custom design entitled “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.”
BLUE CHRISTMAS
Above is the one of the websites I manage, kudl.com, for the Kansas City Radio Station 98.1 KUDL. (Click on the image above to view full screenshot.) I was excited that this year, I got to design the entire header for the website. I had…
THE OATMEAL
this site is wonderfully hilarious – theoatmeal.com. can’t sleep so i’ve been going through these comics & quizzes. my current favorite: How A Web Design Goes Straight to Hell.
Roxanne Carter PERSEPHASSA
i could probably honestly say I’ve been following miss roxanne carter for 10+ years now. stumbled across her site today, persephassa.com.
NIGHT THE BUZZ STOLE XMAS 2010
so for 96.5 The Buzz, i not only got to design the overall designs for the 2 shows we put on, but i also put together the video.
i like being a designer. instead of working in a coffee shop, now i’m seeing posters i’ve designed there. YAY!
NUDE AS THE NEWS
Okay so a lot has changed since I last posted. Back in April, I got a job as the web content developer for Entercom, a company that owns 8 radio stations in Kansas City. I work on the websites for 96.5 The Buzz, 98.1 KUDL,…
I’M WITH COCO
talk about bad news. Conan O’brien is apparently leaving NBC’s “Tonight Show.” What I don’t totally understand is why. All that I can gather from all the news articles is that Jay Leno wants his old show back, & so they’re kicking Conan out. there’s…
GOTCHA!
DISCOVERED: incredibly hilarious invention on he Onion – Gotcha Boxes invented by a graphic designer from Minnesota.
HARAJUKU LOVERS
Today Troy & I ventured out into the masses last minute Christmas shopping. At our third store in the perfume section i found what i might describe as the cutest perfume bottle ever. They’re called Harajuku Lovers & are apparentally the creation of Gwen Stefani. Okay,…
THEY HATE MY DESIGN
They Hate My Design – awesome design work from studio based out of Indonesia.
ON RESUMES & PORTFOLIOS
today i’ve been working on my resume as well as getting ideas for where i want my portfolio to go. there are so many ideas & different directions to go that it’s hard to make a decision. but i think i have… it’s called Champagne &…
VIOLENT HEART
please visit my friend camilla’s web page, violentheart.net. she’s been a pal of mine for YEARS via the web & web site design & her new layout is awesome. i’m sure you’ll love her work as much as i do.
ANTIGIRL
& so i have rediscovered antigirl! absolutely awesome.
tiphanie’s work is amazing. i’ve been following her work for quite awhile now & it just seems to keep getting better & better.
KUNG FU GIRL
so last night my parents were very happy for me after getting my very unexpected & very good portfolio review back (which is basically our version of “finals” in the graphic design department at school) so they treated me to a bottle of wine. i picked…
About
My name is Jessie & this is my blog. I live just outside of Kansas City. I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
My name is Jessie & this is my blog.
I live just outside of Kansas City.
I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
— Coco Chanel
Nature was beautiful. But we did such a good job of making it ugly.
— Lucy Rose, The Lamb
Little girls don’t kill people. They’re just silly little girls. But almost no one understands a little girl. We begin hard as marbles.
— Lisa Taddeo, Animal
People fell into religion because they were drawn by the company and approval of others. It was the oldest drug on the market. People who said they had found Jesus had really found Jesus people.
— Michael Poore, Up Jumps the Devil
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
Any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
It is murder
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
— Lao Tzu
This moment will just be another story someday.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Why are we born? she thought. What does it mean to be born? To die?
— Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
"Darling," you said, "We're a train wreck."
"Sweetheart," I said, "Train wrecks always make the front page."
— Ginny
If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten.
Sons are like birds, flying always over the mountain.
— Iron & Wine, Upward Over The Mountain
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
— Anaïs Nin
I wish I could have one nice interaction with everyone and then disappear.
— Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
The past was so past it hurt.
— Rick Moody
Was all this real to her? Did she think it was temporary? Or maybe that was the point of love: not to think.
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me.
— Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
And once again, packed like frozen food and battery hens
Think of all the starving millions
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones
Your royal highnesses
Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
Well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat
Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
But someone's listening in
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway
Also, he often went back to places he had been at earlier times in his life, just to see if the places would seem the same. In most cases, because he himself had changed, the places did not seem exactly as he remembered them, but there were exceptions.
— Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Possibly you won’t like to think of your mother as one who lived, but I’ll tell you something: it’s fun to run from one brightly burning disaster to the next.”
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
In the last year or two he had not only grown indifferent to company, he had begun to find it irritating. Everyone who came to see him asked questions that were either stupid or impertinent. Better to see no one than to see fools.
— Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon
Does what we try most to avoid come after us because we paid too much attention to it with our worry?
People wanted a loser who became a winner. Or a winner who became a loser. But a loser who stayed a loser? That was too much like themselves. They weren’t interested in themselves.
— Charles Bukowski, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
The clock moved a quarter of a turn
The time it took a cigarette to burn
She said you got a lot of things to learn
Going nowhere
— Elliott Smith, Going Nowhere
She longed viciously for sharp words with which to cut him.
"But, Scarlett, you need kissing badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
Her mouth smiled, smiled hard, but her eyes did not smile, ever. Her eyes watched and looked for something they knew they’d never find.
— Mary Gaitskill, The Mare
She saw despair as one sees a solid object in the distance. And then she was inside it. Through it. Perhaps it was not the despair she craved, but the moment afterward: the brilliant moment of not falling. Success.
Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you do. No one has ever heard music. Not the way you hear it. The songs are beautiful vampires, asleep in your iPod, coming alive at night, aglow. You can have them on your hours, yours to conduct. Music shapes us and we shape it.