Gillian Holmes Cruxena Holt

Gillian Holmes, originally from a swamp in Colorado, came to Austin three years ago to attend the University of Texas, where she studies African History and English. She is sick of people looking at her pale, pale skin and saying, "African history...interesting." She loves Greyhound buses and has taken them across the U.S. and Australia many times. She is currently pursuing a career as an actress-screenwriter-photographer-singer-songwriter-radio DJ-novelist, so if anyone knows of any positions opening up in that field, they should talk to her. She is also obsessed with Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen, so make sure to avoid those topics of conversation with her because she will never shut up. She is not an anarchist but she has great affection for them. She obsessively makes lists, with titles like "Number of People I've Dated Who Could Name an Album by Bruce Besides Born in the U.S.A. Before I Dated Them". (The answer is a shockingly low six.) She can name one-hundred and eighty-two nations and their capitals, which is why no one kissed her in high school. Gillian first met the enigmatic j. Nathan Weisenthal a year-and-a-half ago upon taking the class "Nigeria: The History of Nation-Building". Bonded together by their contempt for the other students, they soon realized that they were spiritual siblings, which is a lot less hokey than it sounds. Gillian was originally flattered when Joe and Rhys offered her the role of Cruxena Holt, using complimentary statements like, "You are Cruxena, Gillian. We wrote it with you in mind." Though after she read the script, she realized that she is nothing like Cruxena Holt -- although she likes the character. Gillian also recently played Titania in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and if you missed it, it is your loss because she kissed a girl. Inspired by Joe and Rhys, she is currently writing three screenplays and a novel, and feels that the Austin Chronicle should hire her to write music and movie reviews. If you like how this bio is written then you like her writing because she wrote this. Actually that is something she has never understood; people always write their own bios and yet they never write them in the first-person. She does not understand why this is, but she theorizes it has something to do with a very un-American embarrassment with tooting your own horn. She would like to take this moment to call for more egos in bio writing, or the terrorists have already won.

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