Author Archives: Jessie

Revelation

By Jessie | Published: March 7, 2010 Leave a comment
During the summer after my senior year of high school, I decided to take a trip alone on a somewhat secluded trail in the Adirondacks for a couple of nights. I’d been on this particular trail with a couple of friends the year before.  There were lean-tos on several of the small lakes along [...]
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Mark Linkous

By Jessie | Published: March 7, 2010 Leave a comment
Mark Linkous’ music played a big role in my life over the last 15 years. I think most of his songs were about the quiet moments that followed the loud and terrible moments in your life, and that’s really when you listen to music, when you need it the most. He was really just [...]
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Last year

By Jessie | Published: March 5, 2010 Leave a comment
An experiment with some pics from last year. last year from Jessie on Vimeo.
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Mother of Pearl

By Jessie | Published: March 4, 2010 Leave a comment
I recently came across this song after not hearing it for a very long time; I’d almost forgotten how much I like it, how fun a good song can suddenly make my day, especially one about finding those little pearls in your life that you hold onto with all your might. In light of recent transitions [...]
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We have to because we must

By Jessie | Published: March 3, 2010 Leave a comment
Sometimes, when I hear or read statements along the lines of:  ”Real is better than numb, so we have to keep walking, we have to keep the ground beneath us,” it makes me want to scream out loud.   It conjures images of the garish, prefabricated houses situated in overbearing housing developments that litter the [...]
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One Hundred and Eighty Degrees

By Jessie | Published: March 3, 2010 Leave a comment
Have you considered the possibility that everything you believe is wrong, not merely off a bit, but totally wrong, nothing like things as they really are? If you’ve done this, you know how durably fragile those phantoms we hold in our heads are, those wisps of thought that people die and kill for, betray lovers for, give up lifelong friendships for. If you’ve [...]
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go do

By Jessie | Published: March 1, 2010 Leave a comment
I love this video from Jónsi’s new album.  There’s more info available on jonsi.com. Jónsi – Go Do from Jónsi on Vimeo.
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A night like this

By Jessie | Published: February 26, 2010 Leave a comment
I remember the third year of music camp:  I was 12 years old, a mature and childish adolescent, already assertive in my own self-conscious ways, tough on the outside, so vulnerable on the inside, fickle about music and clothing and friends and boys.  I roomed with my best friend Autumn that year.  We made colorful [...]
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