Rachel Profiling

Hello, I'm Rachel.

Writer/editor. New Mexican tumbleweed blown east to skyscraper country.

Right now, I am working on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, and Hollywood in the 1930s. It will also contain a lot of drinking, powder blue suits, dances at the Cocoanut Grove, betrayal, gossip columns, crazy ladies, secret Jews, film lot moguls, and Dorothy Parker quips at funerals. If the world is still around then, it should be out from Random House around 2014. So let's hope the Mayans were wrong.

If you want to say hi please do. Or find me in short form, here.

October 26th 2009

A guy I know turned me on to Cryptacize, a lovely San Francisco band fronted by Nedelle Torrisi, who is someone you should hear sing if you haven’t yet. You can do that here. Or watch that here.

One of my favorite things about this band, however, is that they put out these great online mixtapes of other music, a well-curated collage of what they are listening to, aural post-it notes. The fall mix includes Captain Beefheart, Ornette Coleman, Miriam Makeba, Ellie Greenwich, and a lot of other goodness that I did not know previously existed but has made my day. You can download it by clicking here.

Thanks again to the Internet, for being so cornucopious.

Posted at 5:22pm.

A guy I know turned me on to Cryptacize, a lovely San Francisco band fronted by Nedelle Torrisi, who is someone you should hear sing if you haven’t yet. You can do that here. Or watch that here. One of my favorite things about this band, however, is that they put out these great online mixtapes of other music, a well-curated collage of what they are listening to, aural post-it notes. The fall mix includes Captain Beefheart, Ornette Coleman, Miriam Makeba, Ellie Greenwich, and a lot of other goodness that I did not know previously existed but has made my day. You can download it by clicking here. Thanks again to the Internet, for being so cornucopious.

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