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Melissa

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About Me

Hey everybody, Im Melissa and thanks for looking at myspace. Im a bit of a daydreamer with high ambitions and even higher expectations.




My Interests



Love shopping (not so good at the window kind), films, meeting friends, reading, writing, photography, art (Klimt, Picasso, Monet), going on holiday(Findhorn, Big Bear Lake, Vegas, Monserrat, Venice, Millbuies), and Sunday walks in the woods and along the beach.

I'd like to meet:


Some other iconic people that would have been interesting to meet

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Music:

REM (Mike Stipe rock god!!), Red Hot Chillis, Nirvana, Gwen Stefani, The Kooks, Killers, Radiohead, Ben Folds 5, Crowded House (chill out time), Justin T, White Stripes, Feeder, Coldplay (selectively), Aerosmith, Arctic Monkeys, David Gray, Kanye West, Razorlight, Scissor Sisters, Stereophonics, Zutons, U2, Pearl Jam

Movies:

Im a big film addict, love all genres, especially horrors. Love Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Antony Hopkins, Clint Eastwood. Some of my favourite films are Stand By Me, Heat (love the shoot out chase scene), Jaws (love sharks, but they scare the shit out of me!), The Shawshank Remeption, Papillon, Seven, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Raging Bull, The Goonies, Meet Joe Black, Pirates of the Carribbean, McKenna's Gold, Mystic River, River Runs Through it, Legends of the Fall, The Great Escape, Dirty Harry, Silence of the Lambs, Pretty Woman, Edward Scissorhands, Field of Dreams, My Own Private Idaho, Point Break, The Witches, Mission Impossible 2, Oceans Eleven, and loads more....

Television:


Sex and the City, ER, Grey's Anatomy, Party of Five, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Medium, Friends, CSI (Vegas), Law and Order, Sopranos, Frasier, Prison Break (oh Wentworth!!), House, housey shows, cooking programmes, real-life documentaries, nature programmes, My Names Earl, Six Feet Under, American Gothic.

Books:

Evelyn Lau (Diary of a Street Kid is ace), John Steinbeck, Roald Dahl (Revolting Rhymes), Kate Mosse, Harper Lee, Joseph Conrad, William Golding, Jack London, Anton Checkov, Stephen King, Iain Banks, Phillip Larkin,

Heroes:

My Dad. Always in my thoughts and dreams........

My Granny Rhoda. So strong willed and an inspiring person....
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and then an entire life time to forget them.

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My Blog

Get your news here

Some news that may have escaped you this week...  Enjoy xx The British eat  1/3 of the worlds cod.Pre-school children will happily watch their favourite DVD'S and Videos for an average of 17...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 13 May 2007 01:18:00 PST

Weekend Away

Just back from an amazing long weekend to the Cairngorms.  This is what Mike and I got up to....First we headed to a wildlife park and had a walk around so Mike could see the  wolves(One of ...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 08 May 2007 11:05:00 PST

Photographic Beach Madness

It was a lovely sunny day, so my boyfriend and I headed to the local beach, where we frolicked, danced and lost our minds!!!  (and Mike took a nose dive in the sand) What a great day Mike started...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:26:00 PST

Interesting News Facts

My enlightenment from the weekly daily's....The closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex is the chicken, according to a team of US researchers  US Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, who sadly...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:57:00 PST

Me

Here's a bit more of an insight into me     Read my VisualDNA™     Get your own VisualDNA™...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:21:00 PST

And this week......

Another week slips by, and as spring starts to bloom, here are a few things that caught my attention in the dailys.  * More than half (52%) of smokers haven't told their parents about their habit...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:39:00 PST

News Facts

As I perused the broadsheets this week (as well as scummy tabloids) some articles stuck in my mind. Several articles focussed on the giant squid caught by a New Zealand fisherman.  Not only did ...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:35:00 PST

10 Things I've Learnt this Week

1. A siesta can drastically reduce the risk of death from heart disease.2. Tony Blair does not keep a personal diary.3. Georgia is a punishment dished out to Eton pupils which involves copying out hun...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:12:00 PST

Killed For the Sake of Honour

This is not a story about football. It is a story about a footballer and how his roots and how - however much we may be endowed with free will and the ability to shape our destiny - some of us cannot ...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:24:00 PST

To my Widow

This week I read in full the last letter written by antarctic explorer Captain Scott to his wife before he perished trying to return from the South Pole.  The note to Kathleen was found when the ...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:25:00 PST