I'd like to meet:
friends of friends (and friends of friends of friends). local music artists. turntableists djs and sound producers (so that i may watch and learn). young librarians. people I haven't seen in years. people who come from cultures other than my own. grad students. people with music collections larger than mine. people who will burn mix CDs for me. a sidekick. my muse.
Who I'd like to avoid:
people who insist on using their formal titles in informal settings. my alma mater. do-nothing hipsters. pisceans. single-issue voters. sucka MCs. cabbies (especially if I'm driving). bostonians (even when i'm not driving).
Music:
Hip-Hop: Panacea/Restoring Poetry in Music , Asheru , Tim'm West , Common, The Roots, Poemcees, Crown City Rockers , The Pacifics , Pete Philly and Perquisite , Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Y Society, The Coup , Head-Roc , Mello-D and the Rados
Djs and Producers: Pete Rock, Oddisee , K Murdock, Damu the Fudgemunk, DJ Eurok , DJ Spinna, DJ Z-Trip , DJ Earth1ne, King Britt , DJ 2-Tone Jones , DJ Stylus
R&B/Soul: Me'shell N'degeocello , Jill Scott, Fertile Ground , John Legend, Michael Jackson, old school Janet Jackson, Stevie Wonder
Classic R&B/Soul: The Stylistics, Marvin Gaye, Isley Brothers, Earth Wind and Fire, Roy Ayers, James Brown, Minnie Ripperton, O'jays, Roberta Flack, Al Green, The Four Tops, The Moments, The Delfonics
Funk: Jamiroquai, George Clinton, Parliament, Sly and the Family Stone
Composers: J.S. Bach, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Shostakovich, Hindemith, Britten, Mahler, Liz Palmer
Folk/Folk Rock: Indigo Girls , Sweet Honey in the Rock, Toshi Reagon, (old) Tracy Chapman, Ashley Phillips
White Guys: The Verve, John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, Of Montreal, Elliot Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Hanson
Movies:
Waking Life, Mulholland Dr, City of God, Ma Vie en Rose, The Triplets of Belleville, The Hours, I Heart Huckabees, Do the Right Thing, Crooklyn, Bamboozled, C.R.A.Z.Y., and just about any Hitchcock flick
Television:
The Wire, Boondocks, The 4400, Death Note, Twin Peaks
Books:
Roots, The Invisible Man, Just Above My Head, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, The Stranger, The Well of Loneliness, King Arthur, Brave New World, The Bluest Eye, The Gilda Stories, The Inheritance of Loss, Meeting Jesus Again For the First Time, The Man in the High Castle, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Before Night Falls
Currently reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Melody's Details
Hometown:
around the way
Body Type:
5' 5" / Average
Ethnicity:
Black / Afrikan descent
Religion:
Christian
Zodiac Sign:
Taurus
Melody's Schools
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MICHIGAN
Graduated: NA
Student status: Current Student
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Library and Information Science
2008 to 2010
Towson University
Towson, MARYLAND
Graduated: 2007
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Music Education
Clubs: Towson Action Group, Living Wage Campaign
2001 to 2007
Eleanor Roosevelt High
Greenbelt, MARYLAND
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Band, Marching Band, Women's Choir, LeTSGaB, OM, Literary Magazine
1997 to 2001