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Melanie

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV...

My Interests

crossword puzzles, MST3K, good art, good music, good books, good people, good tattoos, conspiracy theories, cats, cowboy hats, Giacometti, Kathe Kollwitz, chupacabras, Ozzy, Edward Gorey, The New Yorker, Delilah's, my old Kentucky home, saving the world, shoes that make me taller, black olives, high-brow/low-brow humor, red wine, late-night grocery shopping, spinning tunes wherever they'll let me...Chicago...

I'd like to meet:

People who use quotation marks properly and don't say "irregardless."Anyone who shares my disdain for Jimmy Buffett.Karl Hungus.

Music:

Oh boy. Thin Lizzy, Built to Spill, Turbonegro, Naked Raygun, Firewater, Zumpano, Dwarves, Billie Holiday, Bread, AC/DC, ELO, Guided by Voices, The Zombies, Alkaline Trio, Neko Case, Aretha Franklin, The Ronettes, Motorhead, Sebadoh, LL Cool J, Cheap Trick, The Shangri Las, Supersuckers, My Morning Jacket, Grandaddy, Sebadoh, The Ramones, Iron Maiden, Spoon, The Quadrajets, New York Dolls, Backyard Babies, Van Halen...this list could go on for days.

Movies:

Caddyshack, Old School, Waiting for Guffman, Blazing Saddles, Spinal Tap, Wet Hot American Summer, Airplane, Airplane 2, Raising Arizona, Being There, High Fidelity, Grease 2, Roger & Me, Rock 'n' Roll High School, Excalibur, Clash of the Titans, Monty Python, The Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, Super Troopers, The Thin Man, Manos: Hands of Fate

Television:

The Simpsons, Antiques Roadshow, The State, The Larry Sanders Show, Mr. Show, WGN Morning News (I love you, Larry Potash), college basketball, Charlie Rose, Arrested Development, Family Guy, Ghost Hunters

Books:

I can't keep up. I'm finishing Two Cups of Tea right now. Before that I read Tempting Faith by David Kuo. I've read a bunch of stuff recently, but now I can't seem to remember anything. Is that bad? Other books/authors I like...Please Kill Me, Watership Down, Fargo Rock City, Jitterbug Perfume, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Wide Sargasso Sea, Kundera, Jonathan Letham, David Sedaris, Nick Hornby, Gore Vidal, John Updike, John Irving, all those fabulous Russians...

Heroes:

My grandma.