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Tanstress

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About Me

I am quirky,hopelessly romantic, in love with Lloyd Dobler and Nicolas Cage in Valley Girl. I love music and film!!! These things are very important to me - second only to my 4 year old son named Christian, he's my best friend and the funniest person I know. I spend most of my time thinking about the screenplay/film gig that will finally pull me away from the drudgery of my day job. I believe in karma - what comes around always goes around.
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My Interests

music, film, pop culture,art,zombies, 3rd shifters, book cover art, documentaries on just about anything, Miranda July

I'd like to meet:

People with similar interests, something to teach me, something to argue with me about, people that love music, film and art. People that don't take themselves too seriously - at all.

Music:

Art Brut, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire,The Mountain Goats,The Hold Steady, Boy Least Likely To, Sondre Lerche, David Bowie, Ramones, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Kaiser Chiefs, Radiohead, Secret Machines, Fountains of Wayne, Bad Religion, Radiohead, They Might Be Giants, Eagles of Death Metal, Ray LaMontagne, Johnny Cash, Aimee Mann, Ben Folds Five, Dinosaur Jr., Ryan Adams, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, Bright Eyes, Journey, Styx, Heart, Sex Pistols, Billy Idol, Placebo, Blur, Gorillaz, Matisyahu, Cindi Lauper, Jack Johnson, The Shins, Afghan Whigs, Squeeze, The Pixies, the Clash,Weezer, Beck, Violent Femmes, the Killers, Built to Spill, Sonic Youth, Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, The Cure, The Smiths, Morrissey, Evan Dando/Lemonheads, sufjan stevens, badly drawn boy, the eels, depeche mode, bauhaus, daniel ash solo, psychedelic furs, the White Stripes, tv on the radio, bloc party, Wire, the Long Winters, Girl in a Coma, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Gossip, Social Distortion, the Stooges, The Misfits, Black Flag, Throwing Muses, Lush, Rilo Kiley, The Fitness, Tokyo Police Club, Paul Simon, Patsy Cline, My Morning Jacket, Badly Drawn Boy, Mates of State, BILL TUCKER, Modest Mouse, The Frames, Duran Duran, My Bloody Valentine, REM, the Cliks

Movies:

AMERICAN SPLENDOR, ONCE ,SICKO, THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON,SHERRYBABY,THANK YOU FOR SMOKING,MAGNOLIA,BOOGIE NIGHTS,HUSTLE AND FLOW,THE FILTH AND THE FURY, DIG!, OLD SCHOOL, BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, PRETTY IN PINK, TUFF TURF, SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL, VALLEY GIRL, BACK TO THE FUTURE, FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, SAY ANYTHING, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, SPIDERMAN, PULP FICTION, A MAN ESCAPED, MEAN GIRLS, RECKLESS, BETTER OFF DEAD, BEETLEJUICE, SPELLBOUND, THE SURE THING, PUMP UP THE VOLUME, HIGH FIDELITY, ELF, THE BEACH, ALMOST FAMOUS, JERRY MAGUIRE, CAN'T HARDLY WAIT, NEVER BEEN KISSED, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, HAIRSPRAY, PECKER, CAPE FEAR, GOODFELLAS, PHILADELPHIA, SO I MARRIED AN AX MURDERER, BRIDGET JONES' DIARY, THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, VIRGIN SUICIDES, SHAUN OF THE DEAD,THE DEPARTED, EUROTRIP, GARDEN STATE, HIGH FIDELITY, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, SORORITY BOYS, JESUS CAMP, THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED

Television:

No Reservations w/ Anthony Bourdain, Dexter, Ghost Hunters, Scrubs, Top Chef, docs on PBS

Books:

"Naked" by David Sedaris; "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" and "Killing Myself to Live" by Chuck Klosterman; "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" Dave Eggers; "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby; "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger; "The Psycho of Happiness" by Scott Campbell; "Middlesex" Jeffrey Eugenides

Heroes:

My grandmothers, anyone doing anything remotely original in their respective disciplines

My Blog

My life in a powerpoint?

If I could put my life in the context of a Powerpoint presentation...how many bullet points, ellipses. How many animated corporate caricatures will fly in on a click of the mouse? How many backgr...
Posted by Tanstress on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:18:00 PST

good times?

what an utterly fucked up weekend on so many levels. I don't even know where to begin, except to say that I am "functioning" today on 2 hours of sleep and a lot of stuff on my mind. Some people you ca...
Posted by Tanstress on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:19:00 PST

ONCE

I can hardly believe I was actually able to see the film Once in Freeport, IL and doubly surprised to find out that I wasn't the only one in the movie theatre! It was absolutely what a movie should be...
Posted by Tanstress on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:56:00 PST

Corporate whore

I don't have too much to say right now except that I just found out tha t Kurt Cobain's image has been licensed by the newly emaciated and lipo'd Courney Love to be the "spokesperson" of Doc Mart...
Posted by Tanstress on Wed, 23 May 2007 03:25:00 PST

why?

Okay, I have been at work for 5 minutes and have had 5 people come right up to me about work related issues. Where has the sanctity of the morning gone???? Do these people not know that I am not a mor...
Posted by Tanstress on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:16:00 PST

zodiac

The Zodiac killer. Man, that dude was sincerely fucked up. But in sort of an everyday joe kind of fucked up way. It blows my mind that to this day no one was prosecuted for the crimes committed/attrib...
Posted by Tanstress on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:48:00 PST

Online dating

Sucks. Don't try it. Not worth it. Just a whole new world of fools.
Posted by Tanstress on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:39:00 PST

I love life

Yep. Just when you think you've got it all figured out - you soon realize that you don't even know the half of it. Okay, tonight was a work party, presumed in my mind to be bereft of anything but the ...
Posted by Tanstress on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:35:00 PST

The Magic of Music

Ahhh. The power of music. The soothing meshing of artistry with words and music. Candy to the ears. What song you may ask inspired this blog. Well, as I sit in my cubicle whiling away the last hours ...
Posted by Tanstress on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:16:00 PST

Guerilla Shoot! Day One...okay so we only shot for one day...

Movies, baby. Oh yeaaaah! I forgot how interesting it is to work on a no budget, no real film equipment, no real actor shoot. Am I being sarcastic - you ask??? Not a damn bit! I actually had a pretty ...
Posted by Tanstress on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:43:00 PST