
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
I get really really excited about a few things and this is one of them. Thankthankthank you insight