A Beginning

"Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly." - Jerry The Zoo Story Edward Albee

Well I decided to update this section...I am 20 years old, and a sophomore in college. The quote above pertains to decision last year to go into scenic design. This particular section would be the beginning..how I got to where I am. Well I was born in suburbia to a Mom, Dad, and two sisters. All of which are great...we are a close bunch of nuts. I was raised in a pretty cool laid back home. I grew up loving music, art, literature, and history. We always participated in pretty lively debates on politics too. So that's where I came from...now where am i going?

Here!The Present and Future

Well I was an studio art major in highschool...so here'sa painting of my parents I did in highschool

Plays I've Been In or Worked On

Fall 1995 Into The Woods - The Steward
Spring 1996 The Happy Journey To Camden And Trenton - The Stage Manager
Fall 1996 The Me Nobody Knows - Benjamin
Spring 1997 The Madwoman Of Chaillot - The Baron Tomard
Fall 1997 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Puck
Spring 1998 Storms And Silences (A Musical Review)
Fall 1998 (The Mystery of Edwin) Drood - John Jasper/Clive Paget
Spring 1999 The Birthday Of The Infanta - The Fantastic
Fall 1999 The Crucible and A Little Night Music- Hang and Focus Crew
Spring 2000 Orlando - Technical Director
Fall 2000 A Perfect Ganesh - Props Designer
Spring 2001 A View From the Bridge - Assistant Stage Manager

Musings in Jiffy's AisleUPDATED

Movies I Like

  • All the President's Men
  • 1776
  • All the Star Wars movies (who's seen Episode I eleven times already? ME!)
  • Dazed and Confused
  • Can't Hardly Wait
  • The Graduate
  • Austin Powers (both of them)
  • Witness, Indiana Jones trilogy, Air Force One, The Fugitive, and all Harrison Ford movies
  • Brassed Off
  • The X-Files Movie Fight the Future
  • The Sound of Music
  • The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (not seriously...but just to hate it
  • The Avengers (just cause it's sooo bad)
  • Empire Records
  • The Breakfast Club
  • That Thing You Do!

    Books I Like

  • The Giver
  • A Walk Across America
  • The Ramona series
  • Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
  • Studies in Chinese Thought
  • Hamlet
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Cather in the Rye
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
  • Catch-22
  • John Adams and the American Revolution
  • The Beatles Forever
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
  • Pragmatism Pierce Through Davidson
  • A Nietzsche Reader

    TV I Like

  • The X-Files
  • Law & Order
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • The Practice
  • 7th Heaven (even though it's lame)
  • Will & Grace
  • Felicity
  • NYPD Blue (I'll admit I've only started watch because of Rick Scroder...yes I'm a loser)
  • Homefront (1990?-1993?)
  • The Adventures of Brisco County jr.(1993-1994)
  • Seaquest DSV (only season 1)
  • Quantum Leap (no idea the years..but it's off)
  • FX the Series (1996-1998)
  • PopUp Video
  • Vh1 Behind the Music and/or Legends
  • The Power Puff Girls

    My Favorite Things

  • My CD collection
  • My Record collection
  • Theatrical Design class
  • Franz Marc
  • cigarette breaks
  • Hang and focus crew
  • All my American Girl stuff
  • My class ring
  • My yearbooks
  • My Diploma!!!!!
  • Ewan McGregor...you know just as a hot person
  • D.O....just as a hot person (no one is allowed to know who he is!)
  • flared jeans, ski vests, platform shoes, adidas tennis shoes
  • yellow roses, forsythia(sp?), daisies, and daffodils
  • singing
  • acting
  • sleep overs
  • cast parties
  • Kaluha and Creams, peppermint schnapps shots, triple sec
  • sand
  • Original Volkswagon Beetles
  • obscure music
  • cooking
  • talking
  • YO-YOs!!!!! I have a collection of over 30..and I know some tricks too, Walk the Dog, Around the World, Shoot the Moon, and Rock the Cradle. I'm learning the Man on the Trapeeze
  • Cunneens

    My CD collection

    I sort of have eclectic taste in music...so I'm sure there's no one out there who will like everything on this list...this is just the CDs maybe someday I'll add my tape and record (yes I do collect records too) collections..enjoy for now!

  • Fiona Apple - Tidal
  • The Apples in Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution
  • The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
    - Abbey Road
    - Anthology 1
    - Anthology 2
    - Anthology 3
    - Help!
    - Let it Be
    - Magical Mystery Tour
    - Real Love (single)
    - Revolver
    - Rubber Soul
    - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    - The Beatles (The White Album)
    - Yellow Submarine
    - Yellow Submarine Soundtrack (new edition)
  • Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
  • Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
    - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
  • Blondie - The Best of Blondie
    - Maria the Remixes (single)
  • Bye Bye Birdie (soundtrack)
  • Cast - All Change
    - Walkaway (single)
  • CBS The First Fifty Years (compilation soundtrack)
  • The Craft (soundtrack)
  • Crash Test Dummies - Afternoons and Coffeespoons (single)
  • The Doors - The Doors
  • Dick (soundtrack)
  • Empire Records (soundtrack)
  • Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel?
  • Fame L.A. (soundtrack)
  • Fastball - All the Pain Money Can Buy
  • Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
  • Forrest Gump (soundtrack)
  • The Frank & Walters - Grand Parade
  • The Great Gatsby (book on CD)
  • Jesus Christ Superstar (movie soundtrack)
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experinece - Electric Ladyland
  • Jude - 430 N. Harper Ave.
    - No One is Really Beautiful

  • Denis Leary - No Cure For Cancer (comedy)
  • Sean Lennon - Into the Sun
  • The London Suede - Coming Up
  • Mame (Original Broadway Cast Soundtrack)
  • Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
  • Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
  • Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill
  • Morrissey - Alma Matters (single)
  • Mozart TV (various artists)
  • Mr. Holland's Opus (soundtrack)
  • No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
  • Oasis - Be Here Now
    - Don't Look Back in Anger (import single)
    - The Masterplan
    - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play the music of Oasis
    - (What's the Story)Morning Glory?
    - Wonderwall (import single)
  • Poe - Hello
  • Radiohead - Karma Police (single)
  • REM - Find the River (single)
    - Up
    - What's the Frequencey Kenneth (single)
  • RENT (original broadway cast soundtrack)
  • Save Ferris - It Means Everything
  • Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
    - Singing in My Sleep (single)
  • 1776 (original broadway cast soundtrack)
  • 1776 (new broadway cast soundtrack)
  • Simon and Garfunkel - Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
  • Television's Greatest Hits volume 6
  • Television's Greatest Hits volume 7
  • Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
  • The Music, The Magic Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • The X-Files the Album (movie soundtrack)
  • The X-Files The Score (movie score)
  • Songs in the Key of X (tv soundtrack)

    A Grand Total of 78

    Quotes

    "Well it's a good life, and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken, and if you know that the big wide world hasn't heard from you yet no, not by a long way, though it won't be long now." -Alan Sillitoe "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"

    "And in the end the love you take, is equal to the love you make." - The Beatles The End "Abbey Road"

    "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." - Semisonic Closing Time "Feeling Strangely Fine"

    "Wherever you are, near by or far, black white lemon or lime, I hope you last a long long time." - Semisonic Made to Last "Feeling Strangely Fine"

    "Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?" - Bender "The Breakfast Club"

    "Don't worry 'bout it." (random leg kick) - Randy

    "There's a broken beam inside of the big big bridge, I guess that whole thing is caving in, Maybe it is time I learn how to swim." - Poe Dolphin "Hello"

    "I'm not the kinda girl who gives up just like, oh no." - Blondie Tide is High

    "It's crazy, I'm thinking Just knowing that the world is round And here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right side up or upside down? Is this real at all, or am I dreaming? And here I'll be dancing on the ground Am I right side up or upside down? To each other we'll be facing." - Dave Mathew's Band Crush "Before These Crowded Streets"

    "Still a man hear's what he want's to hear and disregards the rest." - Simon and Garfunkel The Boxer "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"

    "Now I don't believe in God so I can't be save." - Ben Folds Five Mess "The Unauthorized Biography if Reinhold Messner"

    "Sometimes I get the feeling that I won't be on this planet for very long, I really like it here I'm quite attached to it I hope I'm wrong." - Ben Folds Five Don't Change Your Plans "The Unauthorized Biography if Reinhold Messner"

    "You have made me smile again in fact, I might be sore from it it's been awhile I know we've been together many times before i'll see you on the other side." - Ben Folds Five Don't Change Your Plans "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner"

    "You're worried there might not be anything at all inside, but that you're worried should tell you that's not right don't try to see yourself the way that others do it's no use." - Ben Folds Five Jane "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner"

    "Is it wicked when you smile, even though you feel like crying, even though you could be sick at any time?" - Belle & Sebastian Is It Wicked When You Smile? "The Boy With The Arab Strap"

    "Do they ever see the real you?" - Belle & Sebastian It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career "The Boy With The Arab Strap"

    "If you put down your pen, leave your worries behind
    Then the moment will come, and the memory will shine." - Belle & Sebastian Sleep The Clock Around "The Boy With The Arab Strap"

    "I know the truth awaits me, But still I hesitate because of fear." - Belle & Sebastian Is It Wicked Not To Care? "The Boy With The Arab Strap"

    "I'm lucky I can open the door and I can walk down the street
    Unlucky, I've got no place to go and so I follow my feet
    A Choice is facing you a healthy dose of pain
    A Choice is facing you as you stare through the rain
    A Choice is facing you but I choose to refrain for today
    Tomorrow we'll be back in trouble again." - Belle & Sebastian Dirty Dream Number Two "The Boy With The Arab Strap"

    "Why is this happening to you, your're not a child?
    Why is this happening? You've too much on your mind
    Things creep up on you when you are fast asleep
    You are dreaming, you are sleepy
    You are stuck to the sheets." - Belle & Sebastian Dirty Dream Number Two "The Boy With The Arab Strap"

    "I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless, I don't want to smell you and lose my senses, And smile in slow motion with eyes in love." - Rufus Wainwright Foolish Love "Rufus Wainwright"

    "But I have got this sinking feeling, that I won't have it always, A someday scary sinking feeling, that I might slip and fall." - The Frank & Walters Tony Cochrane "Grand Parade"

    "But I will go on, walk into the night
    And I will be strong and stay in this fight
    'Cause I am prepared when I see the shore." - The Frank & Walters Landslide "Grand Parade"

    "I'm starting to ignore you, I doubted you so long, I'm tired of over-thinking, I know you don't belong, Now I'm asking questions, No one pushes me around, Oh everybody feels this way sometimes Everybody feels this way, And I do." - Lisa Loeb I Do "Firecracker"

    "Freedom comes when you learn to let go, Creation comes when you learn to say no." - Madonna The Power of Good-bye "Ray of Light"

    "There's nothing left to try, There's no place left to hide, There's no greater power, Than the power of good-bye." - Madonna The Power of Good-bye "Ray of Light"

    "Between the idea
    And the reality
    Between the motion
    And the act
    Falls the shadow." - T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men

    "This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper." - T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men

    "All things must pass, not all life's dreams can last, so I must be on my way, face another day, a darkness only stays a night time, in the morning it would fade away, day light is good at ariving at the right time, it's not always gonna be this gray, All things must pass, all things must pass away." - George Harrison All Things Must Pass

    "More than what sollution fits the crime, I have learned that life is bits of time, and you fight for every tiny speck, when you're held by the neck." - Drood "The Writing on the Wall" Drood

    "It's our time breath it in, worlds to change and worlds to win."- Our Time "Merilly We Roll Along"

    "Something is stirring, shifting ground, it's just begun." - Our Time "Merrily We Roll Along"

    "I look from the wings at the play you are staging, while my guitar gently weeps. As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging, still my guitar gently weeps." - The Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps "The Beatles Anthology 3" (these lyrics only appear in this version of the song...not on the White Album one)

    "Be brave, and don't look back, don't look back." - Shmi Skywalker Episode I The Phantom Menace

    "How do you measure a last year on Earth?" - Seasons of Love reprise "RENT"

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon "Beautiful Boy"

    "All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds." - Judas "Heaven on Their Minds" Jesus Christ Superstar

    "Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky." - John Lennon "Imagine"

    "Can I sail through the changin'...ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life? I don't know.....I don't know Well I've been afraid of changin' because I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder, even children get older And I'm getting older too...." - Fleetwood Mac "Landslide"

    "The Ocean is the river's goal, a need to leave the water knows, we're closer now than light years to go." - REM "Find the River" Automatic For the People

    "Me my thoughts are flowers strewn of ocean storm, bayberry moon, I have got to leave to find my way." - REM "Find the River"

    "And then dance if you wanna dance, please brother take a chance, you know they're gonna go which way they wanna go, all we know is that we don't know how it's gonna be, please brother let it be, life on the other hand won't make us understand, why we're all part of the masterplan." - Oasis The Masterplan "The Masterplan"

    "There's no one left to take the lead, but I tell you and you can see, we're closer now than light years to go." - REM "Find the River"

    "Strength and courage overide the priveledged and weary eyed." - REM "Find the River"

    "What was it about that night? Connection in an isolating age." - What You Own "Rent"

    The Stages of Me

    Me at the age of 21 months
    Me at three years
    Me at five years
    Me at about five years
    My senior picture for highschool
    My graduation (I'm on the left my friend Megan's on the right)
    Another shot of Megan and I on graduation (she's looking away)
    Me, and my friends Julia, Laura, and Holly
    Megan and I again, I'm on the left