Jason Hill

Metairie Park Country Day Scho, Attended 1984 - 1991
Crossroads School, Attended 1992 - 1997, Class of 1997

New York University, Attended 2004 - 2006, Class of 2006, Master's Degree, English
St. John's College-Annapolis, Attended 2003 - 2004, Class of 2004, Master's Degree, Liberal Arts
University of California - Berkeley, Attended 1997 - 2001, Class of 2001, Bachelor's Degree, English

Professor (of sorts)

Amnesty International, Green Party, MoveOn, Sigma Nu

Academia, Activism, Brian Andrews, Argentine Tango, Attic Greek, Books, Classic Blues, Cufflinks, Eugene Carriere, Dancing, Thomas Didymus, Education, Electronica, Theodore Gericault, Hermeticisim, Honor, Integrity, Jacques Lacan, Literature, Livejournal, Modernism, Narrative, Nihilism, Philosophy, Photography, Politics, Marcel Proust, Psychoanalysis, Arthur Rimbaud, Saint-Emilion, Egon Schiele, Storytelling, Synesthesia, Tequila, Theory, Trip Hop, William of Ockham, Wisdom

1984, the Age of Innocence, Antigone, Blood Meridian, Collected Fictions (of Borges), Collected Poems (of Cavafy), Democracy in America, Discipline and Punish, Don Quixote, the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, the Hamlet, History (Herodotus), Hunger, Les Illuminations, Jude the Obscure, Leviathan, the Little Prince, Lolita, the Myth of Sisyphus, Notes from Underground, the Odyssey, Remembrance of Things Past, the Symposium, Three Novels (Beckett), Time & Narrative, the Woman Warrior

12 Monkeys, the 39 Steps, After Life, American History X, Celeste, the Devil's Backbone, Dogville, Girlfight, Happily Ever After, High Art, Hudson Hawk, Ikiru, the Last Unicorn, Leaving Las Vegas, Mystery Men, the Nightmare before Christmas, Permanent Midnight, the Pillow Book, Requiem for a Dream, Se7en, the Shawshank Redemption, the Silence, Swimming with Sharks, Tokyo Story, Waking the Dead, Zoolander

Atmosphere, Brazilian Girls, Leroy Carr, Frederic Chopin, Holly Cole, Counting Crows, the Crystal Method, ani difranco, Jorge Drexler, Maurice Durufle, the Faint, Faithless, FischerSpooner, Ella Fitzgerald, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, Herbie Hancock, Billie Holiday, Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, Lali Puna, Leadbelly, Massive Attack, Metric, Mocean Worker, Morceeba, Nine Inch Nails, Ojos de Brujo, Portishead, the Postal Service, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ma Rainey, Recoil, Django Reinhardt, RJD2, Ruby, Nina Simone, the Notwist, Thievery Corporation, Tool, Underworld, Julie Wolf, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zero 7

Six Feet Under, Smallville, Veronica Mars, Weeds

Gemini

If you catch me after I've gotten off the phone with my grandparents, you might realize that I'm not from around here. Maybe that's why I dance in the subway while the rest of the metro-boulot-dodo world can't even muster the energy to roll their eyes; even if I'm not from here, I'm elated to know that I've come home. One wall in my room is the color of an eggplant, another an equally solid blue; they're to complement a painting by a girl with devil-horns for eyebrows. I have a weakness for them you know, pretty girls, that is; and particularly for making them dinner in my too-narrow kitchen. I compensate for my shyness with a practiced gregariousness; the truly kind forgive the act while enjoying the antics.

People who have something to teach me. People who aren't looking to be a parent or to be parented. People who know how to have a good time. People who are working on getting their shit together. People who have gotten over possession. People with whom I can be still.