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Rayne-I-E-I-O

tearin' it down since 1985

About Me

i'm rayne. i do stuff. yeah, stuff. i read things. i think. i'm not perfect. i love the combination of humility and strength. people with an ego are funny. i like it when i go against the grain. it feels rough and scratchy.
You Are 26% American
America: You don't love it or want to leave it.
But you wouldn't mind giving it an extreme make over.
On the 4th of July, you'll fly a freak flag instead...
And give Uncle Sam a sucker punch!Hmm, really? I guess that seems about right.

My Interests

vulgarity. fiddlemusik. punkmusik. folkmusik. acting. writing. movies. theatre. history. conversations. tea. coffee. booze. smoking. dudes. ladies. et cetera. things i can't do. folk tales. poker. texas hold 'em. poker. etc.

I'd like to meet:

people named after german numbers. friends. family. pro poker players.

Music:

in no order... billy bragg. joey only. the fratellis. babyshambles. flogging molly. dead kennedys. johnny cash. snap her. crass. conflict. edith piaf. switchblade valentines. leahy. dropkick murphies. pogues. the specials. jobbykrust. the runaways. sublime. the selecter. bad brains. GBH. lower class brats. fleas and lice. leftover crack. anti-product. tribe 8. blondie. clit 45. f-minus. rebel spell. snfu. fishbone. aus rotten. the toasters. madness. bad manners. rancid. subhumans(both). sleater kinney. etc.

Movies:

billy elliot, angela's ashes, shut up and sing, stranger than fiction, pink flamingos, red violin, fight club, beowulf and grendel, little miss sunshine, thank you for smoking, taxi driver, the departed, blow, american history x, clockwork orange, citizen cane, 4 rooms, iron monkey, kinky boots, gia, dangerous lives of altar boys, dirty pretty things, ocean's eleven, charade, the believer, etc.

Television:

if I find a good movie, and... family guy, poker, mtv, the view, glenn beck, jon stewart, stephen colbert.

Books:

The Dictionary. The Bible. Ishmael. My French/English Dictionary. Beowulf. Guns, Germs and Steel. Anything by Kate Bornstein. Complete Works of Wm. Skakespeare.

Heroes:

Captain, Kathryn, Jeanette, Travis, Betty, Dr. Doug, Isabelle Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Ivey (even though he's not canadian)

My Blog

i spent it all on candy and cigarettes

yeah, so i'm at the open sore w/ a 2 litre of coke and some jelly beans i bought with some empties.  i quit the one store i work at and now i work only at the mac's closest to my house. fuck yeah...
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:33:00 PST

i gotz no money.

until pay day. so haven't been on in a while.  we still have no internet at the assqueef house. this should change shortly maybe as should my night job.  still at Mac's.  too tired to c...
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:00:00 PST

Whubbubba Schnubbubba

Ok, it ain't a farm, but i'm moving into a Bay st. house w/ my triplet and some others.  Canada Day will be exhausting and a sloshed good time + then i gotta work for 6 days before my next day of...
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:11:00 PST

Working again.

So, I am working at the downtown Mac's mostly graveyards.  This is good.  Job means money that I will save for acting school. That is all. rayne
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:12:00 PST

Fat men are funny and Asians are good at math...

Yes, I think that is the consensus. I'm really fat.  I think I need to take up comedy.  I already generally find some humour in everything anyway, even when I'm taking things waaay too ...
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Fri, 18 May 2007 10:31:00 PST

I feel a heat wave coming on coming on.

Dammit.  The horoscope in Monday Mag keeps telling me I need to travel and do stuff with publishing and media this year.  I'm beginning to think it's the astrologer's way of getting to an Ar...
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:31:00 PST

Birthday Brains

La la la. Happy birthday to me (tomorrow). This year shall be different. I may hang out with some people and I may be drunk, but I will not have a big mess to clean up after having 80 people at m...
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:50:00 PST

the answer. Shit.

Well I've been quite a hermit lately.  I want new friends.  I need new experiences.  I need inspiration.  I'm damn sober.  I'm a quitter.  I feel restless.  I want s...
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:49:00 PST

Nothing important to say.

quit my job because my boss was an asshole.  she ain't a people person. the job was awesome though, and everyone else i worked with were cool. my creative energy is starting to trickle again afte...
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:45:00 PST

Happy New Year.

Well it's that time again kids.  I am making a resolution.  2007 is the year i grow up (i swear!). To think positively (an idea lost to me lately) and follow those dreams i have.&n...
Posted by Rayne-I-E-I-O on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:26:00 PST