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Jenny.

You used to be a genius. / No I didnt.

About Me

I have an identical twin who lives in LA. I like computers. I go to a an Ivy league school for graduate school. And am on academic probation there. Im into art and ponder throwing it all out the window and getting my MFA on a daily basis. Im obsessed with Modernism. And the state of California.

My Interests

The Treachery of Images. Sets of things with identical DNA. repetition. Modernism. postmodernism and the decline of modernism. placement and installation art. painting. printmaking. Art In America. Art criticism. figure painting. Pavel Yusim. Ivy League education. skincare. wool berets. Hip Hop. independent and big. my office. Damar varnish. Yellow ochre. linen. Kanye West. Laughing at my own jokes. people who are Polish. the south side of chicago. Las Vegas. computer operating systems. not cooking. fashion. designer handbags. but not shoes. Matisse's wallpaper and textiles. consumer electronics products. gardening. orchids. Macs. industrial design. good design in general. travelling without knowing other languages. physics. computer architecture. cheese. Wisconsin. engineering school. Julia Fein's literary humor and being able to understand it. Milan Kundera. NAFTA

I'd like to meet:

Architects. I wish I knew more about architecture. dudes that look cool in track suits. A new identical twin. And some more Russians.

Music:

Shut Up.

Movies:

Wes Anderson. Art films. foreign films that arent asian. Westerns. Adaptation.

Television:

I only watch E!, and BET Afterhours videos. And R Kelly's Urban Opera.

Books:

Milan Kundera. Charles Bukowski. who knows why. Walt Whitman. though he was a poet. beat generation crap. cuz Im a dork. Henry Miller. Art In America. Salman Rushdie. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, my absolute favorite. Hunter S. Thompson. Journalism in general, I think.

Heroes:

Margot Tennenbaum. Grace Murray Hopper. Marcel Duchamp. Nicole Gaston. Jeff Koons. Henri Matisse. and Cezanne too. Steve Jobs. The people who wrote the BSD Unix Kernel. Alice Neel. because I paint just like her. David Byrne. Mexicans.

My Blog

this myspace aint big enough for the two of us.

alright dudes this blog is moving.My new one is at Thephotocopier.blogspot.com.I love photocopiers so much that I named it after them.Ask me why first without thinking its too weird, ok?come see me th...
Posted by Jenny. on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:07:00 PST

copa munidal

Alright.I cant stand the World Cup anymore. Why?Its ruling my life. Ive ditched Jackie, my ever threatening work out schedule, work, and now Im going to ditch some of the final critique in my painti...
Posted by Jenny. on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:58:00 PST

more about painting

So Ive been studying water color at the SAIC for the first summer session on sundays with this amazing dude named Alan gavin who was a student of philip pearlstein.I think philip pearlstein was his MF...
Posted by Jenny. on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:50:00 PST

more about the white stripes.

sorry, the racontouers or whatever.its jack white who does it for me. I found a live concert by the white stripes on the NPR all songs considered website and I listen to it every day continuously at ...
Posted by Jenny. on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:44:00 PST

the white stripes

alright, its not often that I get into music.but Im totally obsessed with the white stripes lately. because jack white is a genius. because hes bizarre and difficult and has a temperament just like ...
Posted by Jenny. on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:41:00 PST

worldview

friday, Pav was on the radio on NPR talking about soccer. I tried to listen to it, but somehow I w as overcome with emotion and freaked out. Instead I decided to go into my office and sit under my d...
Posted by Jenny. on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:39:00 PST

fashion

I was just watching some flakey show about fashion.The topic was the fact that many hispanic women have been lightening their hair lately. and the commentator said "it shows that these women are on t...
Posted by Jenny. on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:02:00 PST

mmmm

Today at work I was giving Pav my "do what you do every day" creative momentum lecture. eeergh he isnt my contemporary its so hard its hurting my feelings.He doesnt understand this is how I operate....
Posted by Jenny. on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:00:00 PST

more nude descending a staircase

I posted a .jpg of the gouache I made last week and Im really excited to show it to you guys.I honestly think that the .jpg is better looking because of the gouache. and its on acidic paper anyway. ...
Posted by Jenny. on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:50:00 PST

nude descending a staircase

This crap over Pav is really hurting my feelings. it isnt his fault. but it still breaks my heart. goddamn it. why does it have to be this way.milan kundera never writes about this side of the sit...
Posted by Jenny. on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:30:00 PST