THE APPLICATION
THE BASICS:
Name: tayarisha--or risha--whichever...
Age: 15, 16 in two days though (on the sixteenth)
Location: lincoln university, pa (unless i'm at my school (peddie, in new jersey))
Gender: femme
MUSIC:
Favorite bands/singers: the weakerthans, welcome to florida, the who, the beatles, billy joel, the shins, gregory and the hawk, the blow, deathcab for cutie, the decemberists, the postal service, iron and wine, badly drawn boy, bob marley, jimi hendrix, weezer, kanye west, lauryn hill, dave matthews band, phantom planet, outkast, APHEX TWIN (my bad, caps were necessary, love IDM...), venetian snares, hellogoodbye, playradioplay, they might be giants, john mayer, jack johnson, cake (the band, not the food, i'm actually not fond of cake the food...), cake bake betty, aaron tashjian, jack's mannequin (but only sometimes...sometimes they annoy me...), harry and the potters, draco and the malfoys, the jupiter sunrise, westbound train, me first and the gimme gimmes....ok this list could go on, but no..
Best show you’ve ever been to&why: i've actually never been to a show in my entire life...sad, i know, but when i asked my madre if i could attend a deathcab for cutie concert she frowned and said "that sounds like a death metal worshipthedevil band that you shouldnt be listening to..."
One CD that you can’t live without [no more, no less]: mmm....eesh...let's say...about a boy --badly drawn boy
Do you play any instruments? If so, which one[s]? yeeea, i play the harmonica (ok ok, i'm teaching myself to pwn the harmonica completely)...it's hard, but hella fun and sounds like god in music form
Are you in a band? If so, any link[s] to your music? HA, yea, me and my friends up at boarding school are starting a bluesy/indie/jam band (the name is not yet concrete, but we're thinkin either "Food for Fodder" or "Candy Canes from December"...)
Name ten songs for the soundtrack of your life:
"There she goes"--sixpence none the richer
"so happy together"--the turtles
"i will follow you into the dark"--death cab for cutie
"sittin waitin wishin"--jack johnson
"tiny vessels"--deathcab
"redemption song"--bob marley
"boats and birds"--gregory and the hawk
"the longest time"--billy joel
"i just wanna wanna"--welcome to florida
"that girl is poison"--bel biv divoe
MOVIES:
Favorite movies: mmm...i liked garden state...and moulin rouge...and i love the indiana jones movies...annnnnnd the first matrix.
Favorite actor or actress: actors--mos def and johnny depp....actresses--rosario dawson and alexis bedel
The last movie you watched: mmmmmmoulin rouge, i sorta watched it (had to be my fiftieth time seein it anyways...) but kept getting distracted by other things..
Do you go to the movies often? not really, not recently anyways, nothing goode seems to be out...
LITERATURE:
Favorite books: a wrinkle in time, tuck everlasting, the edge chronicles, a series of unfortunate events, battle royale, what happened to lani garver, the princess bride, THE COYOTE KINGS OF THE SPACE-AGE BACHELOR PAD (sooooo gooooode....orgasmic), jennifer governement!, syrup!
Favorite author: max barry, no contest
Favorite children’s book: the butter battle book....so suspensful....man o man...
Do you write yourself? If so, what kind of writing? yup, i write alotta stories...ya know, novels n'shizz...mmm poems, i write those, and songs for the infamous NONAME band of mine
BECAUSE WE EFFING CAN:
Hobbies: musiclistenin, readin books, writing (love writing...), reading again...., going on adventures, writing in a journal, talking, loving my friends....getting love from my friends..., and of course, reading
Define “indie” [it could be a dictionary-type definition, or just what it means to you]: indie=doin your own thing no matter what that is.
How'd you get into indie music and movies? ok, so, you know that one part in garden state where sam first meets large and she's like "listen to this song it'll change your life i swear" well...new slang by the shins was the first typical indietype song i'd ever heard and it got me into that whole genre of....subcultureness
How’d you find us? eljay search
It would be super nice if you could promote us in your userinfo or a community... super, super nice: sup yo, no prob
If you had duct tape, a tree, allergy medicine and a penny, how would you save the world from a giant-monster-like-thing trying to eat it? [you must use all the items] save the world? eff that...not today, it's TUESDAY...
Fill in the blank: Tomorrow is ______________. ONE DAY BEFORE THE SIXTEENTH OF MARCH MAKING IT ONE DAY BEFORE MY SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY
Do you ever get told that you look like someone famous? yeeea, it bothers me....i only like to look like Tayarisha
One thing about anything that you wish you could change: the way that people dont want to celebrate differences, they either want to pretend that they do not exist or hate them...
What are your opinions on politics? stop being stupid.
Make us laugh:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/endofworld.htmlPictures [this is optional, we just kind of want to make sure you're not some really creepy old guy]:
me and my little bro
me and steve
me being a smug little smartsomething