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Mel

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About Me


I enjoy the ups & downs... smiles & frowns. I like traveling and eating ham & cheese hot pockets. I am a mix of Boston, Austin, LA, and somewhere in between. Maximizing the most out of my quarterlife crisis. Early 90's hip hop enthusiast.
Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I'm sure And if you fall, stand tall, and comeback for more. -2Pac
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My Interests

domestic & int'l politics, campaigns, education, communities, California, getting away with ordering food off the kids menu, Amnesty International, Ciudad de Mexico, random roadside taquerias, Sabritas con chile, Latin America in general, trying out new LA restaurants & bars, Wallace & Gromit, happy hours, wandering around bookstores, airports, carbonated drinks, boba tea, East LA, ice hockey, coffeehouses, the ocean & sleeping on the beach, Sunset Strip, unleashing the sprinkler at dance clubs, poetry slams, anything UT, New England, Roscoe's chicken & waffles, watching live music, jazz, the UK, non-profits, Trudy's & strawberry margaritas, stars on a clear night, the Muppet Show, service, jam sessions, Kerguelen, playing the piano & guitar, musicals, laughing my face off, classic rock & random indie music, colleges, road tripping, NPR & documentaries on PBS, Berry Lime Sublime @ Jamba, co-ops, int'l relations, breakfast tacos, short story compilations, puns, maps, Urbies & Zara, blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream, Halloweenie, intellectual debates, wiggling my nose and my left ear at the same time, partying, swimming, leaves changing colors, strawberry gelato, photography, museums, Mompeo, Italy, languages, smiles, *traveling*, being w/my wonderful friends and family, and meeting new friends :)

I'd like to meet:

anyone as long as you're not a meanie.

Music:

'Dave', classic rock (especially Led Zeppelin), the Boss, U2, Rusted Root, The Polyphonic Spree, O.A.R., Pink Floyd, The Cranberries, Jurassic 5, Blockhead, The Waifs, Michael Fanti, RJD2, The Handsome Boy Modeling School, Death Cab for Cutie, Interpol, Van Halen, Veruca Salt, Ani DiFranco, Nada Surf, Guster, Bjork, BB King, The Police, The Roots, Allman Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, The Flaming Lips, Jimi, The Postal Service, Ben Folds, Weezer, Phish, The Rentals, Longview, The Shout Out Louds, Portishead, Beatles, Jeff Buckley, RATM, Outkast, Monte Montgomery, Dames Violet, CCR, Vallejo, Mana, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Ella, Billie, Radiohead, Wolfgang, Frederic C, Debussy, Gershwin, Ben Harper, REM, Tom Petty, Filter, 311, Coldplay, Super Furry Animals, The White Stripes, The Doors, BMX, Crosby, Stills, & Nash (& Young), Elton, Chicago, Billy Joel

Movies:

Vertigo, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, In Her Shoes, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Casablanca, Before Sunset, Fearless, The Goonies, Lost in Translation, Swingers, The Waterfront, Kill Bill, Napoleon Dynamite, To Kill a Mockingbird, anything w/Jimmy Stewart, Amelie, Moulin Rouge

Television:

Sex and the City, PBS documentaries, Family Guy, West Wing, & Ali G ... I liiiike

Books:

anything Jack Kerouac, Grisham, Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald, or R. Dahl .. Siddhartha, Damien, The Four Agreements, The Great Gatsby, The Pearl, The Rule of Four, Teacher Man, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Guns, Germs, & Steel, Grover Goes to School, the annual O. Henry Prize Stories, the Economist, BBC News .. yummy

Heroes:

those who practice acts of kindness & selfless beauty.

My Blog

back on track & dealing w/the homestretch

So, the random & erratic funk I was in has seemingly lifted its wrath from me.  Whatever catalyst brought upon this change... I am grateful.  I feel as though I will be able to succ...
Posted by Mel on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:15:00 PST

Pink eye and burn out status

So basically, I fully have every reason to believe that I have contracted pink eye.  Who the F am I turning into?  Apparently some 5 year old child who just stuck his/her hand in the sewer.&...
Posted by Mel on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:01:00 PST