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Rebeca

You are starlight, I'm Galileo.

About Me

I'd like to say I'm an artist and leave it at that. I paint faces, and way too many self portraits. But it's not because I'm an egotist. I'm just trying to figure myself out.I'm blowing glass again, and I dream of it constantly. But when I write down what I see, Kevin steals my ideas. I dream about Katrinas and Natashas. I dream of plush flowers bursting like firecrackers and old folk singers that look like my grandpa and the horseman.I have this uncontrollable obsession with palindromes, especially when it comes to time. If I notice that the clock says 9:09, I have to stare at it until it changes. I did the math and figured out that there is a total of 116 palindromes and doubles in a 24 hour day. I have a hard time moving, mostly because I'm in the process of wishing.And that's the other thing. I've learned that it's not that wishes don't come true, it's just a matter of wishing for the right things.Currently I'm a girl in Centralia, Washington, dreaming of the rest of the world. I want to change things, even if that just means teaching South American children to read and draw what they see and stretch their imaginations. I want to have a baby young, am mildly an aspiring domestic goddess, and am incredibly in love. I miss my heifer of a cat, and love nothing more than a Boccata pita #9.
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My Interests

art, alternative living, teacups, mismatched silverware, vintage clothing, bridgewalking, beatniks, csa's, literacy, local business, co-ops, farmer's markets, alternative education, community, oral history, preservation, glassblowing

I'd like to meet:

Ani Difranco, Sabrina Ward Harrison, Eliza Jane Schneider (again), William S. Burroughs, Woody Guthrie, my real fairy godmother from when I lived in Spanaway, that man that always shows up in my dreams but I never get to see who he is, thinkers and dreamers and tinker-toy-tinkers.

Music:

good woody guthrie covers, the dandy warhols, dashboard confessional, ani difranco, joan baez, tracy chapman, the postal service, bob dylan, fiona apple, tim regan, the ditty bops, tegan and sara, afi, trainspotting soundtrack, psapp, coco rosie, mirah... yeah. Pretty much anything.

Movies:

the revolution will not be televised, third world war, in america, city of god, amelie, the dangerous lives of altar boys, spun

Television:

tv will suck you dry.

Books:

Stillife With Woodpecker, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Sarah, Naked Lunch, Weetzie Bat, Yo, Franny and Zooey, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The House on Mango Street, Writing Down the Bones, The Bean Trees

Heroes:

My great grandmother. She was strong enough. Also: people that believe in dreams and social change.

My Blog

No casa es mi casa.

Oh god, let this be heard. Let this be a half-Spanish feat, full of loneliness but not even an ounce of regret. Let this be me, spitting words in an apartment, aqui. Aqui es no casa para mi. No contig...
Posted by rosehips on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:23:00 PST

If I get the chance.

Pull me into your parenthesis. Swallow me up in carbon-lined hands and hold me there. Let me let me go. Who have I become? Mustard yellow wool coat and memorizing Spanish. I'm your poet girl, your pai...
Posted by rosehips on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:43:00 PST

Art is why I get up in the morning but the definiton ends there.

If you like beauty, you need to see Nan Goldin. Even if you don't think you know how to appreciate art. Even if it doesn't always look like art. If you believe in raw things, harsh things, see these. ...
Posted by rosehips on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:36:00 PST

Bow to the batteries

My car died. Of course. Just as soon as I get my liscense and a car I know nothing about, and my parents take off for an eleven day vacation, my car dies in the middle of Centralia. Yes, I'm bitching....
Posted by rosehips on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:22:00 PST

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Just to let you in on an amazing secret, I write a lot. And it's not here. But if you really want, you can find it on my livejournal. And if you're really special, you could ask me in person and I'll ...
Posted by rosehips on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:38:00 PST

So where did Q. Opal go to, anyway? And what about the dog with purple toenails?

I don't want to be packaged, packed, packed off. Am I whining? Or is that okay? I'm fragile, I guess. They said that once. The porcelain ragdoll, queen green aquamarine. I filter myself, step lightly ...
Posted by rosehips on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:51:00 PST

And then he packed his bags and got into a hotair balloon.

He said, it is okay. We all knew this was coming, all knew that the oriental perfume cookie baking forest smells on your sweaters wouldn't linger. I knew that you would breeze away, back into the hill...
Posted by rosehips on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:11:00 PST

I quit the glass shop.

It hurt to do it, it really did. I've never had to sift my cds out of somebody's cd case before. It's been sort of a weird not love-love affair with this guy, and now it's done. Over. Finished. It was...
Posted by rosehips on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:23:00 PST

sic transit gloria mundi

I keep waiting for some sliver of this to make sense. I guess that's the humor in epiphanies, how if you don't write it down you forget by the next day. I don't remember what the lesson was that I lea...
Posted by rosehips on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 05:09:00 PST

Dear sputniks and satellites: this is the countdown.

It was as though the search for novelty was more important than life itself. I tore at my sides. That's what I meant to tell you earlier, when I couldn't say anything and saline smeared the sky until ...
Posted by rosehips on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:14:00 PST