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Jillybeans

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About Me

I tend to be spontaneous and easy-going. I am liberal and open-minded. I love existentialist and experiential thoughts/questions/ideas/ponderings. I like to learn new things, and meet new people (especially interesting, weird, and/or open-minded people). I think Glam Rock should make a come-back, and that glitter is extremely underrated. I'm a sixth-year senior at UT, Knoxville. It's not so much that I'm a slacker, I just had no idea what I wanted to do until, oh, last year--although I would probably be a professional student if I could afford to.
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A stop motion video Ed and I made.
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Your Life Soundtrack:
This is your life's soundtrack, choose a song for each scene that fits you.
Opening Credits "32 Flavors" by Ani DiFranco
Waking Up Scene "Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine
Getting Ready Scene "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M.--it gets me goin' first thing in the morning (and I need all the help I can get. I am so NOT a morning person)
Car Driving Scene "Long Line of Cars" by Cake for sitting in rush hour, and "Don't Panic" by Coldplay is good for long stretches of open road
High School Flashback Scene Depends on who is in the flashback--"One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head or some equally random 80s music if it's Kymbr, something by Ludacris if it's Lindsay, or "Cup of Life" by Ricky Martin if it's Jessica
Nostalgic Scene "Still Fightin' It" by Ben Folds, "Scarborough Fair" by Simon & Garfunkel
Angry Scene "Fuck the System" by System of a Down
Agony, Painful Scene "Misery is a Butterfly" by Blonde Redhead, "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." by Sufjan Stevens
Break-up Scene "A Lack of Color" by Death Cab for Cutie for an 'I really miss him' kind of break up, "Nice To Know You" by Incubus for a 'good riddance, @$$hole' kind of break up, or "On Second Thought" by Amy Correia, just because it's a good song
Sad, Breakdown Scene "Hey Jupiter" by Tori Amos, "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith (yeah, I stole that one from Wes Anderson), "Raggedy Ann" by Mindy Smith, "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver
Nightclub/Dance Scene "Seven Eleven" by Mindless Self Indulgence, "Rock Lobster" by The B-52s, "Street Medics Unite" by Denim and Diamonds, almost anything by Aphex Twin
Buddy/Sidekick Scene "Fast As You Can" by Fiona Apple
Dreaming of Someone Scene "A Ribbon" by Devendra Banhart, "To Be Alone With You" by Sufjan Stevens
Contemplation Scene "The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed" by Dar Williams or "Reasons Why" by Nickel Creek,
Love Scene "Love and Some Verses" by Iron and Wine, "Under You" by Better Than Ezra, "Bedshaped" by Keane
Kissing Scene "Face Like Summer" by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, "The Long Lost - Coyote's Song - When You Hear it Too" by Nobody and the Mystic Chords of Memory
Relaxing Scene “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” by The Arcade Fire, "Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star, "The Blue Trees" by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Action/Fight Scene "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath or "Bodies" by Drowning Pool
Victory Scene "We Are the Champions" by Queen--I mean, is there any other option?!? :)
Closing Credits "Fade Out (Street Spirit)" by Radiohead
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My Interests

Hmm, you mean other than myself? Just kidding (but seriously, is it just me, or does this MySpace thing make anyone else feel slightly narcissistic?) :) Let's see...

psychology (especially the works of Marsha Linehan, Candace Pert, and Carl Rogers, and I am particularly interested in Borderline Personality Disorder)...... ancient Greece and Rome (particularly theories of gender, and constructs of masculinity and femininity)...... good food......cooking......reading......good movies...... experimental film......stopmotion/claymation/animated shorts......Michel Gondry......Lotte Reiniger...poetry......all things Italian (especially the language, the food, and the movies)......long walks......good wine....interesting people....geology (contrary to popular belief, not just rocks for jocks).... people watching......good books (I'm currently reading "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood)......spending long hours in coffee shops (people watching + reading + coffee=heaven)......meditation......Queer Theory...... Feminism......Fair Trade......all social issues pertaining to gender, race, and class....

Simone White "I Am the Man"

I'd like to meet:

Living: Marsha Linehan, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, Tim Burton, Deepa Mehta
Not so living: Maya Deren, Alice Paul, Sappho

The most exciting person that I have actually met is bell hooks--she is one of the most powerful speakers I have ever heard.

VELVET GOLDMINE ~ WHO ARE YOU?
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Brian Slade and Curt Wild!!

Velvet Goldmine rocks!!!!

Music:

Life would be a lot more boring without music. I love all of it, especially:
THE BEATLES
DAVID BOWIE
SUFJAN STEVENS
TORI AMOS
THE MARS VOLTA
Simone White
Fiona Apple
Duran Duran
Tool
System of a Down
Death Cab for Cutie
The Cure
Elliott Smith--F*ing awesome!!
Black Sabbath
Dar Williams
Ani Difranco
Alix Olson
The White Stripes
Classical music in minor keys
R.E.M.
Mindy Smith
Billy Jonas
Cake
Barenaked Ladies
Moxy Fruvous
They Might Be Giants
Weezer
Metal Hearts
Nick Drake
B-52s
Robinella
Devo
Soul Coughing
The Shins
Stars
The Postal Service
Electric Six
Mindless Self Indulgence
Mazzy Star
The Ramones
Patti Griffin
Ben Folds
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Iron and Wine
Sleater-Kinney
Bikini Kill
Simon and Garfunkel
Laura Veirs
Deerhoof
Peaches
Denim and Diamonds
Clinic
Devendra Banhart
Spoon
The Goodies
The Thermals
Dirty on Purpose
pretty much anything 80s.

I'm randomly in a phase where I'm mostly listening to glitch/electroclash and psych folk/freak folk.

Oh yeah, and Radiohead is pretty much the best band EVER... (I heart Thom Yorke)

Tori Amos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Devo's video "Beautiful World"

A random list: "They Might Be Giants, They Might Not. Who knows?"

--They Might Be Standing on an Incline
--They Might Be Suffering From Pituitary Gigantism
--They Might Be Purchasing HGH Through Black Market Websites
--They Might Be Wearing Lifts
--They Might Be Recipients of Unusually Poofy Haircuts
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Lists

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (we can't stop here--this is BAT COUNTRY!) is pretty much one of the best movies ever, but I'll watch anything involving Tim Burton and/or Johnny Depp (especially when Danny Elfman is involved with the soundtrack--Nightmare Before Xmas is like crack).
I'm also addicted to all musicals, but I particularly like more contemporary ones like Rent, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell is equal parts genius, crazy, and gutsy), Moulin Rouge, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Velvet Goldmine.
Other random favorites include:
Mirrormask
all Wes Anderson movies
Brazil
Frida
Pane e Tulipani
La Vita e Bella
The Princess Bride
Office Space
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
Fire
Osama
V for Vendetta
Little Miss Sunshine
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (beautiful, and important, movie)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Snatch
I Heart Huckabees
But I'm a Cheerleader
Harold and Maude (I love existential movies)
Iron Jawed Angels
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren is at once insanely talented, awesomely bohemian, and stunningly beautiful)
Dance, Girl, Dance--great movie by Dorothy Arzner, one of the only two female directors of the 1930s
The Prestige
Rear Window
Wanda
Bound
Kung Fu Hustle
anything Bruce Lee
Kill!
Drunken Master
Princess Mononoke
The Science of Sleep (or anything Gondry)
Blood Tea and Red String
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb
anything by Todd Haynes
anything by Sadie Benning
anything with Bette Davis
anything done with stop-motion, particularly works of Jan Svankmajer, Norman McLaren, Lotte Reiniger, and Yuri Norstein

Television:

I don't really watch things when they're on TV. I do have a serious addiction to the Daily Show, and I'm in love with Stephen Colbert.
Arrested Development--can't believe it only existed in TVdom for three seasons... (Remember: A trick is something a whore does for money.....or candy!)
Six Feet Under is the best show ever created in the history of television--especially from a psychological point of view. Alan Ball is a GENIUS.
The Oblongs is a hilarious show that was only on for one season--get a copy of the DVDs and watch it!
Metalocalypse--"Trolls don't exist!"...."Then how do you explain all the dead unicorns?"
And of course, there is always my original obsession, The X-Files.

Books:

ANYTHING BY MARGARET ATWOOD!
"Herland" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (my early 20th century feminist bohemian idol!)
"Dinners and Nightmares" by Diane DiPrima
"First Person Plural" by Cameron West
"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
"Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
"Sexing the Body" by Anne Fausto Sterling
"Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform" by Sharon Hays
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
anything by Edgar Allan Poe
"V for Vendetta" and "Watchmen" by Alan Moore
"On Becoming a Person" by Carl Rogers
"Cunt" by Inga Muscio

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Heroes:

The women of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan), and Alice Paul

My Blog

6 weird things about me...

Here's The Game: The first player of this game starts with the "6 weird things/habits about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a blog of their 6 weird habits/things, as well as state th...
Posted by Jillybeans on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:25:00 PST

Bush's war on choice

Bush is appointing a new chief of family planning services under the Department of Health and Human Services. This man's name is Eric Keroack, and his stance is strongly anti-choice and anti-contracep...
Posted by Jillybeans on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:57:00 PST