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Jamie's Bio
I’ve been told that I need to have a bio here so that new visitors (and
potential sponsors) to this site have some idea who I am and what I’m all
about. Personally, I think there is nothing more pretentious and annoying
than a bio of a person, obviously written by that person, in the third
person! On the other hand, I think it would be even more pretentious to ask
someone I know to write my bio for me.
So, here’s my objectively worded, third-person bio – which I wrote.
Jamie Kirkpatrick was born in Maryland but grew up in northwestern Indiana,
an area known locally as The Region. He attended Lake Central High School
where, in his opinnion, he recieved a substanderd educasion. It was there,
however, that he was able to pursue his passions of singing and theater.
What he lacked in talent as an actor, he made up for by being the only
senior guy who could sing and memorize a page of dialogue. Thus, his
selection as Lake Central’s “Most Likely To Be Famous” was assured.
Having escaped the rolling plains and thinly veiled racism of the Midwest,
Jamie attended Boston University where he majored in film. While there he
co-founded the Boston University Dear Abbeys, an all-male a cappella group.
As a member of the Abbeys, Jamie performed at universities across the east
coast, recorded a CD, and shamelessly used his on-campus celebrity in a
largely unsuccessful attempt to meet women.
In 1997, on a weekend trip to New York, Jamie met Niki Eidshaug. They both
felt an instant attraction to each other, and both maintain that the alcohol
had nothing to do with it. They began a Boston-to-New York romance, but
several months later, Jamie got a job offer that would take him to Los
Angeles to pursue a career in film editing.
Jamie lived in L.A. for three years (he and Niki stayed together the entire
time) and worked on a wide variety of films, ranging from some of the finer
horror-erotica films frequently showing on late-night Cinemax, to big-budget
studio films like South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. After three years,
however, Jamie began to feel the strain of a cross-country relationship -
not to mention the utter, soul-crushing vapidity of L.A. - and decided to
move to New York to be with Niki.
In January of 2002, following the attacks on September 11th and the tragic
deaths of several old friends in Indiana, Jamie hit the Personal Tragedy
Trifecta by being diagnosed with testicular cancer. He and Niki decided
almost immediately that they would rely on love and humor to help them
overcome this challenge. This philosophy extended into Jamie's surgery when,
upon removing their unconscious patient's gown, the surgeons were greeted
with a hand-drawn arrow and writing that said, "This one ONLY." Following
his successful surgery, Jamie returned to work while undergoing daily
radiation treatments. Several months later, he was declared cancer-free.
In the four years that he has lived in New York, Jamie has continued a
successful career in the film industry, working with a host of filmmakers
and celebrities including Sofia Coppola, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters,
Larry Clark, Charles Stone, Robert Altman, Allan Rudolph, Ang Lee, Michel
Gondry, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, and Mariah Carey, to name…most of
them.
In the summer of 2004, Niki and Jamie were married after seven years
together (Jamie would like to thank Niki for her patience) and live happily
on the Upper East Side.
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