rachel21321's Xanga

Better than SoCo live?

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:11:07 GMT

Andrew McMahon Solo!

This concert is probably going to the best thing ever.

Oh Nana.

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:45:10 GMT

Nana: Rachel you should start a blog so I can know your thoughts.
Me: My thoughts? What thoughts?
Nana: Exactly. Now go get on that for your grandmother.
Rachel: Okay but if you think any of the content will give you a heart attack don't read it.
Nana: Deal. Just keep your politics right wing.

http://rachelemckernan.wordpress.com

What's old is new again?

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:43:07 GMT

They say trends just continuously repeat themselves in more modernized ways, could this be true with Xanga and LJ? I'm noticing more and more of y'all coming back. I just hope the myspace trend stays dead for all of our sakes and remains a place for gross preteen promiscuity.

Dear Xanga,

Today I sent in a post secret that I felt might be post-worthy to Frank and it reminded me of this. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for my secret and maybe, by the time it's posted, it will be gone.

<3
Rachel

Books Books Books

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:54:37 GMT

Just finished rereading The Handmaid's Tale.
Atwood's writing is always so beautiful and poetic.

Quotes pulled:

"Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water."

"Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got."

"There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt."

"There is more than one kind of freedom...Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it."

"I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own."

"Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse for some."

Books to Read/ReRead

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:02:05 GMT

Goal: Two Books/Wk.

I need 2 more good memoirs.

FICTION
1) The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac *reread*
2) Howl - Allen Ginsberg
3) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
4) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
5) Animal Farm by George Orwell *reread*

MEMOIR/NONFIC.
1) ????
2) ????
3) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote *reread*
4) Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman by Bent Corydon
5) This Common Secret by Susan Wicklund

The Hangover

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:30:58 GMT

Hello,
How about that ride in, I guess that why they call it Sin City... ha ha.
You guys might not know this, but I consider myself a bit of a loner. I tend to think of myself, as a one man wolf pack. Though when my sister brought Doug home I knew he was one of my own. And my wolf pack, it grew by one. So there was two of us in the wolf pack, I was alone first in the pack and then doug joined later.
And six months ago when Doug introduced me to you guys, I thought "wait a second could it be?" and now I know for sure I just added two more guys to my wolf pack. Four of us wolves running around the desert together in Las Vegas, looking for strippers and cocaine. So tonight, I make a toast!
*takes out knife and cuts hand.... Blood Brothers!

Xanga is more comforting than FB...

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:19:08 GMT

Rereading books I hated (or chose not to read) in H.S is enlightening and makes me realize how much I took AP English for granted. Tom Stoppard is worth reading.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead:
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

"Death followed by eternity . . . the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought"

"...the single assumption that makes our existence viable - that somebody is watching...."

"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occured to you that you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering - stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occured to me at all."

The Invention of Love:
"A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin."

"Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography."

"Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it." (zing!)

"On the contrary, it's only fact. Truth is quite another thing, and is the work of the imagination."

"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. One should always be a little improbable. Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance."

re-reading h.s books is a good thing.

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:11:09 GMT

"There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery."
--Dante's Inferno

oh, facebook you're no xanga.

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:01:01 GMT

do you ever wonder how or if people would react if your facebook status was accompanied by the words: depressed, angry, alone, guilty, vengeful.
i guess the worst would be if they didn't react...

the kite runner

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:49:13 GMT

"Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it"

"That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. "

"With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little."

"There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft....When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness."

"I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good."

"You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is.. God help him."

"Sometimes, Soraya sleeping next to me, I lay in bed a listened to the screen door swinging open and shut in the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya’s womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our lovemaking. And late at night, in the darkness of the room, I’d feel it rising from Soraya and settling between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.”