Jet Fisher

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer
Location Rockford, Illinois, United States
Introduction Ten years on a USAF base outside of Cambridge, England capped off a splendid childhood. I attended the University in Augsburg, Germany. An encounter with the Memoirs of Pablo Neruda and a copy of George Orwell's Down and out in Paris and London sent me wandering through Europe in the nineties. After many years of scraping by working in farm fields and factories I returned to the states and ended up in Chicago. What caused me to switch from a potentially lucrative Commercial Art degree to a Fine Art degree? Perhaps it was the massive Anselm Kiefer canvas in the Art Institute, perhaps it was the smell of turpentine and oils. My attempt to conquer the Art World was cut short by the birth of my daughter in 1999. Soon after we left Chicago for Heidelberg, Germany. We returned to the states and I began teaching pre-school at the regional HeadStart. Over the six years that I worked as a teacher I realized that pre-school was not for me. Encouraged by a couple of writing awards from the local college I left there this year and am currently surviving on AdSense revenue (26 cents so far!). When I am not blogging I write, draw, paint and try to learn HTML and CSS.
Interests Art, Bicycles, Photography, Music, Books, The internet, Underground Comics, Cooking, Painting, Web art
Favorite Movies Dog Bites Man, Roman Holiday, Detour, Dancer in the Dark, Tetsuo Body Hammer, Un Chien Andalou, Koyaanisqatsi, Artists and Models, Waking Life
Favorite Music mixtapes, MIA, Girl Talk, El Vez, Dub, Acid House, Top Buzz, Thee Hypnotics, Diplo, Optimo, Pixies, The Cure, The Smiths, Meat Beat Manifesto, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, New Order, Peaches, Anthrax, S.O.D., Herv, Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, Death from Above
Favorite Books Dies the Fire, Sky Coyote, Coyote Blue, The Crying of Lot 49, Collapse, Fredy Neptune, Then We Came To An End, The Joke's Over, Watchmen, Poison River, A Primate's Memories, The Trees in my Forest, The Ice Shirt, You Bright and Risen Angels, The Broom of the System, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Great Apes, My Cousin My Gastroenterologist, A Fire in the Deep