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bookoftanya

About Me

Adventurous, wild, caring, analytical, sensitive, a seeker of depth, soul, beauty and everything in between... I am a daydreamer, a blossoming artist, optimistic, playful and passionate about life and making the most of it... a lover of people, nature, music, poetry and you!

My Interests

Music, dancing, hangin out with you and your momma, creating, singing,playing guitar,painting, health and healing, reading, spirituality, activism, exploring, hiking, camping, skateboarding, yoga, cooking, writing, listening, seeking, theatre, traveling, photography, comedy, surrounding myself in beauty... spending time with all the beautiful and wonderful people I know

I'd like to meet:

Seekers of knowledge, affectionate artists and healers, creative geniuses, stargazers, architects of depth, silly skateboarders, laughing sinners, tangled angels, peaceful and bruised warriors, unusual expressionists, jumping wanderers, confused visionaries, passionate explorers, impulsive optimists, irrisistable nonconformists, scaredy-cats, those traveled and those beautifully bound, those that wish there were more words to describe the seen and unseen, the felt and unfelt...someone to hold my hand and teach me more...

Music:

Beth Orton, Neotundra Cowboy, Over The Hill, Neil Young, Forget Cassettes, My Brightest Diamond, Kris Doty, Ray Lamontagne, Grizzly Bear, Jim Croce, Band of Horses, Cold War Kids, Scissor Sisters, Dixie Chicks, Little Wing, 4 Non Blondes, Damien Rice, Sufjan Stevens, KT Tunstall, The Cure, Ben Harper, Incubus, Liz Phair, A Perfect Circle, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Rose Polenzani, Coheed and Cambria, Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Ozomatli, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Beastie Boys, Fiona Apple, Squeeze, NOFX, Beck, Lauryn Hill, Louis Armstrong, The Smiths, Blackalicious, Quantum Spectrum, Rufus Wainwright, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bjork, Eminem, Patti Smith, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Everclear, Bad Religion, Green Day, Keskiegato, Spoon, Mirah, Heather Nova, Counting Crows, Cindy Lauper, Jane's Addiction, Waxwing, Denali, The Decemberists, Blind Melon, Blonde Redheads, Aqui, Ace of Base, Uprite Dub Orchestra, The Trolls Cottage, Pat Benatar, Ponticello, The Mars Volta, Tool, Modest Mouse, Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins, Nina Simone, Warsaw, Go Jimmy Go, Jazzberry Ram, Sublime, The Darkness, System of a Down, The Rolling Stones, Ella Fitzgerald, Built to Spill, Ryan Adams, Talking Heads, Weezer, Fleetwood Mac, Agent Orchid, New Order, Patti Rothberg, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Dar Williams, The Postal Sevice, Stevie Wonder, Doug Martsch, Le Tigre, Death Cab for Cutie, Johnny Cash, Utah Phillips, Wilco, Portishead, Dandy Warhols, Cat Stevens, Allison Krauss & Union Station, Jeremiah James, Mike Bloomquist, Speed of Shark, Ween, Jack Johnson, Nada Surf, Kings of Convenience, Jewel, David Bowie, Chicago, Elton John, Exit 51, Catering to Venus, The Roots, Panjabi MC, The Shins...and much more .. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Ben Harper - With My Own Two Hands -- Video provided by VideoCodes4U

Movies:

The Matrix, American Beauty, Fight Club, The Hours, SLC Punk, A Beautiful Mind, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Never Ending Story, Office Space, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Ice Age, Deadman, any Coen bros, City of Lost Children, The Big Lebowski, Harold and Maude, Chocolat, Me Without You, Dream a Little Dream, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, RENT, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, any movies based on activism and Africa

Television:

I don't watch tv but I love Spongebob!

Books:

"The Will to Change" and "All About Love" by bell hooks, "Meditations on Everything Under The Sun", by Margo Adair, "The Mastery of Love" by Don Miguel Ruiz, "The Natural Mind" by Andrew Weil, The Greatest Spiritual Secret of the Century" by Thom Hartman, "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman, Adrienne Rich, "Cute, Quaint, Hungary and Romantic (The Aesthetics of Consumerism) by Daniel Harris, "Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America" by Ann Powers, "Survival of the Prettiest" by Nancy Etcoff,"The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger,"Why We Get Sick" by Nesse and Williams, David Sedaris, "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse, "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman, Joseph Campbell, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, "Prozac Nation" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, "Mutant Message Down Under" by Marlo Morgan, "Culture Jam" by Kalle Lasn,lots of nonfiction on feminism, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, history, mythology, spirituality, health and healing, favorite magazines right now: VenusZine, Arthur, Utne Reader, The Rolling Stone, Harper's and The Progressive

Heroes:

some people that inspire me: Caroline Myss, Christianne Northrup, Ann Powers, Over the Hill, Andrew Weil, Eleanor Roosevelt,Mark Ryden, Terry Tempest Williams, bell hooks, Tim Palmer, Frida Kahlo, Ani Difranco, Alix Olson, Salvador Dali, Eddie Izzard, Daniel Merriam, Annie Leibovitz, Eve Ensler, Alice Miller, Susan Sontag, Joy Harjo, Winona LaDuke, Majella Bryan, Al Gore every other artist that I have previously named on my page plus so many more... you, your momma

My Blog

No Shit

When you look at the night sky do you find yourself making up your own constellations? Well, that's what I thought this toy company was encouraging children to do when I looked over their constellatio...
Posted by book of tanya on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:12:00 PST

A Wife and a Lesbian

Over the course of two weeks I was called a wife and a lesbian& two things I had never been& and still am not as of yet.So one day at work my coworker and I are outside with our kids and his wife came...
Posted by book of tanya on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:50:00 PST

Too Much Work

I feel for all the men and women that must work so hard to get by to support their families. It is not talked about in our culture hardly at all& the fact that men and women who are overworked are not...
Posted by book of tanya on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:27:00 PST

Same as it ever was&

And you may ask yourself&.Why do I keep seeing that blue heron? And you may ask yourself&.. what does it mean?The blue heron has been showing up in my life since last year and especially since this...
Posted by book of tanya on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:06:00 PST

It finally happened!!!

I was sitting outside eating dinner and reading the Rolling Stone, when I felt something wet on my leg. My first thought was, it's raining! But no, I finally got shit on by a bird. Luckily it was only...
Posted by book of tanya on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:33:00 PST

Singin'

This last week, I made a trip with Neotundra Cowboy up to beautiful Spokane. We did a show at the Caterina Winery on Thursday night and were asked to come back and open the following night. I am feeli...
Posted by book of tanya on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:58:00 PST

blowing dandelions

He told her he'd raise that bar should she try She said, "it don't matter", she'd rather not cry Went back to him later that night Her daughter cried when she heard the fright She can't even s...
Posted by book of tanya on Sun, 06 May 2007 09:28:00 PST

A week in the life of tanya...

A Week!Awakening thoughts of camping protrude upon my consciousness. The birds are singing and I meditated last night on an inner refuge, a place in my mind where there is peace; solitude, a sanctuary...
Posted by book of tanya on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:29:00 PST

A list?, not in the least!

Music is the driving force behind me. Without it I would wilt.Beauty is the driving force in my life. I want to create more of the beauty that I see in nature and that blesses my every ...
Posted by book of tanya on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:55:00 PST

See to Sea

--> --> I am on a time-line My grandfather at one end, I at the other Where we are shifts like the earth's plates And I am closer to him now than I was Juxtaposed by another close feeling s...
Posted by book of tanya on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:27:00 PST