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Rebecca

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About Me

rebeccanickels.com

My Interests

Satire, Sarcasm, Design/Art/Illustration , Environmentalism, Video Games, Plants, Cats, Gardening.

I'd like to meet:

Your mom.

Music:

DeVotcKa, Mono, Metric, Beruit, Subtle, Themselves, Jel, My Bloody Valentine, Dose One, Low, Deerhoof, Joseph-Maurice Ravel, Arbdesastr, My Brightest Diamond, Explosions in the Sky, Bonobo, The Magnetic Fields.

Movies:

Hayao Miyazaki films. (Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind are favorites); The Triplets of Belleville and La Vieille dame et les pigeons; Lost Highway; Comedies from the 80's (e.g. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).

Television:

Psssh.

Books:

Goodbye Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson (which made me cry twice), What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank, The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, The Cask Of Amontillado, The Masque Of The Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works by Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

Heroes:

Apples...in some pie!

My Blog

It's been awhile.

It's been awhile since I've posted a blog. I've been keeping myself really busy...thus this thing here's been suffering. I've been working on my portfolio...and occasionally I write in my design blog ...
Posted by Rebecca on Fri, 25 May 2007 04:44:00 PST

WTF

Spiders...puppies...girls in Australia....confiscated iPods.
Posted by Rebecca on Thu, 10 May 2007 11:28:00 PST

Quiz day...

What's in a surname? An attempt to examine your love life based on the letters in your name. A You are not particularly romantic, but you are int...
Posted by Rebecca on Sat, 05 May 2007 04:52:00 PST

What I'm making this weekend.

Lemon Yogurt Cake (Makes 1 Loaf) 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon kosher salt 1 cup plain whole-milk yogurt 1 1/3 cups sugar, divided 3 extra-large e...
Posted by Rebecca on Fri, 04 May 2007 11:26:00 PST

Law Day?

They have a day for everything...I guess today is Law Day.Law Day, U.S.A. is defined as follows in 36 U.S.C. § 113: (a) Designation. May 1 is Law Day, U.S.A.(b) Purpose. Law Day, U.S.A., i...
Posted by Rebecca on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:20:00 PST

<3

Mono played on Wednesday...which I missed...because my license expired on my birthday, and I have JUST now got around to getting it renewed. But anyway...I've manage to renew something...my obesession...
Posted by Rebecca on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:16:00 PST

Oh please....just knock it off.

Alright. I'm reasonable, and I'm not going to pretend that this isn't me complaining. I guess maybe I'm just not used to all this. It started when I was about 20. I know...I know...I've had 6 years to...
Posted by Rebecca on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:25:00 PST

Teeeee-heeeeeshirt.

Shorthand for Epic loves me...and I'm happy. I'm bursting. :) They REALLY like my t-shirt design, and that feels good. :)If you're interested you can see it on their myspace, or on my mine...or you ca...
Posted by Rebecca on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:35:00 PST

Insane ninja...child.

Which Survivor of the Impending Nuclear Apocalypse Are You?A Rum and Monkey joint.Must kill, ha ha, ha ha! Death! Playground antics! Cake and cheese! Yes!  The blast must have hit you particularl...
Posted by Rebecca on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:09:00 PST

...utterly

Maybe we've all been there...maybe you haven't. I have. When you feel like you're crazy. When you finally let your guard down, because they tell you to trust them, and then they back away. You realize...
Posted by Rebecca on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:50:00 PST