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About Me

i am left-handed and way left-wing. i have been vegetarian for over 11 years. i make my living as a graphic designer and i am a mac addict. i'm pretty much a huge geek.

some random facts
i am very short, but like feeling tall.
i hate eating raw tomatoes, but love salsa and tomato sauce.
i am an incessant gum chewer, but seldom pop or snap my gum.
i have a propensity for speeding.
i have taken up the habit of twirling my hair.
i no longer occasionally bite my nails.
i have not thrown up since 1989.
i love to floss.

i like to make photographic images, mostly of the digital variety.
you can check them out on flickr.

Layout made possible by the generous code-stylings of Mike Industries .
Design and custom implementation by Me.

My Interests

scrabble, flip-flops, cheap travel, art, design, biking, photography, knitting, crafting, gardening, cooking, driving barefoot, popsicles, and getting dirt under my fingernails.

I'd like to meet:

yes.

Music:


My Weekly Top Artists

see more recent listens here
Favorites:
Akron/Family, Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Belle And Sebastian, Billy Bragg, Bishop Allen, The Blow, Bright Eyes, Built to Spill, Burning Airlines, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, De La Soul, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Elliott, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, The Evens, The Extra Glenns, Fugazi, Heatmiser, Her Space Holiday, Jets To Brazil, Joanna Newsom, Kind of Like Spitting, Lovers, Magnetic Fields, Maritime, Mates of State, Mike Doughty, Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats, Neutral Milk Hotel, Now It's Overhead, Onelinedrawing, The Organ, Pavement, Piebald, The Pixies, The Postal Service, The Pony's, The Promise Ring, Rainer Maria, REM, The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, They Might Be Giants, Tullycraft, Vermont, The Unicorns, The Weakerthans.

Plus plenty more I'm too lazy to list here, see my last fm page for more.

Movies:



Back to the Future, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Princess Bride, UHF, Heathers, Dream a Little Dream, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Royal Tennenbaums, The Usual Suspects, Dancer in the Dark, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, Lovely and Amazing, Wet Hot American Summer, Me and You and Everyone We Know, I ♥ Huckabees

Television:



The Office, Weeds, The L-Word, Dexter, Lost, Scrubs, Reno 911, The Simpsons and Good Eats

(RIP- Buffy, Angel, The State, Mr. Show, Clerks the Animated Series, Home Movies, MST3K, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development)

Books:

The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken, The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell, Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

Heroes:



My Blog

On the air, part deux

hey guess what?the second of my 2 tv appearances is happing next monday october 23 at 10:30 am on DIY. (which is one of the cable channels most people don't get.) in this episode, i show how to make 2...
Posted by rae on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:31:00 PST

On the air

So this Friday, over a year after I was in LA to tape them, the first of my 2 tv appearances will be happening this Friday (August 4th) at 10:30 am on DIY. I only taped one brief segment at the end of...
Posted by rae on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:57:00 PST

I'm a cracker

lit-rally.this morning while I was looking for my most favorite asian melon candy online with Juniper and we came a cross a korean cracker similar to pepperidge farm goldfish crackers, which is called...
Posted by rae on Mon, 22 May 2006 11:11:00 PST

Billy Bragg

I've been a fan of Billy Bragg since I was pretty young. I think I was probably 11 or 12 when my uncle Dave gave me Billy Bragg's "The Peel Sessions" album, and it literally changed my life. (At the s...
Posted by rae on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:27:00 PST

give me a breaksville

if you have 12 minutes or so to kill you should really watch this video. Will Arnett drops by the 1/13/2006 episode of Conan and talks about his favorite interview positions, the fate of his CBS show ...
Posted by rae on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:00:00 PST

best. show. ever.

this past weekend i had the rare opportunity to see the promise ring, one of my most favorite bands, reunite to play one last show. it was a-fucking-mazing! they played every song i wanted to hear, so...
Posted by rae on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:04:00 PST

a letter i wish i sent

Dear The Promise Ring, I'm sure you have a lot on your mind, given this is your first show in a few years. So i figured i would some take the pressure off you, and i have compiled a set list for yo...
Posted by rae on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:17:00 PST

"I have no friggin' idea what that guy was talking about..."

"but he talked exactly what i wanted to hear." Finally, Andy Dick does something funny again! This time he takes on the role of Bush's Speech writer link via the journal of Chris Glass...
Posted by rae on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:35:00 PST

more photos from the show

I finally got around to posting some more of the photos we took on the set of "Uncommon Threads to a flickr photoset. There's more behind the scenes goodness: Fussing with wardrobe Crafty Coh...
Posted by rae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My 11.5 Minutes of Fame

As most of you know (but there might have been a few who have escaped my blathering on about it) last week I was in LA to tape 3 segments for a new crafting show on the DIY Network called "Uncommon Th...
Posted by rae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST