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Rachel

Get it written. Then get it right.

About Me

I am at Chapman University for Screenwriting. I want to write television procedurals (e.g. Law & Order, CSI, Cold Case). I love drama, you see, but I also seek finality and closure. While I love to watch those long running serials about relationships and prolonged-until-your-40s-teen angst (e.g. ER, Grey's Anatomy, Rescue Me), I like for certain doors to stay shut.
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My Interests

Watching movies and too much TV, reading (fiction and nonfiction), writing all sorts of things, music, finding the perfect super burrito and the tastiest, richest chocolate milkshake, shopping, loving my California cat, Dunbar, and my two Alabama cats, Socci and Lewis (who I only see once a year), spending time with interesting people doing interesting things, dancing around, shaking my head to all sorts of music you're not supposed to move that way to, curling up with a warm blanket and listening to music really loud on my headphones, collecting cute PJ pants and Junk Food shirts, making sundaes with different ice creams and fruit, nuts, and chocolate toppings, seeing triple features, watching Dunbar cower at the mighty kitten that is Rupert...mentioning random esoteric stuff at inappropriate times...

I'd like to meet:

Casey in a dress, Rowena over muffins and tofutti, Eliza at a trifecta, Crystal over vegan tamales, John while he's lighting an award-winning show, Thea knitting socks and scarves, Jamie over a Lemon Drop and a Mike's Hard Lemonade, Abbey being the connoisseur of all things that are good, Lindsey officiating Sammy and Hector's wedding, Grant accepting his award for Best Documentary at The George Lindsey Television and Film Festival (but I'll accept the Oscars, whatever).

Music:

I like pop/alternative whatever mostly; I go through obsessive phases with a few (okay, more than a few) groups/artists at a time. Right now (as in what's spinning in the player this month), I'm listening to a lots of The Shins, Dredg, Mat Kearney, Say Anything, Boyskout, Music for Animals, Dashboard Confessional, Scissor Sisters, early Radiohead, Animal Collective, The Lovemakers, The Fiery Furnaces, The Dandy Warhols, The Arcade Fire, The Bravery, Belle & Sebastian, Morningwood, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Sufjan Stevens, The Elected, Matt Pond PA, Metric, Beck, The Beta Band, Interpol, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Rilo Kiley, She Wants Revenge, Eux Autres, Ben Lee, The Darkness, Wolfmother, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Don Omar and other Reggaeton (Dem bo beats just bump around my head).

Movies:

What the hell does this mean? I like most movies, all genres. I'll go see most anything. For a good time, I like psychological thrillers with unhappy endings (as long as they don't involve dead animals) and dramas where the male characters cry and the children teach the adults a thing or two. I like horror movies, ghost stories, sex comedies, film-noir classics, heroes' journeys, whodunits, and movie musicals.I prefer to see movies in the theater, fourth row, stadium seating, with as few teenagers and two-year olds as possible.

Television:

My favorite thing, I swear! This is what I love to talk about! My favorite shows are everything I watch: Without a Trace, CSI: Las Vegas, Medium, Lost, Eureka, Rescue Me, Thief, The Shield, Criminal Minds, OZ, The Dead Zone, 24, ER, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dexter, The Unit, Heroes, Jericho, Smith, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Big Love, The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: CI and SVU, Bones, House, Supernatural, Veronica Mars, Numbers, Scrubs, Close to Home. I watch reality tv sometimes too: I like those nanny and trading partner shows as well as The Amazing Race.

My Blog

Tagged by Grant

Here are the rules to the game -- once you have been tagged, you must write a blog with ten weird, random things, little known facts or habits about yourself. At the end choose at least 5 people to be...
Posted by Rachel on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:53:00 PST

Nemesis

  ..t-->My score on../t--> The'>http://www.okcupid.com/tests/6185258618751578079/Greek-Mytho logy-Personality">The Greek Mythology Personality Test:  Nemesis  (0% Extrover...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:53:00 PST

Phases

Does anyone go through phases, and I'm using the term broadly, when you are into certain things (e.g. movies, food, tv shows, etc) and on a fairly regular basis, get doses of them, and then feel reaso...
Posted by Rachel on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:02:00 PST

Original Recipe or Extra Crispy?

Rachel --[adjective]:Tastes like fried chickenHow will you be defined in the dictionary?' at http://www.quizgalaxy.com"   P.S. I like stealing Casey's ideas and making them my own....
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:47:00 PST

Why I'm not sleeping

It's so postmodern to blog about blogging. Anyway, I face-planted (verb-ing words is also postmodern) yesterday in front of Barney's (hamburgers for all you non-Bay Area people) and now all my te...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:12:00 PST

How I will die (thanks to Casey's Link)

Rachel Newman: At age 79, you will die fighting the Global War on Terrorism in Spain. http://evil.berzerker.net/death_predictions.php   Why can't I have meaningless, random, blissful death? &nbs...
Posted by Rachel on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:09:00 PST

My Memorial Day

I don't think I've ever done what people are supposed to do on Memorial Day: you know, beef or pork or chicken and fire and sauce and all that togetherness of friends and family and hon...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 30 May 2006 11:48:00 PST

Earthquake

It just happened. An earthquake that felt like one of my 300 lb cousins  falling off the couch just shook the house and made me shudder. Gosh, I love California.
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 25 May 2006 10:41:00 PST

Saturday was good. Sunday will be too.

Santana Row in San Jose is full of people who believe they are in L.A.  Bleached, over-processed hair, over-tanned skin, and frilly dogs that looked just stressed-out to be alive amongst all the ...
Posted by Rachel on Sun, 07 May 2006 10:26:00 PST

Mourning Kitty

The night she died was bright I sat on the squishy cushions in the waiting room and hid while they did it injected her to make her stop seizing He watched because I couldn't He thanked the nurse becau...
Posted by Rachel on Sat, 06 May 2006 08:28:00 PST