Herman Cain parody commercial ad filmed and edited for 96.5 the Buzz in Kansas City, featuring Lazlo and Danny Boi.
KRBZ VIDEO – 9.20.11
Dog Loves Elephant: Unlikely Animal Friendships
The story of an elephant named Tara living at an elephant sanctuary. There are a bunch of dogs who live at the sanctuary as well. But one dog, Bella, has formed an amazing friendship with Tara the elephant, showing that friendship can happen even in the most unexpected circumstances.
BUZZ BEACH BALL 2011 | KC
This is the video i filmed & edited for one of our latest concerts at my station, 96.5 The Buzz. i even built an entire website (beachballkc.com) to promote it as well- and did most of the main branding design for the concert. It…
Penguins In Backpacks
Well it’s no secret that I am an animal lover. But what do i love more than animals? Cute animals doing people things.
Chick Music I Dig (in a Nutshell)
A short compilation of some of my favorite & most inspiring chick music, in no particular order because i love all of their music for different reasons.
SHELL GAMES
Here it come, that heavy love. I’m never gonna move it alone. Shell Games by Bright Eyes
The Special Man
absolutely ridiculous parody for Conan O’brien show, The Special Man.
WTF MOMENT | Why Americans Love PBR
Tom Raper in a commercial parody for Pabst Blue Ribbon about America & beer. (Drink it, ya asshole.)
Bright Eyes | Uptown Theatre | APRIL 2, 2011
Such an AMAZING show at the Uptown Theatre yesterday. It was my fourth time seeing Bright Eyes, & goddam it was a great show. & Yeah, they’re my favorite band ever. i lost my sidekicks at the beginning of the show so found myself surrounded…
CLIMBING UP THE WALLS
this is just how my whole life feels today. ( courtesy of youtube.com/mattshawuk )
The Decemberists at Uptown
DEJA VU SIX AM SUNDAY
Just realized I’m more concerned with my turtle’s eating habits than my own.. Unhealthy much? Meanwhile, I broke my computer (aka “child”) this morning & now am IN mourning. NOTE TO SELF : do not hold (full) cups of coffee over macbook at any time.…
WTF | Graphic Design Humor (video)
Need some graphic design humor? 20/20 finally talk about Graphic Design. Funny clip from YouTube, John Stossel reporting.
FISH (OR) FOOD
so i tried feeding my pet turtle, Romeo, feeder goldfish for awhile. the last time, there was one white goldfish that survived… yeah, i got attached. so I got him his own tank. We named him little Jack. But after a few days, Little Jack…
PEGGY SUE
Peggy Sue is an indie pop/indie folk band from Brighton. The band has toured with a number of well-known indie artists including Mumford & Sons, The Maccabees, First Aid Kit and Jack White.
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 am suddenly engulfed in a longing for home. It stuns me. Maybe I’ve just never been away long enough to appreciate it. Maybe that’s the way it is with everything.
— Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander
The longer she lived in San Viejo, the more she appreciated the kind of things that went with living. Like having a window open when you slept, and grass, and tortillas. Being happy when people came to visit, and being happy when they left. The way certain things felt wonderful when you held them in your hands: a book, an ax, a baby, a beer, a big-ass pile of M&M’s.
Oh my lonely heart
She could hang around for days
Will never leave the house
Something more than just a phase
She'd eat occasionally
Just like she would when she's alone
She'll play the game for free
Until she dies, until she dies
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
— Voltaire
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
— Patti Smith, Gloria
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
— Ernest Hemingway
I want the impossible, I want to fly all the time, I destroy ordinary life, I run towards all the dangers of love as he ran towards all the dangers of war. He runs away, war is less terrifying to him than life…
— Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love
I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it- don’t cheat with it.
— Ernest Hemingway
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
— Charles Bukowski, Women
I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
— Sylvia Plath
"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children. [...] I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.
— Anne Sexton
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
— George Carlin
Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
You hold me in your arms.
How strange that you're so tender!
Child-woman that I am,
you think that you can mend her.
— Anne Sexton, Cripples & Other Stories
Maybe I really am weird, like the girl said, or maybe I’m just a terrible, shallow person, but it often feels to me as though I had died, the once beautiful woman said. All those years ago I died, and I’ve been a ghost ever since. I’ve been mourning my lost self ever since, and nothing, not even my love for my children and grandchildren, can make up for it.
— Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
I hoard my books. They are people who do not leave.
— Anne Sexton, Self Portrait in Letters
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
— Helen Keller
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
— Ernest Hemingway
There comes a time when you just have to live among your ghosts. You keep the conversation going. Elsewise the broad field of the future opens out as nothing but a vast emptiness.
— Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
I love you. How dare he say those words to me? They follow me around the house, from one room to another, step after step.
Life: A temporary arrangement of matter with occasional disappointment.
— Ambrose Bierce
Hear my soul speak. The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service.
— Shakespeare
Death was the glass; death was between us; coming to the woman first, hundreds of years ago, leaving the house, sealing all the windows; the rooms were darkened.
— Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
— Dalai Lama
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.
— Alfred Tennyson
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide
And no alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr
A curious sense of lightness, of freedom, pervaded her now that she had finally hardened her heart against all that bound her to the old days and the old Scarlett. She had made her decision and, thank God, she wasn’t afraid. She had nothing to lose and her mind was made up.
You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.
— , Harold & Maude
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
— Charles Bukowski
In the outside world, you will find more people who are kind than people who are not. Seek them out.
— Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
— Charles Bukowski
But I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time.
— Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
— Sylvia Plath
Our love is all we have.
— Wilco, Jesus Etc.
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.
— Anaïs Nin
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
— Coco Chanel
And your long time curse hurts but what's worse
is this pain in here; I can't stay in here
ain't it clear that i just can't fit
yes i believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again, introduced as friends,
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry, and it was your world
— Bob Dylan, Just Like A Woman
How strange, she thinks. Belief has grown upon her. Perhaps, she thinks, it is something like a mold.
— Lauren Groff, Matrix
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
— Anne Roiphe
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.