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Jessica 's Interests
General
Music and what it means. Watching for signs of D Boon's ghost. Legacy. Industrial rot. Gary, Indiana. baby animals. full grown animals. Feminism. God. Riding bikes to the library. How to get the basement smell into every room. Reading and writing. Lonerism. Death of nostalgia. Spices. Liberation theology. What happens after desperation. Wood, both dead and living.
Music
Joni Mitchell's jazzbo years. "And The Beat Goes On". No Age. Ornette. Black Box. Teddy Pendergrass. The Time. Diamanda Galas. The Ex. Husker Du. Peter Brotzmann. Maddecent Podcast. Modeselektor. Sea level. Rickie Lee Jones. "Streetlife". The Bangles. Lungfish. Smart Went Crazy. Whale. M.I.A. Chrome. Ruth Brown. Valet. pre-suck era Van Morrison. Donald Byrd. Anything involving Teddy Riley. Mecca Normal. Xasthur. Condenada.. Evie Sands. Fleetwood Mac. The Gr'ups. Steve Miller Band. Black Randy & metrosquad. CSS. Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. TVOTR. Ginuwine. PE. Autoclave. Lou Rawls. Ghostface. Keith Murray. Misfits. Ciccone Youth. Mens Recovery Project. Monorchid. Minor Threat. Pretenders. Soiled Mattress & The Springs. Moonshake. Joanna Newsom. Asha Bhosle. Germs. Prince. Monie Love. Alice Coltrane. Mr De. Mars Volta. Soul II Soul. Jawbreaker. Wipers. Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers. Furnaces. Wipers. Wipers. Wipers. Come. nedelle. Shangri-Las. Grinderman. Blurt. Op Ivy. Ellen Allien. Prince. Prince & The Revolution. Coughs. Bird Names. N. Young & Crazy Horse.
Movies
Water. Dogville. 400 Blows. World of Apu. Klute. Finding Nemo. Life and Times of Frida Kahlo. Babe. Black Narcissus. Heading South. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Purple Rain. Old Boy. Pocket Change. Mama Roma. The City and Night. Koko the Talking Gorilla. Spirit of the Beehive.
Television
MASH.
Antiques Roadshow.
Nightly Business Report Business Update with Paul Kangas.
Frontline.
Prime Suspect.
BBC Mammals w/ Attenborough.
Seasons 1-4 of The Wire.
Books
Algren. Blue Highways. Ellen Willis. Dos Passos America Trilogy. Didion non fiction + Play It As It Lays. Mary Gordon. bell hooks. Dworkin. Tosches. Bangs. big book. John McPhee. gnostic gospels. Power of Myth. Rock She Wrote. Sex Revolts. Bird Portraits in Color. Big Questions comix. Iron John. Howl. Sean Nelson's Court & Spark monograph.
Heroes
Koko the sign language gorilla. Miranda July. Mary Magdalene. My family. Jesus. Cali. Joan Didion. Anthony Lane. Pauline Kael. Ellen Willis. Bayard Rustin. Maggie & Hopey. Bill Moyers. Judy Chicago. Judith Thurman. George Ohr. Matt face face. Charlie Rose. Gwendolyn Brooks. Tracey Emin.
A whole night of 1990/91 dance songs with those up-and-down-one-octave piano chords (Black Box, Marky Mark, Deee-Lite) would make for the best dance party ever.
don't know if i'm gonna make it out there yet. still kinda on the fence. part of me wants to not be in new york and the other part of me wants to not travel for a while. i'm STUCK yo.
many times the suburban bands, the goofball kids existing in relative isolation are the best--or at least better than the born cool citykid bands.
I concur. Sometimes it's beneficial to be around people who aren't "over" everything. If I raise e in a Unibomber-style shack in the woods, he'll have to invent his own fun.
hey listen paddy pants, i was not "acting hard" by the video game. i had just worked a six hour long bartending shift and fucking balkan beat box was playing for two of them. check yo golden compass and tell the troof, foolio iglesias. peace out. IBR! (ice bearz rool).
