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Melissa

I am here for Dating and Friends

About Me

i moved back to chicago in september. and am very happy.my general description: likes friendship. trips and falls over everything and everyone. enjoys the "none of the above" personals. always singing the wrong lyrics. loves vintage slips, black eyeliner, stockings, and heels. spends a fair amount of time concocting plans.
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My Interests

live music of all sorts. growing young. procrastination. pro-choice. avoiding cracks in the sidewalk. bruises. burlesque. supper clubs. cooking the vegan food. meeting new folk and exploring life.

I'd like to meet:

genuine people. boys who just want to hang around. someone who wants to cook me dinner every once and awhile. i don't like fools who hesitate and waste time fearing change. i want someone willing to jump without thinking and risk falling down. girls who enjoy various activites surrounded by drama-free moments such as dying hair, playing dress up and going to bars just to turn some heads.the boy on the train with grapes on his neck.

Music:

detroit cobras. gossip. the collins kids. tegan and sara. waxon7. cash. waylon. the safes. violent femmes. postal service. the faint. satan's teardops. loretta lynn. wanda jackson. jimmy eat world. whitey morgan and the waycross georgia farmboys. rise against. cry baby soundtrack. pretty girls make graves. dale watson.the sonics. flametrick subs. torturing elvis. hank jr honkey. conway and loretta duets. anything i can shake and wiggle my bum to the beat of. motown.

Movies:

secretary, tu mama tambien, empire records, happy accidents, dancer in the dark, virgin suicides, dirty dancing, donny darko, antonia's line. boondock saints.

Television:

all the dramas

Books:

poisonwood bible. meditations by aurelius. sleep has his house. backlash by faludi. little me.

Heroes:

my best lady. she guides me.

My Blog

you me and the kitchen floor

last week update: went to the doctor and just had a bad sinus infection, beginning of a ear infection, add a bit of fever and boom you get a bit faint! aside from all the cute finger print bruises on ...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:49:00 PST

death becomes her

wednesday  7:55am board train at western. 8:21am feeling cramped, sardined in with the rest of rush hour. contemplating how to manuver my kleenex out of my bag. *sedwick and chicago* getting a li...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:57:00 PST

the greatest comment from the weekend

"You're hair looked soooo rocking in the hotel room, it looked great all night but when you messed it up a bit before bed it was super duper hot, like if the b 52's got in a street fight wit...
Posted by Melissa on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:59:00 PST

use me!

so i've let my six month recovery time pass from my old job and volunteer work. and i'm itching to get back into the game. i've got some prospects lined up, but if anyone has any suggestions for ...
Posted by Melissa on Wed, 28 May 2008 07:26:00 PST

boom chaka boom.

fri. hang time with gena's mom and crew. hilarious fun and oh memories. sweet sweet memories. sat. breakfast at old timers. art museum. man milk. creeps practice---breakdown: not only am i gaining so...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 27 May 2008 06:47:00 PST

dear vintage black pearl oysters ludwigs

you are so handsome. you are the two cherries to my shirley temple. such perfect condition. you make everything else on stage turn and awe. awe-mazing. you make my drumcrafts wish secret dreams at ni...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 19 May 2008 02:58:00 PST

i’ve read about the afterlife

oh saturday. you live long on my musical memory of fond times in fleeting moments. i'm glad april is gone. some months are better left behind. and april was one of them. i was able to put the&nb...
Posted by Melissa on Wed, 07 May 2008 08:33:00 PST

i’ll be in my corner.

I find it immensely frustrating when someone who should really fucking get it doesn't even look past it all. Like we can go back to square one, when in my mind we're leaps and bounds beyond everyone ...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 02 May 2008 03:25:00 PST

all those days went together, when i wish for better

I'm having one of the those days. I feel enlightened. Strong. And sad. I've been moving towards a path of freedom for some time. Some moments felt like I was moving backwards. Others like I was racing...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:34:00 PST

you make it or you break it.

It's one for the books. After a hellish week of just nothing going sweet and easy this weekend made up for it in more ways then i could of wished...Friday...our first night of friday afterwork porch p...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:54:00 PST