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tara

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About Me


tara --
[noun]:
An alien
'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com


Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP)
Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant.
Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all men
You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving. How Rare Is Your Personality?
What Mythological Creature are you? (Cool Pics!)
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You scored as Mermaid
Mermaid: Mermaids are also known as Sirens. These creatures were beautiful women who tricked sailors into becoming completely entranced by their haunting voices and found death soon after. Not all stories of Mermaids are about gentle loving sea people. They are mystical, magical, and extremely dangerous. They have a way about them that brings anyone they are around to seem enchanted. They are very mysterious creatures and to meet one... Would mean certain Death. Let the song of the Sea fill your soul, for you are a Mermaid.


Mermaid


100%

Faerie


67%

Angel


59%

Dragon


25%

WereWolf


17%

Demon


17%

My Interests

science; philosophy; scary monsters; superfreaks; subculture; counter-culture; taboos; satire; mbti (intp!); the sea; the stars; hawaii; art; photography; piano; video games; alternate dimensions; the nature of consciousness; mayhem; giant monsters; things that make me go HMMMM...

I'd like to meet:

The Scientist, John Cunningham Lilly... OH the conversations we could have had!!

Music:

Tori Amos, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dr Steel, Tom Waits, Eminem, Paul Okenfold, Adam & the Ants, Beastie Boys, Birthday Party, Black Mages, Leonard Cohen, Cowboy Junkies, the Cure, the Damned, Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, the Dickies, Dirty Three, Doubting Thomas, DVDA, Eleventh Hour, Fear, Frank Zappa, Garbage, Ghoul Squad, IAmX, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Jane’s Addiction, Johnny Cash, Lush, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Misfits, Portishead, Nirvana, Orbital, Peter Gabriel, Piano Squall, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Pulp/Jarvis Cocker, Rammstein, Regina Spektor, Reverend Horton Heat, Rob Zombie, Skinny Puppy, Sneaker Pimps, Sublime, Sugarcubes

Movies:

In General:
Sci-fi, Horror, Anime, Indy, Disney Classics, Musicals, the entire "hot young white trash couple goes on a desert murder rampage" genre
Directors:
David Lynch, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, Trey Parker, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter
Specifically:
Blue Velvet
Love and a .45
Requiem for a Dream
Trainspotting
Nightmare Before Christmas
Cannibal! The Musical
Harold and Maude
Dead Man
MirrorMask
Star Wars Trilogy (the first one)
Sin City
Orgazmo
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
A Clockwork Orange
Pulp Fiction
The Evil Dead
Natural Born Killers
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
The Secret of N-I-M-H
This Is Spinal Tap
True Romance
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Exorcist
Redneck Zombies
Taxi Driver
The Matrix
The Last Temptation of Christ
Being John Malkovich
River's Edge
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Edward Scissorhands
Traffic
Being There
Ed Wood
Wild at Heart
Nightbreed
An American Werewolf in London
Blow
Akira
Mulholland Drive
Tron
Jesus Christ Superstar
A Beautiful Mind
Waking Life
Re-Animator
Donnie Darko
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Romeo + Juliet
Drugstore Cowboy
Hellraiser
The Animatrix
Kill Bill
Monster
What the #$*! Do We Know!?
Team America: World Police
Creepshow
Return of the Living Dead
Suspiria
Moulin Rouge
The Phantom of the Opera
and so on...

Television:

The TV is for Video Games, my favorite form of entertainment! Favorite franchises:
Final Fantasy
Kingdom Hearts
Silent Hill
Halo
Xenogears / Xenosaga
Resident Evil
Soul Reaver / Legacy of Cain
Phantasy Star
Fable
Baldur’s Gate
Grand Theft Auto
Metal Gear Solid
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Ghost Recon
Knights of the Old Republic
Tomb Raider
Soul Calibur
Need for Speed
No T.V. - Netflix!
Anime!

Fullmetal Alchemist
Rurouni Kenshin / Samurai X
Trigun
Evangelion
Ghost in the Shell
Full Metal Panic!
Hellsing
RahXephon
Cowboy Bebop
FLCL
Excel Saga
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Naruto
Wolf's Rain
Samurai Champloo
Inuyasha
Elfen Lied
Last Exile
Drama!
Six Feet Under
Twin Peaks
Weeds
Rome
Farscape
Lost
X-Files
House M.D.
Battlestar Galactica
Funny Shit!
South Park
Daily Show
Red Dwarf
Kids in the Hall
Young Ones
Colbert Report
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Feed My Brain!
Charlie Rose
Discovery Channels

Books:

Take anything from me but my library card!!
I used to read mostly non-fiction (white papers, tech manuals, politics), but that’s damn boring. Over the past 5 years I’ve developed a deep love of fiction – except for Stephen King, whom I’ve been reading since I was 9. I tend towards sci-fi, fantasy, horror and anything twisted. Or weird. Or vaguely interesting. Oh hell, I’ll read anything.
The closer a tale gets to 10,000 pages, the better I like it.
Some of my all time favorites:
Dark Tower series (and everything else) by Stephen King; Ender’s series by Orson Scott Card; Foundation series (and lots of stuff) by Issac Asimov; Harry Potter series by JK Rowling; Illium & Olympos by Dan Simmons; Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (this one might actually be over 10,000 pages!); Rama and 2001 series (and other fiction) by Arthur C Clarke; Novels, comics, children’s’ stories and every fuckin’ thing by Neil Gaiman
Some of my favorite recent reads:
Lisey’s Story by Stephen King; Geek Love by Katherine Dunn; Porno by Irvine Welsh (the sequel to Trainspotting!); The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport; Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Heroes:

my mom, my sistah, DR STEEL!!! , John Lilly, Hunter S Thompson, Noam Chomsky

My Blog

Partying like a (washed up) rock star

So, over the weekend I had my very first myspace encounter. Gina Grotesque materialized on my island! Yay!! She made the trek accross the island from Kona to our little corner of the jungle on Su...
Posted by tara on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:50:00 PST

My Town (is weirder than yours)

Found a couple of Youtube videos that capture the essence of my strange and beautiful neck of the jungle quite well:Ecstatic Dance at Kalani every Sunday Drum circle at Kehena black sand beac...
Posted by tara on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:54:00 PST

Sign of the Times

Last night I saw a rather interesting documentary called Zeitgeist. To some, this piece of celluloid will be perceived as the mad ravings of conspiracy theorists; to others, an emphatic attempt to hel...
Posted by tara on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:32:00 PST

Piano Recital (for real)

(okay, i think i've solved my myspace technical difficulties...)Hi Myspace, it's been a while!It's been a few months since I began teaching myself to play piano (with the help of a couple of good book...
Posted by tara on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:51:00 PST

Mele Kalikimaka

Every year the Pahoa Xmas Parade reminds me of just why I so love this town& I was planning to write a witty and entertaining blog about my small, weird, wet town, sandwiched between rainforest, volca...
Posted by tara on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:32:00 PST

Halloween Horror Madness

In lieu of anything Halloween related for big kids like me to do in Pahoa (I'm going to have a party next year, I think), I embarked on the annual horror movie marathon for the last week and a half of...
Posted by tara on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:59:00 PST

Updates

I'd like to introduce you guys to my new love! Just before my dad left for Japan this time, he kicked me down this super sweet piano weighted  88-key midi keyboard (Peavey DPM C8) with matching ...
Posted by tara on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:54:00 PST

Happy (almost) Anniversary to Me!

Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the day I married my bestest friend in all the world. In honor of that I've created a new album on myspace with some of our wedding photos. If you missed our wedd...
Posted by tara on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:00:00 PST

Superferry Blues

WASHINGTON - A government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against Idaho Sen. Larry Craig Tuesday after Craig said he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from complaints of lewd con...
Posted by tara on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:54:00 PST

10 people on MySpace who inspire me

Happy Aloha Friday, All!! In repsonse to an open tag from Caroline, here are 10 people on MySpace who inspire me: robynMy little sister inspired me to start blogging years ago on Xanga, and then inspi...
Posted by tara on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:59:00 PST