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Melodie

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About Me

Well, what can I say about me... I'm an anthro student, I'm passionate about people, cultures, languages... I love to travel. The world really is my home. My current goal is to visit every country in Latin America: this year is Costa Rica. I love to meet new people. I like to try new things. I love to go out and have a good time. I'm passionate about all kinds of things from global politics to music to art & film. I'm a liberal, a gemini, a student, a leftist, a writer, a worker, an activist, a teacher, a humanitarian and above all I am an open-minded individual...

My Interests

travel; reading; people; film; music; cultures; latin america; history; languages; writing; gobal politics

I'd like to meet:

First and foremost, open-minded people. I'd like to meet people from all over the world. People that care & want to make a difference in the world. People that are not afraid to stand up for what they believe. People that put humanity before profits. People that are not willing to just look the other way.
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Music:

cultura profetica; bob marley; shakira; gondwana; rage against the machine; gipsy kings; marc anthony; paulina rubio; steel pulse; sublime; DLG; el grand combo; fugees; mana; chayanne; jerry rivera; aventura; matisyahu; los pericos; juanes; robi draco rosa; ravi shankar; la secta; sin bandera; alejandro sanz; carlos vives; jarabe de palo; frankie negron; los kumbia kings; gorillaz; huey dunbar; tiziano ferro; obie bermudez; spam allstar; los fabulosos cadilacs; buena vista social club; suenalo sound system; and I could go on...... ..

Movies:

Como Agua Para Chocolate; Run Lola Run; Amores Perros; Sex & Lucia; Le Grand Bleu; Y Tu Mama Tambien; Motorcycle Diaries; Fight Club; The Matrix Trilogy & Animatrix; El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Central do Brazil; Imagining Argentina; Fidel the Castro Project; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; La Mala Educacion; Dot the I; Hotel Rwanda; El Che: Investigating a Legend; Pi; Brave Heart; Cidade de Deus; Constantine; What about Bob; Amelie; Behind the Sun; The Constant Gardner; Lucia Lucia; Crash; Rabbit-Proof Fence;

Books:

Anthem, Ayn Rand; Manchild in the Promised Land, Claude Brown; Brave New World, Aldous Huxley; Cien Anos de Soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams; One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey; House of Spirits & Eva Luna, Isabel Allende; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Our Word is Our Weapon, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Heroes:

Ernesto Guevara, Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Leonardo DaVinci, Evo Morales, Anne Frank, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Nelson Mandela .. I really admire people who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe, and to do something about it... ..

My Blog

Body Rituals of the Nacirema

The anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways in which different people behave in similar situations that he is not apt to be surprised by even the most exotic customs. In fact,...
Posted by Melodie on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:30:00 PST