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Melinda

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About Me

Bronze sculptor, audiophile, reclusive crank.
Illuminous is not really a word. It was accidentally coined by John Foxx in his song "Endlessly". Seriously. Look it up. It's not a word. And if illuminous were a word, it would mean "dark".

My Artwork:
The paintings I show here are digital sketches. They are available as prints, or you may commission an original oil painting from me.

I also have a blog at Wordpress with information about commissions and pictures of my artwork.

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My Interests

Art.
Painting and sculpting.
Taking computers apart and forgetting to put them back together again.
A probably unhealthy level of obsession with, I mean, appreciation for, Donald Sutherland.
Writing things on scraps of paper and then losing them.
Flanerie.

I'd like to meet:

My painting - 'Nightmare 1'
Donald Sutherland , the sexiest man alive.
Kraftwerk.
Noam Chomsky.
Ralph Nader.
Fidel Castro.
Richard Barone, from The Bongos, one of my favorite bands *ever* and the nicest, most talented guy in the world - and my first myspace friend.
Communists.
Other artists and other writers, and more creative people in general.

I am NOT looking for random hookups from horny dumbasses who think Myspace is some giant online singles bar, and if you try that with me, I will laugh at you.

Deep Thought:

If there's one thing I've learned from my childhood, it is this: Cats don't like wearing doll clothes.

Music:

The Truth Rockets
Alphawezen
Finn Brothers
Kraftwerk
Joy Division
John Foxx
Let's Active
The Trashcan Sinatras
Ultravox
The Worthless Son-In-Laws
The Baghdaddios
Camera Obscura
The Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack
Cuban music
[insert your favorite band here]

Movies:

Klute (1971)
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Napoleon Dynamite (brilliant movie)
Yep, I like old movies.

Television:

Air Crash Investigations
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K)
Keeping Up Appearances

I don't watch TV that much. I need most of my brain cells.

Books:

The Good Fight, by Ralph Nader
Beautiful Shadow: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
Just about any book about art

Heroes:

Ralph Nader
Hugh Thompson, Jr. (hero of My Lai)
Ariel Levy
Brian Wilson, beautiful dreamer.
Prettylady's Art Blog

My Blog

Here’s another waste of sperm and eggs who belongs on a rocket to the sun

Remember that creepy kid who liked pulling the wings off of flies?  There's at least one in every school.  Ever wonder what they grow up to be?Click here to find out!If I ran the world, I wo...
Posted by Melinda on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:33:00 PST

Stupid Bitch in the Coffeehouse This Morning

So I was at Rude Brothers this morning, peacefully sipping a latte and reading The Transformation of Capitalist Society.  It was nice and quiet in there for once:  no cellphone yakkers or cr...
Posted by Melinda on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:56:00 PST

Love Me, Im a Liberal

These are the lyrics for Jello Biafra's version of the Phil Ochs classic, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal".  This one's for you, David.Love Me, I'm a Liberal I cried when they shot John Lennon Tears ran...
Posted by Melinda on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:45:00 PST

Noam Chomsky rules

Last night I was sad because I had just lost a friend because of differences in political beliefs.  It was less because his opinion was different than mine than because he lashed out viciously at...
Posted by Melinda on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST

Quote of the Day: Anti-Americanism

"The very fact that the concept "anti-American" can exist -- forget the way it's used -- exhibits a totalitarian streak that's pretty dramatic.... ...
Posted by Melinda on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:49:00 PST

A Look Back At The Cuban Missile Crisis

The vultures in the press are already circling, speculating about what reforms Raul Castro and succeeding presidents will bring to Cuba - no doubt hoping that some of those "reforms" will include sell...
Posted by Melinda on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:47:00 PST

Sadness

Fidel Castro has resigned as Cuba's president."Bush, traveling in Rwanda, pledged to "help the people of Cuba realize the blessings of liberty."(Translation:  We're going to "help" the people of ...
Posted by Melinda on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:38:00 PST

Blasphemy is right

Click here to see the most disgusting pictures you've ever seen in your life.  I've seen autopsy photos that are more attractive than this.Lindsay Lohan has played out the mediocre talent she had...
Posted by Melinda on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:31:00 PST

Happy Valentine’s Day, you hos.

Here are a couple of Valentine greetings for you all, because I'm such a romantic.And a more tactful one:In totally unrelated news, I'd like to say that drinking absinthe causes brain damage and is fo...
Posted by Melinda on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:10:00 PST

Donald Sutherland is still the hotness

Fool's Gold is supposed to be a rotten movie, but who cares.  How rotten can it be if it has Donald Sutherland in it?  O.K.  Beerfest was pretty rotten, but at least Donald is in the fi...
Posted by Melinda on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST