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Beth Tacular

log cabins are neat

About Me



bethtacular.com

I like art and music. I make art and music . I live in a magic place.

My Interests

Building very small houses, making things, drawing, painting, anarchy, biking around town, running in the woods, having my hair brushed, pictures of monsters drawn by children, late summer/ early fall, yoga, painted eggs, xylophones, tigers.

Music:

mates of state, joanna newsom, cat power, des ark, schooner, bellafea, ticonderoga, ani di franco, belle and sebastian, shins, pedro the lion, the flaming lips, proof, goner, morrissey, outkast, bob dylan, de la soul, archers of loaf, bob marley, built to spill, bjork, elliot smith, the rosebuds, the postal service, drum and bass music, antony and the johnsons

Movies:

I like "You and Me and Everyone we Know", and "The Best of Youth," and "The Waking Life," and "Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Things like that. And documentaries. I have watched hundreds of documentaries.

Television:


I don't watch tv really. except I like dvds of Northern Exposure. I like six feet under. Or those nature shows. ............................................................ ..................................

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Books:


The Waves, by Virginia Woolf; everything by Alice Walker; yoga books, Daniel Quinn's books; the diaries of Anais Nin; Rene Maria Rilke; Bedtime for Frances; Bread and Jam for Frances; John Zerzan's Future Primitive; Old Children's books; Derrick Jensen's books; magical realism books nonfiction books about wildness and all things wild. And Gary Snyder's poetry.

Heroes:


These monitor lizards I read about once who ate their human owner who kept them in tiny cages in his apartment. I would like to eat the people to whom I owe student loan money. As long as they eat all organic.

My Blog

Sadistic art in Resonance magazine

I was asked to make art with sadistic tools for the current issue of Resonance Magazine. It just has a letter r for the name of the magazine actually.go to resonancemag.com to see what it looks like....
Posted by Beth Tacular on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:13:00 PST

I was interviewed for Orange Alert blog!

You can read the interview at: http://wearduringorangealert.blogspot.com/It was fun to answer the interesting questions. They also posted images of some of my work, along with the interview Q and A.N...
Posted by Beth Tacular on Wed, 30 May 2007 12:45:00 PST

thanks, Indy.

The Independent Weekly wrote a little review of the show up at Bickett Gallery thru January, and they said nice things about my art, so I thank them. You can read about the show here, and go see the ...
Posted by Beth Tacular on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:24:00 PST

Joanna Newsom's new album Y's

So I have heard the new album, with the orchestral arrangements and additional help from Jim O'Rourke. I had heard recordings of her playing most of these songs live, with just her and the harp, and ...
Posted by Beth Tacular on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:25:00 PST

MY NEW WEB SITE!!!!!!

so after a year of procrastinating, I finally put up a web site of my art.it's http://www.bethtacular.comI would love it if you would visit it and lemme know what you think. If you have a non-Mac comp...
Posted by Beth Tacular on Mon, 01 May 2006 07:50:00 PST

Art Auction Disaster

Well, I tried to donate art to this art auction at Internationalist Books, and I was real excited about it. I mailed one piece through U.S. Postal Service like three weeks ago, and it never got there...
Posted by Beth Tacular on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:28:00 PST

"Mungry:" Hot or Not?

so I showed the painting called "Mungry" to my mom yesterday, and she looked at it for a minute and then said, "Well, she isn't very pretty, is she?"And I said, "I think she's pretty. Like in that ug...
Posted by Beth Tacular on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:50:00 PST

This Friday at LUMP!!!! Don't miss this!

(please repost in the Triangle)I'm super excited about this show at Lump. I'll be there and you should too. Honestly, you will suffer greatly if you miss this.Love, Beth Tacular---------------------...
Posted by Beth Tacular on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:56:00 PST

bowerbirds shows

so I play in a band called the bowerbirds. I'm telling you this so you will visit our myspace page and listen to the music. we are recording soon to put out a little cd that you can buy at the show ...
Posted by Beth Tacular on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:47:00 PST

putting all my eggs in one basket

so the other day was the first time I ever literally put all my eggs in one basket. I had all these eggs from this farm that I am trading eggs for logo design with, and they let their chickens run al...
Posted by Beth Tacular on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:43:00 PST