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Melissa

The devil you know beats the devil you don't.

About Me

AIM screen name: MM0600What about me? If you want to know...then ask.

My Interests

Photography, Music, Painting, Movies, Antiques, Travel

I'd like to meet:

People who think.

Music:

Jeff Buckley, David Gray, Portishead, Static X, Sigur Ros, Rammstein, Damien Rice, Third Day, Johnny Cash, Boston, Tears for Fears, New Kids on the Block, Ours, White Stripes, Danny Elfman, Richard Ashcroft, The Cure, Loreena McKennitt, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Mario Lanza, The Beatles, Bjork, The Prodigy, Audioslave, DJ Shadow, Jill Scott, Depeche Mode, Ray LaMontagne, Etta James, Gavin DeGraw, House of Pain, Tom Waits, Therion, Nick Cave w/ or w/o the Bad Seeds, Charlatans UK, Tonic, Muse, PJ Harvey, Type O Negative, Enya, Coldplay, James Taylor, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, The Smiths, Poe, Morrissey, M.I.A., Mike Doughty, Soulive, Soul Coughing, Bach, Garbage, Mike Patton!, Fantomas, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Weird Al Yankovic, Radiohead, AIC, Buck 65, Paolo Nutini, Annie Lennox, Emiliana Torrini, Tool, The Mars Volta, Josh Groban, Esquivel, Warsaw Village Band, Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer, Rob Zombie, Hoven Droven, Einsturzende Neubauten, Paddy Casey, Robbie Williams, A Perfect Circle, Ryan Star, Hedningarna, Culture Club, The Clash, Dispatch, Blur, Sunny Day Real Estate, South, Neko Case, INXS, Gogol Bordello, Echo and the Bunnymen, Scorpions, Crowded House, Common, etc.

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Stardust, 300, Napoleon Dynamite, LOTR trilogy, Down By Law, Reservoir Dogs, Flight of the Navigator, Moulin Rouge, Amelie, Equilibrium, The Notebook, Amadeus, Big Fish, Stargate, Titus, Cube, Cube 2, Cube 3, The Iron Giant, Dagon, The Stuff, Willard, The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger 2, Love Actually, Fight Club, Hidalgo, The Chronicles of Riddick, Dark City, The City of Lost Children, Life is Beautiful, The Pianist, Fahrenheit 451, Billy Elliot, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Prophecy, The Prophecy 2, The Prophecy 3, Ravenous, Vidocq, Run Lola Run, Aladdin, The Village, Nosferatu, Chocolat, Blue Velvet, Seven, Immortal Beloved, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Secondhand Lions, Bubba Ho-Tep, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Trainspotting, Snatch, Dirty Pretty Things, Enemy Mine, Spider Baby, Falling Down, Spirited Away, Six String Samurai, Wings of Desire, The Prestige, A Very Long Engagement, etc.

Television:

Stargate SG-1 (R.I.P.), Stargate Atlantis, 24, The Office, Eureka, Dexter, Black Adder, Doctor Who, Father Ted, Family Guy, Invader Zim, Animaniacs, Metalocalypse!...and I'll admit it, American Idol.

Books:

Anything Neil Gaiman / "Kane and Abel" - Jeffrey Archer / "Deep in the Darkness" - Michael Laimo (and he's working on the sequel!)/"Choke" - Chuck Palahniuk / "Swan Song" - Robert McCammon / "The Road" - Cormac McCarthy / I like too many books to list, but those are my favorites...

Heroes:

~Jesus~

My Blog

It's gonna be a bright, sun-shiny day!

Question of the Day:  What is the last thing you think about before you go to sleep? Usually, I'm up way later than I should be and therefore am thinking about how I'm not going to get enough sle...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:38:00 PST

red

My beautiful Mum came over to cook me and John dinner tonight.  I had her wear the wig....and here are just a few of the 40 or so pictures she had me take.  At one point she said, "ooh, wait...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:47:00 PST

...and so it begins

I really can't stand it when people say that.  I thought that show Vanished was okay until the main cop character used that phrase.  Then, they were translating something that was written in...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:59:00 PST

The goggle-box has me hooked.

Question of the Day:  "What tv shows are you watching this season and why?" I will be watching: Jericho - One of my favorite books is "Swan Song" by Robert McCammon.  It's a post-apocalyptic...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:55:00 PST

The GOOD Touch.

I touched Ace's hand. ...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:25:00 PST

What is going on?!?!

with this? Sanz and Parnell?  Crazy. Finesse Michell sucks anyway.  They should have fired Keenan...I can't stand him, he is NEVER funny.  ...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:47:00 PST

Well, this should be interesting...

This craziness is going on 2 buildings down from my home for the next three days.  My road is shut down and I have to show my license to even get to my driveway.  I hear that the last t...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:04:00 PST

You did what?!?!

This is Bob, trying to explain to his girlfriend Becky how it really was an accident that he hit his little brother in the back of the head with a hammer when his little brother was 1.  The look ...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:37:00 PST

Friday night fun!

Last night, John and I went bowling with a group of people from my work.  Some of them came over to our place for pizza first and then we met up with the rest at the Auburn bowling alley.  I...
Posted by Melissa on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:51:00 PST

Yeah, it's an obsession at this point

I just had, like, one of the totally awesomest weekends, like, ever!  Friday night, I went to the American Idol concert at the Centrum w/ my mom.  This is a weird picture of us because when ...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:28:00 PST