Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Photo of the first session of my tattoo.

Well, here we are again. The start of another year. Everybody making their new years resolutions, 75% of which will be forgotten of by the end of January. I find myself, in January of course, thinking how this month seems to be the same every year. Most people try to make changes and end up being cranky, everyone's broke from last minute Christmas shopping, or even complaining about how cold it is.

...Get over it

Here are some black and white photos I took over the holidays. I haven't updated the site in a while. Holidays are done however, and back to work we all go. Feel free to e-mail me with questions or comments.

jessi__allen@hotmail.com

..Yes, two underscores, not one. If you use one underscore and get a scary e-mail back from the girl with the e-mail address I want...I'm not sorry.

I warned you.

I don't think she likes all the e-mails from my family and friends she keeps getting.

...Okay, so maybe the multiple e-mails I sent her explaining the reasons why I should have that e-mail address pushed her over the edge.

Who can say really?

Enjoy!

Jessi

This is Trevor.

This is my friend Trevor.

He likes having his picture taken, and I enjoy taking pictures.

....It was fate

Welcome to the Pub.

This is groud control to major Tom.

Hello all. I know it's been forever since I updated. ....But, I'm back. Here are a few pictures, and a few quotes to go with it..

I drink your milshake, I drink it up!
-Daniel Day Lewis, There will be blood

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

All you need is love.
- John Lennon

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason , thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
-Andy Warhol
It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times..
- Charles Dickens, Tale of two cities

If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
-Cheshire Car, Alice in Wonderland

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
- Annie Leibovitz
But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way, never to be an old woman. But then, always to have lessons to learn .
-Alice, Alice in Wonderland

Pictures and Rants

Stellar, fall nights are back. Yes, I am still going on about fall. I really don't know what it is.


...Oh wait, I know exactly what is it. No more stupid tourists walking into everybody, no more vial b.o. smelling subways, no cars filled with hungover girls going on road trips driving in the fast lane when in fact, they're only going 75 km/h because the 2 revs and 1 shot of vanilla vodka was too much for them to handle. I can finally walk down the street to my giant green friend called Starbucks, grab my grande bundle of joy filled with 4 of the best damn shots of espresso Queens Quay has to offer without being asked where the ferry is to get to the island. I no longer have to worry about kids running in front of my car because their mother is to busy taking a picture of the CN Tower. The only 2 tiffs I have with fall is the subways are way to busy, slash filled with Toronto's stupidest people. One request people...wait until everybody else is off the subway before you get on. Seems simple enough...
Clearly it is not.












Yay, pretty flowers and a cool boat....I'm not crazy.

...And finally, my last "concern" you could call it about fall is simple video stores. I swear everybody hides inside their apartments and rents movies for 5 months. I got a weird idea to rent Drop Dead Fred the other day. I figured it would be nice and easy to rent.
Old movie right?, not many people really liked it once they grew up, mildly inappropriate for kids (don't you remember the best part "Mega Bitch"). So I came home from work stopped in at the video store in my building to rent it....figures the cheap hole in the wall video store doesn't carry it. So I left...movie-less. I went upstairs and called all over Toronto and not one god damn store had it in.
...Oh, they indeed had it. But their one single copy was "out at the moment".
They killed Jessi's 2 hours of classic comedy.
......You bastards.

To sum it up. Nobody rents movies in the summer, they wait until Jessi wants to rent it then flock to every video store in Toronto and budge their way to the front of the line. Then smirk at me on the way out.

...So, the last part I may have made up.


Anyway...I'm tired, I work at 5:30 am. So I will sign off with a few more "happy" pictures I took on Queens Quay, hopefully encourging everybody to believe I'm not crazy. JACKI.