Taliesin Govannon

The Basics

Name

Taliesin Govannon

Location

Cuyahoga Falls, OH

About Me

About Me

Independent film-maker, blogger, lesbro, and all-around pop culture critic

Check All That Apply

Straight

Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy

Wiccan

Website/Blog/Tumblr

http://taliesing.tumblr.com/

Twitter

@taliesin_g

Looking For

Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet, Business Contacts

Relationship Status

Married

Virtues

Honesty, open-mindedness, open-heartedness, my humour, my empathy, and my wit.

Vices

Chocolate, indulging, over-intellectualizing, my sarcasm.

Are You Out To Your....

School/Work, Other

What I Like

Favorite Books

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot – Al Franken
Ghostlight, Gravelight, Witchlight, Heartlight – Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lammas Night – Katherine Kurtz
Silent Bob Speaks – Kevin Smith
America – Jon Stewart
Those Left behind – Joss Whedon
Brain Droppings – George Carlin
American Taliban – Markos Moulitsas
All Seven Harry Potter books – JK Rowling

Favorite Queer Books

Sing You Home – Jodi Picoult

Favorite Movies

Chasing Amy, Dark of Moon, Imagine Me & You, The Last Temptation of Christ, Dogma, The Four Faced Liar, I Can’t Think Straight, Eddie & The Cruisers, Annie Hall, The Book Club (2006), Halloween, Mindwalk, Clerks, Serenity, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Clerks 2, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, The Ten Rules – A Lesbian Survival Guide, Beaches, Howard’s End, Manhattan, The Seventh Seal, Zack & Miri Make a Porno, Jersey Girl, Cop Out, Mallrats (notice a trend here?), The Wicker Man (original)

Favorite Documentaries

The Occult Experience, 9/11 (the film shot by the 2 French brothers), Fahrenheit 9-11, Bowling for Columbine, The Civil War (Ken Burns)

Favorite TV Shows

Firefly, Exes & Ohs, That Metal Show, M*A*S*H, Daria, Mythbusters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Big Gay Sketch Show, That Time of the Month, The Walking Dead, The L-Word, My So-Called Life, American Idol, 1 Girl 5 Gays, The Soup, any match featuring Women’s Professional Soccer or the English Premiere League

Favorite Music

Iron Maiden, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, Sarah McLachlan, Nightwish, Tori Amos, Ronnie James Dio, Journey, Rush, Dream Theater, Joni Mitchell, Grateful Dead, Yngwie Malmsteen, Barry Manilow, Slayer, Epica, The Gathering, Opeth, Indigo Girls, Happy Rhodes, Inkubus Sukkubus, Keith Urban, Tegan & Sara, and about 5,000,000,000 other bands….

Favorite Sandwich

The MR 3, a sandwich made at Tommy's in Coventry, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, that consists of: Two spinach pies made with wheat pitas, hummus, falafel, mushrooms, sprouts, tomato slices, green peppers, and sesame tahini

Favorite Thing to Autostraddle

My wife.

Favorite Quotes

“The only people in life who will tell you that you can’t do something are those who have failed” – Paul Stanley (yes, the guy from KISS)

“The many truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.” – Ben Kenobi

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” – Albus Dumbledore

Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com

The people.

Favorite Writers

Woody Allen, Joss Whedon, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Al Franken, Kevin Smith, Katherine Kurtz, Jodi Picoult, Janet & Stewart Farrar, Raymond Buckland, Philip Heselton, Doreen Valiente