Word: jarcho
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what’s something about her few people know? Jarcho considers the question. “My first word was ‘more,’” she says...
...distinctive appearance—“punk-rock elegance,” as Graham-Felsen terms it—garnishes the mystique. Roommate Seung-Min Lee ’03 describes Jarcho as a combination of Winona Ryder and Penelope Cruz, and there’s something to it: a bit of the former’s fragility, the latter’s lushness. “She makes awkwardness the sexiest thing since Anthony Michael Hall,” Lee says...
...conversation, Jarcho moves with ease between her literature tutorial on departures from phallogocentric philosophy and enthusiastic discussions of lingerie and “tortoise-y math rock.” The last came up as a result of Jarcho’s sometime involvement as drummer, singer and songwriter in a band called Ensimismada, which played famed New York venues like CBGB and the Mercury Lounge. Jarcho translates the band’s Spanish name as “self-involved or lost in thought,” something she says applies to herself...
...Jarcho is given to making vivid observations and then wittily disparaging herself. “I find myself caring a lot and feeling really involved, not in some useful political way, in the details of things,” she says over coffee at Daedalus. “But I don’t know how much of that is me just wanting to construct myself after the image of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” She brightens, looking around her. “And here we are at Daedalus. See? Anyone who knows...
...quite. Those who know her use phrases like “gutsy,” “passionate provocateur” and “the most brilliant person I know.” As for herself, Jarcho says that “maintaining a high-friction edge or interface with the world is important...