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Last Updated: 10/15/2009

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City: CHICAGO
State: Illinois
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/6/2009

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October 6, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  moody
Category: Music
So just a couple days ago I got an email saying that the show at Reggie's had to be moved from the 11th to the 18th. And I can't make it on the 18th, as I already have plans to drive to Columbus, OH. I thought there was something suspicious when I confirmed for the 11th and they wouldn't give me a load-in time. Sigh. Hopefully I will get another chance to play for all you godless heathens
soon!!!

Go in Pieces,
Curi.
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October 3, 2009 - Saturday 
Hey everyone,

I've been really busy putting together "Sanity is Slavery" and working on my new studio album. Unfortunately the harassment from Prometheus Burning has not stopped. I really hate mentioning their name because this is giving them more air time. I also know I'll get accused of being a drama queen yet again. Who cares though? If people went through half of what I did with this band I am sure they'd be seen as a lot worse than drama queens. Gain some perspective. 

People keep asking me why this band would go after someone as small time as me. It's hard to come up with a rational explanation but what I do have is theirs. They thought I "bought my way into the scene" (their friends posted pictures of concentration camp victims to a bunch of posts promoting Experiment Haywire) and since I was over ambitious and easy-to-get-a-rise-out-of I made a very easy target. It was financially beneficial for them to have drama with me. Immediately after they created a press notice about me containing nothing but slander they were getting gig offers left and right. They got signed to a pretty big record label. They got an entire tour funded.

Soon this rip-off band (not just my musical themes and vocal style but my writings in "Generation Hex" and "Acidexia") was accusing me of "stalking them" simply because I requested a peaceful resolution. It appears that they hacked my record label website, impersonated my identity through a false mirror site, and stole money from my fans. They were finally given a cease and desist letter after they pulled all this bullshit. I figured this would be the end of their harassment but I was wrong. It's a well-known fact that many cease and desist letters do not work. They only further instigate the criminals.

After Prometheus Burning received the cease and desist letter they got me removed from Vendetta Festival. I was going to open for Hocico, Imperative Reaction, Psyclon Nine, and Dismantled. It was a dream come true that was soon crushed. The band was now getting their industry connections to harass the promoter of the festival so I'd be taken off the lineup. Since the band was unable to mention my name in public due to the cease and desist they were now mentioning my name in private to further their goal of damaging my career. 

It didn't stop here. Today I found out that my LiveJournal account was hacked. It looks like the band decided to impersonate my identity one more time. They began posting derogatory misogynistic crap as me which was pointed out to me by one of their "friends." Their latest attempt at sabotage is to say vile things under my own name and claim that they're going to get the authorities involved.

Why would a band known for being federal criminals even bother mentioning the authorities? It looks like they finally made a stupid move with this one. When I dropped my case against them it was because I didn't want them to receive more publicity though the drama. Yet after some friends of mine told me this was a stupid move (why be spineless just to stop them from getting press?) I realized that my friends were 100% right. I recontacted the FBI and the case was reopened. The case is currently being re-investigated and there's a damn good chance they'll finally end up in prison after all these years.

The problem is that I can't do this alone. It's not that I "want to be a victim" but that I have no idea how to deal with any of this. I am really horrible at talking to the authorities. My lawyer is working pro-bono for me so he doesn't move as fast as needed. What I need is money to pay for the legal assistance that I'm in dire need of.

I know that these aren't easy times for any of us but if my friends and fans would be kind enough to help me out... your donations would mean the entire world to me. They would help me to get this band prosecuted for the crimes they have relentlessly committed against me. My paypal email addy is teh.haywire@gmail.com. Once I am able to reach 2K I will be able to take the legal steps necessary to get this band prosecuted once and for all. People told me to "stop being a victim" and I am going to listen.

Love,
Rachel Haywire

(please repost this for your friends to see)
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May 25, 2009 - Monday 

Current mood:  adored


ALL CURIOSITY MUSIC IS NOW AVAILABLE ON BLIP FM!!!!


So Twitter the hell out of it. Because now you can.



On MySpace - Live version of "Exist" straight from Shibuya. Recorded at the Live House LUSH. "We come from Chicago. Thank you very much. Please be nice to us!"


I've started demoing my next album. And I'm gonna work with machineKUNT records, super fucking excited about that!


Iceland in July. Elsewhere in due time. If you live there, we can hang. It'll be tight.


Reading too much of everything. Ever.


On raw diet and exercising an hour a day and trying to get fucking HEALTHY. Once I accomplish this I will TAKE OVER THE WORLD. (Successfully this time!)


If I someday no longer feel the need to love that which is detrimental to me, I will hang up my dresses and synthesizers and cease to create music. However, IT IS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. Which means Curiosity music will be continuous for the decades to come. My emotional turmoil is your entertainment. You're welcome!


Go in pieces,


Curi.

Currently watching:
Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season
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April 30, 2009 - Thursday 

Current mood:  adored
Category: Quiz/Survey

WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?


Curiosity Winter Valentine.


WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? 


I wake up between 8:30am and 9:00am. Then I take a pill, and sleep for another hour while waiting for it to kick in.


WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR BREAKFAST? 


Toast with blackberry jam and peanut butter. Every morning. Sometimes I like consistency.


IF YOU COULD EAT LUNCH WITH ONE FAMOUS PERSON, WHO WOULD IT BE?


Raymond Watts. To hell with the lunch - Check please!


GOLD OR SILVER? 


Silver. Gold has no effect on werewolves, as far as I know.


WHAT WAS THE LAST FILM YOU SAW AT THE CINEMA? 


I never go to the movies. Damn, I can't even remember - I think it was The Simpsons Movie.


FAVOURITE TV SHOW? 


The Drinky Crow Show.


WHO WOULD YOU HATE TO BE LEFT IN A ROOM WITH? 


That's a tough one, because if I was left in a room with someone I truly hated, I would just kill that person. Hmm...maybe an unkillable Courtney Love?


CAN YOU TOUCH YOUR NOSE WITH YOUR TONGUE? 


Yes, but I usually touch more than my nose with it.


WHAT INSPIRES YOU? 


The thought that regardless of my deep-seated megalomaniacal indignation, the Universe still loves me and wants me to be happy.


SUMMER OR WINTER? 


Winter is my middle name, baby.


FAVOURITE ICE CREAM? 


Some vanilla-based article such as Butter Pecan or Pralines & Cream, with espresso poured atop it.


BUTTERED, PLAIN, OR SALTED POPCORN? 


Swimming in butter.


FAVOURITE CAR? 


The Cadillac hearse.


FAVOURITE SANDWICH FILLING? 


Fresh mozzarella.


FAVOURITE TYPE OF MUSIC? 


It's that kind with all the noises and singing and the clamoring of synthesizers and machines and heavy guitars, but it has a melody and you can kinda dance to it.


ARE YOU SINGLE?


Regrettably so.


CURRENT CRUSH?


I doubt you're referring to the screaming person in the vice clamp? 

Okay, okay. Current crush: Warren Ellis. Because ever since he suggested it, I can't  stop imagining what it would be like to run away with him.


TRUE LOVE? 


"Dead skies above me, and no one can love me."


WHAT CHARACTERISTIC DO YOU DESPISE? 


Lying. If everyone were brutally honest, our evolution would be increasingly swift.


FAVOURITE FLOWER? 


It may be cliché, but I do love roses.


DO YOU WEAR PYJAMAS? 


Yes. Fluffy pink ones with feet. Think about whether or not I am being sarcastic.


WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES?


Violet.


HOW MANY KEYS ON YOUR KEY RING? 


Four.


IF YOU MET YOURSELF, WOULD YOU BE YOUR OWN FRIEND?


No. I would kill myself...and then I would kill myself.


FAVOURITE DAY OF THE WEEK? 


Wednesday. I'll leave you to figure out why.


RED OR WHITE WINE? 


I don't drink, considering the pills I take from several bottles reading "Do not consume alcohol while taking this medication." And a liver transplant is something I would never like to experience. I'd drink heavily if I could, though.


WHAT DID YOU DO FOR YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY? 


My Chicago Lolitas and I journeyed to Lamb's Farm.


Curi.

Currently listening:
High Society
By The Silver Seas
Release date: 2007-10-09
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April 30, 2009 - Thursday 

Current mood:  anxious


Happily, a new dosage of wakefulness meds has finally shoveled some coal into the Curiosity steam engine! ALL ABOARD, YOU GADABOUTS!!!


That means after weeks of sleeping about 23 hours a day, I can actually function. It's lovely, really. I'm going to write songs and record music and make graphics and release albums and play shows and do all those fancy things that a wannabe International Superstar does in her spare time. 


Before you know it, I'll be telling them where to dig the kidney-shaped swimming pool. (That is, if I stay awake long enough. And if I don't die of swine flu.)


In the very near future, I will:


- Post a new song to this site


- Have new photos


- Overthrow the government (not really...although I might tip it a little)


And tomorrow, I'm leaving for Washington, D.C. Next time you see me, holla like you know me. You should know I carry large sacks of Curiosity CDs around with me at all times and love to be seduced in exchange for them!*


Two more things I'd like to mention:


1) I'm not touring at the moment. WHEN I DO TOUR, I PROMISE I WILL LET YOU KNOW. THERE WILL BE NO SHORTAGE OF TOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS, TO GUARANTEE THAT SOME OF YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY SHOW UP. I'm going through some necessary medical testing right now, and acting as a guinea pig, which is why I haven't done any shows in awhile. Once this is over with I am going to bust out with concerts like a supersonic projectile and visit each of your hometowns personally! Yes!**


2) A few of you have messaged me about the comments I leave on your MySpace pages, especially the "You Have Angered Curiosity" comment. I would like to clarify that I have not been personally angered by any of your individual actions. It's just that I hate the world and everyone in it.


Go in Pieces,


Curi.


*The seduction bit only applies if I determine you to be beddable.


**On second thought, I'll most likely perform in a city nearby.

Currently watching:
Breaking Bad - The Complete First Season
Release date: 2009-02-24
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April 17, 2009 - Friday 

Current mood:  bouncy
Category: Romance and Relationships



Who wants to take me out to see Crank - High Voltage? Ahhh...Chev Chelios....*lustful sigh*


Here's my nerd dating profile - http://www.sqzzy.com/curiosity

And if you weren't already aware, I recently transformed into a character from Total Drama Island.




Curi.
Currently watching:
Crank (Full Screen Edition)
Release date: 2007-01-09
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April 11, 2009 - Saturday 

Current mood:  sleepy
Hooray for Portugal! After watching this video, I decided that I should share this adorable bedtime story with all of you!

I was visiting my parents, who live in a tiny backwater town in West Virginia. In about 2001, before anyone knew who the hell Nickelback was, they were touring around there. I had never even heard of them until the night of the show, when a friend called me up and asked me if I wanted to go. To me a show is a show, and there's really nothing else to do in that town but eat roadkill and chew Skoal, so I said okay.

There were a lot of fat girls at the show in Nickelback t-shirts, and they kept shouting obscene things at the guitarist, who was the only one in the band who didn't have that manufactured "blond with brown weathered leather jacket" look. I didn't like their sound, and I thought their songs were trite and ridiculous. At one point, the singer shouted out something like, "This is a song about those assholes who had new cars in high school!" and everyone cheered. There are few things more shallow than that.

My friend proceeded to get drunker and drunker. I don't drink, and I was designated driver on top of that. After the show we stood outside to...I dunno, get Nickelback's autograph? I have no idea what she thought we were going to do, but I was her ride, and she was drunker than fuck. Nickelback came out and started letting people on their tour bus after a preliminary ID check (which every band does so they don't end up fucking a 14-year-old. Unless you are R. Kelly or Marilyn Manson, but I digress).

So on the tour bus there's me, two skinny chicks, two fat chicks in Nickelback t-shirts and one guy who is with them, a random guy, my drunk friend, the bus driver, and the band. The bus starts to move.

They're playing a Soul Coughing CD (Irrisistable Bliss) and the singer goes into this rave about how much he loves Soul Coughing and how upset he is that they broke up and he never got to see them live. I mentioned that I got to see them live in 1994. It was a casual comment, but he started getting pretty snotty with me. I hand the guy my CD, I have no idea why. It's really awkward. He takes a look at my demo CD, which at the time had lightning bolts on the cover, and he asked, like an asshole, if it was Metallica's Ride the Lightning album.

We pull up to a Holiday Inn, and the guitarist that all the girls were drooling over gets out with his duffel bag and goes into the hotel. The singer said he'd be on the phone to his wife all night. Then he made some derogatory comment about the guy being uptight, I don't really remember what it was. It's about this time that I notice two things:

1) The two skinny chicks have gone to the back of the bus with the rhythm section.

2) My friend is heavily making out with random guy, and too drunk to know what the hell she's doing.

Singer from Nickelback gets really excited about my friend's proclivities. The bus driver grabs a video camera and starts filming her. This makes me extremely upset. The singer insinuates that I should start making out with my friend, which makes me even more upset.

One of the guys from the rhythm section comes over from the back of the bus, leaving the girls there, to watch my friend make out with this guy. I have no idea why. Maybe the girl he was with wasn't putting out, I don't know. Several attempts are made to move this party to the back of the bus. Finally I am so frustrated that I grab my friend and pull her outside, and we walk several blocks to my car, which is still parked at the venue.

And that is the story about how I didn't want to give Nickelback a blowjob.

Seriously.

Curi.
Currently watching:
South Park - The Complete Seventh Season
Release date: 2006-03-21
6:30 AM 
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April 9, 2009 - Thursday 

Current mood:  horny
Category: Romance and Relationships
The Jonas Brothers and their pompous, stringently repressive Purity Rings (which will most likely lead to reaction-formation neuroses later in life) have inspired me.

castrating purity ring

I have decided to implement Whority Rings. Obviously these rings will symbolize the abnegation of Purity Rings - protesting the condemnation of sexual eroticism outside the confines of the suffocating institution of marriage. In other words, they promote all types of sexuality while ignoring any unreasonably allocated and preexisting religious, legal, social, or cultural construct.

sexified whority ring

WEAR WHORITY RINGS WITH PRIDE! Let people know you're available for a good time, in the same way Purity Rings express to others that you're not (and probably never will be)!

Also, 5 points will be awarded to anyone who makes it with a self-righteous, abstemious type wearing a Purity Ring.

I CAN'T LINK YOU BECAUSE MYSPACE HATES THIS WEBSITE. But this site has a large selection, with several positions to choose from:

http://www.nipplebling.com/Erotic_Rings.htm
Just copy & paste it. (Stupid MySpace.)


The ring for a girl who likes girls.

The ring for a guy who likes guys.

THE FIRST GUY I SEE WEARING ONE OF THESE THINGS, the panties are coming off! No, seriously!*

Curi.

*The panties may not come off.

Currently playing:
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
Release date: 2009-03-24
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April 1, 2009 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  sleepy
Category: MySpace
After your Friend Request is accepted, you will be granted one of FIFTEEN possible Curiosity anime comments on your MySpace page.

They look like this:

you have been converted to curiosity


Unless you know whom I've recently added as a friend, it would be near impossible to see them all.

(That doesn't mean you shouldn't try, I suppose.)

Please feel free to be personally offended. I spend several minutes assessing your Internet reputation before I select and post a graphic.*

And when you see that girl with the long black hair and the purple eyes who is going to kill you, it's most certainly me.

Curi.

*(This is not true. Most are generated randomly.)


Currently playing:
Pokemon Platinum
Release date: 2009-03-22
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March 29, 2009 - Sunday 

Current mood:  focused
Category: Life
This is what's going on in the magical realm of Curiosityland:

- Right now I'm having issues with what kind of (prescription) amphetamines I should be on. So I'm not going to be playing any shows for awhile until the doctors and I get that shit sorted out. As fun as it may sound, I wouldn't want to fall asleep in the middle of a gig. (Unless I'm faking it to freak everyone the fuck out. That's different.)

- I want to release Liquorice muchly, but I believe that EP is cursed somehow. I'm going to try my absolute best to have it (and The Forced Magician, again) available on CD Baby as soon as I possibly can. Several things with certain people have fallen through, and I'm back to my old tricks: feeling 100% utter contempt for the world and everthing in it, and running this show by myself.

- I wrote another album, I just need to do the four crucial tasks that musicians usually do after they write an album: 1) Record it 2) Package it 3) Release it 4) Promote it. That's all, no big deal.

- My All-Encompassing Curiosity Future Scheme includes aspirations to purchase a conversion van and tour the country - nay, the WORLD - until I die or I run out of funding, whichever comes first. (Or I may run away with Warren Ellis. We'll see.)

So what's going on with you guys?
Currently playing:
KORG DS-10 Synthesizer
Release date: 2008-11-04
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