Talk:Melora Creager

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Trivia

There was a large trivia section, preceded with {{Trivia|date=August 2007}}. I cut it. It appears below. -- Hoary (talk) 13:45, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

*The name of the band came from the title of a song Creager wrote a long time ago, and of course her preoccupation with Rasputin. The "a" is presumably to make it feminine and thus give it a different meaning, contrasting the daintiness associated with women of that age with Rasputin's reputation for depravity and controversiality. In an interview, Creager said, "'Rasputina' implies sex, death, unkillableness, revolution, history, drama, religion..."

Creager was a jewelry designer for several years before taking up the cello professionally.
Creager was in a band called Ultra Vivid Scene in the late 1980s.
When asked in an interview whether she thought people were inherently good or evil, Creager replied, "I think people are inherently lazy, which is harder to overcome."
Creager collects beads and ribbon as well as old portraits, her favorite of which is the one she found of E. Leon Rains. She also has one of a hunchback midget lady that she likes very much, and many of children.
When asked in an interview about the reaction of classical musicians to Rasputina, Creager said, "People who are specifically cellists of all different ages will make a point to see us. They love it, because they know exactly what we're doing...playing the cello. But I think the classical music world is a pretty tight and closed thing. I've never been involved in it. I don't even know if they know of us, because for us to perform and put out records in a rock world... I don't know that anyone crosses over at all."
Creager described herself as a loner growing up, always being in a fantasy world. She recalls spending entire summers without going outside, instead playing games such as "Live Dishes" with her sister, in which the girls would play the parts of bowls, plates, silverware, etc.
In art school, Creager was accused of having a "commercial" drawing style and using visual tricks as an illustrator would. She does all the art on Rasputina's album covers (except the cover of The Lost & Found) and on the band's official Website.
Creager played in the Wichita Youth Symphony.
Creager appeared in cameos in the films Longtime Companion (whose title refers to the only term in which a gay man's lover could be mentioned in an obituary in the 1980s) and Back Fire!.
Rather than keeping up with new musical trends, Creager prefers listening to old records she knows and likes over and over; these include music by Bach, Arvo Pärt, Michael Nyman, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, the Andrews Sisters, a lot of music from the 1930s, and some movie soundtracks.
Creager prefers reading nonfiction to fiction.
Creager's best friend is a fashion designer named James Coviello.
Rasputina performs the first song on the tribute CD Where's Neil When You Need Him?.

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