Rachel Fouche's Page

Name

fouchnickens

You can be my friend if...

Listen to good music, love a good meal (no bragging, but I can throw down with a pot and pan), and learns from all that the world has to offer.

Website :

http://www.fouchnickens.com (coming someday...)

Occupation:

Jane of All Trades

Favorite bands:

Nina Simone Jimi Hendrix Urban Cassandra Wilson Dance Squad Erykah Badu Fishbone PJ Harvey Public Enemy The Bulgarian Women's Choir NIN Allyson Moyet Eric Satie Miriam Makeba King's X Tina Turner James Martha & the Vandellas Brown Mary J. Blige BB King Sweet Honey in the Rock Living Color Abby Lincoln Curtis Mayfield Joni Mitchell Tribe Called Quest Bahamadia Ali & Vieu Farka Toure Eartha Kitt Ben Harper Aretha Franklin Miles Davis Adele Chris Whitley Grace Jones...

Favorite movies:

Babette's Feast / Daughters of the Dust / Chocolat / She's Gotta Have It / Star Trek (original and Next Generation movies) / The Piano / Network / Vagabond / A Streetcar Named Desire / Persuasion / The Manchurian Candidate / Man Facing Southwest / The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover / La Moustache...

Films by: Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, John Cassevetes, David Cronenberg, Jane Campion, Werner Herzog...

I love these genres: cinema of the emergent world (Latin, Caribbean, and African especially), science fiction/alternative reality, French and British cinema, early cinema from the 30s to the 50s...

Favorite books:

Khalil Gibran / Edwidge Dandicat / Edgar Allen Poe / Langston Hughes / Octavia Butler / Herman Melville / Carolyn Forche / Robert Frost / Toni Morrison -- too many to mention! Just read!

Favorite Magazines:

Smithsonian / National Geographic / Saveur / Pulse / all the music mags I used to read are no more, sob!

Favorite TV shows:

The Daily Show / The Colbert Report

Relationship status:

single

Orientation:

Straight

Zodiac Sign

Roar!

Kids?:

No -- I think I just want to adopt, though...

Smoke/Drink?

no/yes

Band Question - Genre:

n/a -- not in one (yet)