Jessica Roake

teacher, writer

movies, books, music, dancing, eavesdropping, cooking, eating, writing, drinking wine, lecturing small children on issues of class and gender, dive bar indexing, crossword puzzling, driving, punching, politicking, wifin'

homeland, white noise, samuel johnson is indignant, 9 stories, unless, slouching towards bethlehem, the emigrants, austerlitz, lorrie moore, civilwarland in bad decline, flannery o'connor, lolita, middlesex, the pugilist at rest, motherless brooklyn, shah of shahs, raymond carver, michael chabon, the o.e.d., james baldwin, naked, infinite jest, sister noon, super flat times, faulkner, my mortal enemy, p.g. wodehouse

the third man, rushmore, vertigo, sturges & lubitsch, flirting with disaster, manhattan, the big liebowski, waiting for guffman, dr. strangelove, john sayles, jesus' son, out of the past, anatomy of a murder, goodfellas, breathless, antonia's line, badlands, the bicycle thief, shot in the dark, harold & maude, capra, my man godfrey, central station, all the real girls, secretary, manny & lo, red, blue, babe, the philadelphia story, being there, the thin man, ginger snaps, thumbsucker

cat power, built to spill, the modern lovers, will oldham, the smiths, the cure, t. rex, fleetwood mac, quasi, otis redding, joanna newsom, le tigre, smog, the magnetic fields, nina simone, modest mouse, the velvet underground, johnny cash, the pixies, pavement, calla, the kinks, elliot smith, sufjan stevens, wolf parade, american analog set, jay-z, sleater kinney, kanye west, the mountain goats

the wire!, the daily show, yacht rock, aqua teen hunger force, flight of the conchords, csi: miami, the colbert report, sealab 2021, law & order: criminal intent, strangers with candy, project runway, top chef