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Rachel

About Me

You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor ! ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________"Art, which is the most complex part of culture, the most sensitive and at the same time the least protected, suffers most from the decline and decay of...society. To find a solution to this impasse through art itself is impossible. It is a crisis which concerns all culture....Art can neither escape the crisis nor partition itself off. Art cannot save itself. It will rot away inevitably...unless present day society is able to rebuild itself" - Trotsky ____________________________________________________________ _________________________________"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." - Stalin ____________________________________________________________ _________________________________"Personally I've never met any intellectuals. I've met people who write novels, others who treat the sick; people who work in economics and others who compose electronic music. I've met people who teach, people who paint, and people of whom I have never really understood what they do. But intellectuals? Never." - Foucault

My Interests

Agitprop, eating, crochet, bathroom humor, creatures and beasts, botanical gardens, eating, flea markets, beer, ancient archeology, overeating

I'd like to meet:

EXPERIMENTAL PEOPLE. GET EXPERIMENTAL, PEOPLE! Atheist theologians, Undefinable individuals, Angry aesthetes, Hildegard von Bingen, Felix Feneon, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Davis, Iggy Pop (1970), Denis Diderot, Rrose Sélavy, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, Jean Genet, Gregg Bordowitz, Moe Tucker, Georges Bataille, Malcolm X, Charles Fourier, Antonio Gramsci, Bootsie Collins, Frank Black, Nina Simone, Syd Barrett, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Pryor, Chris Crocker

Music:

The Stooges, Al Green, Television, Nina Simone, Maurice Ravel, The Buzzcocks, Eric Satie, BRMC, Pixies, Dandy Warhols, Mogollar, Can, Os Mutantes, Funkadelic, Big Star, Marvin Gaye, Mott the Hoople, Syd's Floyd, Handel's Watermusic

Movies:

Alice (Jan Svankmajer), Lolita (Stanley Kubrick), Performance (Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell), Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell), Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock), Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki), Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento), Happiness (Todd Solondz), The Edukators (Hans Weingartner), Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog), This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show (Christopher Guest), History of the World (Mel Brooks), The Kingdom (Lars von Trier), The Yes Men (Ollman,Price,Smith)

Television:

More opium, please! __________________________________Marx on the power of TV (OK, religion) from his Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843):"[TV] is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man — state, society. This state and this society produce [TV], which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world....It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality....It is the opium of the people."

Books:

Ada or Ardor and Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov), Our Lady of the Flowers and The Thief's Journal (Jean Genet), Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll), The Theater and Its Double (Antonin Artaud), Calligrammes and Alcools (Guillaume Apollinaire), Indiscreet Jewels (Denis Diderot), publications and events with LTTR, Ovid

Heroes:

Absolutely none. __________________________________ "I've always held hope in the fact that there are so many versions of reality."(David Wojnarowicz ) __________________________________"We must find new ways to speak for peace...and justice....If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight."(Martin Luther King) __________________________________"'When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, 'it means exactly what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master -- that's all.'"(Lewis Carroll) __________________________________"Retention of strangeness is the only antidote to estrangement." "Push thought to extremes."(Theodor Adorno) __________________________________"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." (Jimi Hendrix)