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- TC Founder - Joined the new Taylor Connect during the preview period (Feb 2012 - May 2012)
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- Conversationalist - how to achieve: reach a certain threshold of wall posts on your profile from other users. How many you ask? You'll have to wait and see!
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- Casual Poster - How to achieve: reach the threshold of 13 posts in the forums.
- Serious Poster - How to achieve: reach a certain threshold of posts in the forums. How many you ask? You'll have to wait and see!
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- Slight Obsession - - How to achieve: reach a certain threshold of posts in the forums. How many you ask? You'll have to wait and see!
- Taylor Connect Is Life - How to achieve: reach a VERY high threshold of posts in the forums. How many you ask? It will take you a while to get there :)
Dave Pastern
Live in sunny Brisbane, Australia. Hobbies: Photography, Astronomy, Computers, collecting things. I'm big into collecting Taylor Swift's CDs, including her USDJ promos. Since the TC profile no longer seems to display my age, I'll add it here - I'm 43 (turning 44 in May 2013). I don't bite :P
Note: none of my USDJ promos are for sale. They are part of my personal collection. Whilst I could probably hunt for promos and get them cheap from time to time and resell later on for profit, that doesn't interest me one single bit.
Decided to expand this section. Some of my favourite things:
Books:
Anything by J.R.R Tolkien
Anything by H.P Lovecraft
Harry Potter
The Hunger games
Clive Barker
Ursula Le Guin's wonderful The Earthsea trilogy (I just love the character of Ged)
Music:
Bruce Springsteen & the E street band
The Corrs
Nik Kershaw
Mary Black
Russian Red
Ed Sheeran
Nina Nesbitt
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto trio
Avril Lavigne (followed her since before she made it big with Complicated)
Christy Moore (Irish political folk singer, love his humour and songs)
Elvis (who can't love his music!!!!)
Kina Grannis
Mika (man can this guy sing!)
Roy Orbison
Placebo
Transvision Vamp (semi punk/rock band from the late 80s)
The Ramones
Dvorak
(added a few more artists today). I have very eclectic musical tastes.
TV Shows:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
X files
Star Trek: The Next Generation
How I met your mother
Star Wars: Clone wars
Game of thrones
I missed "Wolfblood" a UK show in the list above - it's highly recommended and totally AWESOME!!!!
Anime:
Bleach
Soul Eater
Trinity Blood
Hellsing
Movies:
Aliens series
Star Wars series
Harry Potter series
Lord of the ring series (not really a fan of the movie adaption of the Hobbit though)
I like a lot of movies, these are just the mainstream ones that come to my head first
Game (in no order):
Doom 2/3
Hellgate: London
Neverwinter nights 1/2
Diablo/Diablo 2/Diablo 3
StarCraft/StarCraft: Broodwars
I missed adding I'm a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls series, having started with Daggerfall back in the late 90s. My current favourite game in the series has to be Skyrim, although I still think Oblivion looked better, and Morrowind was a better game to play cos you could max your character out.
I collect Star Wars rarities - comics (I have a full set of the original Marvel series, other than the ULTRA rare #1 variant which goes for upwards of 5k), figurines (all of them, including a carded Yak Face, loose Blue Snaggletooth etc). and CCGs (collectible card games). I also collect Call of Cthulhu CCG too, but haven't bought anything of that for several years due to laziness on my part. I also sometimes buy old and rare antique books (my prize collection is a 4 volume leather bound 1892 set of Don Quixote).
I'm a bit of a geek (if you haven't guessed by now!).
I'm also pagan (druidic chaotic pagan if I was to self comment).
I'm a pretty easy and nice guy, add me, but please remember I'm 43, soon to turn 44. There's a lot of older guy swifties on here that love Taylor and her music which is really nice.
The Butterfly on Taylor's head is so cute!
I love her surprised look here!!!
This is so cute! It's "Tay-cat"!!!
If you're viewing my profile, this is what I'm saying to you!
OMG! Taylor's OMG face is so awesomely cute. I never tire of it, and it's NOT fake. Taylor genuinely is amazed at everything that happens to her!!!
Love this interview "You smell like wood" lol. Taylor's reaction is a classic. Her Yellow dress is stunning too - I really like this outfit.
Taylor's Blue eyes - wow! Be still my heart. >3
You gotta love Taylor's awkward dancing - most of us "non dancers" can totally relate to this lol. She still looks totally cute.
Some of my favourite images of Taylor:
She looks very cheeky in this image!
This performing live business is serious!
Taylor's 'come hither' look. CUTE.
I love love love this image of Taylor. I just love this look and the lighting is wonderful.
Meredith! She is the cutest cat in the world!!!!
Those eyes!
Love this picture of Taylor dancing! She just looks SOOOO happy here!
Another one of my favourite images - I really like the black and white treatment in this shot - being old enough to remember film cameras, I can really appreciate this shot and the post processing. Plus, Taylor looks so cute curtseying.
Where it all started. Tim McGraw. One of my all time favourite songs from Taylor and this shot is pretty awesome. This will always bring back memories.
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I can't say why, but this day has just blown me away. I'm on cloud 9. If I die tomorrow, I'll die a happy man. peace Dave
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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Fearless Girl 13 said:
Wait are you the one that took these pictures? You said where it all started and bring back memories!? Also your welcome for the request;P Anytime and i just love men who love taylor;P
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:41 AM, NicktheTaylorFan said:
season 3 eh ? so i guess you're somewhere in the middle of the arrancar arc ? i discovered Bleach about the same time i did Taylor over 3 years ago, been big fans of both ever since. Here in Malaysia they used to air it on the terrestrial channels but cancelled it halfway through season 2, thankfully those with Pay TV get to watch it in full as its aired on the all anime channel at the rate of 1 season per year, currently they've just finished season 4.The manga was getting kinda stale for awhile, but since the final arc kicked off things have really begun to pick up. I thought last year was one of the best years for the manga , some really awesome stuff happening and new developments in the story, things have slowed down a bit now but i guess its just going through a breather phase after all the heavy stuff in the past year.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:30 AM, NicktheTaylorFan said:
You're welcome , always nice to get to know an older (i meat that in a good way) swiftie around here. :)
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Skittlzluvr9 said:
haha:) I was born and raised here so I know the timezones:) I think it's cool that your father was from Germany:) Oh and the other day I noticed that you had said lol:) I laughed for awhile:) haha
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:20 AM, KaledioscopeOfMemories said:
same to you :)
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:08 AM, KaledioscopeOfMemories said:
But now have fun and enjoy with your family ^.^
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Skittlzluvr9 said:
I wouldn't really expect you to know the time zones, considering you are from, Australia, (I had to look first). So you did a good job guessing:)
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:42 AM, ASMITA said:
i can understand! proper sleep is required!
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:46 AM, ASMITA said:
buses aren't reliable! they come in different times each day!!! don't you get tiered?
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:11 AM, KaledioscopeOfMemories said:
HAVE FUN YOU TOO :))