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melanie

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About Me

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My Interests

fingers between toes, iced tea, old people and old clothes, reading, writers&writing, thrift stores, reading aloud, black and white photos... I love so many things - it's what happens to be caught at a patricular moment -I love my dreams, the I Ching-(wilhelm edition,) used bookstores, certain lines and the way the lines are sung or spoken in song or poetry form... I love smiles; sincere people I pass on the street - smiles that are honest and true, happy and lovely smiles, OH! I love iced tea with lemon and mint! I love the color of iced tea.... I love people who are non-judgemental... People who love what I love or some of what I love... I love Tennesee in the rain - lightening bugs at dusk... I could go on and on about my interests... Junkyards,antique bathroom cabinets, clotheslines & the way space is seperated between clothes lines...mirrors that fold three ways but look like one thousand ways.

I'd like to meet:

intelligent people who love alleyways, iced tea and scrabble...old people,anyone with a kind heart...

Music:

John Frusciante,the Cure,David Bowie,Sonic Youth,Red hot chili peppers,Velvet underground, + deadman sound track (neil young) the Pixies, New Order, Janis Joplin, Crosby stills nash & Young, certain Bauhaus songs, Joy division, The Glove, White stripes...THE CURE again and again...and things I have not heard....................................................... .....................................................

Movies:

Pecker,Dead man,My own private Idaho,Sex & Lucia, Some Girl. A Beautiful Life, (Denis Johnson's book)...Jesus' son, Requiem for a dream,(written by Herbert Selby jr)Last Exit to Brooklyn, some Andy Warhol...Angel at my Table, Last Days of Disco and Little Noises...to name a few...

Television:

I appreciate the Simpsons. NO tv tho, but simpsons have been on for forever...OH, I must admit the indulgence of Let's Make A Deal! 1992,old re-runs while eating velveeta&salsa with dorrito's and Darby 2:00am OH! Bewitched and Mary Tyler Moore -Elizabeth Montgomery and Mary wore the best clothes ever!Since moving to MI, I have been watching what I classify BAD T.V.

Books:

anything by Lucia Berlin, John Fante, Denis Johnson, Bukowski, rebel poets, Brautigan, the I Ching (Wilhelm edition) Albion Moonlight, (Kenneth Patchen) Talk Does not Cook the Rice, Edgar Cayce (reincarnation) Journey of Souls, Herman hesse' Fairy Tales and Demain,and Beneath the Wheel - James Salter, Crime and Punishment, Some early Jeanette Winterson... Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Diane Diprima's Dinners & Nightmares, Children encyclopedia (volume 4 -i think) stories and fables Herbert Selby Jr.... Poetry:a.e houseman,james whitcomb riley & Edward Lear(they are fun to read out loud!) Hannah Weiner - Code poems Joy Harjo, Buk, Octavio Paz, Steven Jesse Bernstein, e.e. cummings,...my friend Adele's book.. What if the Hokey pokey IS what it's all about?, A Course in Miracles, and random memoirs... books are part of every part of me! I could put them at my feet, my sides, my back (old comfort) next to me in the car... books are beyond things - period....

Heroes:

Pearl Buck, Doris Webster Havice... ALL of the older people I worked with - they are beautiful - they taught me so many things... Pioneer women, women who sew, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Harriet Tubman...