I'm in the dentist office waiting room. Ah, the wonders of unencrypted wireless networks!
I moved into Somerville yesterday, which was great. Must go, dentist is waiting, eek.

I just found out that the maker of Waking Life, Richard Linklater, is directing the rotoscoped screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Of course, as an amateur rotoscope artist myself, this is really exciting for me. Bob Sabiston is going to be the art director again, which is great. I've heard that this film is going to be a little tighter and more traditional than Waking Life, which was very obviously done by many different artists with very different styles. A Scanner Darkly will be more cohesive.

Winona Ryder

Keanu Reeves

Labels: art, the web

Countdown to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: 54 days
I've decided that I can't pretend anymore that I am not thinking about the next Harry Potter book, so I've decided to just give in and begin my countdown! In case you haven't seen it yet, here is the cover:

So exciting! Moving on....

In other news, Circuit City is not replacing my laptop (I need to get better at reading the fine print), but they will fix it (for the fourth time) and they promise to keep fixing it every time it breaks (which will happen many more times, I'm sure) until 2007.

I've decided to start a new section of this blog called: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO RACHEL since I am always right and am not afraid to say it. ha.

Anyhow,
here goes the first edition of

THE
WORLD ACCORDING TO RACHEL:

The new Weezer CD, Make Believe, is pretty good, I especially like the first track, Beverly Hills, which is very pop and very catchy. Lots of fun. Another song that I like alot is Perfect Situation which has some nice harmony and melody (this harmony is also in the song This is such a Pity) that you would never hear on early Weezer albums, such as The Blue Album or Pinkerton,
which are my favorites. One song that strikes me as being really strange is We Are All On Drugs. It almost seems like it should be the background music for an anti-drug commercial. The common theme on this album is how much Rivers Cuomo is a nerdy wimp. Rivers, we already knew that and we love you anyways, you don't need to sing about it in four songs.

PS- My brother Alex just showed this to me, and I think that I need to share it:
Seda' Club, a rap about the ten plagues with 50 Cent. Enjoy!

Labels: geekdom

On TV: Paris Hilton's Most Shocking Moments (I can't tear myself away!)

Let me preface this blog entry by making the disclaimer that I AM NOT A PARIS HILTON FAN! She is like a car wreck that I can't stop starring at.

Wow, I haven't put any entries up in forever, I can only blame school, my work study job, side business and, ok, myself. Mea culpa! Anyhow, school is over now, I finished the semester
with style a few days ago. The synchro show went very well, I have some pictures here.
I also had a final poetry reading for my Advanced Poetry Workshop that went very well, my very first poetry reading! I guess that comes with the territory when you go to a Seven
Sister. This summer I will be living in Somerville and working for the MFA, Department of Museum Learning and Public Programs, which I am very excited about.

In other news, my Compaq Presario 2100 laptop is dying on me again! According to Circuit City's Lemon policy, I'm hoping that they will replace it for me. Two lessons can be passed on from this experience: The Presario 2100 is a piece of crap, but the Circuit City extended warranty is excellent (this computer is two years old, they have fixed it twice and claim that they will replace it).

Also, I recently won the Harold Grinspoon Entrepreneurial Initiatives award for Shimmer Beads, which is allowing me to expand my business. Stay posted for new jewelry designs!