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tara

i cook and then i chill.

About Me

i'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

record nerd | dvd aficionado

suckerface.org
25daysofhell.org
womenwholovepenguins.com

My Interests

sprite, penguins (and the women who love them), fashion design, corey feldman (circa 1989-1991), crispin glover, michael ian black, michael showalter, david wain, body modification, being crafty, film studies, saloons, painting pieces of furniture/doors, brian and cooper's, vintage clothing, reconstructing clothing, cosmetics, bicycles, filthy cities (ie. new york city and los angeles), naps, bust magazine, photography, hollywood's studio/star system, gooski's, heinz ketchup, traveling, dance parties, stella, guinea pigs, bunnies, zines, (making) collages, thrift stores, nintendo/super nintendo, gaudy jewelry, the aesthetic qualities of a cassette, ebay, tetris, not suffering fools gladly

I'd like to meet:

bruce mcculloch and corey feldman look-a-likes circa 1989-1991.

Music:

the angels, antony and the johnsons, apes, april march, arab on radar, avenue d, bikini kill, birthday party, bis, blur, butthole surfers, can, nick cave & the bad seeds, chinese stars, clinic, daisy chainsaw, the cramps, dead kennedys, the decemberists, deerhoof, del the funkyhomosapien, depeche mode, dresden dolls, earth, elastica, electrocute, brian eno, enon, epoxies, ex models, exploding hearts, the faint, faith no more, fantomas, bryan ferry, fever, fischerspooner, flying saucer attack, serge gainsbourg, gang of four, girlschool, go sailor, gorilla angreb, grand buffet, gravy train!!!!, guitar wolf, handsome boy modeling school, harry merry, hawnay troof, jesus & mary chain, joan jett (& the blackhearts), wanda jackson, joy division, king adora, the knife, le tigre, les georges leningrad, magnetic fields, makers, massive attack, mc5, metric, mission of burma, moldy peaches, monkees, motley crue, mudhoney, new order, new york dolls, klaus nomi, gary numan, oneida, dolly parton, peaches, phiilliip, the pixies, placebo, portishead, primal scream, pulp, queen adreena, quintron & miss pussycat, rachel stamp, rasputina, redd kross, roxy music, seconds, the smiths, sparks, ssion, stereo total, suede, that dog, thompson twins, tracy + the plastic, t. rex, tsol, velvet underground, tom waits, xbxrx, yaz, ze malibu kids ...

Movies:

directors;
billy wilder, john waters, werner herzog, david lynch, rainer werner fassbinder, sergio leone, douglas sirk, jean-luc godard, orson welles

individual films;
band of outsiders, blue velvet, the burbs, cemetery man, cry baby, desperate teenage lovedolls, head, hedwig and the angry inch, house of yes, peeping tom, rubin and ed, shadow of a doubt, shallow grave, some like it hot, stroszek, the third man, velvet goldmine, videodrome, wet hot american summer, wild at heart, wild zero, written on the wind

Television:

absolutely fabulous, the adventures of pete and pete, aqua teen hunger force, black adder, bottom, degrassi junior high, degrassi high, degrassi: the next generation, fawlty towers, harvey birdman, alfred hitchcock presents, kids in the hall, league of gentlemen, little britain, melrose place, the monkees, ren and stimpy, the state, stella, strangers with candy, twin peaks, upright citizens brigade, young ones

Books:

specific works;

mikhail bulgakov - "heart of a dog"; joe meno - "hairstyles of the damned" & "the boy detective fails"; richard simmons - "still hungry after all these years"

i also enjoy various short story anthologies.

Heroes:

michael showalter, jayne mansfield

My Blog

sunday rave 6/17/07

tonight was the second sunday of ursula and my new weekly dj rave night rave rave rave. the set list was as follows:erik b & rakim - don't sweat the techniquedigital underground - humpty dancedavi...
Posted by tara on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:01:00 PST

last night, i fell in an enormous pothole

it was like an innertube only made out of cement and gravel.
Posted by tara on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:01:00 PST

lessons in bike safety

i posted this in the form of a bulletin when, really, i should've just posted it here as a constant reminder of my stupidity. so i would like to repeat myself and say the following:i would like to reg...
Posted by tara on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:29:00 PST

no one

will evereverbelieve the night i had last night.i know i even don't.
Posted by tara on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 08:44:00 PST

my life is beautiful.

really.what reasons could there possibly be that would make it anything less than awesome?because i fuck up in school?because sometimes i still possess affection for those who i should not?who doesn't...
Posted by tara on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:44:00 PST

people/things/stuff

last night:- gooski's- gary & ursula- cutups- box of sour patch kids from tim- iron maiden- a german insistent upon finding a non-existent balcony- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 packets of ketchup = ...
Posted by tara on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:25:00 PST

and you kept us awake with wolves teeth

one night to be confusedone night to speed up truthwe had a promise made  
Posted by tara on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:17:00 PST

philadelphia experience

memories.
Posted by tara on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:32:00 PST

moving day is a very dangerous day.

it was refreshing to see all of the carloads and truckloads of people's belongings being carted around the city today.  change is very exciting, and i was glad to be a participant of th...
Posted by tara on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

just because...

i haven't written in here in so long, so here it goes. i returned from la on thursday, and never in my life have i ever hated pittsburgh as much as i did when the plane touched the ground.  three...
Posted by tara on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST