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Rachel

I am here for Friends

About Me

I drop rhymes like Galileo dropped the orange.

My Interests

OK, so I have become totally unhealthily obsessed with this group of UK artists...Banksy, Antony Micallef, etc. Haven't heard of them? Shocking. But also music, contemporary art, photography (think Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Larry Clark circa Tulsa), reading, drinking, shoes, bass players, firemen, bad men with lots of tattoos.

I'd like to meet:

Probably not you

Music:

Radiohead, The Clash, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Outkast, X, Descendents, Bad Religion, the Ramones, Mastodon, Stun Guns, Crimpshrine, the Avengers, Stiff Little Fingers, Elvis (Costello and Presley), Against Me!, Dead to Me, Death Cab, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, the Pogues, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Leatherface, Le Tigre, Jawbreaker, Gang of Four, Wire, Elliott Smith, Alkaline Trio, Social D, Sebadoh, the Postal Service, the Damned, Jay-Z (yeah I said it), Seaweed, the Wipers, and so on

Movies:

Sixteen Candles, Grease, Trainspotting, All About Eve, Lost in Translation, Trois Coleurs, Half Nelson

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Deadwood, Arrested Development, Battlestar Gallactica, Project Runway, Heroes, the Daily Show (duh)

Books:

I'll read anything (novels, magazines, instruction manuals) but these are some of my favs: East of Eden, A Room with a View, Pride & Prejudice, Possession, Catch-22, Atonement, Crying of Lot 49, the Plague, the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Heroes:

Mom, Lori

My Blog

I didn’t want to love him

I really didn't.  I've been fighting it for months.  He's too young for me... he's not experienced enough.  But, as REO Speedwagon once said so eloqently, I just can't fight this f...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:52:00 PST

The Fest!

This makes me very happy!! 
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:28:00 PST

Contractors, surgers and liars, oh my

So did you know that there are around 125,000 "contractors" in Iraq right now?  That compares to around 160,000 soldiers in Iraq post-surge.  You say "contractors", I say "mercenaries"...So,...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:46:00 PST

An open letter to the hood

Dear Neighborhood, I know we all live in DC and you are feeling extremely patriotic in this, our time of war. You just want to support our President, who cares deeply about all of our welfare, I get t...
Posted by Rachel on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:36:00 PST

Gogol Bordello--Gypsy Punks

I am going to quit my job and follow them around the country. I may or may not sell acid and cheese sandwiches outside of shows. Possibly I would be better off with 40's and 8-balls? Thoughts?
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:53:00 PST

Sixteen Candles

Is it bad that 20 years later (literally!), I still know every word to this movie??? And don't even get me started on why I am watching Sixteen Candles, which I know by heart, instead of going t...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:35:00 PST

If you have to work until 3:00 AM...

you should always get to come home to a note on your door from the cute firefighter asking you on a date.  What a great day! 
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 24 May 2006 12:34:00 PST

Firefighters make me VERY happy!

And today the firehouse across from my house had a party for some of their guys who are leaving for Iraq.  So I crashed it.  And met some very pretty firefighters.  In uniform!  We...
Posted by Rachel on Sun, 21 May 2006 04:51:00 PST

Bad sinuses must be punished

So they go in through my nose and then drill through my sinuses and pull them out through the leetle tiny incision.  Mmmm.  Plus they only give me the valium drip once they already have me i...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST