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About Me

i've done bits and pieces in the music industry. i had lots of fun with the New Rules gang and now i'm helping out Faith In Plastics. i was presenter on a music tv show once and all the old episodes are still on Foxtel, i've been told. i like stuff.....I'm heading to Los Angeles today, New York City in two weeks time and then i'm off to South By Southwest in Texas. Watch Out!

My Interests

Lee Jones, singing and bass guitar, dance-offs! gin and tonics, fetta cheese, andy warhol and pop art in general, wassily kandinsky, mary janes, photography, skinny jeans, stilettos, macadamia nut ice cream, tequila slammers and jager bombs, sexy times...

I'd like to meet:

you know... people... like you.....

Music:

bob dylan, david bowie, lee jones, motown, neil young, new rules for boats, nick drake, rollerskates, snowman, the band, the bank holidays, the beatles, the flaming lips, the libertines, the panda band, the sleepy jackson, the stickfigures, the volcanics, tucker b's, wilco, modest mouse, the arcade fire, the thrills, cat power, gersey, belle and sebastian, sonic youth, veruca salt, the beach boys, kings of leon, interpol, pulp, supergrass, grandaddy, the presets, 80's music, astronaut, from the skies, the grates, the yeah yeah yeahs, blondie, roxy music

Movies:

a clockwork orange, breakfast at tiffany's, ghost world, amelie, lost in translation, wayne's world 1 & 2, bridget jones' diary, zoolander, the matrix, the neverending story, the lord of the rings trilogy, crouching tiger hidden dragon, almost famous, donnie darko, my fair lady, the sound of music, gigi, labyrinth, return to oz, pretty in pink, teen wolf, back to the future trilogy

Television:

the wonder years, degrassi junior high, press gang, futurama, little britain, law and order - svu, ready steady cook!, the simpsons, i'm alan partridge, the mighty boosh

Books:

Sophie's Choice - William Styron, The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice, anything by Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Jack Kerouac and Truman Capote

Heroes:

My dog Blondie Bach - she's pretty sweet

My Blog

Sorry about the spam. My account was hacked into!

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Posted by Racquel on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:13:00 PST

South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas

South By Southwest Music Festival, you are so hot that if you were a man i would totally try to hit on you, let you take me home and i'd pretend that i didn't see you leave in the middle of the n...
Posted by Racquel on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:39:00 PST

Thank You Juarez, Mexico for scaring me shitless

We paid 35 cents to cross the border into Mexico. Tried to find these supposedly amazing markets to no avail. We spent the whole time thinking we were about to get jumped by Mexican gangsters and/or b...
Posted by Racquel on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:33:00 PST

Dear Las Vegas

Thank you for letting us walk around the streets any time of the day or night with alcoholic beverages in our hands. If ever i felt the need to drink vodka at 7am whilst walking down Las Vegas Bo...
Posted by Racquel on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:22:00 PST

New York City!

The flight to New York was great. I slept on the plane to Charlotte, then waited for two hours at Charlotte International for my connecting flight to Newark, in New Jersey. Charlotte International was...
Posted by Racquel on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:33:00 PST

Disneyland!

I love all things Disney. Needless to say, I loved Disneyland. I loved all the rides I went on - Space Mountain was awesome - and I loved the parade. I loved looking at all the kids dressed up in thei...
Posted by Racquel on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:17:00 PST

The Burgundy Room

So Libby and I went to a bar called The Burgundy Room last Friday night. The place was pretty cool and had a kind of Amplifier meets Bar Open vibe about it. I had a guy that looked like Mekhi Phifer t...
Posted by Racquel on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:30:00 PST

A Night at The Roxy etc. Part 2

So many stories from last night and heaps of stuff coming back to me now that i'm sober. These include: 1) Falling over twice in a limo and knocking over all the bottles of alcohol set up on the bar i...
Posted by Racquel on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:37:00 PST

A Night at The Roxy and The Whisky A Go Go and The Scream Scene (Screen Scene?)..in Hollywood.

In short, i got so drunk i puked. I'm so Britney Spears.
Posted by Racquel on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:11:00 PST

Shopping on Melrose is Fun!

Well, we have now been shopping on Melrose and i'm in love with all of the vintage stores. i bought the most amazing pair of cowboy boots for $12. i looked at a similar pair in Perth and they were $15...
Posted by Racquel on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:33:00 PST