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RACHAEL FINLEY

Insight family member Rachael Finley is a busy kid. Not only does she study design, she works in the music industry, models and does some freelance design. Laura May caught up with her in LA for a quick chat ...  

Where do you call home? What do you love / loathe about it?
Long Beach, CA. I love how "rough around the edges meets laid back" it is and that I can get a horchata on nearly every corner. It's also nice to have local spots to drink at where your bound to run into friends. Actually, that's also something I loathe about it. It's hard to get lost when you feel like it.
How do you spend your days?
Hungover? No. Well kind of, heh. I'm sort of a work horse these days. I've been getting a lot of freelance design jobs recently, graphics and denim. I'm also working on a side project for myself that I'm really excited about. I'm fitting and getting my photo taken to float my bills. I'm busy, my head's spinning but it's a good thing.
You're a rock 'n roll babe at heart, tell me about your work in the music industry? 
Ah, when I was 18 the allure of selling t'shirts and traveling around with loud metal bands got the best of me. I spent the following 3-4 years doing that. Not having an apartment or really any responsibility was the best thing I could have given myself at the time, plus I kind of felt like a cool kid. Chasing the dream landed me in Los Angeles working at a record label that as a teenager I would have given my right arm to even know the address of. Life happened for a bit and I had to leave but I haven't had tapped out on the music industry as a whole. I plan on getting back to it eventually but I'm taking the next year or so to do this whole design thing because ... why the hell not?  I'm going on tour again in November with a band who's wikipedia page scared my mom, I can't wait.
What do you love / loathe about what you do?
I don't even know what I do ... I kind of just float and there's nothing better than that.
3 words to describe yourself…
An Unshowered, burrito craving, cat kisser. Those are not three words but there ARE 2 comas in that sentence and 2 is almost three.
Insight to me is.. going out on friday///laying around on sunday 

Where do you call home? What do you love / loathe about it?

Long Beach, CA. I love how "rough around the edges meets laid back" it is and that I can get a horchata on nearly every corner. It's also nice to have local spots to drink at where your bound to run into friends. Actually, that's also something I loathe about it. It's hard to get lost when you feel like it.

How do you spend your days?

Hungover? No. Well kind of, heh. I'm sort of a work horse these days. I've been getting a lot of freelance design jobs recently, graphics and denim. I'm also working on a side project for myself that I'm really excited about. I'm fitting and getting my photo taken to float my bills. I'm busy, my head's spinning but it's a good thing.

You're a rock 'n roll babe at heart, tell me about your work in the music industry? 

Ah, when I was 18 the allure of selling t'shirts and traveling around with loud metal bands got the best of me. I spent the following 3-4 years doing that. Not having an apartment or really any responsibility was the best thing I could have given myself at the time, plus I kind of felt like a cool kid. Chasing the dream landed me in Los Angeles working at a record label that as a teenager I would have given my right arm to even know the address of. Life happened for a bit and I had to leave but I haven't had tapped out on the music industry as a whole. I plan on getting back to it eventually but I'm taking the next year or so to do this whole design thing because ... why the hell not?  I'm going on tour again in November with a band who's wikipedia page scared my mom, I can't wait.

What do you love / loathe about what you do?

I don't even know what I do ... I kind of just float and there's nothing better than that.

3 words to describe yourself…

An Unshowered, burrito craving, cat kisser. Those are not three words but there ARE 2 comas in that sentence and 2 is almost three.

Insight to me is.. going out on friday///laying around on sunday