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rachael

you're as blind as masturbating bats with glaucoma

About Me

i take pictures. and look up crushes i had in elementary school on myspace.
i stream Democracy Now daily from here

My Interests

i like quirks and literature, psychology of sexual culture and history, creative espresso, dualism and karma, nostalgic video games, banksy, loose leaf tea, fair-trade, forgetting that tv exists, photography, electronica mainly IDM and ambient, experiancing different sensations other than the normal discourse of pre-packaged emotion, traveling, wondershowzen, the politics of apathy, erotica, lemonade, philosophy, arrested devolpment, dreams, museums, subjective reality and manifestation, artists, 11.11, history, coffee table books with beautiful photography, how language can influence our mindset
--gaining perspective and asking questions

I'd like to meet:

the unashamed-openminded-eccentrics, the pro-active passivists, quirky quirkless characters and sarcastically shy self-proclaimed saviors.cool people in germany

Music:

aphex twin and warp records, boards of canada, radiohead, pedro the lion, miles davis, gimmik and toytronic records, squarepusher, ladytron, cursive, lamb, bjork, sarah vaughan, the life aquatic soundtrack, cat power,The B-52's, clap your hands say yeah, billie holiday, le tigre, modest mouse, pandora.com

Movies:

the motorcycle diaries, triplets of belleville, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, slacker, life is beautiful, spirited away, trainspotting, american beauty, nothing, little nemo, thank you for smoking, the hours...

Books:

charles bukowski, orson scott card, ray bradbury, neil gaiman, marge piercy, tom robbins, anais nin, michael cunningham, upton sinclair, kate chopin, john irving, ayn rand, emily bronte, william golding, george orwell, noam chompsky, albert camus, daniel quinn, francesca lia block, kurt vonnegut, nathanial hawthorne, howard zinn, janet fitch, jeffrey eugenides, isabel allende, oscar wilde, anita diamont, rita dove, pablo neruda, nikki giovanni, michelle tea, douglas adams, margaret atwood, and national geographic.

Heroes:

my grandmother

My Blog

masturbation mania

no i am not referring to the adult film ...i am referring to what historians have recently titled Masturbation Mania as brief period in time (1700-1914) when parents throughout England and the United...
Posted by rachael on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:51:00 PST

sharp tooth!

there is only so many times that i can stand to see the land before time X, in german. today i went to the natural history museum and took a bunch of photos. thought that i could immortalize them here...
Posted by rachael on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:49:00 PST

There is a mosquito in my room

and it wants me. i know this because everytime  i wake upthere is a new mystery bumpexcept it isnt a mystery once i start itching it. i know it's because i killed that spiderthat was building a w...
Posted by rachael on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:58:00 PST

German Reunification Day

or "Deutsche Einheit" or "German unity" day; German unity is the term that Hans-Dietrich Genscher used in front of international journalists to correct them when they asked him about "reunification" i...
Posted by rachael on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:36:00 PST

Cheerio Ms. Sophie

and so she makes the decision to come home.  what home? i don't know. I don't even really know the reason except for the fact that it will make me happy. because every day i wake up here, i get a...
Posted by rachael on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:16:00 PST

the bread man is here; the bread man is here

since i see none of you any more...hello everyone. honestly,i have been going from looking at return tickets back to the states; to the next second of wandering through a field of apple, pea...
Posted by rachael on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:25:00 PST

photos of the first few days in germany

zoe and stefan in Bad Homburg park zoe painted a poster to welcome me the train station in Rodheim there is graffiti everywhere vines and roses cover the outside of the house the street the house is ...
Posted by rachael on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:00:00 PST

7332 miles and 300 Indians later

i find myself at a new home. that turns out to be environmentally friendly, all organic, recycle everything, absolutely beautiful home. the family? the family is wonderful. funny...sweet...now if onl...
Posted by rachael on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:08:00 PST

1969 in the sunshine

i've been throwing everything together last minute. and with my head down for most of it, today i looked up and realized that i am leaving petoskey within the next couple days. i have felt very challa...
Posted by rachael on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:52:00 PST

learning to make lemonade

all of you who have asked me for photo shoots:set a date before i leave on september 2ndbecause as of tomorrow i am finished being employed by roast and toast. and i seriously miss taking pictures.so ...
Posted by rachael on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:54:00 PST