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jessicaclare

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." Ma

About Me

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My Interests

carmelizing onions as meditation.letterpress. decorating my apartment. books and books. God. forehead kisses. curiousities. great design. magazines. newspapers. making time to write. tom brady. giving a shit. journals. pencil drawings. writing and getting letters. baxter. ritual. babies. tom ford. current events. perogies. india. curing autism. clean sheets. coffee. lists. pedicures. cookbooks. psychic moments. football. preserved butterflies. photographs. a new drink. taking off in an airplane. forgetting yourself. making collages. farmhouses. peonies. butter. fonts. graph paper. honeysuckle. spooning. controversy. theories. passionate people. kindness of strangers. stationary. not believing in coincidences. my new favoite bookstore. Little Branch. giving surprises. recieving surprises. Bear hugs. Joan Didion.

I'd like to meet:

People who don't miss the point.

Music:

Jeff Buckley, Flaming Lips, D'Angelo, Outkast, Van Morrison, Massive Attack, Ray Lamontayne, Morphine, Spoon, Amos Lee, Led Zeppelin, David Gray, Jay-Z, Thievary Corporation, Eric Clapton, Shins, Portishead, Dire Straights, Crowded House, Morcheeba

Movies:

Junebug,Roger Dodger,25th Hour, the Corporation, Mumford, Monsoon Wedding, Outfoxed, Brokeback Mountain, Control Room, Lost in Translation, Home for the Holidays, The Philadelphia Story, Father of the Bride, Old School, Garden State, Wonder Boys, Waiting for Guffman, Flirting with Disaster, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Farenheit 9-11, Michael Clayton

Television:

Real Time with Bill Maher, Frontline, Patriots games, the Office, Big Love, the Soup

Books:

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, The Corrections, Beautiful and the Damned, Moveable Feast, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Pleasure of my Company, Of Love and Other Demons, Oh the Glory of it All, Look at Me, Little Children, Jesus is Not a Republican, The Yoga Sutras, Paris Review, Eloise at the Plaza, Pablo Neruda, Rumi, Year of Magical Thinking, Dollmakers Ghost

Heroes:

Happy old couples, happy families, L.C.E.M., Baba Hari Dass, my grandfather, Ammachi, Ghandi, RFK Jr., the humble devout, John Perkins, Arundhati Roy, Bill Moyers, Edward R. Murrow, Joseph Campbell, Nicholas Kristof