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Name: Jessie (or Jess or Jessica)
Occupation: Student
Music: Radiohead, Portishead, Tori Amos, The Posies, Garbage, Bob Dylan, Massive Attack, Blur, Rilo Kiley, Oasis, Ben Folds, Something Corporate, Cat Stevens, Weezer, Green Day... and too many more to list.
Movies: High Fidelity, Heathers, Memento, Amelie, The Usual Suspects, Wonder Boys, SLC Punk, Seven, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Gattaca, Igby Goes Down, Signs, A Lion in Winter, Best in Show, About a Boy, Rushmore, Reality Bites, Snatch, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Adaptation, Empire Records, The Big Lebowski, Northfork... once again, the list goes on.
Current Television: The West Wing, Angel, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Adult Swim, and occasionally Monk or The Dead Zone
Books: See Book Recommendations
Actors: (A random and meaningless list of people I like) Jude Law, Juaquin Phoenix, Guy Pearce, Don Cheadle, Avery Brooks, James Marsters, Ewan McGregor, Tony Shalhoub, Liev Schreiber, Johnny Depp, Ben Stiller, Ethen Embry, Ian McKellen, Brian Cox, John Cusak, Chris Cooper, Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett
Interests: Writing, reading, photography, Amnesty International, acting, dancing, film, politics, theatre, art
Just for Fun: "Which !Harper are you?" "Which Firefly Character Are You?" and "Which Ewan Are You?" brought to you by Quizilla
Idea no. 8, founded on July 1, 2001, came into being as the product of too much caffiene and not enough forethought. It was late. I was bored. A website was born. Little did I realize at the time that I’d spend, over the next couple months, far more hours than I’d ever dreamed trying to create something presentable and aesthetically pleasing.
Considering the fact that I have absolutely no experience with web page design whatsoever, I’m fairly pleased with how this has turned out. Maybe, one day, it will be that collosal thing that I often see in my head on my more optimistic days, but, until then, I’m just happy I haven’t blown anything up.
If you’re at all curious, the name, Idea no. 8, is taken directly from the title of the first professional art exhibition that I participated in. And the quote on the main page was taken from a review that Zadie Smith wrote of her own book.
If you have any questions, comments, etc. please contact me. If you’re looking for a link to a story that I’ve quoted, or information about anything presented on these pages, I would be happy to help.
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