About rachthegoat ( Rachel Jaggard )

Musician working a day job who likes to take pictures. I have challenged myself to write one song per week. I will post them on Saturday afternoons. Please check back often! : )

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Interests:

Music, film, movies, bunnies, hamsters, dance, photography, Firefly, Serenity, Buffy, News Radio, Shojou Kakumei Utena, Kill Bill, Grindhouse, Azumanga Daioh, Jem and the Holograms, Fraggles, Japan, Japanese, travel,

Favorite music and artists:

Oh, man... Where do I begin? Metallica, Anthrax (John Bush years), Morphine, Jethro Tull, Bjork, Morning Musume, Utada Hikaru, Greenday, The Van Brunts, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Queens of the Stone Age, The Threes (of course), Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Vertical Striping, Einsturzende Neubauten, Brubeck, Tori Amos, Damion Diaz, Steely Dan, Jeremy Kramer, The Kingston Trio, Project Head, John Denver, Brotherhead, Tom Jones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the guilty pleasure of disco and jpop, of course.

Favorite movies and actors:

Ok, when it comes to film, it's easier for me to list it by director: Jarmusch, Tarantino, Soderbergh, PT Anderson, Wes Anderson, Danny Boyle, Cronenberg, Michael Gondry, Kevin Smith, Steven Kraus, David Fincher, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam, Christopher Guest, Hitchcock, Michael Moore, among others. Assorted flavors: Battle Royale, The Rules of Attraction, Way of the Gun, Dancer in the Dark, Zoolander, Star Wars (all), LA Story, The Machurian Candidate (directed by John Frankenheimer, 1962), Aliens, Chicago, Donnie Darko, Run Lola Run, Down With Love, Roman Holiday, Serenity, Lost in Translation, etc... Television: Jem and the Holograms, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Fraggle Rock, The Daily Show, Freaks and Geeks, Shojou Kakumei Utena, Azumanga Daioh, News Radio, The Prisoner, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Star Trek TNG, Reno 911, Chapelle's Show, Firefly, Da Ali G Show, Buffy, Robot Chicken, Simpsons, Futurama, anything Japanese.

Favorite books and authors:

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Other King books worth reading: The Talisman and it's sequel, Black House. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. The Awakeners by Sherri S. Tepper. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Bible Stories for Adults by James Morrow. Contact by Carl Sagan. Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (yes, I sent away for the reunion scene and yes, I received a reply). Egalia's Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Dune by Frank Herbert. The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon. The Belljar by Sylvia Plath. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. The Bush Dyslexicon by Mark Crispin Miller.