the seven dwarfs of my mind

so i haven’t written to you all in some time and i think for now i’d like to make this section of janestown be less of an update on activity (a perusal of various departments and recent posts listed on the left should accomplish that), and more of a mish-mash of things on my mind […]


my first audio mash-up: “greed is good”

I’m hoping to do more of these audio mash-ups, some thematic (like this one), and some inspired by William Burroughs’ cut-up method (with no logic or predetermined meaning). My intern, Thomas Sidman, did the editing on this one, so special shout out to him! “Greed is Good” Mash Up #1/copyright Jane Harris Tweet


my new favorite broad: juliette lewis on plastic surgery

Somehow I happened upon this Orange County blog (hilarious) in a search for female celebrities who’ve bucked the obsessive trend to inject, carve, vacuum, and laser themselves into a two-dimensional ideal of youthful beauty. By this I mean that it now seems that how we look in photos is more important than how we look […]