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Melissa

Roped Into Something Unnatural

About Me


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My Interests

Music. Also movies, reading, swimming, and whatnot.

I'd like to meet:

Music geeks and other like-minded folk for friends and maybe possible music trades.

Music:

Parliament-Funkadelic, Prince, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Black Sabbath, Replacements, Peter Brötzmann, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, The Raveonettes, The Residents, Sonic Youth, Sam Rivers, Marvin Gaye, Lee "Scratch" Perry, DJ Shadow, Elliott Carter, Sonny Rollins, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Kinks, The Buzzcocks, The Stooges, Pere Ubu, The Cure, Slayer, Kraftwerk, Hank Williams, Doc Watson, Wanda Jackson, David S. Ware, Thin Lizzy, The Mars Volta, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Otis Taylor, Muddy Waters, Thelonious Monk, Ernest Tubb, Can, Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizzell, The Who, Clutch, De La Soul, Grandmaster Flash, Faithless, Sly & The Family Stone, X, Motorhead, Patsy Cline, James Brown, Talking Heads, Jimi Hendrix, Gang Of Four, Velvet Underground, Willie Nelson, Bauhaus, Kate Bush, Ella Fitzgerald, The Beach Boys, Elvis Costello, Antonín Leopold Dvorák, Laurie Anderson, Meat Beat Manifesto, XTC, Charlie Mingus, Sonny Sharrock, Hüsker Dü, The Fall, Fiery Furnaces, Love, Ornette Coleman, Public Enemy, Raymond Scott, Hank Mobley, Ramones, David Bowie, Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff, Noel Coward.

Movies:

Wizard of Oz , Castle in the Sky , Goodbye Lenin, Map of The Human Heart , MenaceIISociety, Dead Presidents, Enter The Dragon , Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy , Black Narcissus , Persuasion, Cooley High , Miracle Mile, Splendor in the Grass, Film Noir stuff from the 40s and 50s, The Story of Adele H , 24 Hour Party People , Casablanca , Bedazzled(The Moore/Cook version) , Wiseblood , The Player , Parallax View , Raising Arizona , Clueless , Heathers, Decline of Western Civilization 1 & 2 , It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World , Airplane, Happy Gilmore , They Live , X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes , Corrupt A/K/A Copkiller A/K/A Order Of Death, The Great Rock And Roll Swindle , Monthy Python and The Holy Grail , The Rutles , Shaun of The Dead , Whoops Apocalypse , the Party Animal , Office Space, Tetsuo The Iron Man ,The Fog War, The Killing Fields, Butterfly Effect, Brazil, Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days Of Disco,

Television:

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report , Twilight Zone(60s) , The Sopranos, Star Trek , Star Trek DS9, LOST, Deadwood , Buffy The Vampire Slayer , Freaks & Geeks , Undeclared , Mr. Show with Bob & Dave, The Office (both UK and US), The Young Ones, Letterman from the NBC years, The Simpsons (though not lately).

Books:

"Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin, "A Confederacy Of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole, "Lipstick Traces" by Greil Marcus, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov, "Never Cry Wolf" by Farley Mowat, "Still Life With Woodpecker" by Tom Robbins, "The Trouser Press Guides" (all of them) by Ira A. Robbins, "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azerrad

My Blog

Well Gamble My Huff

A couple of new purchases this week. Yes, new. As in not used this time. Yeah, heyyy big spend-ah... but I kind of had to treat myself this week to at least acknowledge how hard I tried to work stayin...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:28:00 PST

Wienie Roast (Bitches, Man!)

Can't believe I still have my ragged old 7 Year Bitch t-shirt, let alone still pack my winnebagos in 'em in this day and age. I got this shirt back when Joe booked Da Bitches at the old King's Head In...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:22:00 PST

My Sentimental Melody

The Friday Five:1. What were some of the smells and tastes of your childhood?For some reason the wood panel walls of my Nana's kitchen back in her house in North Carolina. Had this amazingly distincti...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 23 May 2008 01:22:00 PST

Ghost Mouse

A very nice neighborhood kittie came up to me and m'rowed at me pleasantly. He let me pet him and then he wandered on his way towards the side of my neighbor Brenda's house, stalking some mysterious ...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 22 May 2008 11:37:00 PST

Termites From Formosa

This is me hanging out of the window to my second floor guest bedroom behind my townhouse, snapping a shot of my neighbor Brenda's backyard, post-storm bruhaha. I spoke with her today, telling her tha...
Posted by Melissa on Wed, 21 May 2008 01:06:00 PST

Damage Report

Holy cats! We just got super clobbered outside! This is what I get for sitting here in my underwear ogling Isabella Rosselllini bug-porn and not paying a lick of attention to the outside world (hey, i...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 20 May 2008 02:32:00 PST

Sleep Is For Sissies

I admit I have always had a crush on this lady, but some things just cross the line in my book. Like inserting insects into the mix. That's my biggest no-no. Still, I got a boner.Isabella Rossellini d...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 20 May 2008 01:02:00 PST

I Never Post These, But...

more cat picturesMy week long vacation starts today after work. A full of week of yard work, housecleaning, and hopefully getting myself back on track to health and good spirits. And not being at the ...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 18 May 2008 07:09:00 PST

Content Whore

..The Moving Sidewalks were a band out of Houston, Texas founded by Billy Gibbons in 1966, whom we all know would later go on to form the considerably more famous ZZ Top. With Gibbons on ...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 11 May 2008 07:04:00 PST

A Soul At Ease...

Just got a call from Dad. He's home, at last. Sounding reasonably sore this time, and the cardiologist said everything should be fine.I want to thank everybody for the emails and messages I got these ...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 11 May 2008 05:25:00 PST