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rachel

I'm not a team player!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Citizen Cope snd David Sedaris.

Music:

Anything Disco. Jack Johnson, The Beatles, Manu Chao, Elvis Costello, REM, The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, The Monkees, and Madonna. There's more, I just can't think of any right now.

Movies:

Napoleon Dynamite, Space Balls, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, The Breakfast Club, Teen Wolf, My Own Private Idaho, Election, Garden State, Reality Bites. I'm going to have to add more later. There's more, I swear.

Television:

All that is Reality TV: Project Runway, Real World, Surreal Life, ..1 single, Blind date, Shipmates, Made, My super sweet sixteen, Black White, Wife Swap, sometimes American Idol.... whatever is on. If watching reality TV is wrong than I don't want to be right.

Books:

"Naked", by David Sedaris---by far his most substantial work. "Nickled and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America" by Barbra Ehrenriech. "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers"--(I forget the author). "Kite Runner"--by Khaled Hosseini (I think that is how it is spelled). "Beloved"--Toni Morrison. Then of course the classics: "Heart of Darkness"--Joseph Conrad(never gets old). "Crime and Punishment" --the D-man(couldn't put it down). "The Great Gatsby"(who doesn't like this one). "Catcher in the Rye"(holdens my hero). "Madame Bovary" (What a bad-ass). Miscellaneous favorites: Long Days Journey into Night---Eugene O'Neill A Streetcart Named Desire--T. Williams Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf--E. Albee The love song of J. Alfred Prufock--Eliot Ode on a Grecian Urn--Keats Love's Alchemy--Donne "The Beast in the Jungle"--H. James "A Good Man is Hard to Find"--F. O'connor (so twisted) Of course there are others, but if I were trapped on an Island, I would most certainly choose these picks without hesitation.

Heroes:

holden caufield, Super Kraft Mac, David Sedaris, and some other, very important people.

My Blog

In Hot Pursuit

Today, I had one of the most bizarre conversations I have ever had with a stranger.  Well, actually, it was a bit of a pissing contest. For the past year someone has been calling my house at rand...
Posted by rachel on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:05:00 PST

Inappropriate Thoughts

When I was in elementary school we had to say the pledge of allegiance and then sing a little patriotic ditty afterwards.  And everyday, or pretty close to everyday, I would think about shouting ...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:23:00 PST

Stop with the drilling, and let's get to the filling.

I went to my new dentist yesterday.  After going awol last week, I was finally corraled back to the office.  I sped off last week citing there were tractors tractoring in the entry way, so I...
Posted by rachel on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:08:00 PST

My house, the new wildlife sanctuary

I've told this horrifying account a few times, but until yesterday, I hadn't realized just how out of control my house is.  All summer there has been scattered mutant bug sightings in my house.&...
Posted by rachel on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:09:00 PST

Eh, is this yours?

  Everybody loves a good restaurant story.  Here is one I think you will enjoy.  It happened earlier this week.    It has been my experience that there are two types of people...
Posted by rachel on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:35:00 PST

My trip to London

All this talk of London, and since I just sent Jess H., my roomate/travel buddy, a bunch of stuff from our trip, I'll post this e-mail I wrote to my family after my trip to London.   &n...
Posted by rachel on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:13:00 PST