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rachel

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About Me


musician. painter. candlestick maker.
ex resident of delmar street, nashville.
i'm a lover, not a fighter.
i like greenery, backpacking, compiling statistics and making histograms.
i have hang-ups that venture into nonsense algebraic rules and misspelled words. i'm easily intimidated by empty canvases, as i am with tall buildings, big trucks, and really really good classical guitarists. i find most things illogical and inconsistent, often fall asleep to white noise, cannot pronounce rural or necessary, and simply cannot accept the fact that .999 repeating equals 1.

here on the road.
some photographs.
my recent listenings.
some writings.

i like some tags of banksy.

i have a thing for angus.

My Interests



I'd like to meet:


the edible brooklyn lamb. big polka joe. the guy who played pete in pete's dragon. gilbert blythe. caractacus potts. also, a maybe a remeet of elrus persley.

Music:



northern soul. music that recalls screen doors. then, after that, everything follows: thee lethargic three. lou barlow: solo, sebadoh, sentridoh, & folk implosion. silver jews. archers of loaf. pavement. masters of the hemisphere. unrest. versus. will oldham: solo, palace, & bonnie "prince" billy. can. liars. the microphones. the songs of damien jurado, david bazan, beirut, mark kozelek, phosphorescent, adam arcuragi. okkervil river. horse feathers. deertick. castanets. tunng. someone still loves you boris yeltsin. the surreal of rachel's, clogs, do make say think, sigur ros, stars of the lid, mogwai, sea and the cake. scandinavian: loney dear, the figurines, efterklang, detektivbyron, oh sweet music, shout out louds, erlend oye, kings of convenience. nashville: heypenny, the features, how i became the bomb, the silver seas, de nova dahl. the miscellany/exotica vinyl section at great escape.

Movies:

Hitchcock. Kurosawa. Mongolian Cinema. French Cinema. German Cinema. Decasia. City of Lost Children. Goodbye Lenin. The Dreamlife of Angels. Eternal Sunshine. Brick. Return to Oz. Cinema Paradiso. Run Lola Run. Dark Crystal. Holiday. The Girl of the Limberlost. Watcher in the Woods. In the Realms of the Unreal. Coen Bros. films. Christopher Guest creations. and the animated classics of the 1980s, the Flight of Dragons and the Last Unicorn. and I will never deny my deep rooted love of Anne of Green Gables.

Television:

small claims court tv shows, right around lunchtime.

Books:

Russian Literature. In Search of Lost Time. You Shall Know Our Velocity! Player Piano. The Awakening. Mere Christianity. Severe Mercy. Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Golden Books. The Foxfire series.

Mostly anything by M. Proust, L. Tolstoy, Clive Staples Lewis. K. Vonnegut, J. Kerouac, G. Garcia Marquez, E. Poe, D. Eggers, M. Chabon, C. Klosterman, B. Manning, J. Piper, and apostle Paul.

oh, and god bless Carolyn Keene for the many splending years of sleuthing with dear friends Nancy, George, and Bess.

Heroes:

the epic prestige of sir gawain.
the cryptic-ness of pengu.
the multi-tasking of midori ito.
the gentle soul of wicket, the ewok.

Texas Instruments world of games.

and darger's seven vivian sisters.

and emil.

My Blog

Spin Magazine and Seattle

via the Sun Kil Moon show. Fans Worship Sun Kil Moon's Sonic Structure. They misquoted me, got my occupation all wrong, and I look sweaty....
Posted by rachel on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:08:00 PST

may 4th mayhem

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Posted by rachel on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:37:00 PST

There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year

There are a few freelance designs up at Tooth and Nail Records under the Feature Products (mewithoutYou, Jonezetta, Starflyer 59) and at SolidState Records as well (He is Legend). In other news, this ...
Posted by rachel on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:30:00 PST

The Lake of Shining Waters

LT and I are collaborating on an endearing piece of fan mail to be sent to Megan Follows. It's way overdue.
Posted by rachel on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:52:00 PST

Tennessee's a brother to my sister Carolina


Posted by rachel on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:16:00 PST

new sketches and evening stretches

slightly skewed, new sketch. initially for possible use for death comesto matteson, minus the mouth. back to work on things for classes tomorrow. i think tonight will be an all night event....
Posted by rachel on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:51:00 PST

adventures in eschatological fun

i felt very zombied all through thanksgiving. tomorrow starts the last full week of my undergraduate career. i'm not bummed by any means. i welcome the diploma with tamborines and dancing. i have my c...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:33:00 PST

sacred harp singing, melancholy combat, and children's book illustrations

new painting. further displaying my albatross/dawn treader affinities. i went to a sacred harp shape note singsong this afternoon post church service. it was the most haunting and intriguing thing i'...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:07:00 PST

werewolves, lonely heart, and miscellany

introduction: this is composed of detached phrasings, mostly. and a multitude of runon sentences.listening to bach's the musical offering in my warm lit room; i was alone in this creaky house last nig...
Posted by rachel on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:06:00 PST

no lie.

i want a robosapien. the jobe family robosapien i've coveted for way too long. lisa, convince your father to let me adopt.
Posted by rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST