This is long overdue, my fronds.
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ishyfaceI was poking around the Internets recently, like you do, and discovered (MUCH TO MY DISMAY) that nobody seems to have written a Jessicka Addams primer yet!
This is not okay. Therefore, I give you:
Say Hello To My Little Friend: A Jessicka Addams Primer
Jessicka Addams (formerly Jessicka Fodera or just plain Jessicka) is a singer and visual artist from Florida. She's a former suburban goth kid who loves Bikini Kill, comic books, and covering things with blood. And she says that if she weren't in a band she'd be illustrating children's books.
She may, in fact, be the lost Way sister.
Above is a bb!Jessicka, on the bottom left with the big hair and the dress that is not just pink but PIIIIIIIINK. Apparently Jessicka was pretty popular in high school (she was voted homecoming queen) but really hated it and eventually started hanging out with the art freaks instead, a la Mean Girls. It was around this time that she started getting into bands.
And covering things in blood.
Jessicka used to be in a band called Jack Off Jill, a goth-metal outfit that put out three albums (Humid Teenage Mediocrity, Sexless Demons and Scars, and Clear Hearts Grey Flowers). They disbanded in 2000 after going through more lineup changes than you can shake a stick at. Here are some pictures of them!
And here are a few of their songs.
"My Cat," 1998:
(As far as I know that was their only official video, so the rest of these will have to be fanvids, unfortunately.)
"Lollirot," 1998:
"Girlscout," 1998:
"Strawberry Gashes," 2000:
"Underjoyed," 2000:
JOJ was one of my favourite bands in middle/high school, and I think a lot of former suburban baby bats can say the same: they were bratty and dark and funny and angry and pretty much everything awesome and embarrassing ever. Jessicka said in interviews from the JOJ period that she really wanted to be a female version of KISS, making shock rock and putting on wild performances, and while that shock element is pretty evident in their earlier stuff, their last (and best) album is way more focused and introspective.
Regardless, I think this live clip in which Jessicka is heckled and proceeds to heckle back best sums up the band as a whole.
A few years after JOJ imploded- after swearing she'd never work in the music industry again- Jessicka started another band called scarling. with a totally different sound. Less KISS, more My Bloody Valentine. they've put out one LP, Sweet Heart Dealer, and one full-length, So Long Scarecrow. Last I checked the lineup was Jessicka on vocals, Christian Hejnal on guitar, Rickey Lime on guitar, Beth Gordon on drums, and Derik Snell on bass, but the band is currently on hiatus and they've had quite a few lineup changes so it's anyone's guess who's on the next album, really. Here are some pictures of them!
And here are some of their songs!
"Band-Aid Covers The Bullethole," 2003:
(That song is pretty much one of my favourite songs in all the world, jsyk.)
"Baby Dracula," 2003:
"Bummer," 2005:
(If this song sounds at all familiar that's probably because it was featured on an episode of The L Word. Yeah, lesbian soap operas are about as high profile as these guys get.)
"Caribou And Cake," 2005:
They also covered "Creep" by Radiohead. Since it's one of the few Radiohead covers I actually like I felt I had to include it, even though it's in an Anne Rice vid:
Robert Smith is a fan: "Scarling. make dark, desperate, chaotic, gorgeous pop music, the sound of the end of the world. And I love it." Considering the Cure is Jessicka's favourite band, I'm guessing she must have been pretty pleased about that.
Nowadays Jessicka is working more on art than music, although a new scarling. album is apparently upcoming.
... that counts as art, shut up. >.>
FACTS ABOUT JESSICKA
- She is a Scorpio.
- She's thirty-four.
- She has described herself as "a combination of John Waters, Laura Palmer, and Karen Walker."
- She started singing when she was three, and was encouraged by her grandmother. MUCH LIKE SOME OTHER GOTH WEIRDO WE KNOW AND LOVE.
- She used to be what she calls a "zaftig cherub" and is vocally opposed to fatphobia, in the music industry and elsewhere.
- If she could kill any celebrity it would be either Dave Navarro or "Hugh Hefner though I'd have to kill him in some ironic poetic way. Maybe having him choke on a giant Viagra pill or having little girls smother him with thousands of breasts implants until he suffocated to death." Hands up if you would pay to see that!
- She's bisexual and has spoken about her opposition to Proposition 8 and other discriminatory legislation. She also identifies as a "fruit fly." What she's said on the subject:
Note: scarling.'s guitarist Rickey Lime is an out lesbian, and also a severe hottie.
Hellooooooo,Nurse Rickey.
- She's married to Christian, scarling.'s lead guitarist. His former last name was Hejnal; about a year after getting married they both changed it to Addams, presumably in reference to the Addams Family. They are quite a cute couple!
Christian is working on the new Alice in Wonderland film, which is one of the reasons why scarling. is on hiatus.
- She has a kitty named Alexander, and wrote a song named after him called "Alexander the Burn Victim."
- She's writing a book. I can't find much information on this anywhere- supposedly she's put it aside for the moment- but I think it bears mentioning. :)
- She's a feminist. Here's what she says about that:
And here's a clip where she talks about feminism in relation to the music industry:
- She's "religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places."
- She uses a lot of smiley faces and *motions* online, which makes her about ten thousand times more precious.
- She thinks that zombies are kind of jerks.
- She dated Twiggy Ramirez from Marilyn Manson. Their relationship was pretty tumultuous (he cheated on her with Courtney Love at one point) and earned her a (negative) mention in Manson's autobiography Long Hard Road Out Of Hell. Allegations that Twiggy copied her look areself-evident unfounded.
- She is friends with Roman Dirge, creator of the comic series Lenore, and is slated to voice its titular character in an upcoming film.
- She used to force herself to stay awake for days in order to hallucinate naturally. It was during these hallucenogenic periods that she wrote songs like "Lollirot" and "Cinnamon Spider," which, really, it explains a lot.
- She is inspired by "Christian Addams, things that go crash in the dark, vintage fashion, Justin Pearce, sweets, poorly drawn rabbits, lemons, Sigur Ros, Charlie White, John Waters, blue pills, Jennifer Syme, cotton candy, tiny masks, Robert Smith, heart candy, Francine Shane, Mark Ryden, love, bruises and 3rd degree burns, Melissa Hirschenson, Babycat, animals who wear hats, wine, all night TV, Marion Peck, cold nights, rainy days, sleep, depression, Siamese twins, extra limbs, missing limbs, teeth, hardware stores, Kevin Shields, kittens, gay bars, LA opportunists, the movie Palindromes, director Todd Solondz, and daytime television."
- She's been friends with Marilyn Manson for years, for a given value of "friends." (As mentioned above, she turns up in Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, but apparently she's forgiven him for that.) Here is a clip from some weird home movie they made that involves Disney World and Mr. Manson's penis:
God, they are such BABIES there. Manson even looks like a human being!
Anyway. Legend has it that one night they made a bet that whoever could go without sleep the longest would be America's next great rock star. He stayed awake for twenty minutes more. She's still good friends with his ex-wife Dita von Teese as well.
- She is also friends with J.D. Samson of Le Tigre! She knows EVERYONE, apparently.
- She may or may not have dated Crispin Glover and Jennifer Syme. Not at the same time, presumably.
- She likes Anchorman.
- She was in a movie with Naomi Watts called Ellie Parker. It is... well, look at it:
Yeeeeeeeeeeah.
LINKS WITH BANDOM
- She is besties with Audrey Kitching, who dated Brendon Urie and hangs out with pretty much every bandom person either. They do photoshoots together quite often.
- She's a fan of Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!), who did the artwork for Mindless Self Indulgence's last album, If.
- She is friends with Lyn-Z, Chantal Claret, and Frances Bean Cobain. (Sometimes they even get pedicures together.) She's also friends with Alicia, probably from hanging out with Lyn-Z.
- Out of everyone in bandom, she seems to be closest to Lyn-Z, which makes sense since they are both artsy wee darlings. They share a studio, have art shows together, and tweet adorable things to one another a lot. They are pretty much the most unbearably precious besties every and people should write many many stories about them getting drunk and making art togetherand then boning.
LOOKIDDEM. *hearteyes*
- She and good ol' Garry Way go to the same parties. I had a picture of that somewhere but it disappeared. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
youidiotkid, do you still have it?) They hang out in other places too! I will take this as a sign that they are best friends, because it pleases me.
- She is friends with Jess from the Veronicas. This does not really count as a bandom link, since the only connection the Veronicas have to bandom is that one picture where they're sandwiching Bert McCracken (I swear to God this exists, I did not make it up, I just can't find it right now), but, you know. PEOPLE COULD WRITE FIC ABOUT THAT.
OTHER PICTURES I COULDN'T REALLY FIND A PLACE FOR THROUGHOUT THIS PRIMER BUT WANTED TO POST ANYWAY 'CAUSE GOSH, EN'T SHE PRETTY?
LINKS
Jessicka's official site
scarling.'s official site
scarling. on MySpace
Jack Off Jill's official site
Jack Off Jill on MySpace
IN CONCLUSION
Jessicka is awesome. You should follow her on Twitter and buy all her albums so she can eat this week.
This is not okay. Therefore, I give you:
Jessicka Addams (formerly Jessicka Fodera or just plain Jessicka) is a singer and visual artist from Florida. She's a former suburban goth kid who loves Bikini Kill, comic books, and covering things with blood. And she says that if she weren't in a band she'd be illustrating children's books.
She may, in fact, be the lost Way sister.
Above is a bb!Jessicka, on the bottom left with the big hair and the dress that is not just pink but PIIIIIIIINK. Apparently Jessicka was pretty popular in high school (she was voted homecoming queen) but really hated it and eventually started hanging out with the art freaks instead, a la Mean Girls. It was around this time that she started getting into bands.
And covering things in blood.
Jessicka used to be in a band called Jack Off Jill, a goth-metal outfit that put out three albums (Humid Teenage Mediocrity, Sexless Demons and Scars, and Clear Hearts Grey Flowers). They disbanded in 2000 after going through more lineup changes than you can shake a stick at. Here are some pictures of them!
And here are a few of their songs.
"My Cat," 1998:
(As far as I know that was their only official video, so the rest of these will have to be fanvids, unfortunately.)
"Lollirot," 1998:
"Girlscout," 1998:
"Strawberry Gashes," 2000:
"Underjoyed," 2000:
JOJ was one of my favourite bands in middle/high school, and I think a lot of former suburban baby bats can say the same: they were bratty and dark and funny and angry and pretty much everything awesome and embarrassing ever. Jessicka said in interviews from the JOJ period that she really wanted to be a female version of KISS, making shock rock and putting on wild performances, and while that shock element is pretty evident in their earlier stuff, their last (and best) album is way more focused and introspective.
Regardless, I think this live clip in which Jessicka is heckled and proceeds to heckle back best sums up the band as a whole.
A few years after JOJ imploded- after swearing she'd never work in the music industry again- Jessicka started another band called scarling. with a totally different sound. Less KISS, more My Bloody Valentine. they've put out one LP, Sweet Heart Dealer, and one full-length, So Long Scarecrow. Last I checked the lineup was Jessicka on vocals, Christian Hejnal on guitar, Rickey Lime on guitar, Beth Gordon on drums, and Derik Snell on bass, but the band is currently on hiatus and they've had quite a few lineup changes so it's anyone's guess who's on the next album, really. Here are some pictures of them!
And here are some of their songs!
"Band-Aid Covers The Bullethole," 2003:
(That song is pretty much one of my favourite songs in all the world, jsyk.)
"Baby Dracula," 2003:
"Bummer," 2005:
(If this song sounds at all familiar that's probably because it was featured on an episode of The L Word. Yeah, lesbian soap operas are about as high profile as these guys get.)
"Caribou And Cake," 2005:
They also covered "Creep" by Radiohead. Since it's one of the few Radiohead covers I actually like I felt I had to include it, even though it's in an Anne Rice vid:
Robert Smith is a fan: "Scarling. make dark, desperate, chaotic, gorgeous pop music, the sound of the end of the world. And I love it." Considering the Cure is Jessicka's favourite band, I'm guessing she must have been pretty pleased about that.
Nowadays Jessicka is working more on art than music, although a new scarling. album is apparently upcoming.
... that counts as art, shut up. >.>
FACTS ABOUT JESSICKA
- She is a Scorpio.
- She's thirty-four.
- She has described herself as "a combination of John Waters, Laura Palmer, and Karen Walker."
- She started singing when she was three, and was encouraged by her grandmother. MUCH LIKE SOME OTHER GOTH WEIRDO WE KNOW AND LOVE.
- She used to be what she calls a "zaftig cherub" and is vocally opposed to fatphobia, in the music industry and elsewhere.
- If she could kill any celebrity it would be either Dave Navarro or "Hugh Hefner though I'd have to kill him in some ironic poetic way. Maybe having him choke on a giant Viagra pill or having little girls smother him with thousands of breasts implants until he suffocated to death." Hands up if you would pay to see that!
- She's bisexual and has spoken about her opposition to Proposition 8 and other discriminatory legislation. She also identifies as a "fruit fly." What she's said on the subject:
I am indeed bisexual. I'm everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support, and make-up tips.
Note: scarling.'s guitarist Rickey Lime is an out lesbian, and also a severe hottie.
Hellooooooo,
- She's married to Christian, scarling.'s lead guitarist. His former last name was Hejnal; about a year after getting married they both changed it to Addams, presumably in reference to the Addams Family. They are quite a cute couple!
Christian is working on the new Alice in Wonderland film, which is one of the reasons why scarling. is on hiatus.
- She has a kitty named Alexander, and wrote a song named after him called "Alexander the Burn Victim."
- She's writing a book. I can't find much information on this anywhere- supposedly she's put it aside for the moment- but I think it bears mentioning. :)
- She's a feminist. Here's what she says about that:
There are plenty of female artists that I consider feminist, Le Tigre, Peaches, Sleater Kinney, PJ Harvey—the list is endless. I think there's certain stigma attached to the word "feminist". I feel a lot of people confuse feminist with man-hater which is not the correct definition by any means. Webster's defines feminism as:
1 : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
2 : organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests
So until people see the difference between a feminist and a man-hater I think there will always be a certain assumption when a female artist considers herself one and says it in print. Yes, I do consider myself a feminist and I am saying it in print.
And here's a clip where she talks about feminism in relation to the music industry:
- She's "religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places."
- She uses a lot of smiley faces and *motions* online, which makes her about ten thousand times more precious.
- She thinks that zombies are kind of jerks.
- She dated Twiggy Ramirez from Marilyn Manson. Their relationship was pretty tumultuous (he cheated on her with Courtney Love at one point) and earned her a (negative) mention in Manson's autobiography Long Hard Road Out Of Hell. Allegations that Twiggy copied her look are
- She is friends with Roman Dirge, creator of the comic series Lenore, and is slated to voice its titular character in an upcoming film.
- She used to force herself to stay awake for days in order to hallucinate naturally. It was during these hallucenogenic periods that she wrote songs like "Lollirot" and "Cinnamon Spider," which, really, it explains a lot.
- She is inspired by "Christian Addams, things that go crash in the dark, vintage fashion, Justin Pearce, sweets, poorly drawn rabbits, lemons, Sigur Ros, Charlie White, John Waters, blue pills, Jennifer Syme, cotton candy, tiny masks, Robert Smith, heart candy, Francine Shane, Mark Ryden, love, bruises and 3rd degree burns, Melissa Hirschenson, Babycat, animals who wear hats, wine, all night TV, Marion Peck, cold nights, rainy days, sleep, depression, Siamese twins, extra limbs, missing limbs, teeth, hardware stores, Kevin Shields, kittens, gay bars, LA opportunists, the movie Palindromes, director Todd Solondz, and daytime television."
- She's been friends with Marilyn Manson for years, for a given value of "friends." (As mentioned above, she turns up in Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, but apparently she's forgiven him for that.) Here is a clip from some weird home movie they made that involves Disney World and Mr. Manson's penis:
God, they are such BABIES there. Manson even looks like a human being!
Anyway. Legend has it that one night they made a bet that whoever could go without sleep the longest would be America's next great rock star. He stayed awake for twenty minutes more. She's still good friends with his ex-wife Dita von Teese as well.
- She is also friends with J.D. Samson of Le Tigre! She knows EVERYONE, apparently.
- She may or may not have dated Crispin Glover and Jennifer Syme. Not at the same time, presumably.
- She likes Anchorman.
- She was in a movie with Naomi Watts called Ellie Parker. It is... well, look at it:
Yeeeeeeeeeeah.
LINKS WITH BANDOM
- She is besties with Audrey Kitching, who dated Brendon Urie and hangs out with pretty much every bandom person either. They do photoshoots together quite often.
- She's a fan of Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!), who did the artwork for Mindless Self Indulgence's last album, If.
- She is friends with Lyn-Z, Chantal Claret, and Frances Bean Cobain. (Sometimes they even get pedicures together.) She's also friends with Alicia, probably from hanging out with Lyn-Z.
- Out of everyone in bandom, she seems to be closest to Lyn-Z, which makes sense since they are both artsy wee darlings. They share a studio, have art shows together, and tweet adorable things to one another a lot. They are pretty much the most unbearably precious besties every and people should write many many stories about them getting drunk and making art together
LOOKIDDEM. *hearteyes*
- She and good ol' Garry Way go to the same parties. I had a picture of that somewhere but it disappeared. (
youidiotkid, do you still have it?) They hang out in other places too! I will take this as a sign that they are best friends, because it pleases me.- She is friends with Jess from the Veronicas. This does not really count as a bandom link, since the only connection the Veronicas have to bandom is that one picture where they're sandwiching Bert McCracken (I swear to God this exists, I did not make it up, I just can't find it right now), but, you know. PEOPLE COULD WRITE FIC ABOUT THAT.
OTHER PICTURES I COULDN'T REALLY FIND A PLACE FOR THROUGHOUT THIS PRIMER BUT WANTED TO POST ANYWAY 'CAUSE GOSH, EN'T SHE PRETTY?
LINKS
Jessicka's official site
scarling.'s official site
scarling. on MySpace
Jack Off Jill's official site
Jack Off Jill on MySpace
IN CONCLUSION
Jessicka is awesome. You should follow her on Twitter and buy all her albums so she can eat this week.
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on 2009-11-28 06:01 pm (UTC)I adore Jessicka so much and more people need to be aware of her epic, epic ways <3333 And Jack Off Jill cause god, i love their noise.
She's such a sweetheart and all arty and crazy talented. I did some epic flailing when the penny dropped about her and Lyn-z being bffs. Nothing could be better for me (well, other than knowing Jessicka and tara mcpherson are very close friends and i hope this extends to lyn-z too cause omg!) than having two of my very favourites all best friends with their awesomeness *______*
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on 2009-11-28 06:04 pm (UTC)I don't know who Tara McPherson is, though, care to share?
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on 2009-11-28 06:17 pm (UTC)Tara McPherson is one of my favourite artists ever! She's a badass tattooed bass playing lady (i believe i have a type!) and does wonderful, cute but a little creepy work <3333
Also, do Christian and Jessicka have a kitty called Earl? I think i remember something on twitter about a little grey/blue kitty by that name.
I missed that picture of her and Tarrie B the first look through *____*
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on 2009-11-28 06:31 pm (UTC)I think they might! They've added to their menagerie since getting Alexander, I know that much.
♥TarrieB♥
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on 2009-11-28 08:30 pm (UTC)*flail* I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THAT OMG. *adjusts tinhat*
I would write that fic, except that would mean I wouldn't be able to read it and. well. I really wanna.
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on 2009-11-28 08:29 pm (UTC)She is so purrrrrdy. :D
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on 2009-11-29 05:16 am (UTC)...ALSO SHE AND SHAKIRA SHOULD TALK, BECAUSE THAT PICTURE WITH THE PURPLE DREADS AND RED BACKGROUND? ONE OF THEM STOLE THAT FROM THE OTHER, AND I'M NOT SURE WHO YET.
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on 2009-11-29 01:53 pm (UTC)Dude, JOJ totally predates Shakira. Shakira stole that shit from her. (Although I think Shakira pulled off the dreads a little better- sorry, Jessicka!)
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on 2009-11-29 09:59 pm (UTC)JESSICKA = ♥
SORRY ABOUT MY CRAPPY COMMENT, BUT DUDETTE... I'M FULL OF GLEE RIGHT NOW, CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT!
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on 2009-11-30 12:52 am (UTC)FINALLY
JESSICKA PRIMER
FUCK YEAH
ILY
And omg the BB!Manson video is worth it for Twiggy's questionable multicolored dreads alone.
She also counts as bandom by default because hello, she is in a band. Also formerly in a band with Daisy Berkowitz/Scott Putesky, also formerly in a band with Twiggy and Manson, who share their own little corner of fandom. SO. Yes. You need a Mrs. Scabtree clip in there too, jus sayin'.
And thank you thank you thannnnk you for posting pics I do not have yet, cuz now I can make with the artings and people will be all "Y U DRAWIN LYN-Z SO FAT???". And I can be like "BISH PLZ, IT B JESSICKA~". etcetera.
♥
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on 2009-12-01 03:23 am (UTC)From Wikipedo: "[During the development of Portrait of an American Family], the band was having difficulties with bassist Gidget Gein, who had begun to lose control of his addiction to heroin. While reworking the album Manson played two shows in South Florida under the name Mrs Scabtree. The Mrs. featured two members of MM, the guitarist from the Itch, a member of Amboog-a-lard (Jeordie White), Manson proteges Jack Off Jill, lead bass by Pat Joyce, and rhythm bass by Killer." here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Manson_%28band%29#Portrait_of_an_American_Family_and_Smells_Like_Children_.281993.E2.80.931995.29)
Mansonwiki article: http://www.mansonwiki.com/wiki/Mrs._Scabtree
Live video:
Backstage video:
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on 2009-11-30 04:33 am (UTC)sadly, i do not have those pictures anymore. they were on her facebook, which she has since made private.
also, she was once on an episode of germany's next top model with audrey, clint, and jared gold. the models had to wear jared's clothing, and audrey, clint, and jessicka helped them put on live cockroach brooches xD
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on 2009-11-30 04:35 am (UTC)i wrote mine on jessicka bahahaha
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on 2015-09-07 08:53 pm (UTC)This was the greatest post by the way, I never thought I'd run into a JOJ shrine or primer (not sure what they're called) but I soaked up all the info and pics like a sponge in water.
Jack Off Jill was my favorite band in high school. Sexless Demon and Scars specifically. Clear hearts grey flowers came out at the tail end of high school for me. I still credit Jack Off Jill for directing my taste in music ever since. They're definitely the band that put me on path to find the music I liked. It eventually led me to industrial music and recently glitch. But JOJ was the one that introduced me to a world of sounds that I was aching for, even though I didn't know it at the time. It's funny because I had no interest in Manson, and paid it no heed that the band originated as an all female band, which is rare today but especially for the 90's. You'd think one of those two facts would have caught my attention, but nope, I just dug the sound.
I found them a long time ago on a site called liveConcerts.com. All the music was in realAudio, it was the worse possible sound. But it was all streaming! First time I had seen streaming anything. That was my introduction to JOJ, a real audio concert. I then scoured the internet for more songs by them, this is early internet too, when askJeeves and AltaVista were the best search engines. So many pages were sifted through, and still even then, only 15 second .wav files were found. Girlscout being one of them, which wasn't in the real audio concert. Oh god did I yearn to hear that song in it's entirety. But the album was impossible to find. For a year I searched every record store I came across, nothing. I finally found it, which I still have today. My first ebay purchase was a demo tape (yes cassette tape) of early JOJ. When JOJ disbanded I messaged a webmaster who seemed to have inside knowledge on the band, about what new projects each member was pursuing. I still have his email. Even when I deleted all my email, never that one. It must be so pointlessly out of date by now, but I still got it. I wonder if he ever thinks back to his old JOJ website and realizes that some crazed JOJ would keep one of his replies forever. ha ha.
Anyways, great post! It deserves more attention! And thanks, it's led me to quite-the-journey down memory lane.
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on 2015-09-08 05:11 am (UTC)This was the greatest post by the way, I never thought I'd run into a JOJ shrine or primer (not sure what they're called) but I soaked up all the info and pics like a sponge in water.
Jack Off Jill was my favorite band in high school. Sexless Demon and Scars specifically. Clear hearts grey flowers came out at the tail end of high school by then for me. I still credit Jack Off Jill for directing my taste in music ever since. They're definitely the band that put me on path to find the music I liked. It eventually led me to industrial music and recently glitch. But it was JOJ was the one that introduced me to a world of sounds that I was aching for, even though I didn't know it at the time. It's funny because I had no interest in Manson, and paid it no heed that it originated as an all female band, which is rare today but especially for the 90's. You'd think one of those two facts would have caught my attention, but nope, I just dug the sound.
I found them a long time ago on a site called liveConcerts.com. All the music was in realAudio, it was the worse possible sound. But it was all streaming! First time I had seen streaming anything. That was my introduction to JOJ, a real audio concert. I then scoured the internet for more songs by them, this is early internet too, when askJeeves and AltaVista were the best search engines. So many pages were sifted through, and still even then, only 15 second .wav files were found. Girlscout being one of them, which wasn't in the real audio concert. I was so anxious to find that full song. But the album was impossible to find. For a year I searched every record store I came across, nothing. I finally found it, which I still have today. My first ebay purchase was a demo tape (yes cassette tape) of early JOJ. When JOJ disbanded I messaged a webmaster who seemed to have inside knowledge on the band, about what new projects each member was pursuing. I still have his email. Even when I deleted all my email, never that one. It must be so pointlessly out of date by now, but still got it. I wonder if that webmaster ever thinks back to his JOJ website and realizes that some crazed JOJ fan would keep his email reply forever. ha ha
Anyways, great post! It deserves more attention. And thanks! It's led me to quite-the-journey down memory lane.