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.

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Passion Pit-The Reeling

So here’s the thing about Passion Pit. When I first heard the EP, I sort of thought, ok, this sounds like every other disco-meets-pop-meets-electro band that is birthed inside a college dorm room, and then I let the record stay on my player long enough to pop up in a random shuffle, and all of a sudden Sleepyhead came on in a moment when I really needed to hear that exact song but had no idea it was the song I wanted until it came on, and I was so happy I hadn’t deleted them just because they had beards and used synthesizers. Full album, Manners, out on May 26. This is the first new single.

Yes, I know you’ve heard of them and I am SO behind. I like them anyways.

Posted at 1:44pm.

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