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m.m.

every night peacefully set the world on fire

About Me

My name is Melissa Martin. I'm a passionate designer, artist, creator of visual stimuli, whatever you want to call it - I love what I do - I love to create, explore, discover, wonder, dream, cook food and play with it too (yes I was the kid making a forest out of the garnish at Western Sizzler). I love cooking for friends, any music that can get my hips a shakin', chocolate, wine, tofu and avocados. I believe in manifesting one's own destiny and that life carries endless, wonderful possibilities. I believe in the decisions I make, the passion that I carry within my heart and I especially have faith in the people around me. I have no idea what the future holds but I welcome it with an open heart and open arms. Now let's ROCKET!I made this slideshow at FreeFlashSlideshow.com .
Check out these MySpace Slideshows !

My Interests

Art History, Cooking, the phenomenon of Pop culture, Painting, Graphic Design, Architecture and Design for the masses, Nature, Biology, Natural and Nutritional medicine, Herbology, Flowers and Gardening, Mac computers, Fashion, Dancing, Music, Movies, Reading, Shopping, Playing my cello, hanging out with friends and people watching...geneology and the orgins of my ancestors, Celtic mysticism and folklore, Irish history and culture, ancient anthropology, Poltergiests and Hauntings, why people don't know how to merge into traffic, Aliens, why Christopher Walken intrigues me so, thinking about where Space came from, weird Cult movies, Hello Kitty, and tofu.

I'd like to meet:

Genuine, down to earth human beings who have passion for life and an appreciation for the unknown. I like to have conversations with artists, musicians, & other cellists and really anyone who has anything interesting to say. Not a big 'celeb junkie" but I would like to meet Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Billy Corgan, Thom Yorke, Bjork, Helen Mirin, Anthony Bourdain, Alton Brown, Chris Ware, George Clooney, Tim Curry, Tim Burton, Elijah Wood, the Dali Lahma, Wynona Rider and the little girl who played in Poltergeist (Even though she's dead). ..

Music:


I made this MySpace MP3 Player at MyFlashFetish.com .

NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER!! The Radio Dept., The Knife, Peaches, Richard Swift, Bjork, The Radio Dept., Booka Shade, Fancois Couperin, Erlend Oye, Gang of Four, Bow Wow Wow, Smashing Pumpkins, MEW, Anything 80's New Wave, Outkast, The Spinto Band, The Arcade Fire, Missy Elliot, Billie Holiday, Violent Femmes, Pet Shop Boys, Blur, Zoot Woman, New Order, Joy Division, Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Ocean Blue, Stars, Astrud Gilberto, Tom Petty, Pitty Sing, Pink Martini, Johnny Cash, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, Morrissey, Phoenix, The Secret Machines, Rufus Wainwright, Wilco, Sarah Vaughn, Suzanne Vega, Miguel Migs (DJ), Electric Indigo (DJ), Boo Williams (DJ), Nigel Richards (DJ), Mistress Barbara (DJ), Scisser Sisters, Iron & Wine, Kent, Blonde Redhead, Ben Folds, Belle & Sebastian, The Postal Service, The Cure, Pj Harvey, Sade, They Might Be Giants, Trans Am, Cocteau Twins, REM, Nina Simone, The Faint, The Dambuilders (are they even around anymore?), Mazzy Star, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Cramps, AIR, David Bowie, Sigur Ros, Frente, Ladytron, Nellie McKay, The Sleepy Jackson, Massive Attack, The Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Vivaldi (the composer), Yo-Yo Ma, Ben Charest, Kings of Convenience, Keren Ann, Love & Rockets, LCD Soundsystem, Kraftwerk, Swayzak, Under Byen, Sharon Jones & The Dapp Kings, Laurent Garnier, Vivian Goldman

Movies:

Clue! Chocolat, Edward Sissorhands, From Hell, Ed Wood, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Blow, Nightmare Before Xmas, The Corpse Bride, Big Fish, Lost In Translation, Legend, LOTR, Donnie Darko, Harry Potter (all of them-yes i'm a dork), The Last Unicorn, Unico and the Island of Adventure, Dark Crystal, Waking Life, Labrynth, Spirited Away, Beetlejuice, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Tripletts of Belleville, 21 Grams, Benny & Joon, City of God, Pulp Fiction, 4 Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Money Pit, Road To Perdition, Bottle Rocket, The Ring, Stir of Echoes, Panic Room, The Grudge, Poltergeist, Halloween, Ghost in the Shell, Vampire Hunter D, Ghost World, Amelie, I Love Huckabees, The Life Aquatic, The Incredibles, Down With Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, What the @.%! Do We Know?, Princess Mononokee, American Splendor, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Howl's Moving Castle, The Cook The Theif His Wife and Her Lover, Barefoot Jen, The Pianist, Fantastic Planet, Groove Tube, I never promised you a Rose Garden, Royal Tennebaums, American Beauty, The Big Lebowski, Rosemary's Baby, Communion, Chronicles of Narnia (both old and new version), The Entity, Amityville Horror (the old one), 28 days, 12 Monkeys, Rushmore, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, The Truman Show, The Shining, The Witches of Eastwick, Matilda, The Exorcist, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Stranger than Fiction, The Science of Sleep, Little Miss Sunshine, The Notorious Betty Page, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Images

Television:

glumbert.com - The Apple iRack

Books:

The Cheese Monkeys, the Celestine Prophecy, I Put A Spell On You - Autobiography of Nina Simone, Memoirs of a Geisha, the changling garden, the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Go Dog Go, The Kitten Who Lost Her Mitten, Maus, Persopolis, Art is a Way of Knowing, Blankets, The Lake of Dead Languages, Kitchen Confidential, Little Children, Still Life with Wood Pecker, The Alchemist, Stranger than Fiction, The Fuck-up. CURRENTLY READING: The Fountainhead, The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain

Heroes:

My Grandmother

My Blog

For Carla

For CarlaLove grows and love fadesBut in the darkest daysOnly self love will saveSo hold on to yourself Against the rushing windsand say...I will stand here strongNo matter what may blow my wayMy arms...
Posted by m.m. on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:02:00 PST

Apple computer's superior customer service

So here is a funny story.....I received a personalized iPod shuffle from Naxos (the company I work for) for Christmas. Well, I kind of 'broke' it and I thought since it was still under the 90 day warr...
Posted by m.m. on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:47:00 PST

Press for Untitled Artists' Group - Sweet 16 - Spring 2007 Exhibition

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Posted by m.m. on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:31:00 PST

Vanilla & Almond scented cupcakes with Raspberry Creme

A special Valentine's recipe for all you sweethearts out thereCupcakes:1 box of white cake mix (trust me - use Duchan Hines Moist Deluxe)1 1/3 cup filtered water3 egg whites2 tsp. almond extract2 tsp....
Posted by m.m. on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:32:00 PST

Death and Rebirth

If things come in threes - I'm certainly not looking forward to the third and final chapter in the cycle of death that has been running its course as of late. This is the second year in a row I have s...
Posted by m.m. on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:17:00 PST

Check out this video: The Really Big Thing

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Posted by m.m. on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:35:00 PST

Press for My Bloody Valentine


Posted by m.m. on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:04:00 PST

My Bloody Valentine...

Come see this art show - you know you want tohttp://www.plowhaus.org/current.htm...
Posted by m.m. on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:02:00 PST

In Evansville

Christmas is here which means I will be in Evansville from Dec. 23 to Dec. 26. Hope you all can make it out to party. Take carepeachmm
Posted by m.m. on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:31:00 PST

NEW Recipes

Fall truly inspires me to take advantage of seasonal bounties so here are some recipes for a wonderfull fall day.Pumpkin Pancakes with cinnamon whipped cream and rum raisins1 c. whole wheat flour1 1/2...
Posted by m.m. on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:32:00 PST