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mel

~Carpe Diem~

About Me

People...I love people. Meeting new people, traveling and seeing different cultures within my own country. Being open-minded and seeing what this amazing world has to offer. People are what makes this world interesting. I'm a traveler, a free-spirit .... I want to see as much beauty, and do as much living, and take every opportunity for fun or experience that comes my way on this trip.... I believe life is as amazing as you make it... If you dream it, seriously, you can manifest it. I'm an optimist, a dreamer....and I try to be a catalyst for change, and to make people think, and believe in themselves... Life is too good to not be actively living it every day you are here...... Even things that hurt, are lessons... GO! DO! LIVE! I’m a partying, opinionated, goal oriented, intellectual, sincere, optimistic, openminded, extroverted, spontaneous, compassionate, and thoughtful individual.

My Interests

Interests... how do you write down all your interests? Writers making a difference, you if you are making a difference, live music, improving your community in anyway you can, karmic punishment as opposed to corporal, humanitarian aid, mountain trails, cold nights around a campfire, sweaty nights around a campfire, girls with guitars, Ken Kesey's experiments, and all things with a banjo or mandolin. Family folks (and my family).

I'd like to meet:

People who appreciate that we have to squeeze the most out of this reality while we're here.........People who work to get the most good out of life, who strive to enjoy and improve this world every day... Anyone who knows the secrets, knows the importance of the journey, and that climber who loved life enough to cut off a piece of himself for the chance to live another day. People who have read Emerson and Hunter S, and have been changed by them.

Music:

Bluegrass, dance, classic rock n roll... old, new, strange.... My tastes are varied... Widespread Panic, The Grateful Dead, Galactic, Yonder Mountain String Band, Old Crow Medicine SHow, Phish, Tony Rice, Lou Reid, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Weezer, Allman Brothers, The Cowboy Junkies, Be Good Tanyas, The White Stripes, Pearl Jam, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Tool, Violent Femmes, Gomez, Rasputina, Sam Bush, Newgrass Revival, Red Clay Ramblers, Old and In The Way, Blind Melon, Sublime, Ani Difranco, Poe, Ben Harper, Fiona Apple, Medeski Martin and Wood, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Nora Jones, Dave Mathews Band, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Sublime, The Black Crowes.... these are the faves that come to mind, but if its got a groove, I'll give it a chance. I am always on the hunt for new music, but my tastes run primarily to the foundations. .. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Once in awhile you get shone the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right."*~Scarlet Begonias

Movies:

Waking Life and What the Bleep do we Know?, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,High Art, Eternal Sunshine, Kevin Smith movies, and Waking Life!!... and now, I 3 Huckabees, thank you Jess

Television:

Rots your brain.... except Family Guy and the L word

Books:

Too many favorites to list...... Art paves the way for reality to follow, making things possible in the collective mind makes them possible in action and existence. So read everything and write if you can....

Heroes:

those making change happen.... Activists (be actively something).... Revolutionaries...... Socialists..... Peacemakers.........& ER nurses!

My Blog

My Hero (to quote some saint or sage)

this is one of my favorite emerson quotes (thank you for allowing me the finger laziness, Krista!!) emerson "man is timid and apologetic. he is no longer upright. he dares not say 'i think,' '...
Posted by mel on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:39:00 PST

Waking Life is such an amazing film, it will change your life!!

Everyone should watch this movie, it will seriously enlighten, empower, awaken you to a whole new world!!We have got to realize that we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this cor...
Posted by mel on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:55:00 PST

LiarLiar

This was posted by Kris... and needs spreading!!   George W. Bush is a liar The link below goes to a video of the president being warned before Katrina made landfall that the levees might be br...
Posted by mel on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:24:00 PST

My Tarot

You Are The Fool   You are a fascinating person who is way beyond the concerns of this world.Young at heart, you are blissfully unaware of any dangers ahead.You are a true wanderer - it has...
Posted by mel on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:59:00 PST