About Me

  • About Me: I don't Xanga much anymore. Check my blog, http://www.youngadultsindayton.wordpress.com, which is obsessively updated with articles, links, and other information I find interesting. No topic's really taboo; so far I've managed to hit on emerging theology, politics, activism, feminism, current events, globalization, eating disorders, a boy who's been stalking me at school, fantastic videos from my favorite French animation school, the dangers of Mark Driscoll, vintage Smokey the Bear commercials, the dumbest Cabbage Patch dolls I have ever seen, and Rick Astley. I also run a little e-shop, www.noisytarli.etsy.com, where I sell handmade goodies including but not limited to clothes, accessories, jewelry, toys, books, and pottery.

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Italian, Mexican..mostly Italian...
  • Favorite Dishes: Fettucine Alfredo, popcorn, macaroni and cheese..haha it's okay, I like "real" food too! I LOVE salad
  • Favorite Desserts: Chocolate! Peeps! <3
  • Favorite Drinks: Water, Dr. Pepper, fruit juice suicide, calala juice, pataya and papaya and cactus fruit juice, and guava juice, and guanabana..and.....raspberry cordial..and green tea soda.....and that sparkling stuff you drink at Christmas and New Years'..and virgin pina coladas/daiquiris/champagne..
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Doritos, Oreos
  • Best meal ever: Probably.........gah I don't know
  • My Original Recipes: Okay, okay, I admit it: once I accidentally mixed a garlic bread recipe and like a cinnamon bread recipe together. Eek!
  • Favorite Restaurants: Moe's, BD's Mongolian Grill, Fazoli's, the Olive Garden, La Piazza..La Fiesta
  • Foods I hate: Broccoli (of course), meat. Beans with strings in them. Anything gross..

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Punky Brewster, J.O.N.A.S., Hannah Montana, and anything on TVLand and a lot of Nick@Nite..
  • Favorite Channels: PBS, this
  • Favorite Reruns: Of shows I like, dummy! The Cosby Show's good for reruns
  • Most Addictive Show: ..................^
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Conan! <3
  • Favorite Episode: Oh golly. Many, weirdo
  • Characters you relate to: Random ones
  • Favorite Theme Song: Punky Brewster, Gilligan's Island, etc..
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Scrubs
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Punky Brewster

Books

  • Favorite Books: Dracula, LOTR, the Chronicles of Narnia, Pride and Prejudice, all the Eloise books, the Harold and the Purple Crayon books, Whales on Stilts!, the Crooked House, and so on
  • Favorite Authors: Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Roald Dahl, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Robin McKinley, Ann Rinaldi, Lloyd Alexander, Avi, Lois Lowry, MT Anderson..
  • Favorite Genres: Any and every dystopia I've ever had the pleasure to read. Historical fiction, fantasy, murder mysteries, horror, a little sci-fi, and random things that catch my eye. Sometimes I bring home princess stories, murder novels, biographies, DIY books, picture books and massive tomes of poetry at the same time! Hee!
  • Favorite Characters: Alyosha Kamarazov (I have the biggest crush), Mr. Darcy, Peter Pan, Fryin' Ryan, Kartik, Gilbert Blythe, Samwise Gamgee, Macduff, Jess Aarons, Leslie Burke, Tom Sawyer, Jesse Tuck, Dr. Jekyll, and so onnn
  • Favorite Quotes: Not enough room. :]
  • Recent Reads: Kabul Beauty School; Dennis the Menace: 1957-58; What Women Want Next; Living Artfully; Matilda

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Elvis Presley, the Jonas boys<3, the Herman's Hermits, the Hardy Boys, the A*Teens, ABBA, John Denver, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Jim Croce, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Louie Armstrong, Stevie Wonder, the Cowsills, the Carpenters, Hanson, Eisley, Gillian Welch, Mae, Death Cab for Cutie, the bird and the bee, Band of Horses, Lily Allen, Katy Perry, Ingrid Michaelson, Bela Fleck, Kate Nash, David Ford, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Susan Tedeschi, SKOTS, the Proclaimers, the Spin Doctors, Eagle Eye Cherry, Monsters of Folk, Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst, Vampire Weekend, Blitzen Trapper, Firewater, the Brazilian Girls, Hank Williams, the Postal Service..and on and on it goes
  • Favorite Albums: Too many to list
  • Favorite Genre: Top genres: folk-indie-world-oldies-showtunes. I also listen to rock, metal, alternative, select country, New Orleans jazz, classical, some rap, some pop..pretty much at least a little bit from most genres
  • Favorite Songs: "Fidelity" by Regina Spektor, "Yosemite" by Rain Perry, "Starting Over" by Rachael Bissex, "I Will" by the Beatles
  • Favorite Lyrics: There are sooo many good ones.
  • Songs for Roadtrips: Any good kind of music you can turn up really loud--it's a bonus if it's summery music, and if it's a cruise or somewhere hot, the only thing you're allowed to take is Spanish music, no joke but yeah I'm working on the ultimate mixtape for roadtrips
  • Songs I hate: You. Hahahha. Most top 40, most country (especially anything slow/stupid/"sad"/nationalist), anything by the Rolling Stones, "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse, overplayed and/or repetitive songs
  • Guilty Pleasure: ABBA..ahhahhahhaha. Ricky Martin! The Backstreet Boys!
  • Songs I repeat the most: Journey to the Cemetary, We Are One Tonight, Turkish Delight, Take Your Sweet Time, Brave, Golden, Try, I'll Be the One, etc
  • Band I wish I was in: A girl rock band (i.e. the Donnas) would be amazing. I could really get into something like that, or on the other end of the spectrum, more into the singer-songwriter coffeehouse side of things

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: The Bad Seed, Wall-E, Dead Poets Society, Where the Wild Things Are, Fiddler on the Roof, The Birds, Psycho, What's the Matter With Helen?, Rope, The Lodger, Strangers on a Train, For Me and My Gal, Murder on the Orient Express, Enchanted, Peter Pan, Ratatouille, Slumdog Millionaire, Mary Poppins, The Love Bug, Pretty Woman, Nobody's Fool, Bridge to Terabithia, LOTR, POTO, Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid, Nancy Drew, Luther, Lilo & Stitch, The Princess Bride, It's a Wonderful Life, Meet Me in St. Louis, the Princess Diaries, Star Wars,
  • Favorite Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Jimmy Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Shelley Winters, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Abigail Breslin, Annasophia Robb, Anne Hathaway, Max Thieriot, Josh Flitter, Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp. And I really have a lot of respect for Kiera Knightley.
  • Favorite Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Favorite Genre: Indie, suspense/thriller/horror, awesome
  • Favorite Soundtracks: POTO, Slumdog Millionaire, About a Boy, Where the Wild Things Are, Peter Pan, Beetlejuice, Bridge to Terabithia, Mary Poppins, the Sound of Music..and EVERY SINGLE OTHER DISNEY SOUNDTRACK THERE IS SUCH AS MULAN
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: I most often quote from the movies: The Country Bears, Because of Winn-Dixie, Bridge to Terabithia, Mulan, The Princess Diaries, The Princess Bride, The Little Rascals, National Treasure, Enchanted, Wall-E, Lilo & Stitch, etc.
  • Movies I can watch over and over: I would personally love to watch Ratatouille three times in a row. And actually I made myself a promise that if I lived through spring semester, I could watch Enchanted twice in a row which I'm still waiting on!
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: ...Beats me..but once somebody told me Mandy Moore would play me in a movie but I disagree because Mandy Moore is too cute to play me in a movie

Style

  • Where I shop: Thrift shops, boutiques, Forever 21, dELiA*s
  • Brands I love: Brands mean nothing. I don't like visible logos plastered all over me
  • I like to wear: Jeans, band t-shirts, sundresses, bandannas tied on my leg..plastic jewelry from when I was little! Sometimes all at the same time!
  • Can't live without: Glitter
  • Prized Possessions: My collection of books and music, my camera
  • Guilty Pleasure: Ricky Martin. The Backstreet Boys. Not that they're clothes either..

Travel

  • Places I love: Outside in the springtime! <3 Nice beaches. The Caribbean..NIIIIIICARAGUAAAAAAAA..
  • Places I've been: Mexico, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and most recently, Nicaragua
  • Places to see before I die: Europe, more Caribbean..Hawaii..And all the Disney parks in the world! YES! Um, pretty much the world. I love the world. :]
  • Dream Vacation: I don't know. Possibly like Italy or something, where you can ride in gondolas. Possibly like a tour of Europe. LIKE A SUMMER TOUR OF EUROPE! THAT'S hot! Just kidding, I'd like to move there!

More About Me

  • Nicknames: T, Tivvy, Taliviah, Chalia, Punky, the Punkster, Flo, etc
  • Religion: Anti-religion, but I'm learning how to follow Christ's teachings
  • Heroes: Joan of Arc, Amelia Bloomer, Amelia Earhart, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Gloria Steinem..
  • Interests: Jesus, Elvis Presley, the library, folk music, murder novels, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Ty Pennington, stars (not on tv, the kind in the sky), making collages, murals, any other kind of art project including photography and pottery, POTO, Shakespeare, Punky Brewster, classic books, movie marathons, marshmallow guns, LOTR, and YOUUUU
  • Expertise: Licking my elbow, being weird, saying really long and obscure words, frightening people, dressing like Punky Brewster, recommending bands to people, sarcasm, organizing my extensive icon collection, and oh yeah, I know what every radio station in the area is playing at any given time
  • Occupation: Student
  • Industry: Art
  • Website: http://youngadultsindayton.wordpress.com

College

  • School Name: Edison Community College
  • Degree type: Associates
  • Major(s): Fine Arts
  • Greek: ΦΘΚ
  • Sports: People-watching; mad dashes to the bookstore for supplies
  • Organizations: In and out of Campus Crusade for Christ; planning to join the Edison Photo Society

Contact Info

  • AIM: taliaisounky422

Video Games

  • Games I Play: The Legend of Zelda (original black and white), Mario Tennis, SMBD, Mary-Kate and Ashley games *lol*, Harvest Moon..CHEF!! AAAAAAAH I LOVE CHEF! Okay, I'll only play games where you get to be a little person and you can walk around and do stuff. I don't care if it's killing monsters, flipping pancakes or jumping on mushrooms..<3
  • Consoles: GameBoy Color *hahaha*
  • Favorite Characters: Link, Princess Peach, Yoshi..CHEF!!
  • Gaming Alias: ...My name..weirdo..
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Chef, Frogger
  • Most Addictive: Harvest Moon, Zelda. CHEF IS THE MOST ADDICTIVE!!
  • Proudest Achievements: Beating half of a little boy's Zelda game for him in a day and he was stuck in the first area. It was fun.
  • Favorite Soundtrack: I don't know. Mario! I like the Mario music..a lot..hahah