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Melody

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My Interests

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

My Blog

why "queer"?

In contrast to the mainstream gay rights movement of the 1970's, which embraced all sexualities and forms of gender expression in bringing gays "out of the closets and into the streets", the contempor...
Posted by Melody on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:45:00 PST

the greatest stories ever told

I am nearly done reading Roots, and it's turning out to be one of those books that will stay with me for a while for the simple reason that it has added more to my own sense of self more than any othe...
Posted by Melody on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:44:00 PST

epiphany

Yesterday marked the end of my 8-day road trip to Maine and back. I had poured so much energy into planning it (since last summer), as the trip was going to be the highlight of my year. The idea was t...
Posted by Melody on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:52:00 PST

i love leftists, but...

I find that being in queer and/or politically progressive spaces is becoming increasingly uncomfortable these days. It was once the case that I would use these spaces as retreats from the outside worl...
Posted by Melody on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:08:00 PST

not-so-flat landscapes

I feel time burning a hole in my pocket while growing stale with antsy inaction. Nothing moves really, so I have to remind myself that I'm more ambitious than I let on. You wouldn't know it by looking...
Posted by Melody on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:05:00 PST

change

It takes a special kind of person to stubbornly hold onto their past and continue to claim things that want to let go, like mismatched puzzle pieces forced into places that they just don't belong. Thi...
Posted by Melody on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:55:00 PST

on the creation of nappy-headed hos

In the brouhaha over Imus' comments a few weeks ago, nothing has sickened me more than the quickness and eagerness with which blacks have turned the blame back on themselves for the blunders of the la...
Posted by Melody on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:08:00 PST

extra-terrestrial? maybe.

Sometimes I gather enough momentum that allows me to push the envelope of expectations I have for human existence. I gaze up at the sky and contemplate the time-space continuum--how I'm living and bre...
Posted by Melody on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:45:00 PST

rewind: circuitous attempts at loyalty

On the ride home from school, I enter myself into a bubble-blowing contest with an older girl: she swears by Bubble Tape, but I've got three pieces of grape-flavored Bubble Yum in my mouth and I'm anx...
Posted by Melody on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:10:00 PST

retrospective

the message was there: typed spell-checked clicked send through a labyrinthine conduit of cyberspacial frequencies carrying anatomically correct phonemes that bled across the screen when they reached ...
Posted by Melody on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:19:00 PST