I'm Raquel. My nickname is Frances. I'm from South America. (Guyana to be specific, so I can also say I'm from the Caribbean) I'm Indian, African, and Portuguese. I'm left-handed I speak in tongues...no..I wish...but I slur my words, so to most people yes, yes I do speak in tongues :)
Favourite genre of music: I listen to everything..right now I'm rockin a deadly combination of R&B and Folk music.. Favourite style of art: Graffiti - the good kind not the random useless drivel scrawled over posters and whatnot... Personal Quote: We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde
Favourite Visual Artist
No favourites, much love
Favourite Movies
Benny & Joon... or Taare Zameen Par (like stars on earth)
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Incubus (has been since I was 11...scary considering the kind of music they had out at the time)
Favourite Writers
Anyone who writes intelligently and doesn't 'dumb it down' for their readers..
I used to have a large stash of comics when I was about 10 or 11 - X-men, Spiderman, the Punisher, and all that jazz. Not sure what happened to them over the years (but my gut tells me my mother and a garbage bin were involved) but nowadays the only comics I have in my apartment are Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (another childhood favourite, oh youth!)
I've got this sudden urge to revisit Spidey and since I don't have physical books to look back on, I've decided to make this one epic "back in time" saga and download every issue of Amazing Spiderman and work through it. This could take a while, but I've got the promise of Spiderman 2 and San Di
If only all days could be this epic...
Went to work this morning expecting the norm, but then, upon minutes of entering the doors I'm told I get to watch the 'Reptile Party' that they organized for kids! SWEET! No work!! - I got to play with snakes and lizards and other strangely cool creatures for a couple hours!!
So now I leave work and I'm walking to my car, and what do I see? Two dudes having a lightsaber battle! (my work is near a comic book store that always throws these crazy events, so I guess I should have seen it coming) Anywho they saw me watching their epic combat and asked me if I wanted to battle (yep in the middle of the park