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Rachel

I am here for Friends

About Me

(In abandonment of all that is clever)
Things I like:
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Music
Poetry
Writing
Going to shows
Traveling
Italy
Playing guitar
Driving (but not getting lost)
Anne Carson
Scrabble(!)
Drinking tea
Blank notebooks
Double bass drums
Sappho
Laughing
Dogs
Exploring
Soundchecks
Clever plays on words
People who don't get awkward around shy people
I think sometimes people listen to music to feel less lonely. And then they go to shows and everyone is there singing those songs that make them feel less lonely. And then maybe we're not alone.

But then again, maybe that's just me.

**BANDS: I'm kind of sick of all the dyings, silences, sighs, ashes, hearts, solitudes, failures, and forevers. Come on, guys. At least be clever if you want to be added at random**

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My Interests


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I'd like to meet:



A good number of people, actually.

Music:

afi, thursday, tegan and sara, death cab for cutie, blaqk audio, from autumn to ashes, pinback, circa survive, ben kweller, silversun pickups, elliot, the arcade fire, elliot smith, neutral milk hotel, radiohead, placebo, haste the day, chiodos, fear before the march of flames, pencey prep, army of me, a static lullaby,ani difranco, pretty girls make graves, guster, rilo kiley, bloc party, cat power, saosin, one true thing, piebald, bright eyes, the killers, manchester orcherstra, saves the day, the delgados, taking back sunday, jimmy eat world, the postal service, the exit, morgan storm, calentura, get set go, sarah mclachlan, the feverfew, boy sets fire, cursive, bush, the cranberries, team dresch, the organ, army of freshmen, interpol, the juliana theory, belle and sebastian,engine down, sigur ros, straylight run...
or see for yourself:

www.last.fm/user/rsnyder

Movies:

girl interrupted [and really anything with angelina jolie], almost famous, empire records, serenity, little miss sunshine!

Television:

grey's anatomy, buffy, the office...

Books:

what the living do [marie howe], girl interrupted [susanna kaysen], the beauty of the husband [anne carson], foxfire [joyce carol oates], the poisonwood bible [barbara kingsolver] and a -whole- lot of books of poetry and chap books.

Heroes:

"To be inspired: we know what it means, even how it sometimes feels, but what is it exactly? Filled suddenly and often helplessly with renewed life and energy, a sense of excitement that can barely be contained; but why some things- a word, a glance, a scene glimpsed from a window, a random memory, a fragrance, a conversational anecdote, a fragment of music, or of a dream- have the power to stimulate us to intense creativity while most others do not, we are unable to say. We all know what it is like to have been inspired, in the past; yet we can't have faith that we will be inspired in the future." - Joyce Carol Oates
Inspiritors:
Anne Carson
"To stay Human is to break a limitation. Like it if you can. Like it if you dare."
Joyce Carol Oates
"The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, a piece of Time, has passed, and is irretrievable."

My Blog

caught between the tongue and the taste

the lines from autobiography of red that make you stop breathing before you can keep reading:XII. WINGSSteps off a scraped March sky and sinksUp into the blind Atlantic morning One smallRed dog jumpin...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:24:00 PST

The Quiet World

The Quiet WorldIn an effort to get people to look into each other's eyes more, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:40:00 PST