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rachel

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My Interests

Music:

All this Music is gone now, I must start my collection a new: The Magnetic Fields, Broadcast, A Tribe Called Quest, Holly Golightly, Camera Obscura, Freezepop, Jelly Roll Morton, Manu Chao, The Decemberists, Acetone, Metric, Cocteau Twins, Air, The Smiths, Morrissey, Neotropic, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Notwist, Echo & the Bunnymen, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Beta Band, Telescopes, The Cars, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Calla, Slowdive, Bowery Electirc, Joy Division, Bowie, PJ Harvey, Ladytron, Le Tigre, Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine, This Mortal Coil, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Stereolab, Pizzacato 5, Sonic Youth, Ride, Roy Orbison, Neil Diamond, Pulp, Amon Tobin, DJ Shadow, Joni Mitchell, Elliot Smith, Cibo Matto, Chris Isaack, Panurge, Royksopp, Sondre Lerche, Robots in Disguise, DJ Cam, Ennio Morricone, Four Tet, Iron and Wine, Jolie Holland,But that's not all... if you act right now... You'll also receive my favorite movies!

Movies:

Persona, La Dolce Vita, Harold and Maude, 2001, City of Lost Children, Time Bandits, A Clockwork Orange, Manhattan, Annie Hall, The Godfather, Bonnie and Clyde, Sex Lies and Videotape, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Heathers, Heavely Creatures, Eat Drink Man Woman, Waiting for Guffman, 2046, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Naked, Dazed and Confused, Network, Secretary, Amelie, Sunset Blvd., Logan's Run, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Fantastic Planet, All About Eve, Gattaca, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Baraka, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Solaris (Tarkovsky), Shawn of the Dead, Nurse Betty, Safe, Series 7, Koyaanisqatsi, Happiness, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Blade Runner, Waking Life, The Children's Hour, Primer, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Badlands, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show, Big Night, Swingers, Buffalo '66, Peeping Tom, Trainspotting

Television:

Will and Grace, Sex and the City, All My Children, Twin Peaks, PBS programming, LOST, and bad reality television. I'm not proud.

Books:

A lot of Editing books right now. Also, dystopias in general, Augusten Burroughs, Sedaris, laymen's understanding the universe stuff, Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Middlesex, Stranger in a Strange Land, Tipping the Velvet. I've been reading a lot of comics like a good 12 year old boy.

Heroes:

my grandmother

My Blog

Living in a sandwich

Brownstone living is not all it's cracked up to be. Sure, the building is nice, a bit of old charm with modern conveniences, but walls are thin. I can't stand my upstairs neighbors. Of all the places ...
Posted by rachel on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:00:00 PST

I'm so pissed at littleradio.com

SO, I've been waiting patiently to RSVP for little radio's free day parties for sxsw. I've gone to their website religiously waiting for them to change the, "check back to RSVP," to, "RSVP now!." GRRR...
Posted by rachel on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:56:00 PST

I Love me some C-SPAN

I'm watching Tony Blair during "Prime Minister's Questions" and it's AWESOME. Members of Parliament stand up and ask Tony a question, individually, and he stands up and answers. Sounds boring but it's...
Posted by rachel on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:08:00 PST

Expediated travel for the rich

This is scary and no sir, I don't like it:http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/16/security_fas t_l.phpWe're just chipping away at the divide between the haves and have nots. I know that airborne t...
Posted by rachel on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:47:00 PST

Children of Men and a Top 10

I Just arrived home from a night at the movies -- well, movie, since I only saw one. Children of Men.Now, I love sci-fi of all kinds but I especially enjoy near-future science fiction. No, I'm not say...
Posted by rachel on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:34:00 PST

OMG. SNOW.

I'm here on the couch, lounging, like I do every morning. Researching things like... Why the hell Apple chose only one provider for the iphone and why wasn't it mine?! Walk-in clinics because my ankle...
Posted by rachel on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:05:00 PST

Bundle me up Bundle me down

So... It's New York, it's cold, I got it. But come on people! I'm from Texas and in 58 degree weather I find it perfectly acceptable, even preferable, to walk out of the house with shorts, flip-flops,...
Posted by rachel on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:42:00 PST

lessons I've learned in 5 days

Never, EVER, board a plane with a hangover. If you have to opportunity to meet Betty Boop tell her to shut up, grab her breast, and run away. Put souvernirs in suitcase and never take them out until y...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

pro and cons of heels... really there's only one

No more dinner parties before hitting Sidekicks. I'll inevitably be sitting around with full bellied friends and wondering what we're going to do after eating all the creme brule. Then someone com...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sudanese, Ignorance, and Confusion

It's early in the morning, I'm half awake at work, and I keep thinking about the Sudanese people both victim and perpetrator. I'm not even sure if I really know what's going on over there. I know trut...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST