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by Tanya Merrill |
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1. What is your name? | Tanya-Dee Merrill, esq. |
2. How old are you? | 17, 18 in June |
3. Where do you live? | Greenville, SC USA |
4. What do you do for a living? | Student, coffee goddess, Wannabepoetbabe, moveable chair for my cat Daisy, the TRUE love of my life. |
5. Do you drive? | A 1984 rusting Buick Skyhawk, white.. ugly. |
6. What do you do for joy? | Write!! Play on playgrounds, eat at bad diners with my friends, smoke camel lights, faking a foreign accent and order my eggs poached at Denny's, singing, swinging, sex, writing love letters. |
7. What is your pet peeve? And how much does it weigh? Does it sleep by the door? Is it housebroken? | My pet peeves are: People that don't care enough to learn ANYTHING, small annoying dogs (like mine, Fritz a hound of Baphomet), and everyone who LOVES Danielle Steele, except my aunt Dee. She is wonderful. |
8. Do you write, paint or play? All at the same time? (While juggling a dozen eggs and riding a unicycle?) | I write. I don't paint. I like crayons. I can balance a basket of laundry on one hip, a screaming little kid on the other hold on a phone conversation and still drink my coffee, make dinner, and save the world. |
9. Who is the most impressive character you've ever met? | My grandfather...man. He was the closest thing to a Saint I have EVER met, and I was lucky to have him almost 14 years. |
10. Have you ever read, acted, performed, thrown up, etc. in public? | Well... Monday is my first reading and I am sop scared |
11. What piece of literature or art moved your soul to ecstatic waves of bliss? | Gee. Kerouac- Big Sur, Tori Amos- Boys for Pele, Leonard Cohen- Who By Fire, Bird by Bird- Anne Lamott.. this Pollock piece... when I woke up sleeping on the back porch and the sun was rising. ANYTHING by Anne Carson SO MUCH MORE. Get back to me. |
12. What was the first thing you ever encountered that made you realise that art is important? | I think Catcher in the Rye..... I dont know |
13. Would you consider yourself an artist? A good one? Why or why not? | I am a Tanya. Full and true. |
14. What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anything else? | Olives, Green Tea, soft toilet paper |
15. What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY everything to do with everything else? | My father.... my cat.. the memories of people gone (my poppy, nanny, John..), books, sex, pillows, love, my friends, worn blue jeans. |
16. What's the meaning of life? | Hula Bula Moola KUHLA |
17. Why? | Because that is canstantonese for I have no damned clue. |
18. True or false: the Three Stooges represent the apex of American cultural achievement. | No I like the Simpsons |
19. True or False: Shemp was funnier than the original Curly. | Bart is better. |
20. Who's da man? | Well. Jens. And my grandpa.. and Bobby and.....Jens. (#blush# - the editor) |