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Mel

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About Me

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i am an oil and water mixture of silliness and seriousness, carefree and worried, party girl and philosopher, lover and fighter, i'm buog-etto, the ruffneck girl that don't fight...lol, im the hot mess that (a few of...)you cant help but love. yep, i am that girl thats hard to figure out, rockin stunnas and a grill (coming soon) while checking my email on my blackberry on the back the bus with the rowdiest, i am baller and broke all at once and im learning from wisdom all around me that even these "opposites" aren't conflicts or contradictions, they just are... i manage to walk thru this world wanting to dance, laugh, cry and shave the heads of every white person with locks that i see, almost everyday...im the happiest ive been in my life, i feel te rightest ive ever felt and the most uncomfortable (in the sense that im on my grind finding my way which feels greats and unbelievably scary all at once) and if you know me, you know im a dynamic being, hardly every the same from one moment to the next.you know what? one of the hardest things to do is to bring people into private jokes, so you'll have to excuse me cuz im full of them right now.

My Interests

im interested in love. books, cooking, eating, travel, photography, transformation, organizing, activism, writing, community, creating all kinds'a dope-ness, maintaining, trying my damnest to be healthy and more awake everyday. im interested in remembering and remembering to let go.

I'd like to meet:

id love to have even more awesome people in my life... smart folks, who see the beauty, ugliness, absurdity and profoundness around them and aren't too cynical or serious to laugh, smile and shake ya ass to good (and sometimes bad) music. .. Read my VisualDNA ™ Get your own VisualDNA™.. Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

Music:

.. if you dont know you betta ask somebody, cuz peeenus will make you shoot somebody in the dayum face!!artists in the order that they come to mind: janell monae, super fresh DJ's, erykah badu, van hunt, jill scott, the old lauryn hill ( you 'member her dont you?), goapele, a few hyphee and other local cats (BAY AREA stand up!), coltrane, miles davis, barrington levey, marley, (some) floetry, michelle n'degeocello, im warming up to doria roberts...beyonce's fine ass, t.i, jay-z lil wayne andre 3000 (keep you heart 3 stacks!! keep yo heart!!)etc.. as time passes i realize im becoming more particular about the folks i can listen too, for example, i still love ?est love but im over the Roots...types that come to mind: soul, hip hop, dance hall and (all of the sudden) house

Television:

Noah's Arc, the L word, anything dave chappell, america's next top model, project runway, flavor of love, heros

Books:

anything by: octavia butler, tananerive due, khalil gibran, donald goings, iceberg slim, aaron mcgruder, ((bell hooks)),toni morrison, audre lourde, alica walker, jack kornfield, poems of shel silverstien, angela davis, the i ching, tantra books....and all the books i have yet to write speeches and letters from: malcolm x, martin luther 'da kang,' el che, angela davis, lumumba, steve biko

Heroes:

the amazing women in my family (passed, living and yet to be born), the people in my life that love me, because they have perfected what i'm still learning to do. the women and men in my life that hold me in love, teach me about the world and myself and challenge me on my bullshit. (also, see authors above)

My Blog

reponse to emailed questions...

so she asked: what kind of women do you like? i love black women. sweet sistahs that know themselves, their world and who are "easy on the eyes"...smile.  oh i forigot to mention eva mendez is a ...
Posted by Mel on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:49:00 PST