Jess´ Story - Halloween and Pop Culture Merge to form AJA!!!
This is an actual email I got from Jess about her Halloween:hey danina,
how are you? where are you? still in CA, or are you off on some exciting adventure already? i hope you're having a great time wherever you are. if you're in the US, we should talk at some point soon - I don't want to miss you before your travels. anyway, i have something *very* exciting to tell you. i was in nyc last weekend (the weekend before halloween), and didn't have a costume planned. i wound up stopping in some costume store and picking up a blue wig; i figured that i could be a woman in a blue wig or some other extremely creative idea. but then, on saturday evening, tara had a pumpkin/pepper carving party, and we started to dress up, and one of her friends said "i'm sure that one of jem's friends on that show had blue hair... you should be her!" well, a little internet research later, and we had discovered that aja was one of the holograms (there was also a misfit with blue hair, but she wasn't as intriguing). so, tara gets me some tights, a short skirt, and lots of belts, and we're ready to go. we went out and met up with a few of her friends, and they asked me what my costume was. i stand up to show them the full effect, and one shouts "oh, i think i know what you are," but before she can finish, the other blurts out "oh my god, you're aja! i love that show; i still know all the songs!"
so there you go, an amazing success. aparently, those jem fans are diehards! anyway, i thought you would appreciate it, even if it wasn't a "but i thought he said..." story ;) hope everything is great!
xo love, jess
OK, so time for some quick notes so that this makes sense to the uniformed:
1) Jess freakin LOVES "Jem and the Holograms". When were were in college, one of my friends who went to another school created his own server and named it Synergy in honor of the famed supercomputer from "Jem and the Holograms." Anyway, my friend (John, who also participated in the Running of the Bunnies back in the day) then received an email from someone who found his website on a search engine, was apparently obsessed with Jem as well, and provided John with several of the Hologram's greatest hits to play on his website. Long story short (too late) Jess downloaded the famous THEMESONG to "Jem and the Holograms" and decided to MEMORIZE IT by replaying it ad nauseum.
2) The punchline of MANY of Jess´s stories involves some confusion between what someone said and what Jess heard, hence the reference to "but I thought he said"
