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Melanie

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About Me

mostly water.... Lifetime Achievement Award! Life in Photos

My Interests

Freedom. DVD extras. improv training(one day I'll be ready to perform). badminton. salon.com. boingboing.net. perezhilton.com. dancing. dressing up. manufactured anomalies. live bands. rocking the boat. all things crafty. the fabulous outdoors. karaoke. making a documentary. going to the movies. vacation. retirement. recidivism. reverse engineering. collecting cool people. talking to strangers. DIY. POPulism. treasure hunting. This American Life. Obama '08. RESPECT and SUCCESS! We are the world peace.

I'd like to meet:

crack sheepI already met him!!

Music:

Live

Movies:

Maria Full of Grace, The Apartment, The Red Shoes, The Constant Gardener, La Noir de, The Station Agent, Tin Drum, The Player, American Splendor, Y Tu Mama Tambien, To Die For, Shock Corridor, Raise the Red Lantern, Freedom is Ours, Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Darko, The Gleaners and I, Cleo 5 to 7, Casablanca, Shoot the Piano Player, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chunking Express, Chaos, Sunset Boulevard, City of God, 24 hour Party People, Contempt, Rear Window, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Breathless, Bound, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Amelie, Double Indemnity, Blue, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Persona, Seventh Seal, The Grand Illusion, Mean Girls, My Own Private Idaho, The Piano, Jackie Brown, Some Like it Hot, The Graduate, Muholland Drive, Radio Days, House of Yes, The Limey, Memento, Being John Malkevich, Murial's Wedding, Scream, Farewell My Concubine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Heavenly Creatures, Fog of War, Mauvis Sang, Chicago, Cabaret, Hiroshima Mon Amor, Dig!, Batman Begins, Tarnation, In the Realms of the Unreal, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Diabolique, Good Night and Good Luck, Grizzly Man, Show Me Love, Everything is Illuminated, Little Miss Sunshine, 7 UP series, Children of Men, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, House of Games, Little Voice, Friday, The Toy, Notes on a Scandal, The Good German, Blood Diamond, Rescue Dawn, Paper Moon, Down by Law, Manufacturing Consent, There Will Be Blood, Persepolis, Match Point, V for Vendetta, 2046, Werner Herzog!

Books:

Cyberville, Franny and Zooey, Middlesex, Death in Venice, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, The Bell Jar, 1984, The Corrections, Virgin Suicides, All I did Was Ask, New Rules, Wanderlust, On the Road, Slaughterhouse 5, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Girls of Riyadh, Life of Pi, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Culture Jam, Fast Food Nation, Man's Search For Meaning, High on Rebellion, McMafia

Heroes:

Honest (B)AbesJohn Lennon, Terry Gross, Michelle Obama, Mark Wallace, Simone de Beauvoir...my Sarte somewhere...MLK, JFK, RFK...ABC's...my real friends

My Blog

cracked me up!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by Melanie on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:12:00 PST

I <3

Boingboing.net for gems like this: ...
Posted by Melanie on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:06:00 PST

Maniac MaCan’t

I can't let the current polls afflict me. If MaCan't wins&.. I just can't take politics so personally. Will he be better than Bush&.certainly. It would be such a shame though. I'm getting involved aga...
Posted by Melanie on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:45:00 PST

Fahrenheit 7/11

Wow, Traci flew out today. I bought the tickets for September 11 because they were a lot cheaper today. We spent 5 weeks traveling with each other and never once got in a fight. Some people are good t...
Posted by Melanie on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:47:00 PST

I seek out the Dancers: Mel Camp Style

Brian Wilson had no opening act and actually started on time so I missed 25 minutes or so of the show! Damn! What ever happened to rock o'clock?! He had a 10 piece band of highly accomplished musician...
Posted by Melanie on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:13:00 PST

The end of festival Season

Yesterday we went to go see Ratatat and Les Savy Fav. The line was so long that we missed all of Ratatat. A bunch of people left after that show and I was jealous as they stepped into the light gliste...
Posted by Melanie on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:28:00 PST

Festivaled out!!

So Musicfest NW has been really fun. There are some organizational problems with the festival, but all in all it is good. In Portland all of the music is at actual venues so there is no outdoor stage,...
Posted by Melanie on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:28:00 PST

On Following:

So Seattle is a really cool city and by cool, it was very cold at night. The festival was right in the city center so I got a gander at all the she-she shops where the yuppies shop. The best thing abo...
Posted by Melanie on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:35:00 PST

Ta-dah-tours! Shake, rattle and it rolls off my back!

     Wow! I arrived in Portland yesterday to be greeted by three awesome rommies and the cutest house ever! I live right down the street from Franklin High School where my Grandpa,...
Posted by Melanie on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:52:00 PST

No longer stranded

I'm no longer stranded.  I'm safe and sound.
Posted by Melanie on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:49:00 PST