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rachel k

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About Me

nice things bloom out of a pile of crap

My Interests

currently: winging it, taking it easy(on myself), trying to not hate, walking on my newly enhanced leg, quelling my inner rantings, sleeping and caffeine...in general: the above plus - drawing, painting, crochetting, curly-tailed little dogs, anthropomorphic toys, reading, learning, writing reports on various subjects for no reason, thinking, dreaming, adventures, taking polaroids, paradigms, catching up on my spanish, kicking people in the shins or balls, whiskey/old crow, cycles, hindsight, trivial psychic powers, clarity of thought, industrial landscapes, astrology, religions, human nature, cats, old lady neighbors who yell "keep laughing you son of a bitch!", ninjas, thinking i'm a superhero with no apparent superpower, appreciating things at hand, anthropomorphic art, new friends around a fire and being coaxed by old men to do shots, living on the downlow, drinking a 40 out of a fancy glass, mitch hedberg, learning to punch, hanging out with a cute guy who gives me flowers and the most wonderful presents

I'd like to meet:

funny and kind and real or vice versa

Music:

ted leo, weakerthans, magnetic fields, neutral milk hotel, jolie holland, sleater kinney, yeah yeah yeahs, cat stevens, the 5678s, johnny cash, beatles, the cars, modest mouse, cat power, tom waits, pixies, fleetwood mac, the mammas and the pappas, belle & sebastion, pavement, le tigre, saturday looks good to me, nerfherder, blondie, len, gorillaz, the flaming lips, leonard cohen, ccr, elliott smith, aretha franklin, jonathon richmond, neal young, madonna with donna, muse

Movies:

kill bill(s), amelie, the royal tenenbaums, frida, star wars, the big lebowski, office space, friday, buffalo 66, what's eating gilbert grape, night on earth, the princess bride, waiting for guffman, tuvalu, ghost dog, dead man, the notebook, napoleon dynomite, big fish, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, cookie's fortune, jackie brown, the 40 year old virgin, zathura - the jumanji of space, hellraiser 1-?, stranger than fiction

Television:

six feet under, curb your enthusiam, the office, my name is earl, law & orders, weeds, the L word, celebrity poker showdown, deal or no deal oh yeah, arrested development, family guy, 24 even though kiefer is starting to drive me crazy

Books:

another roadside attraction, galapagos, 1984, the fountainhead, anthem, the philosophy of andy warhol, a confederacy of dunces, cat's cradle, failure to quit, REAL Ultimate Power-The Official Ninja Book, the dictionary, Tao Te Ching

Heroes:

frida kahlo, mlk jr, carl sagan, leonardo di vinci, koko, my family & friends, my honey cause he always makes me feel special

My Blog

yeah, more stupid, i mean, challenging crap in my life

so sunday night my house was broken into by who i now know are a group of four boys. they broke in my window, ripped up my house and stole some of my things. what i found when i came home left me spee...
Posted by rachel k on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:24:00 PST

getting smashed isnt so bad...

yeah so i guess this whole getting rear-ended thing is working to my favor. i found out today that my car is totalled and i am actually going to make some money in the whole sweet deal. poor...
Posted by rachel k on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:05:00 PST

thoughts & crap

you know, nice things bloom out of a pile of crap. i think i need to keep remembering this. i liked my sell-out, paying off my debts, working massive overtime, corporate job until about two days ago a...
Posted by rachel k on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:46:00 PST

the mysteries of myspace

so. i guess my perspective is a little off since i work at a "professional" job that thinks for security and probably productivity reasons that myspace is prohibited. i am an old school mysp...
Posted by rachel k on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:15:00 PST

so dammit. (drink) i'm so lucky...

i am just happy today. yup   today was a good day and i really like my life right now. i am starting to hate my schedule. but i like my life. charlene and i both lucked out on red lights and fla...
Posted by rachel k on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:26:00 PST

who do you have to sleep with to get a cop to do his job?

jeez last night i was an audio witness to someone being beaten in the house next door. it was disturbing. i was completely asleep and gently brought back into reality by some person screaming and cry...
Posted by rachel k on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:20:00 PST

goddam stupid religions!

so being the sometimes psuedo philosopher that i am...i am sitting here thinking how stupid some things are. do i believe in a god? perhaps. do i think there are things out of my control or knowledge?...
Posted by rachel k on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:34:00 PST

you don't want to read this one

so it's new year's eve and i'm currently drinking a 40 and hanging out at my house. you know, usually i like this day and i plan ahead my evening, which i have this evening, but this year is different...
Posted by rachel k on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:39:00 PST

peer pressurers just get older and older

what is up with old men trying to get me to do shots? i went to a bonfire on friday and i kept hearing about mario's "punch". i really thought it would be red with icecubes. no! it's some dark thick m...
Posted by rachel k on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 07:09:00 PST

time makes bony knobs grow...

yay! i am now in an air splint which means that soon i will be walking again. i have about another month until i am back to walking free of restraints, other than the rod, and the strange bone knob th...
Posted by rachel k on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:03:00 PST