Jessica Allan

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Student
Occupation historian
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Introduction "Zaphod's just this guy, you know? ... But Beeblebrox, you know, he is one of my most profitable clients. He had personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts." — Gag Halfrunt in Douglas Adams
Interests rolling my own cigarettes, playing vintage video games, jumping in puddles, people who are scared to look me in the eyes, reading Tarot cards, letting secondhand books fall upon to the pages that the previous owner loved most, reading The Onion, discussing the state of the world with transient drunkards in the town square, crayoning books, quoting unexpectedly, pissing off Southern Baptists
Favorite Movies Trainspotting, The Full Monty, La dolce vita, Sex Lies and Videotape, Gosford Park, Pulp Fiction, Un homme et une femme, The Big Lebowski, A Clockwork Orange, Belle de jour, Dead Poets' Society, Chicago, Vertigo, Y tu mamá también, The Aviator, The Usual Suspects, 羅生門, The Graduate, Au revoir les enfants, The Silence of the Lambs
Favorite Music Pulp, Counting Crows, Mötley Crüe, Puccini, Tracy Chapman, Annie Lennox, Moxy Früvous, Frank Sinatra, Coldplay, Pietro Mascagni, The Offspring, Chris Cornell, Lenny Kravitz, Soul Asylum, Maroon 5, Franz Schubert, Simon & Garfunkel, Puddle of Mudd, Meredith Brooks, The Cure, The Ramones, Goo Goo Dolls, Bright Eyes, Everlast, Sarah McLachlan, The Divinyls, Green Day, Bowling for Soup, Eve 6, Train, Everclear, Our Lady Peace, Massive Attack, System of a Down, Tool, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos, Aerosmith, nine inch nails
Favorite Books George Orwell - 1984, Thomas Harris - Black Sunday, Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange, Lisa Wixon - Dirty Blonde and Half Cuban, Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation, Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lillian Ann Slugocki & Erin Cressida Wilson - The Erotica Project, Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon, Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club, Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale, Susan Straight - Highwire Moon, Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Richard Preston - The Hot Zone, Betty Mahmoody - Not Without My Daughter, William McNeill - Plagues and Peoples, Anaïs Nin - A Spy in the House of Love, Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Janet Fitch - White Oleander, Pamela Rosenthal - Carrie's Story, Diane Johnson - Le Divorce, Tracy Quan - Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, Tracy Chevalier - Girl with a Pearl Earring, Mary Roach - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Elmore Leonard - Rum Punch, Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love, Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff - Q's Legacy, P. J. O'Rourke - Holidays in Hell, Xaviera de Vries - The Happy Hooker, Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff, Michael Drury (amanuensis) - Advice to a Young Wife from an Old Mistress, Elfriede Jelinek - Die Klavierspielerin, Umberto Eco - Il nome della rosa, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons dangereuses