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Tammy

If you've ever described yourself as a goddess we can't be friends. Especially if you're male.

My Interests

Music:

Beatles. Steely Dan. Beach Boys. Beck. Supergrass. Radiohead. Eels. Elliott Smith. Roxy Music. Dire Straits. Blur. Prodigy. Radiohead. Mark Knopfler. Michael Penn. Aimee Mann. Kate Bush. Django Reinhardt. Prokofiev. Beethoven. Mark Rivers.

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth, Delicatessen, Goodfellas, Miller's Crossing, Blade Runner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Harold and Maude, Ghost World, Buckaroo Bonzai, The Party, Doctor Strangelove, Funny Bones, Triplets of Belleville, Rushmore, Hudsucker Proxy, Lost Weekend, Silent Running, Logan's Run, Sean of the Dead, The Incredibles, Danish Dogma films. I loves me some documentaries. I also like the Coen Brothers, Sam Raimi and Ridley Scott, but a little less with each film they make.

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Father Ted, Black Books, Antiques Roadshow, Mister Show, MST3K, League of Gentlemen, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Prisoner, Spaced, Dexter, Kids in the Hall, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Mythbusters, Daily Show, Colbert Report

Books:

To Mock a Killingbird, Tin Drum, The Poisonwood Bible, Lolita, Devil in the White City, Life of Pi, Money, Time's Arrow, the Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Cloud Atlas, Wicked, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Dice Man, Geek Love, The English Passengers, comics/graphic novels, Alan Moore, Chris Ware, Peter Bagge, Dan Clowes, Will Eisner, Kyle Baker, Winsor McCay

Heroes:

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My Blog

Piercing words.

Overheard chat between two men at the table near me at Starbucks today:"I wasn't surprised David Hyde Pierce won.""I'm happy David Hyde Pierce won." "Well, I am happy for DAVID HYDE PIERCE, because he...
Posted by tammy on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:55:00 PST

I need this. So do you.

Please, my birthday wasn't THAT long ago:If you like the above as much as I do, here's a the link to the Steampunk site. Wonderful!Best...Desktop...EVERAlso, I saw Pirates of the Carribean tonight. My...
Posted by tammy on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:00:00 PST

Good-N-Plenty: the gateway drug.

It starts like this:Often followed by this:And invariably ends up like this:We need to go back to the sensibility of the old days, when no one would dream of plying their kids with pills and pill-like...
Posted by tammy on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:02:00 PST

Salt. Salton Sea. Salvaging

I saw a show about fractals a while ago, and it's haunted me ever since. The math of shapes, and I don't mean pure geometry - like Pi somehow translated into sound, infinite and random, but within a d...
Posted by tammy on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:20:00 PST

Dirty pictures

I went to SF for the weekend. My friend Bridget took me to The Beach Chalet on Ocean Drive at the far west end of Golden Gate Park. The second-floor beachview restaurant was fine, but what she really ...
Posted by tammy on Wed, 30 May 2007 02:02:00 PST

Kosher? I don't even KNOW 'er!

After going to many delicatessens with "cute" names for their platters and Dagwood type sammiches, I have decided to go into the restaurant business, because I am good at naming things! Here is a samp...
Posted by tammy on Wed, 23 May 2007 08:14:00 PST

An idiot done wrote this.

Here are two items in my home. One is a hair product I occasionally use. The other is an eyemakeup remover that I use daily: Now, guess which one I just rubbed into my eyes to remove mascara?Hint: onc...
Posted by tammy on Fri, 18 May 2007 05:51:00 PST

ker-pow

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Posted by tammy on Mon, 14 May 2007 12:10:00 PST

Uncanny!

The MySpace banner of Michael Moore interviewing that other artist reminded me of someone:If I liked his recent movies more and didn't find him so manipulative (I am speaking of Moore; I EXPECT Jabba ...
Posted by tammy on Fri, 11 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

14 Minutes I'll Never Have Back Again

Hollywood script guru Robert McKee has a term called "The California Conversation" - this applies when a freshly-introduced character tells too much about themselves immediately, which is a typical sc...
Posted by tammy on Mon, 07 May 2007 03:57:00 PST