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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
- T.S. Eliot
   
I work modestly,
but passionately with pen and paper. I tend to get quite emotional at the strangest things like old men sitting on park benches and dead pigeons. Day and night continue to offer me inspiration.
I appreciate the beauty of life including the pins and needles. Some of my main interests lie in an eclectic mix of
books, writing, film, photography and music. I adore art and mythology and dealing time about with
good friends and family. I am a big fan of red wine, strong coffee, deep
discussion and contagious laughter. I love animals and children. I believe in dreams, but am aware that life is
more often than not just as it seems.
August 25, 2008
Reading -
Atonement by Ian McEwan (Excellent)
Listening -
Hair The Original Broadway Cast Recording (A long time favorite)
Watching -
Across The
Universe
(Julie Taymor stupefies me again with her brilliance)
Me at MySpace.
Please come visit.
And all of the loveliest things there be
Come simply, so it seems to me.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Creators and creations that have moved and inspired me -
Music:
Neil Young,
Kate Bush,
CSN,
Jeff Buckley,
Jethro Tull,
Veda Hille,
Happy Rhodes,
Nick Drake,
Super Furry Animals,
King Crimson,
Moby,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joni Mitchell,
Yes,
Bob Ebeling,
Charles Hughes,
Ebeling Hughes,
Ralph Vaughan Williams,
Billie Holiday,
Radiohead,
Gabriela Kulka,
Diamanda Galas
Art:
Gustav Klimt,
Andrew Wyeth,
Michael Parkes,
Frida Kahlo,
Leonor Fini,
Rene Magritte,
Anne Bachelier,
Edward Gorey,
Paulina Stuckey-Cassidy,
Jerry N. Uelsmann,
Maggie Taylor,
Arthur Rackham,
W. Eugene Smith,
John W. Waterhouse,
Georgia O'Keefe, Andy Goldsworthy...
Written Word:
Kate Horsely,
Emily Dickinson, Angela Carter,
Tom Robbins,
Toni Morrison,
Shakespeare,
John C. Gardner,
W.B. Yeats,
John Irving,
The Brontes, Arundhati
Roy,
Stephen King,
Virginia Woolf,
William Blake,
Oscar Wilde,
A.S. Byatt,
Louise Erdrich,
Michael Dorris,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Joy Harjo,
Jeanette Winterson,
Joseph Campbell...
Films (and their directors) :
Dreams - Akira Kurosawa
Orlando - Sally Potter
The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dryer
Vampyr -Carl Theodor Dryer
Baraka - Ron Fricke
Kundun - Martin Scorsese
Days of Heaven - Terence Malick
Waking Life - Richard Linklater
Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly
Aliens - James Cameron
Ghostbusters - Ivan Reitman
Halloween - John Carpenter
The Matrix - Andy and Larry Wachowski
Jesus of Montreal - Denys Arcand
Amelie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Looking For Richard - Al Pacino
Brazil - Terry Gilliam
Tideland - Terry Gilliam
Time Bandits - Terry Gilliam
Raiders of The Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg
Star Wars - George Lucas
Lord of The Rings - Peter Jackson
Wicker Man - Robin Hardy
The Big Lebowski - Joel and Ethan Coen
Whale Rider - Niki Caro
Hour of The Wolf - Ingmar Bergman
This Is Spinal Tap - Rob Reiner
Winged Migration/Le Peuple Migrateur - Jacques Perrin
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time - Thomas Riedelsheimer
Rabbit Proof Fence - Philip Noyce
Twin Falls Idaho - Michael Polish
Northfork - Michael Polish
Nothing by Vincenzo Natali
El Espiritu de la Colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) - Victor Erice
Mad Hot Ballroom - Marilyn Agrelo
Slam - Marc Levin
Inland Empire - David Lynch
...and many many many others...
Environmental and Humanitarian Organizations I Support -
Amnesty International
The Circle of Life Foundation
The Smile Train
Oxfam
The Sierra Club
National Audubon Society
The Humane Society (for the love
of animals)
Ancient Bristlecone Pine
The Breast Cancer Site
St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
MoveOn.org - Democracy in Action
Seeds of Peace
Media I Support -
WMNF Tampa - Radioactive Community Radio
National Public Radio
Public Broadcasting
CMJ New Music
I Find Peace of Mind here -
City at Peace
Mindfulness Clock
Andy Goldsworthy - Art and Nature
Seeds of
Peace
The Peace
Museum
Hearts
of Space - quality ambient music
Echoes
If you have any questions or comments please email me:
rachel@kundavega.com
I would love to hear from you.
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