art, music, culture, reading, writing, photography, religion, people, cats, squirrels, graphic design, poetry, non-fiction, fiction, children's literature, puppets, wax museums, life, death, sex, bats, cooking, pushing the envelope, flattening the box, blinding people with science, taxidermy, bipolar disorder, civil rights, Halloween, Native American history and culture, sociology, pop-up books, vampirism, pornography, erotica, playing the piano, playing the clarinet, records, science, chemistry, the world and everything in it, old clocks, cameras, whooping cranes, all things retro, anthropology, forensics, buddhism, taoism, paganism, motorcycles, tattoos, travel
Music
Damien Rice, Iron & Wine, Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kiley, Tracy Chapman, Johnny Cash, Old Crow Medicine Show, Nickel Creek, Indigo Girls, Ray LaMontagne, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Etta James, Thelonius Monk, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Beatles, The Woggles, Weezer, Kevn Kinney, Jack Johnson, Chris Isaak, Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, Amos Lee, Andrew Bird, Jump Little Children, Clyde McPhatter, Charlie Parker, David Bowie, Patsy Cline, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis, Flatt & Scruggs, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Bill Monroe, River City High, Hank Williams, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Jeff Lofton, acoustic, swing, jazz, blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, psychobilly, punk
Movies
Dracula, Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, Garden State, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Henry & June, Harold & Maude, The Pillow Book, Brick, Conversations with Other Women, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Grease, Star Wars movies, Matrix movies, Lord of the Rings movies, Harry Potter movies, Grindhouse, Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, old black-and-white movies especially of the horror genre, film noir, independent films, John Cusack, Johnny Depp, Vincent Price
Television
Prepare yourself. I don't have cable or satellite. That being said, there are a few shows I've found via NetFlix that I really like: Dexter, Dead Like Me, Six Feet Under, Stargate Atlantis, Doctor Who
Books
Nick Hornby, Henry David Thoreau, Michael Ondaatje, Laurie Notaro, Anais Nin, David Sedaris, Tom Robbins, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, Allen Ginsberg, T.S. Eliot, James Dickey, Jack Kerouac, the Brothers Grimm, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Sei Shonagon, Maurice Sendak, Roman Dirge, Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Tom Wolfe, William Shakespeare, J.K. Rowling, Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Celine, Cormac McCarthy
Heroes
"Show me a hero, and I'll a write you a tragedy." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
University Of South Carolina At Columbia
Columbia,South Carolina
Graduated: 1998
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English (Creative Writing)
Minor: Journalism
1992 to 1998
Lexington High School
Lexington,South Carolina
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: My senior yearbook says: Cat's Paw (yearbook) 10, 11, 12, Young Woman of the Year participant 11, HOBY Ambassador 10, broadcasting 9, 10, 11, 12, president 11, South Carolina Scholastic Broadcasting Association secretary 11, ROTC 9, 10, 11, drama 12, Key Club 12, art council 12
I received my Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from The University of South Carolina, and spent over ten years writing press releases and other fun and not-so-fun stuff for non-profit organizations. While my work was meaningful and applauded -- I was listed on the South Carolina Arts Commission's Forty Lists Project as an "Outstanding Arts Administrator" -- not too long ago, I found a clipping from Skirt magazine. They published one of my stories while I was in college, and then subsequently published a letter to the editor that sung of my brilliance. Reminded of the love of writing, I decided to go back to my writing roots and now teach writing workshops and send out pound upon pound of dead trees with hope of being published. I also publish a blog at http://toniturbeville.typepad.com
I also design Web sites for clients such as Tiempo Latino Latin Jazz Radio, R.L. Gibson (artist), Jeff Lofton (jazz musician), Dean Lofton (writer and publicist), Symphony League, The Town of Winnsboro, Pine Tree Playhouse, Jenny Mae Creations, Shell Consulting, Southern Valet and more. For additional information, be sure to visit my Web site toniturbeville.com.
In addition, I enjoy photography and collage work. I have had work in numerous shows, and was invited to participate in such events as the Columbia Museum of Art Contemporaries Young Artist of the Year, AIDS Benefit Foundation's Dining with Friends and the South Carolina Philharmonic Painted Violins project. Some of my work is viewable here. All photography is digital unless otherwise noted. Each photograph is printed ten times and is $50. If you are interested in purchasing, please write toni@toniturbeville.com.
Who I'd like to meet:
Che Guevara, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Mary Shelley, Jim Henson, Maya Angelou, Frida Kahlo, Salvadore Dali, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Ray Johnson, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Galileo, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Vincent Price, Houdini, Samuel Clemens, all of my great-grandparents and myself at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30...
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