Rebekah Campbell
Apr 21, 2023 BY
@rebekah-campbellš
Anyone who really knows me knows that I love to play games. This one, what are the odds, is one of my go-toās, especially when youāre in a space where there are alot of strangers and no oneās really doing anything except drink expensive martinis or cheap dive bar beer. We usually play with odds from 1-10, higher risk to dare your friends to do something out of the ordinary. To play, one person presents the ādareā for example, āWhat are the odds you go up to that guy in the fedora and ask if you can try his hat on?ā Then, on the count of 3, both parties say a number between 1 and 10. If they say the same number, then the dare must be done. The game proceeds and the fun keeps your night exciting til you canāt do it anymore, you usually walk away with some new friends or at least some good stories.
Apr 21, 2023
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I visited Egypt last year in March for the first time with my good friend, Rafik, who grew up in Cairo. A group of 5 of us traveled to the small oasis town of Siwa, which was an 8 hour escapade through the desert in a van, down one road where we got stopped at 6 military checkpoints. They look at your passport and inside your bags, and let you keep going. Siwa is the most magical place Iāve ever been to ā the story of Aladdin was supposedly written there, the landscape is straight out of National Geographic, and the people are the sweetest, most chaste souls. We spent 4 days there - I didnāt use the internet once, everyday we went on an adventure somewhere in nature, I woke up every morning at 6am and I ate the best food from a garden.
Apr 21, 2023
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This is one of my favorite films in terms of aesthetics. One of the final scenes is the epitome of what I want my future work to emulate. Itās really hard to articulate what it is about this film that I love, but here are some key words: bathhouse, bright and seedy colors, beautiful woman, adolescence, a stunning scene with the Can soundtrack āMother Sky,ā angst, water, sex.
Apr 21, 2023
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Thereās a weird phenomenon in New York where you keep all your contacts from everyone else who might take something away from you - itās mostly oriented around career. BUT! Guess what? Nothing matters. Who cares? People are going to work with who they want to work with, you might as well put in a good word, I believe karma is a real thing. I love talking about my friends' accolades to people they donāt know, you never know what could come of it. Surround yourself with unselfish, soft human people, and the rest is history.
Apr 21, 2023
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I go down YouTube black holes way too often, just watch this. The way she runs off stage kills me every time. My friendās and I love doing improv bits together and will send voice notes for an entire week back and forth of made up scenarios without actually talking about anything real happening. Maury guests are a great inspiration for me.
Apr 21, 2023
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Sue me, I love David Lynch. He loves dreams. He said, āThe nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it's the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It's the only experience that utilizes the full brain.ā Anytime I have a dream that stays with me when I wake up, I grab my phone and write it down in my notes. Hereās a snippet from a recent one, āI had to put on a gown in the tiniest bathroom. A famous actress grabs my hand and we run to a huge empty room with carpet everywhere. Rolling around on the floor laughing and then sheās crying to me telling me really sad things that are going on in her life. I really wanted to take a picture of the tears on her face but felt like i couldnāt.
Apr 21, 2023
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Thereās so many bubble tea spots in Chinatown but this one is by far, the best. Get the passion fruit tea iced, with mango bubbles, twenty percent sugar. Bring cash.
Apr 21, 2023
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I used to only know their demo of the song Good Morning, Captain. A boy from highschool put it on a mix CD he made me, along with some Portishead, Sonic Youth, Eve 6, and Brand New; I would listen to it in my car on the way to volleyball practice. But recently I took a deep dive into everything they did and this album is really something else. If you want the perfect work from home soundtrack for your cold little emo heart, try it out. Itās slow, hard, sad, frantic, and terrifying ā everything. Sometimes I really enjoy nauseatingly depressing music even when Iām in a fantastic mood, I donāt know if thatās something I should discuss in therapy; in the meantime, Iāll keep blasting it in my headphones while Iām taking my morning walk to get a coffee.
Apr 21, 2023