Word: tarver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tarver places great value on his Texas roots, defining himself as a Texas-bred boy. His family has lived in Texas for eight generations and he very attached to San Antonio. A city where Mexican and American culture are closely integrated, San Antonio is bigger than a small town but without a big city's alienation. Explains Logue, "Clay is really tied to all that...
Eventually, Tarver says, he may pursue similar studies in the form of documentary films. Although he admits he may go to film school, he adds he is turned off by the fact that "everyone and his mother wants to go to film school now." For now, Tarver's ideology of cultural activism is at times hidden by his almost sullen silence--and his hair. On first impression, his quiet confidence crosses the line into arrogant rock stardom, and it is difficult to reconcile that image with that of the boy from San Antonio, Texas. Logue--who has lived with Tarver...
Bullet LaVolta's not-quite-punk style evolved in part from Tarver's Texas childhood. "It combines the newest, most underground music I heard once I got to college with the shitty music I listened to in Texas," Tarver says, a bit nostalgic for San Antonio...
This attachment is clear in Tarver's senior thesis, which he wrote about an educational issue fought out in the San Antonio public schools. "I wanted to write something about my home," Tarver says. "It's where I'm most comfortable and where I have the most invested." His thesis explored two cases which challenged Texas' educational financing methods, raising the question of whether education is a fundamental right protected by the Constitution...
...years between the two cases, a powerless group of parents evolved into a well-organized interest group with access to political resources. Tarver's thesis investigated "how people got involved in this sort of social movement and how it changed them," he says...