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Tania

Embrace Your Uniqueness. Life Is Too Short To Be Living Someone Elses Life ...

About Me

I live with my 3 cats, Willow (7), Arwen (3) & Jasper (6 months) in Sydney's Inner West. I love photography - mainly b/w, as you can see from my pics - & music (listening & playing, & the occassionally rare Audio Engineering job!). Every life needs a soundtrack and mine rides the grooves from Beethoven to Bauhaus, and all that falls outside the lines and between the cracks. If it doesn't grip your soul then it's not worth it. And I don't think it's weird to wear Groucho Marx glasses just for fun. I am currently studying for my Cert IV in Massage, and LOVING it. Finally, I have found my groove. Friends are important, both old & new. 2007 is about mending broken fences, which I am trying to do with everyone. I've had to learn the hard way that life is just too short to hold a grudge or worry about the petty things. People come into your life for a reason. Some do leave but I think it's important to try to keep the connection there. I am a vegetarian and support the work by PETA, Greenpeace, Amnesty International and World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA). I have a child in Senegal through World Vision, I have "adopted" an orangutan thru the Australian Orangutan Project site & recently I also symbolically adopted a polar bear thru WWF Canada. Thank you for reading this far. Blessed BeKobi Yamada said: Embrace Your Uniqueness. Life Is Too Short To Be Living Someone Elses Life style="position:absolute !important; top:0px; right:0px; z-index:9; height:130px; width:200px; background-image:url; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:bottom right; border:0px;"
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My Interests

Photography, Creative Writing, Alternative Remedies & Natural Therapies, Massage, Music, Movies, Reading, Creative Writing, Wicca, Environmental & Humane Issues, Yoga,Tai Chi, Meditation course Ths Years Goal? To *finally* get those tattoos I've been procrastinating about! 8 down so far this year; and another 2 to go ... or maybe 3.

I'd like to meet:

Others who are not afraid of life, of the unknown that exists beyond ... And those who are not afraid to shed their veil of complacency and live true to themselves as they are in their heart.David, I thank you for that ...Death is not death, as once I thought, when fear was trampled underfoot. Broken hearts do best forever beating upon the wintry windowpane. Hold me, hold me hold me here. Let me never never tarry in another place - (The Violin by Anne Rice)
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Music:

AFI, Apollo Four Forty, Bauhaus, The Beastie Boys, The Birthday Party, Jeff Buckley, Caligula, Nick Cave, Chemical Brothers, The Church, Combichrist, The Cramps, The Cure, Def FX, Dido, Depeche Mode, The Doors, The Drugs, Echo & The Bunnymen, Electric Hippies, Elvis, Enya, Evanescence, Fields of the Nephilim, Frank Sinatra, Good Charlotte, Gravity Kills, Guitar Wolf, The Horrorpops, Jet, The Killers, The Killing Joke, KMFDM, Ladytron, Alex Lloyd, Lords of Acid, Lounge Music, Missy Higgins, NIN, Machine Gun Fellatio, Machines of Loving Grace, Dan Mangan, Marilyn Manson, Ministry, Van Morrison, Pete Murray, My Chemical Romance, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Nirvana, Noiseworks, Pink, Placebo, Portishead, The Prodigy, PWEI, The Ramones, Ratcat, Rhea's Obsession, Scarlet, Sheep On Drugs, Simple Plan, Siousxie & The Banchees, Sisters of Mercy, SNOG, The Stone Roses, Stray Cats, The Tea Party, The Velvet Underground (with & without Nico), White Zombie, Wolfsheim, Zombie Ghost Train ... to name but a few

Movies:

An Inconvenient Truth, Arlington Road, Big Fish, The Big One, Bowling For Columbine, The Boys, The Breakfast Club, Carnivals of Souls, Constantine, The Corpse Bride, The Crow, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dangerous Liasons, Dodgeball, Donny Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Empire Records, The Exorcist, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fargo, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Fire Walk With Me, Fifth Element, Galaxy Quest, The Gift, Glen or Glenda, Heavenly Creatures, Interview With The Vampire, It's A Wonderful Life, The Lost Boys, Lost Highway, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Mars Attacks!, The Matrix, Men In Black, Much Ado About Nothing, Munich, Mystic River, Night of the Ghouls, The Night of the Lepus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, North By Northwest, Nosferatu, Ocean's Eleven, Pitch Black, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Professional, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Rear Window, Reservoir Dogs, Shadow Of A Vampire, Stargate, Starship Troopers, Supersize Me!, Trainspotting, Vertigo, Welcome To The Dollshouse, Whalerider ...

Television:

Law & Order - all of them, The X-Files, Supernatural, SG:1, That 70's Show, Little Britain, The Kids In The Hall, Medium, Whose Line Is it Anyway?, The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, Third Watch, NCIS, Spicks & Specks, ER, The GlassHouse & 30 Days

Books:

**CURRENTLY READING: Celluloid Serial Killers by Paul Kidd** I enjoy reading works by authors such as Clive Barker, Poppy Z Brite, the Bronte sisters, Bret Easton Ellis, Raymond E Feist, Charles de Lint, Anne Rice, David Martin, Michael Moore, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, Arundhati Roy, Irvine Welsh, Nick Cave, Kazuo Ishiguro, Shirley Andrews, Scott Cunningham, Raymond Buckland, Silver Ravenwolf, Vivian Crowley, Kate West, Starhawk, Bram Stoker, Sylvia Plath, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and most things regarding True Crime ... people fascinate me

Heroes:

Rosa Parks; Colleen Shirley Perry Smith "Mum Shirl"; Eddie Mabo; Martin Luther King; Dr Ian Frazer (pioneer of cervical cancer vaccine); Prof Tim Flannery (environmentalist, scientist, writer and future-thinker); Dr Fiona Wood (invention of spray on skin for burns victims); Ghandi; Buddha; Al Gore & Davis Guggenheim; people who stand in the face of adversity for what they believe and who are there to help the common good; my Mum & Dad; my friend Lara for facing cancer with such courage & dignity; & my dear friend David for always being such a wonderful & compassionate human being.

My Blog

... I am a coffee stain in the table of life ...

The ghost in the machine is at it again ... I am a coffee stain on the table of life ... kinda sticky & kinda stubborn but once I'm gone, you'll miss me ... I am a marshmallow in life's hot...
Posted by Tania on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:51:00 PST

missing passed friends ...

David Anthony Clark10.06.1971 - 13.12.2006 I still have my dear memories but they can hold cold comfort Intangible yet irreplaceable. Sadly so. I still feel so lost at times You were always my rock ...
Posted by Tania on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:25:00 PST

A Different Kind of Gift ...

Organ DonantionNo, I don't mean giving your old Hammond or 80's 'vintage' Casio to a needy nursing home!Did you know: * Although in some states in Australia you can still tick a box on your license, t...
Posted by Tania on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:37:00 PST

Join the National Day of Action against live export - Nov 10th

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/events On Saturday 10th November a National Day of Action against live animal export will be held across Australia. You can provide a voice to the millions of Australia...
Posted by Tania on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:09:00 PST

Check out this event: Cruelty Free Living Festival

I'm going - come along!! We can make a day of it!TaniaHosted By: Animal Liberation NSWWhen: 04 Nov 2007, 10:00 AMWhere: Petersham Town Hall107 Crystal StreetPetersham, Sydney, ACT 2049AustraliaDescrip...
Posted by Tania on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:16:00 PST

Well of Purity for Breast Cancer

Mount Franklin will is donating $100,000 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation but need our help to raise an additional $150,000. For every thought you drop in the well, they will make a dontation...
Posted by Tania on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:55:00 PST

NFL has sacked Michael Vick for Dog Fighting. YAH!!

Great news! The NFL has finally suspended Michael Vick indefinitely. This is following his own admission of guilt when he entered his plea today. Now urge the NFL to add cruelty to animalsin all its ...
Posted by Tania on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:03:00 PST

... my family grows ...

I now have 3 cats ... I think that's enough "kids' for me ... Pics of them are in My Pics folder. Willow is 7. I have had her since she was 7 months old. She is the Queen of the Family and very much...
Posted by Tania on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:02:00 PST

My Favourite Free Clicks

I love my free clicks - it feesl like I'm doing something!! So here are my favourite ones that I try to click on every day ... www.thehungersite.com, www.thebreastcancersite.com, www.thechildhealthsi...
Posted by Tania on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:52:00 PST

That’s Alright Mama ...

Long Live The KingTxxxx...
Posted by Tania on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:56:00 PST