raquel Female • 24 • Woodland Hills, CA  • United States
offline Views: 278
Status... Single
Orientation... Straight
I'm into... Writing Design Photography Music Film Activism Art Health Love Mind Sleeping Living
I'm working on... Getting through school while working full time, planning a road trip from San Diego to San Francisco along the Pacific Coast Highway for a week next spring, learning to cook vegan style, learning to take more chances, becoming more politically/economically/socially aware, making photography a more serious hobby, and paying off my car loan. Among other things.
Nothing lasts forever.
So, live it up,
Drink it down,
Laugh it off,
Avoid the bullshit,
Take chances and never have regrets.
Because at one point,
Everything you did was exactly what you wanted.
Last On: 07/03/08 PST

About me

I work full-time and go to school part-time. I have a very large family that I adore. I believe in treating others as you would have them treat you. I believe in being honest. I believe in being fair even though the world usually isn't (nice guys should finish first). I love to travel, read, listen to music, and watch movies. I love to learn. I am open-minded and respectful.

Interests

Music

,I love music,what I listen to at any given time really depends on my mood.
Artists/Bands that I love include:
Queen,Led Zeppelin,Bob Dylan,David Gray,Snow Patrol,Kings of Leon,Johnny Cash,Elvis,Jack Johnson,Bob Marley,A Fine Frenzy,Cat Power,Cold War Kids,Dropkick Murpheys,The Distillers,Garbage,Me First and The Gimmie Gimmies,Dustin O'Halloran,Beethoven,and many many more.

,

Movies

,Everything: comedy,horror,action,drama,and of course a good romance. A few of my favorites are: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,Hot Fuzz,Christmas Vacation,Clue,Francis Ford Coppola Presents Bram Stoker's Dracula,Halloween,Psycho,300,Reservoir Dogs,Casino Royale,Dr. Strangelove,Brick,A Streetcar Named Desire,Casablanca,Breakfast at Tiffany's,Gone With the Wind,The Notebook,The Princess Bride,Alice in Wonderland,and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I have a lot more favorites but,I have to stop som,

Books

,Too many to keep track. Just finished Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Currently reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood and The First American by H.W. Brandis. Next on my list is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde,Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro,and The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe.
I also love cookbooks,books on travel,design,photography,architecture,and art.,

Television

,1,000 Places to See Before You Die,Human Weapon,MythBusters,Man vs. Wild,Dexter,Six Feet Under,Quarterlife,Friday Night Lights,Pushing Daisies,Lost,Bones,Buffy the Vampire Slayer,Sex and the City,Project Runway,Top Chef,

[ view all ]1 COMMENT

Apr 01, 2008 - 03:40 PM PST
coldhands
coldhands
on
raquel
raquel
Thanks! I actually did the t-shirt design because I wanted something cool to wear to an Andrew Bird concert. He does a lot of stuff with old horn amplifiers and phonographs, so I decided to come up with my own shirt. It was cool, but I only got to wear it once before the dryer destroyed it :(

A new community for artists and creative minds - and a new Internet series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creative minds behind "My So-Called Life" and "Blood Diamond."

Player

[ view all ] Latest Writing

Words of Wisdom

Mar 31, 2008

Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


I love Robert Frost's poetry. His writing is simple, honest, it's how he observed the world around him. What I get from this poem is to enjoy right now. To live every moment because they go so fast. A blink of the eye. I find this poem comforting to read in my quarterlife. I find myself stressing so much about what the future may hold for me that I sometimes miss right now. I read this poem and it reminds me to slow down and enjoy right now because no time in my life will ever be like this again. Wether that be better or worse. It reminds me of a quote from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it."


[ view all ]My Unauthorized Biography

Welcome to "My Unauthorized Biography"! This is where your friends can tell the world who you really are - seriously or unseriously - your history, your quirks, your likes and dislikes, what you did last week, what you shouldn't have done last week... So go to a friend's profile and get started! And if you don't like what someone writes about you, you can always delete it.


Latest Media Upload

I love me some sushi!
25 Views. 0 Comments.
03/31/08 21:32 PST
     

14 Friends [ view all ] Friends

Last Updated Friends

Deanflagel
metafizzicaluv
coldhands
cruxforchrist
hotclimates