Name: Rachael Elizabeth
Birthdate: April 04, 1983
Place: Georgetown University Hospital, Washington D.C.
Current Location: Moved to Columbus, Ohio when I was 2 and stayed
Schools: Graduated: Bexley High School in Columbus, Ohio June 2001; Currently attending: The Ohio State University as a communications (ex-technical theatre) major.
Job: Working at The Arena Grand Movie Theatre in Columbus, Ohio since April 2002
Whatever: I play the viola, I like going to concerts, plays, movies, whatever
Favorites: Bands: The Smashing Pumpkins (0 concerts), Zwan (7 concerts), OKGo (8 concerts), Abandoned Pools (2 concerts), Kill Hannah (2 concerts), Spiraling (2 concerts), Starsailor (1 concert), Travis (0 concerts), Coldplay (2 concerts), The Vines (3 concerts), Thursday (1 concert), Bright Eyes (1 concert), Matt Nathanson (1 concert), The White Stripes (0 concerts... but one coming up)
Movies: Ghost World(2001), Poltergeist(1982), The Royal Tenenbaums(2001) and A Life Less Ordinary(1997), Moulin Rouge(2001), Sleepy Hollow(1999), MST3K: The Movie (1997)
Musicals: Les Miserables (seen 23 times, my first musical in 1987), Rent (4 times), Urinetown (once), Jane Eyre (once), Once On This Island (never *cough*), The Secret Garden (2 times), The Scarlet Pimpernal (2 times) and Chess (once, my second musical in 1988)
My parents in the 70's
Actors/Actresses: Ewan McGregor, David Duchovny, Bradley Whitford, Nick Lea, Elijah Wood, Hans Matheson, Dougray Scott; Gillian Anderson, Christina Ricci, Natalie Portman, Thora Birch, Angelina Jolie, Brittney Tiplady, Klea Scott, Jewel Staite
Stage Actors/Actresses: Kirk McDonald, Peter Lockyer, Ron Sharpe, Catherine Brunell, Christopher Mark Peterson, Hunter Foster, Chip Zien, Roger Bart, Gina Lamparella, Stephen Brian Patterson, Joseph Mahowald, Dallyn Vail Bayles, Jayne Paterson
Books: Les Miserables, Prozac Nation, The Giver, Lord of the Rings, Naked Pictures of Dead People (by Jon Stewart), Enders Game
TV Shows: Millennium (RIP), The X-Files (RIP), West Wing, Lone Gunmen(RIP), Subterrenean, 120 Minutes (RIP), Real World, Daria (RIP)
People and things that rock my world: Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, James Iha, D'arcy, Melissa Auf Der Maur, PAZ, David Pajo, Matt Sweeney, Damian Kulash Jr.,(specifically for getting me into an over 21 OKGo concert and for being just THAT attractive) Andy Duncan (for being completely high when I first talked to him), Tim Nordwind(for being the Jewish Conspiracy connecton into the rock world), Dan Konopka(for completely scaring me to death to the end that I didn't want to talk to him and then ending up being one of the nicest band members I've never talked to), Ben and Jerry's One Sweet Whilrd (in shake form), the NON of the Zwan message board, the great people at all of my message boards, specifically Zwan (for letting me get to know a whole lot of great Pumpkinheads across the country and for those great bootlegs), OKGo (for letting me actually meet many OKGo fans in person from the board and many many other things I'm not going to mention here), The X-Files (for letting me know when my favorite actors are in other movies and tv shows and for introducing me to the great people of Clan X), and The Smashing Pumpkins (for directing me to the Zwan boards), The West Wing (so I can pretend that thats what America is really like), MST3K (for being one of the only shows that makes me really laugh), Ghost World (for changing my life... really, a movie changed my life), Terry Zwigoff (for directing Ghost World), Newport Music Hall (for hosting some of the best concerts I've ever been to), my grey hat (for keeping my face from being severly sunburned along with the rest of my body at Warped Tour 2002, The Smashing Pumpkins (as a group as well as each individual person, as I mentioned earlier) for introducing me into the music world, Abandoned Pools and OKGo (for keeping me interested in the music world after completey giving up hope, Creed (for giving me a band to really hate), Zwan (for getting me out of Columbus by making me travel out of state to see theirconcerts), Trent Reznor (for being in the first music video I ever saw on MTV when they actually played videos), the dorms (for letting me get MTV2 and CTN on tv), Les Miserables, CD101, Sharpie Pens (for autographs), They Might Be Giants (1. for rocking and 2. introducing me to OKGO), The Arena Grand (for being my first long term job), CVS (for developing my concert pictures), and Geocities (for the obvious reasons).