there’s something about music that’s always captured me. i’m no musician at all myself, i have no rhythm as far as I can tell & have never really given any of the random instruments i’ve taken a stab at an honest effort. but i love…
106-5 THE WOLF: ACOUSTIC CHRISTMAS
( video by jessica j. for 106-5 The Wolf 2010 )
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.
TOO MANY PUPPIES
Video from YouTube of lots of basset hound puppies.
HALLOWEENIE ROAST 2010
Halloweenie Roast 2010 Video Recap I filmed & edited for radio station KRBZ, 96.5 The Buzz.
WTF MOMENT | Chip Thieving Dogs
( source: hulu.com )
SMASHING PUMPKINS & CAKE LIVE
(videos taken by jessica j. | click here to view more from the show )
PAVEMENT LIVE
( videos by jessica j. | click here for more videos from the show )
She & Him Live in Kansas City
Such a great show at the Uptown Theatre in Kansas City – She & Him live was totally stunning.
SUBLIME W/ROME LIVE
classic 90’s song- What I Got. so good. great show, the crowd was really into it. such a great band – it’s awesome to be able to see them play, even though their lead singer has been dead for thirteen+ years. They have a new…
Lady Scoops in AFENTRO
I made this recently with Scoops, a DJ from the Buzz Morning Show- “Afentra’s Big Fat Morning Buzz.” He wanted to do a a parody video of the Lady Gaga song Alejandro. This is the result of that brainchild.
CONAN O’BRIEN LIVE IN KC
i don’t really know how to explain my love for Conan O’brien. so in a nutshell, here goes: i first heard about Conan while I was in fifth or sixth grade, watching the Rosie O’donnell Show at an old friend’s house. Conan was a guest…
ROCKFEST 2010
it’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it. spent the day running around in the rain & mud for 12+ hours, filming footage for our station 98.9 The Rock. it was cold, wet & 55,000+ people at the Liberty Memorial. More footage than…
NO SURPRISES
Movie i put together to the tune of Radiohead’s “No Surprises.” Videos taken throughout the past two years in Kansas City, & surrounding suburbia.
Fast Food Nation
New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less – Fast Food Nation yo!
THE 2008 ELECTION & VIRAL MARKETING
This is just brilliant. Received it via eMail yesterday… send them to all your friends by visiting this webpage. No, really. ( video credit moveon.org }
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.
Chilling winds swept beneath the doorsills and rattled the loose windowpanes with a monotonous tinkling sound. The last of the leaves fell from the bare trees and only the pines stood clothed, black and cold against pale skies. The rutted red roads were frozen to flintiness and hunger rode the winds through Georgia.
What did the past matter compared with the tense present and the dubious future? What did the ballot matter when bread, a roof and staying out of jail were the real problems?
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
— Joan Jett
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
— Gertrude Stein
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.
— Charlie Brown
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
— Abraham Lincoln
Her love for Eleanor she buries deep within her, even though it is still alive, and it will flare up in her life and have to be banked again and again; it will morph to hatred then flare into longing...
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
— Stephen King
If I saw no humor in my unraveling, I'd have been dead long ago.
— Melissa Broder, Death Valley
I did not understand the people who were my size or even the larger ones. At home, or away from it, people seemed out of reach. Thus I hid in fairy tales and read them daily like prayerbook. Any book was closer than a person. I did not even like my dolls for they resembled people. I stepped on their faces because they resembled me.
— Anne Sexton
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
At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
— Fernando Pessoa
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.
— George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Even my best intentions come to naught, and hope itself is but an obstacle.
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't.
— Jennette McCurdy, I’m Glad My Mom Died
Without literature, life is hell.
— Charles Bukowski
I avoid the mirror with a studied regularity.
— Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Things might get very bad, things might be worse than she ever imagined, but the stars existed, and that was something.
— Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
Day by day, the island bloomed. My garden climbed the walls of my house, breathed its scent through my windows. I left the shutters open by then. I did what I liked. If you had asked me, I would have said I was happy. Yet always I remembered.
I don't understand why
Most of the time
I'm living my life all wrong
I felt nothing at all
The freedom of the fall
My smile is on the backseat, the back wall
I wondered if this was what being a real human was: accepting you were pieces of other people too. The people you loved and the people you hurt.
— Lucy Rose, The Lamb
But I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time.
— Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you.
— Buddha
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
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."
— Charles Bukowski
He was more than possessed by his crimes and excesses – he was the gaunt accumulation of them.
— Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
..I will comfort & console you, first of all I will gather you together again, you're always so battered by the outside world.
— Anaïs Nin
“Because one day you will die, I promise, and mortality does not care if you believe in it.”
It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.
— Walter Mosley, Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore
I was an agnostic. Agnostics didn’t have much to argue about.
There is cut holly on the raw graves and the red berries are the only things that glow faintly in the mizzle, in the world at large, which has no more color in it. All will be gray, she thinks, the rest of her life gray. Gray soul, gray sky, gray earth of March, grayish whitish abbey.
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
— René Magritte
Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.
