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Melisa

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About Me

For my acting information, please visit:
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I come from the south - Colombia - the land of mirra, incienso, esmeralda y oro. No, not cocaine - Coffee. No, not war - hope. No, not murder - but mountains of traditional folklore and beauty galore. Escobar’s been dead, if you want to discuss our legends, focus on Marquez instead, and if you agree then come - lets break bread.
Im the loner wolf from a North-West Andean pack. A world traveler civilizing back-wood thoughts while building castle’s with distant sands. I’m a lover, in quest for basement sequestered solitude poems, productive undertones and steady rigid bones, craving cities decrypting my substance clearly seeing through my turbulence, muddy hands while we jump-skip puddles, ponds and oceans with fearlessness and multidimensional innocence. Listen, I’m a noun converting to a verb. I’m the Egyptian pyramids half way done and the alchemists son, the road to no child and the words to no bible. I am my own president sworn to freedom n bred from bondage. I’m the season between winter and spring, the child’s wailing from a mother’s parting, the sweet crackle de flor bud blossoming. I’m Kahlos broken hip, making em fight reason and stay artistic.Im not corrupt, nor sane, not thick, nor transparent, I’m not your answer, nor your question, I’m not your life, nor your savior, I’m the Virgin Mary’s third world country seeking a last name, a status and a flag. I don’t believe in Jesus, Jojoba or the Buddha, I don’t believe in war, destiny or purity, I believe in balance, justice and harmony. I don’t ask the fates to fly me to a better world, but to stab me with the antonym for this chloroformed air of sin, to wake the masses all from within, have the winds to reason with the stars, the moon and the sun, for they hold the magic of inspiration, and the key to the powers of true Change. So come on in.
"i try to live light, so i can travel light...and make it easier to take flight."
"a lo indigena colombiano, mochila en espalda y rumbo al monte"
Weepaah!

My Interests

Poetry, theater, travel, music, dance, collecting knives and daggers, organic farms, ethical shopping, V-Day, Colombia, train hopin' with critter dawg, social change, pyrotechnics, horseback riding, improvisation, stand up comedy, indies, dreams, laughter, foreign films, animals, Language's, universal language, culture, self conquest, arte colombiano, aguapanela, the language of the subconscious, bird taming and being my sisters hero..

I'd like to meet:

Artists, travelers, people with a sense of humor, substance, culture and a thirst for more than the cards they've been dealt.
Frida Khalo, Lucy, Octavio Ocampo, Miro, Carlos Gardel, Santa Clause, Pablo Neruda, Paulo Coelho, José Marti, Atala, Charlie Chaplin, a gnome.

Music:

here go some...andean mountain music, Carlos Gardel, celia cruz, tego calderon, bambuco music, Carlos Vives, Eddie Palmieri, Ruben Blades, Silvio Rodriguez, tito puentes, los visconti, Aterciopelados, Bjork, Bob Marley, Massive Attack, Tricky, Thelonious Monk, Mozart, Nina Simon, Billy Holiday, Sade, Sweetback, Lamia, Lila Downs, Flamenco, Tori Amos, Lamb, Morcheeba, Hip-Hop, the roots, a tribe called quest, bob marley, Don Omar, soulful house, anything with soul, Tracy Chapman, Tom Waits, Ani Difranco, world folk music, 16 horsepower, dead can dance, Hope for a golden summer, Sinatra, Portis Head, Johnny Cash, Weekend Players, y musica pa aguardiente antioqueño ;)

Accordions, pan flutes, violins, djembe’s, congas tiple's and mandolins.
...and yes, the list goooooes on.

Movies:

what the bleep do we know, Serendipity, High Tension, Maria Full of Grace, La Vendedora De Rosas, La Estratejia del Caracol, Y Tu Mama Tambien, El Padre Amaro, Run Lola Run, Frida, La Virgen de los sicarios, Ameli, Legend, Fight Club, The Matrix, lotr, City of God, Lost in Translation, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Ghost in the Shell, Sin City, V for Vendetta, Reservoir Dogs, City of Lost Children...

Books:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, El Alquimista, Memoirs of a Geisha, 11 Minutes, La Quinta Montaña, The Tipping Point, Harry Potter, Savannah Spectres, Midnight in the garden of good and evil, The Anastasia Syndrome, The 48 Laws of Power, The Tao of Physics, Positioning, La Profecia Celestina, The Beauty Myth, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, paulo coelho (+++)...

Heroes:

dad (my musico poeta y loco) and mom (the closest thing to a true goddess here on earth).

My Blog

For friends and fam...

Hey guys, gals, giraffes and elephants, Please DON'T use myspace as a form to contact me if its something work related or  time-sensitive. E-mail me directly instead, since I hardly check this...
Posted by Melisa on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:58:00 PST