometimes I'll come home to find this 10 pound bastard square in the middle of the fr...
Posted by jen mccabe on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:33:00 PST

transparent radiation...

SHOUT OUT!My good friend, Steve, just posted a couple of new music videos he did of Spectrum for Blogotheque - Take Away Shows. I can't embed the videos here - but, here is the link and he has a sweet...
Posted by jen mccabe on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:33:00 PST

sweet, sweet papermilk

My lovely friend, Trish Grantham, just started a new company in Portland with her friend, Greg. Its called Papermilk and their first release are 2 different sets of cards. One comes in an amazing box ...
Posted by jen mccabe on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:32:00 PST