"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them." - Anais Nin
photography
film
reading
writing
music
concerts
traveling
literature
french
The late '60s
Europe
Philosophy
the things listed below
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the
least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good
enough to recollect how often we have told it to the
same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
I'd like to meet:
Michael Cera
"Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade." - Marcel Proust
Someone who:
will not be a new liar in my life.
will leave me witty comments.
knows each and every reference I make to anything and everything.
appreciates reading, writing, film festivals, art, and netflix.
will teach me Italian or Hebrew
is a tattoo artist
can appreciate that it takes me a while to warm up to people
only knows how to be themselves
owns a ridiculous amount of those tall religious candles that only cost $1
wants to take it into the darkroom and see what develops
knows the beauty of paragraphs
knows how to teleport or time travel.
wants to let me sleep on their couch when I visit their city.
will love me in return.
is not full of shit.
is not currently married.
Also, if the name Bob Dylan doesn't ring any bells you probably shouldn't even bother.
Music:
Which Bob Dylan song are you?
Tangled Up In Blue
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melissa's life featured
songs by these artists
A
Aimee Mann
Amy Winehouse
Andrew Bird
The Arcade Fire
B
Band of Horses
The Beatles
Be Your Own Pet
Beck
Beirut
Belle & Sebastian
Ben Harper
Ben Lee
Beth Orton
Beulah
Billie Holiday
Bishop Allen
Black Bear
Blondie
Bob Dylan
The Bones of Davey Jones
Bright Eyes
Britta Phillips
The Broadway Hush
Bullette
C
Camera Osbcura
Cat Power
Chelsea Taube
The Clash
Coralie Clement
D
Damien Rice
Daniel Johnston
David Bowie
Dean Wareham
Death Cab for Cutie
The Decemberists
Devendra Banhart
Dido
The Doors
The Doves
E
Elephant Parade
Ella Fitzgerald
Elliott Smith
Elvis
Emiliana Torrini
Eux Autres
Everson
F
The Features
Feist
The Fiery Furnaces
Finest Dearest
Fiona Apple
Fionn Regan
Fleetwood Mac
Franz Ferdinand
G
Giant Drag
Gillian Welch
Goldfrapp
Goldspot
The Golden Republic
H
Hank Williams
Hefner
Hem
I
Idlewild
I’m From Barcelona
Interpol
Iron & Wine
Ivy
J
Jeff Buckley
Jenny Lewis
Jimi Hendrix
Joan Baez
Joanna Newsom
John Coltrane
John Lennon
Johnny Cash
Jolie Holland
Joni Mitchell
Julie Doiron
K
The Kevins
The Kills
The Kinks
L
Laura Nyro
Lauryn Hill
Led Zeppelin
Living in Polaroids
The Long Winters
Louix VIX
Love Psychedelico
Lucinda Williams
M
Madonna
Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s
Majandra Delfino
Miles Davis
Mirah
Moist
The Moldy Peaches
N
Nancy Sinatra
Neko Case
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nick Drake
Nina Simone
O
Of Montreal
P
Page France
Patty Griffin
Patrick Park
Patsy Cline
Pedro the Lion
Phantom Planet
Placebo
Portishead
Q
Queen
R
Rachel Yamagata
Radiohead
REM
Rilo Kiley
Robert Palmer
The Rolling Stones
The Rosebuds
Rufus Wainwright
Ryan Adams
Ryan Gosling
S
Sarah Blasko
Sarah McLachlan
Scissor Sisters
Serge Gainsbourg
Sheryl Crow
The Shins
Simon & Garfunkel
Sloan
The Smiths
Sondre Lerche
The Sounds
Spoon
Stars!
Stereophonics
The Stills
The Stone Roses
The Strokes
Sufjan Stevens
T
Taylor Davis
Townes Van Zandt
The Thrills
The Tragically Hip
Trevor Strange
V
The Velvet Underground
W
The Walkmen
Whiskeytown
Movies:
"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." - Jean Luc Godard.
A
A Bout De Souffle
A Lot Like Love
A Woman is A Woman
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
All I Want
All The Real Girls
Almost Famous
Amelie
American Beauty
Amores Perros
An Affair To Remember
Annie Hall
Anywhere But Here
B
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
The Believer
Belle De Jour
Bend It Like Beckham
Big Daddy
Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back
Bottle Rockets
Bound For Glory
Breakfast at Tiffanys
The Breakfast Club
Buffalo 66
Q:"What is your greatest ambition?" A:"To become immortal and then to die."
C
Central Station
Chocolat
City of God
Closer
The Craft
The Crime of Padre Amaro
Cruel Intentions
Cry Baby
D
Don Juan Demarco
Donnie Darko
The Dreamers
E
Earthly Posessions
8 1/2
Eternal Sunshie of The Spotless Mind
EverAfter
Excess Baggage
F
Fat Girl
The 400 Blows
G
Garden State
Gattaca
Get Real
Ghost World
Girl, Interupted
The Good Girl
The Graduate
H
Haute Tension
Heathers
Hiding Out
The House of Yes
I
I Heart Huckabees
Imaginary Heros
J
Jules et Jim
L
Last Days
Life As a House
Lost in Translation
Love Actually
M
Manhattan
Maria Full of Grace
Me Without You
Memento
The Mexican
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Motorcycle Diaries
Moulin Rouge
My Life To Live
My Summer of Love
Mysterious Skin
N
Night of The Living Dead
9 1/2 Weeks
O
Orange County
P
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Piggie
Polish Wedding
Pretty in Pink
Pulp Fiction
R
Reservoir Dogs
Risky Business
Romeo & Juliet
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rules of the Game
Rushmore
S
The Saddest Music in the World
Say Anything
Saved!
Scoop
Scream
The Secret Lives of Girls
Sex et Lucia
Shakespeare In Love
Signs
Some Kind of Wonderful
Stand By Me
Stealing Beauty
Stigmata
T
Tarnation
Ten Things I Hate About You
Top Gun
Tous les garcons s'appellent Patrick
Trainspotting
28 Days Later
21 Grams
U
Untamed Heart
V
The Virgin Suicides
W
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Y
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Television:
Roswell
Freaks & Geeks
My So Called Life
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
Project Runway
Weeds
Prison Break
Books:
Franny and Zooey- J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour:An Introduction- J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories- J.D. Salinger
On The Road- Jack Keroauc
Big Sur- Jack Keroauc
Chronicles Vol. 1 - Bob Dylan
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
A Venetian Affair - Andrea Di Robilant
The Counte of Monte Cristo- Alexander Dumas
Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice
Pride & Preudice - Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories - Etgar Keret
Fellini's Shoes - Yehudit Katzir
Dress Your Family in Courduroy and Denim, Holidays on Ice, and Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
On Photography - Susan Sontag
Books I've read recently include:
The Hottest State - Ethan Hawke
The Fuck Up - Arthur Nersesian
Cruddy - Lynda Barry
1984 - George Orwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Doing It - Melvin Burgess
Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green - Joshua Braff
Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem
The Metamorphosis by Kafka
The Secret Agent by Conrad
Night by Elie Weisel
The Trial by Kafka
Zohara's Journey by Barbara Honigmann
Absalom, Absalom! -William Faulkner
The Day of The Locust - Nathanael West
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The Big Money - John Dos Passos
Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
The Street - Ann Petry
Killing Yourself to Live:85% of a true story - Chuck Klosterman
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
Emergency Kit:Poems for Strange Times
Being There - Jerzy Kosinski
Shutterbabe - Deborah Copaken Kogan
Right now I'm reading: a lot of books on Marcel Duchamp.
Heroes:
People who love instead of hate.