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About Me

So...what about me. The basics are already covered in other areas here. I'm a dead average person, but one that does not fit into some of the stereotypical boxes people are put in. I refuse to call myself middle-aged, because I don't think I act or think like a typical middle-aged person. I feel straight culturally, but I know my heart doesn't place gender boundaries on who I love. I'm a 3rd generation on one side/1st generation on the other, Latina that is proud of my heritage and feel at home with it, yet I don't speak Spanish very well, and often feel like I'm outside that culture looking in. My politics are definitely to the left, yet there are things I dislike about the left as well as the right. I am very spiritual, but religion doesn't feel right to me. There is no better feeling in the world than being with someone you love intensely, but I also cherish solitude immensely.
And, I chase rock stars. :)
Magni - Smells Like Teen Spirit, Toronto, Canada March 12, 2008
Magni - Toronto, Canada March 10 and 12, 2008 (24 song playlist)
U2 - Wave of Sorrow, London, England November 23, 2007

These songs and many more are on Magni's first solo album, in English, OUT NOW on iTunes, Napster, Amazon and many other digital music services worldwide! Check out Magni's Myspace for more info!
Magni - You Say, Toronto, Canada March 10, 2008
Magni - Alone, Toronto, Canada March 10, 2008
Magni - Addicted, Reykjavik, Iceland August 16, 2007
Magni - Tear Us Apart, Reykjavik, Iceland August 16, 2007
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My Interests

Music, computers/web stuff, travel, writing, singing, food, dance, pop culture.

My Visited Countries

I'd like to meet:

On the celebrity tip, I've already met all the ones I wanted to meet, although one can never meet Bono too many times. Alas, I didn't get to hook up with Eddie Vedder in Hawaii so he's still on my list. Members of Radiohead too. Otherwise, I have no idea, I guess I'll be surprised.

Music:

I love music, and I attend a fair number of concerts as well. U2 is my top favorite band, I have been a fan of theirs since 1983 - I won't say how many concerts of theirs I've been to! Radiohead is close behind, while I'm not as personally invested in them as I am with U2, their music sweeps me to another plane. I also like Pearl Jam and R.E.M., and have enjoyed The Killers, Coldplay, Springsteen (the stuff with the E Street Band), the Verve (R.I.P.), Arcade Fire, the White Stripes, Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, Madonna, Prince and so many more that have caught my ear through the years. I also enjoy 60s/70s soul/Motown.

My "moment" with U2's Adam Clayton, Boston December 5, 2005 - click photos to enlarge!

During the summer of 2006, I fell stupid in musical love with the voice and talent of Magni Asgeirsson, a finalist on the show Rock Star: Supernova and frontman for the Icelandic band A Moti Sol. The voice just melts me, and it helps that he's an excellent musician and a great guy as well. He's released his first solo and English-language album, which is available on iTunes, Amazon MP3s, Snocap and just about every other digital music seller around the world! We're also begging him to tour the U.S. again on his own! Check his music out on the player below and on his MySpace (he's no. 1 on my Top Friends), and video of him performing some of the tracks are on my profile.

Television:

The Sopranos, ER, Ugly Betty, The Amazing Race, American Idol, Survivor, Big Brother, The Apprentice, Rock Star:(insert band name here) - man I've just realized that I've become a near-total reality geek in recent years...

Books:

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ann Rice's Vampire Chronicles series, Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides, U2 At the End of the World - Bill Flanagan, The Joy of Cooking

Heroes:

3 of the last 4 Nobel Peace Prize Winners, Rosa Parks, Las Abuelas y Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (at least originally), Bono

My Blog

She kisses you with tongues and pulls you to the ground

Well, got back last night from three days in Atlanta, as you know my primary purpose was to see Radiohead's concert there but it was also a new city to check out so I did a lot of wandering around, li...
Posted by Melon on Mon, 12 May 2008 11:17:00 PST

Everything old is new again...

Busy week this was! And tiring. The primary reason is that I went to back-to-back concerts on Monday and Tuesday, when you start off the work week with very late nights, it's hard to recov...
Posted by Melon on Sun, 04 May 2008 10:46:00 PST

She moves in mysterious ways....

Well, I have to hang past my time here at work only because other people screwed up their schedule so there was nobody else to watch the trainees, so I may as well blog...Weird thing happened yesterda...
Posted by Melon on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:24:00 PST

Eyeing stuff...

Gawd I am just not inspired today, could I come up with a lamer blog title? Or a lamer blog. Anyway, the trees are bloomin', temps are going to be in the 70s the rest of the week, who needs insp...
Posted by Melon on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:19:00 PST

Life is...decent.

Well I am really trying to get back into blogging more regularly so I’ll be writing more about - nothing. One thing is that work is finally settling down to a more mellow pace; I&rs...
Posted by Melon on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:12:00 PST

And so...how was your week?

Well! I had a pretty darn good week. As I mentioned previously, this past week was the one in which I was going to Toronto to see Magni (here and here (unmasking myself there, everyone knows already...
Posted by Melon on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:16:00 PST

Good things come to those who wait...

Far too long without a blog again...work has just been batty lately. Not only is February deadline-filled but we're also in full office-moving frenzy at the moment; we're moving 10 blocks down t...
Posted by Melon on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:02:00 PST

Whats the frequency, Kenneth?

Well, I was going to blog a couple of weeks back about how the Presidential campaigns were going in my head, but the landscape has changed a bit since then... I'm not totally in sync with any of...
Posted by Melon on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:35:00 PST

Appliances have gone beserk...

Well, after a month with no posts (here, I mean ;) ), I figured that I should get back on the blogging horse before it got any longer. Certainly not my intent or any lack of inspiration, it was ...
Posted by Melon on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:24:00 PST

You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one...

Last year at this time I was in Hawaii, and I've been missing it a lot this week. That was such a great trip, one of my better vacations I must say... The climate, the sun, the Pacific, th...
Posted by Melon on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:24:00 PST