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About Me

check out my website at raeanticapitalista.com

My Interests

the port of oakland, smashing the state!, sharpie markers, drawing, dancing, revolution, pinay pride!, guilty pleasures, satisfying cravings, being impulsive, 'tangental seemingly-so-but-not-really non sequiturs', passion as a life process, name-dropping: rothko, miro, gursky, murakami, kara walker, julie mehretu, *free palestine*

I'd like to meet:

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to indicate to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machines will be prevented from working at all - Mario Savio

Music:

xploding plastix, royksopp, aphex twin, rjd2, tortoise, velvet and nico, beethoven, prince, mbv, postal service, lou barlow, yeah yeah yeahs, peaches, neutral milk hotel, shadow, kid koala, talib kweli, radiohead, massive attack, chopin, bach, shostakovich, labels: ninja tune, astralworks, warp records"Disregarding all the wordiness and adjectives that can be heaped like a pile of horse dung at Disneyland upon great, timeless albums, the importance of this record can perhaps be more suitably measured by the number of people who remember the first time they heard it" - Andy Kellman on Fugazi's 13 Songs (allmusic.com go learn something)

Movies:

michel gondry, wes andersen, miyazaki, charlie kaufman, napoleon dynamite, i heart huckabees, lost in translation, 28 days later, hero (kicks tiger's crouching butt), all kar wai, ang lee (even the hulk), shanghai noon/knights, metropolis, singing in the rain, kurosawa, miyazaki, tom tykwer, the matrices, kevin smith, city lights, lynch, mamet, bring it on, pulp fiction, casablanka, orfeu, hiroshima mon amour, cronenberg, to die for, kieslowski,

Television:

heroes (like reading comics w/o the reading), L word (2nd season's sucky), big love (polyamory sux), top model/project runway (oh come on, u do it too), anything to keep me from doin' my research ;)

Books:

sam kieth, adrian tomine, mishima, bukowski, durrell, calvino, kundera, marquez, oh the thinks you can think, allende, borges, lorca, rilke, rimbaud, Ishiguro, the golden compass trilogy, the phantom tollbooth, the sorrows of young werther, gourmet magazine

Heroes:

my mom

My Blog

i quit smoking... again...

bundled in high collar unibomber style alone again for the first time enjoying that stomach churning finger numbing buzz that only two sweet cigarettes can give... or insomnia... or a nights worth of ...
Posted by rae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

lost in translation

from nov. 24, 2003personally i think one's response to a film, like any work of art, is determined by a combination of factors. one of which is, like you said, your expectations which are, i agree, la...
Posted by rae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

on culture and criteria

so this entry was started with the vision of expounding on my frustration and general outrage with phoenician metro area scenesters. frightening southwestern, shaggy haired twenty somethings, socially...
Posted by rae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

AMG bulletin - "suggesting druggy sex or sexy drugs"

written by Heather Phares on My Bloody Valentine's album 'Loveless' found on ALLMUSIC.COM A REALLY AWESOME FUCKING SITE. which leaves me speechless and forces me to resort to inarticulate profanit...
Posted by rae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

on persona and public relations

given there is no such thing as original thought... our persona, and thereby the expressions of oneself is/are merely the endorsement of ideas we are attracted to and like to align ourselves with. ...
Posted by rae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST