Industry	Student
Occupation	Journalism majors
Location	New York, United States
Introduction	Jim, Dona, Jess, Ty, "Ava" started out this site as five students enrolled in journalism in NY. Now? We're still students. We're in CA. Journalism? The majority scoffs at the notion. From the start, at the very start, C.I. of The Common Ills has helped with the writing here. C.I.'s part of our core six/gang. (C.I. and Ava write the TV commentaries by themselves.) So that's the six of us. We also credit Dallas as our link locator, soundboard and much more. We try to remember to thank him each week (don't always remember to note it here) but we'll note him in this. So this is a site by the gang/core six: Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I. (of The Common Ills).
Interests	politics, art, movies, music, the media, the environment, democracy
Favorite movies	Blow Up, Breathless, Klute, Shampoo, Weekend, The Game Is Over, The Conversation, Brief Encounter, The Bicycle Thief, Up the Sandbox, Short Cuts, Dog Fight, Grace of My Heart, The Opposite of Sex, Bulworth, Hearts & Minds, Coming Home, Orwell Rolls in His Grave, Frida, Purple Noon, Searching for Debra Winger, Donnie Darko, The Landlord
Favorite music	Blur, Cat Power, Wilco, Tori Amos, Coldplay, Green Day, Van Hunt, Ani DiFranco, Phil Ochs, Radiohead, Wilco, Dashboard Confessional, Blink 182, Maria McKee, System of the Down, anyone that Kat of Kat's Korner likes!
Favorite books	The Living City (Frank Lloyd Wright), Head to Toe & Up Against It (Joe Orton), Taking Back America (Katrina Vanden Heuvel & Robert L. Borosage, eds.), Harp Song for a Radical (Marguerite Young), anything by Howard Zinn, Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)

You've broken up with your old band and are about to release your first solo album. Please write the liner notes:

They sold out! It's sad to see people you once respected do just about anything for money and fame. I was the John Lennon of the group!