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Tara

Wednesday I move to SC. By Sunday I'll be drinkin' whisky, listenin' to Skynard, and flyin' a Rebel

About Me

I'm a total effing nerd. If you'd like to know more than that, we should probably be talking in person. Myspace isn't the place to get deep.

My Interests


I heart hominids

Anthropology, science, history (pre 1500)
Appalachia
Arguing (or shall we call it "passionately conversing"?)
Art
Astronomy/theoretical physics
Backpacking
Being near the ocean
Being outdoors
Bigfoot
Camping (tent, not RV)
Debating personal philosophies
Evolution... of humans, life, and the universe
Laughing
Lucid dreaming
Listening to music/ trying to play music
Photography
Reading
Road trips
Walking in the forest
Walking the train tracks

Pretending I've got it all under control...

I'd like to meet:


Bigfoot

Music:

80s New Wave
Afrocelt Sound System
Air
America
American Analog Set
Ambient
Band of Horses
Beck (Sea Change)
Bela Fleck
Ben Folds(Five)
Bjork
Bright Eyes
Built to Spill
Celtic
Coldplay
Composers James Horner, John Williams, John Barry
CSN(Y)
Death Cab for Cutie
Dire Straights
Duran Duran
Echoes
Electronica
Elliot Smith
Elton John
Enya
Feist
Fleetwood Mac
Foreigner
Genesis
Gin Blossoms
Goldfinger
Guster (bongo-era)
Hall and Oates
Happy Rhodes
Heart
Idlewild (the band, not Outcast's cd)
Journey
Loreena McKennitt
Maritime
Midlake
Muse
MXPX
Natalie Merchant
Neil Young
New Age
NOFX
Northern Southern
Operation Ivy
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Royksopp
Saves the Day
Seafood
Shiny Toy Guns
Sigur Ros
Snowden
Sufjan Stevens
System of a Down
Tears for Fears
The Anniversary
The Bird and the Bee
The Dandy Warhols
The Decemberists
The Flaming Lips
The Hiders
The Killers
The Pixies
The Postal Service
The Shins
The Smiths
The Sundays
Thursday
Tom Petty
Tori Amos
Toto
Travis
The Whitest Boy Alive
William Ackerman
World music

Listening to incessantly right now: Midlake and the university radio station.

Favorite album at the moment:
-The Crane Wife by The Decemberists

Movies:

Aliens
Baraka
Ben Hur
Bladerunner
Braveheart
Brokeback Mountain
Dances with Wolves
Indiana Jones (any and all)
Jurassic Park
Last of the Mohicans
Legend
Legends of the Fall
Lord of the Flies (90s version)
Planet of the Apes (original)
Star Wars
Terminator 2
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Lord of the Rings

Television:

Absolutely Fabulous
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Cops
Documentaries
Futurama
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Reno 911!
South Park
Star Trek: TNG
What Not to Wear

Books:

Any scientific nonfiction
Anything by Ayn Rand
Anything by Carl Sagan, especially Cosmos
Lucy (changed my life, and I bought it for 25 cents at a church book sale, of all places!)
The Elegant Universe/ The Fabric of the Cosmos
I read Into Thin Air in a straight 12 hours... only shut it to pee.
Any dystopia fiction, such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
Apocalyptic fiction
Brokeback Mountain
White Fang
Lord of the Rings
Jurassic Park
The Stand
Harry Potter

I need to be reading constantly... otherwise I'm emotionally disturbed. If I don't have new books, I just reread the old. It's kind of a beneficial OCD.

Heroes:

-Those who only weild their swords when their pens run out of ink:
-Yoda
-Mr. Miagi
-Charles Ingles

-My badass brothas of science:
-Carl Sagan
-Steve Irwin
-Data

-Just because they're awesome:
-Tom Servo
-Dr. Evil
-ATHF's Carl and Oglethorpe

-My musical gods:
-Neil Young
-William Ackerman
-Happy Rhodes
-Loreena McKennitt

-And, of course:
-Marm, Dad, Becky

My Blog

So much to say...

Sheesh... it's been like 500 years since I last posted a blog of any worth.  So much has happened... I don't know where to begin.   I'll start by saying that today is the first full day off ...
Posted by Tara on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:02:00 PST

Quick Update:

I have moved to a new location with two friends.  I loooove it. I now have internet at my house.  I loooove it. I got a part time job as a cafe server at Barnes and Noble.  I dont know ...
Posted by Tara on Wed, 21 May 2008 04:51:00 PST

Everyone born on this day is supersweet:

  One girl with two faces. She happens to share my birthday.  All eyes blink at the same time, and she can use both mouths and noses.    freaking sweet. Here’s the art...
Posted by Tara on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:57:00 PST

I never thought Id "turn traitor"...

... on my favorite work of fantasy, The Lord of the Rings.  I guess I thought reading Harry Potter was like eating Burger King instead of my beloved Wendy's; like drinking Pepsi instead of Coke.&...
Posted by Tara on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:35:00 PST

Boo Hoo...

I have been adding things to a mental list all month that I wanted to expand upon in a blog for all my little myspace buddies to enjoy, but once I get to the library, I immediately lose all desir...
Posted by Tara on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:13:00 PST

Welcome to 2008

It's been a while since I've last written, but I have something very important to say before I start this blog :           NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! One of my fa...
Posted by Tara on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:50:00 PST

Dis is my life...

"Hey buuddddies" (Pauly Shore voice): It's been a long while... but I finally got those pictures from my Dad and Beck's Thanksgiving visit posted.  I know some of them are sideways, but screw it!...
Posted by Tara on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:34:00 PST

Short update sans pictures

Quick blog update:Dad and beck arrived the other day. We spent yesterday at the zoo, doing a whole behind-the-scenes thing... we walked around there for five hours! Today we shopped a little (my pur...
Posted by Tara on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:51:00 PST

Holy Hell: an update! (Edisto Beach)

Man, I've really been slacking on my myspace blogging.  Uh... guess that means I finally have a life (?).  Anyways, thought I'd throw out a few words and pictures for someone, anyone's, enjo...
Posted by Tara on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:33:00 PST

Music (an experiment in brevity)

I'm going to try to not spend two hours typing a blog.  Let's see if I can say what I want to say on a variety of muiscal topics in just two sentences each.  Here goes:Favorite New Album: Th...
Posted by Tara on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:43:00 PST