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Mel

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About Me

I don't like cold toilet seats, but then again, I don't like warm ones either.fuck. vulnerability is very, very good.i always say, if i didn't laugh, i'd cry. afuck.

My Interests

depends on the day, the weather...what mask i'm wearing or who i'm talking to.things that i've stayed interested in...or that are newfound interests? : birding, nature, wildlife, observation and analysis, social/economic/racial justice...sensualism and artistry. experimentation...revolution and suberversiveness. plants. farming. madagascar. lemurs. existentialism...meditation. and, last but not least, insanity, absurdism, resistance, acceptance, empowerment, overthrow, redistribution of power and resources...kindness, compassion, peace, joy, and sharing. contradiction and paradox.god, i AM a sap. but a lovely one, at that.

I'd like to meet:

I have no idea.I forget.

Music:

In no particular order (that's not a band): Neutral Milk Hotel, Will Oldham, Cerebrus shoal, Death Vessel, manu chao, The Shins, The Extraordinaires, micah blue smaldone, Fire on Fire (Threads), Tom Waits, lots of stuff that I don't know who it is or what it's called, our poor neighbors,.. beck, bob dylan, ween, Jimi Hendrix, The Roots, David Bowie, Fela Kuti, Tribe Called Quest, johnny cash, Miles Davis, Jon Coltrane, Led zepplin, Stevie wonder, the pogues,The ramones, the kinks, Ray Charles, Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, guns and roses, sly and the family stone, Talking Heads, herbie hancock, the pogues, ella fitzgerald, Bach, the band, John Prine, Prince, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Gillian Welch,ween, iron & wine, the guthries,lee dorsey etc. etc. etc.

Movies:

Harold and Maude, Dead Man, Delicatesan, The City of Lost Children, Donnie Darko, I ♥ huckabees, Princess Mononoke, Barton Fink, Amelie, Ran, The Big Lebowski, The Panama Deception, Shawshank Redemption, Before Night Falls, Edward Scissorhands, The 40 Year old Virgin, The Karate Kid

Television:

uh uh. no no no no no.

Books:

Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground...Nine Stories-Salinger (amazing.especially Teddy and For Esme...) Franny & Zooey, Tortilla Flat-Steinbeck, James Baldwin, Steppenwolf, Demian-- Herman Hesse, Pirx the Pilot--Stansislaw Lem, Phillip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris , Lord of the Rings, Captain's Verses--Pablo Neruda, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Desert Solitaire-Edward Abbey

Heroes:

Robin Hood
James Baldwinsubversives who aren't just following...

My Blog

been a while...

since we touched base...whatever does that mean, anyway?  I read today in a book I am currently pondering rereading after so many years, "spit and image"...I always thought it was "spitting image...
Posted by Mel on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:37:00 PST

whilst...

whilst obsessively and repeatedly listening to Gerry Rafferty's "Right Down the Line", I consider the hour long conversation I just had with a dear friend who has recently experienced an unexpected re...
Posted by Mel on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:31:00 PST

What if...

you weren't afraid to die...time were to cease to exist...there really was a santa claus...you really were your mother's favorite...eating chocolate made you thin...the beatles never broke up...you li...
Posted by Mel on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:10:00 PST

uhh.

so, my friend sent me a hilarious cartoon concerning the life of an artist. I've tried embedding it here, but as I am not a complete computer nerd, I could not figure it out nor do I have the patience...
Posted by Mel on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:00:00 PST

tip of the day...

    don't put a tack in your pocket. also, don't put two strike anywhere matches in your pocket. they may create friction and light. and leave a nasty 3rd degree burn on your tender...
Posted by Mel on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:02:00 PST

raw hands, scraped thighs...

as I left the house today, I realized only after driving a few blocks down the road with just enough time to get to work, that i had forgotten something very, very important.  Something that had ...
Posted by Mel on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:00:00 PST

Why I love the Y

I'll tell you Y...Tony at the front desk. Always remembers my name.  Always with the puppy dog eyes...always with the stressed out, overwhelmed, yet gentle and sweet demeanor. He likes that I rea...
Posted by Mel on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:03:00 PST

I tried to make friends with myself...

Confirm Add Friend You cannot add yourself as a friend. Mel - Profile ...
Posted by Mel on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:18:00 PST

quandaries

quan·dary   /'kw?nd?ri, -dri/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kwon-duh-ree, -dree] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -ries. a state of perplexity or uncert...
Posted by Mel on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:49:00 PST

WARNING:not for adult consumption...NOT, I repeat, NOT PC.

A week, just a simple week...time enacting it's duty, passing, and events, cicumstances, manifestations, dramas, all of it, a crescendo...like the aria in an opera, like the main course after hors d'o...
Posted by Mel on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:48:00 PST