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taarna

people of ze world, relax!

About Me

i tend to live by the "don't stop, get it, get it" philosophy at top volume.

the term irascible applies.

amare i mi amici

oh. and i should really get around to investing stock in band-aids.

My Interests

abandoned buildings. art history. autonomy. awkward moments. bicycles. books. cooking. dance! dance! dancing. falling hard. halloween. hanging upside down from monkey bars. highly organized plastic drawers. homebrew. (honest) history. horror movies. laughing 'til it hurts. libraries. making lists. pen pals. photobooths. politics. pranks. refusing to settle down. riding no hands. rpg's. scavenging. serial killers. sewing. song-poems. stencil art. traveling. UE. writing. zombies. leaving the united states behind.

I'd like to meet:

you buyin'?

Music:

shitty punk rock. some hip hop.

Movies:

dario argento. alejandro gonzález iñárritu. tim burton. sam raimi. alfonso cuarón. david lynch. jean-pierre jeunet. george romero. lloyd kaufman. lucio fulchi. ed wood. david cronenberg. herschell gordon lewis. john waters. miranda july. stanley kubrick. peter greenaway. clive barker. alfred hitchcock.
the more gore the better. political and media documentaries. spanish and french films. erotica. japanese horror. kung fu. classic horror. anything starring zombies, vincent price, gael garcía bernal, crispin glover or eddie izzard.

Television:

... that plays my vhs tapes.
sifl & olly.

Books:

edward gorey. harold schecter. noam chomsky. howard zinn. anthony burgess. tim burton. philip k. dick. bret easton ellis. chuck palahniuk. clive barker. tom robbins. david sedaris. aldous huxley. caleb carr. albert camus. dalton trumbo. brion gysin. george orwell. helen keller. charles bukowski. joe bob briggs. nick cave. antoine de saint-exupery. henry rollins. william s. burroughs. robert heinlein. neil gaiman. henry miller. kurt vonnegut. junot diaz. haruki murakami. dorothy parker. heinrich boll. eduardo galeano. RE/Search.
true crime. politics. beat poetry. pop culture. classics. art history. filmmaking. historical fiction. anti-utopian. anything vertigo, some dark horse.
i read.... a lot.

Heroes:

zombies.

My Blog

too hectic

so far this year:philly to dallas then back to philly to richmond back to philly to new york and back and new york and back and new york and back........(you get the idea) to minneapolis back to phill...
Posted by taarna on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:10:00 PST

valentine's day!

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Posted by taarna on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:01:00 PST

the new way

i feel like i'm running out of time. i feel like i don't have time to breathe. i love my friends but i can't go out anymore. i can't get anything accomplished like this. it bums me out. new rules. c...
Posted by taarna on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:14:00 PST

this is me at school...

... not doing any work. but apparently the duder 8 chairs down from me in the computer lab is meeting someone at 7:15 on thursday evening outside the anderson building and then they are going to walk ...
Posted by taarna on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:13:00 PST

the things i have misplaced.

so anyone who knows me knows i am the A#1 pro at losing my everything all the time. it's of course debatable how many of these instances are related to alcohol but last night proves i don't need to be...
Posted by taarna on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:24:00 PST

yes!!!!!!!!

andy got the results of his P.E.T. scan today. NO MORE CANCER CELLS!!!
Posted by taarna on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

texas is the reason...

okay motherfuckers. december 21st through january 6th. i will be in dallas, and i expect the locals to rock it with me in the appropriate manner. if you don't know what that means you don't know me! ...
Posted by taarna on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST