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Rachel

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About Me

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Free Image Hosting for Myspace full of beans or feeling very bleak. depending. stuff i like - cheese, world dolls, randomness, dancing fire, trying to snowboard, cc lemon, hugs, the way the colour of everything changes depending on the light.
I'm Vince!
Take Which Mighty Boosh Character Are You? today!
Created with Rum and Monkey 's Personality Test Generator . You're Vince, owner of fantastic hair and a fondness for bright colours and soft fabrics. Nephew of a french duke, you were roped into working at the Zooniverse when your good friend Howard took you out of school, saying that GCSEs werent important. Your life's ambition is to be in a band, frontman obviously, using your ability to pull shapes.

My Interests

people generally, unless they exhibit stalker like tendencies, colour, sound, finding out what inspires people. snowboarding, walking, the sea, reading, drawing, photography, shells, patterns, prayer, eating, discovering new things ...

I'd like to meet:

a friendly bear, quantum particles that could talk, my ancestors = they look strange in the pictures ive seen - William Carvosso, Victor E Frankl not possible with these two, Makoto Fujimura, Bjork

Music:

at the moment sufjan stevens, matthew sweet, arctic monkeys, suzanne vega, royksopp, massive attack, kaiser chiefs, coldcut, jeff buckley, bjork, djshadow, Beck, White Stripes, Manou Chou, Ladytron, Toomany DJs, Moby, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Ben Haper, Boards of Canada...JUst foudn a new act called RINGO Sheena maybe wrong spelling she is wonderful also Joanna Newsome, Bob Dylan, Aimee Mann, Bob Fitts, Hrold Budd, Deerhood, Shunsuke Kimura, Bach

Movies:

cat on a hot tin roof, the red shoes, Studio Gibly, anything by wes anderson, la mala education, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Me You and Everyone We Know, La jete, Amelie, Jean de Florette, Betty Blue, Reb/Blue/white trilogy , The Mirror, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind,

Television:

Bistro SMAP, THe West Wing, ER, Documentaries, not really into TV on a big scale.

Books:

a hard one as i read all the time. Recently finished mother tongue by Bill Bryson v good. Murakami or Banana Yoshimoto for capturing an essence of modern Japan. Henri Nouwen for his book on faith and the spiritual life. Paul Gallico for childrens stuff - the Snow Goose and other stories. Ian McEwan, Milan Kundera, Angela Carter, Ryoji Arai, Shane Claibourne, Orphan Pamuk

Heroes:

Rumi - the poet, Herman Hesse, Viktor E Frankl, Paul Klee, Carl Jung, merleau ponty, Christo, Phillip Yancey, anyone who can experience trouble and come out the other side with hope, patience, faith and lovel. My grandparents, Satish Kumar

My Blog

growing and painting

I want to get on with painting but I can't and its starting to bother me. Every day i am letting things get in the way, ok so these are practical and pragmatic concerns like getting my Visa and then m...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:32:00 PST

no home

I have actually started a proper blog as a way to empty my mind my blog - a few little thoughts as well as put up intersting things that I come across. and I was reminded of the wandering scribes blog...
Posted by Rachel on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:09:00 PST

Hunger

Ok so not everyone is `religious` whatever that means, but I think we can all relate to wanting to help others. There are so many people who need our help and at the end of the day your thoughts, word...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:31:00 PST

adbusters

ok, so there is this ex advertising exectutive who has his webpage (I`ll find the link) and he now has a project a bit like Adbusters and he pastes speech bubbles onto adverts. I did this with some fr...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:05:00 PST

poem - i feel angry about the hanging

Dear Mr DeathDear mr PutinDid you really try and put it inThe poison I mean?Former KGBMouth speaking out tooLooselyOopsDear Mr BushDid you really try and pushYour own interestsIn oil and cashPresident...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:56:00 PST

Global Warming

Tonight I went to see the film an Inconvenient Truth in which Al Gore is shown making his presentation of the facts. Watch it if you get the chance. If you don`t check out the link below. We can all ...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:22:00 PST

on Love - agape

Hi so I have been praying lots and considering what makes people tick. I just got my Amazon order of Viktor E. Frankl`s Mans Search for Meaning which sounds like a self help book but is part first han...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:06:00 PST

PLAY

..I discovered today that Setagaya has four parks that are used for free play. That means kids are free to use wood or whatever materials to actually play freely, including building structures, superv...
Posted by Rachel on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:56:00 PST

Box

I used to have cardboard box that sat in my parents drive during the summer. sometimes it was a boat, sometimes it was a pirate ship, occasionally a super fast car. But on a bad day it was just a big ...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:26:00 PST

Cheese

The girl who loved CheeseMore cheese pleaseSaid the girl to the boyI dont want flowersOr fancy toysRomantic mealsOr diamond ringsIn fact dont botherWith all those thingsMy one desire is very clearTo e...
Posted by Rachel on Sat, 20 May 2006 08:27:00 PST