Tanya's Stats:
Age: 32 City of Birth: St. Cloud, MN. Gender: yes Favorite candy: Milk Duds, in movie theatre popcorn, with brewer’s yeast. . . Best concert experience: Giving Kenny Rogers a plastic yellow rose while he sang “Lady” at a conce [+]Tanya's Stats:
Age: 32 City of Birth: St. Cloud, MN. Gender: yes Favorite candy: Milk Duds, in movie theatre popcorn, with brewer’s yeast. . . Best concert experience: Giving Kenny Rogers a plastic yellow rose while he sang “Lady” at a concert in Minneapolis when I was 11. Longest rock climb: Dreams of Wild Turkeys, Red Rocks, NV
About Tanya:
Music history. . . Imagine it: 1970s shag carpeting, browns, reds, oranges, up to my knees in the room I shared with my little brother growing up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The living room’s centerpiece: a stereo with record player, and me, kneeling in front of it from the time I was old enough to say, “Mom, play this.” Kenny Rogers. Anne Murray. Abba. Neil Diamond. Dad played Mozart, Beetoven, and bluegrass of all kinds. Tapes and shoe-box sized tape players ushered in my next wave of music listening outside the living room, as I took Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, and all the big-hair bands of the 1980s into bedrooms and back yards and front steps and pressed the “play” button.
Thank God my older brother worked as a DJ at his college radio station, because he sent me early R.E.M., the Sundays, Nine Inch Nails, the Creatures. Life with roommates in Northeast Portland, Oregon, brought me to the musical brilliance of the early 1990s: k.d. lang, Jane Siberry, Salt n’ Peppa, the Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco. Mix all these with Joan Armatrading, Lucinda Williams, Bonnie Raitt, and the likes of Veruca Salt, Luscious Jackson, Team Dresch, and maybe it makes sense that I have a hard time naming one or two musical influences.
Tanya Pluth Stats. . .
Number of times in love: 3 Number of times heartbroken: don’t ask Number of years of national service: 2, with NWSA. Or 5, if you include staff time. . . Best job ever: animal tracking survey in the Bull Run Watershed in Oregon Worst job ever: concert security, specifically “guarding” an empty parking garage stairwell for 8 hours. . . Longest road trip: 3 weeks Longest plane flight: To New Zealand from P-town, Oregon, about 21 hours in-flight. Lowest point reached: scuba-diving to 12 meters (how many feet is that??) in Fiji. Scariest moment in life: oh, that’s too long of a story. . . Biggest regret: see answer above. . . # of years in therapy: see
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