I Am A Banana - ProfilesArchive

About Me

People call me Tina. Some call me T Bone or hey you or HEY COW! or anything else they feel like yelling out cuz chances are, I'll probably look... I am a banana. Not only because I am yellow on the outside, white on the inside or because Don Hertzfeldt is awesome, but also because I am a banana slug. Which means I went to college at UC Santa Cruz, the ONLY home of the B-Slugs. I played on the basketball team there but alas I am now done with my last season and have become an alumni. Now I have more time to play my guitar and pretend I am good at singing, surf, skateboard, write, cook, eat, listen to music and run amuck with my friends... I am kind of abstract and I wonder why people don't really get me. I'm complicated like that but when you get to know me it's simple. I love life and I love love and I am just realizing that I know very little about both... I often have dreams where I'm running as fast as I can and I'm getting nowhere. Maybe that's my subconscious telling me to slow down and be patient. Or maybe it means that I'm going nowhere. Either way I'm working on going with the flow of life, living my life with a bit of a Taoist attitude and words from this guy... "Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed with the things you didn't do than then things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover" -Mark Twain

My Interests

"The more things change, the more they stay the same." I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw: My inability to change. I dont think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels safer somehow. And if you're suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... who knows what other pain might be out there, waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the staus quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not at far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... except maybe yourself a litte. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't notice unless they looked at us really close. Which, thank God they never do. But you notice it. Inside that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope that is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again."-Everwood

I'd like to meet:

People who make me laugh or swoon
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adopt your own virtual pet!

Music:

I have way too many favorite bands to name so I'll just say I like anything that gets my head bobbin or my appendages flailing

Movies:

I like movies a lot although I am quite a slacker on seeing the ones I want to. So, I have a long list of things I want to see. I should really get on that...

Television:

Friends of course and Heroes is pretty much AMAZING

Books:

The Giver, Sophie's World, all of the Harry Potter books, Of Mice And Men, The Giving Tree, The BFG, Tuesdays With Morrie. I'm sure there's a ton more. Well, there should be anyways, I AM a lit major...

Heroes:

The parental units. They're super. My friends for being there for me and acting the fool when I need a laugh. Anyone who can amaze me and/or challenge me to be better,and don hertzfeldt...
and this guy... ..