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Tara Ryan

just a sweet old fashioned notion

My Interests

Music:

I'll listen to anything at least once. Favorites include: Tori Amos, Phish, Radiohead, Muse, Jet, N.E.R.D., The Roots, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Guster, Coldplay, Jack Johnson, Keller Williams, Ben Lee, Eisley, Maroon 5, Liz Phair, Norah Jones, The Strokes, Linkin Park, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, The Streets, Rusted Root, moe., Wilco, Ben Harper, Fleetwood Mac, Dave Matthews band, Coldplay, Steve Miller Band, The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Petty, The Black Crowes, CCR, Ben Folds Five, Sarah McLaughlin, Portishead, the cure, Fiona Apple, Weezer, Ryan Adams, notwist, talking heads, the killers, string cheese incident, trey band, frou frou, beck, the strokes, pink floyd, the shins, interpol, massive attack, bjork, the mars volta, pavement, fiery furnaces, le tigre, the magnetic fields, the smiths, new order, sneaker pimps, the white stripes, beth orton, air, badly drawn boy, the Beatles, clinic, James Taylor, the velvet underground, Cary Brothers, zero7, janes addiction, mazzy star, bright eyes, arcade fire, benevento and russo duo, phoenix, la rocca, the pulp fiction soundtrack, joss stone, jenny lewis, imogen heap, the moving units, metric, rilo kiley, the sundays, emiliana torrini, butterfly boucher, gomez, neko case.....and the list can go on and on

Movies:

Amelie, Lost in Translation, Romeo & Juliet, Mallrats, Good Will Hunting, Almost Famous, Adaptation, The Breakfast Club, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, The House of Yes, Dopamine, Big Fish, The Station Agent, Dirty Dancing, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before Sunset, Napolean Dynamite, Garden State, The Life Aquatic, Shopgirl....and I get these free dvd sampler's with my Paste magazine subscription that have pretty cool short films on them.

Television:

GREY'S ANATOMY, Sex and the City, The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Will and Grace, Six Feet Under, The Daily Show, Project Runway, design shows/house flipping shows

My Blog

kegs and cupcakes

So, as most of you know I turned the big 2-6 yesterday! And I must say that it very likely was (and still is since I plan on milking the birthday thing all week) the best birthday ever. On Saturday m...
Posted by Tara Ryan on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:22:00 PST

lock out

So after a long day at work and school last night, I get back to my apartment around 6pm.  Now, a couple of weeks ago the maintenance guys put up scaffolding in the courtyard because they were ap...
Posted by Tara Ryan on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:44:00 PST

wildberry lemonade

So, after work yesterday i drove out to Lansdale to visit Em and Neo (who I hadn't seen in FAR too long!)....and as always Em and I went to dinner and were going to go shopping after. We decided on Pi...
Posted by Tara Ryan on Thu, 10 May 2007 11:38:00 PST

Scrantastic!

Scranton has the country's 3rd largest St Patrick's Day Parade. That's right - it's Scrantastic!  So, the girls and I hit up Perkins for some very important breakfast before heading to the Banshe...
Posted by Tara Ryan on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:50:00 PST

Face Recognition

So, I've seen these on a few friends' pages and decided to give it a shot...it's SO amusing. However, I'm pretty sure they decide who you "look like" based on the angle you tilt your head. I really th...
Posted by Tara Ryan on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:03:00 PST

luck 'o the irish

so, i have strep throat which i didn't think you got once you "grew up" but i have it BAD. and i've been in bed all day hating my life and fever and throat. but i started feeling a bit better tonight ...
Posted by Tara Ryan on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:28:00 PST