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Melissa

I am here for Friends

About Me

"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."
- Margaret Mead
My friends call me Lissy. I am young and strong and fierce and hard to pin down. I love life, I love the world, I love my pen and my passport, and I love to bleed my soul out onto the pavement and mix it with others'. The rest you can pick up on the way, assuming you can keep up.

My Interests

life, literature, writing, music, traveling, nature, art, film, politics, yoga, spirituality, fashion, activism, feminism, grassroots/underground media, zines

I'd like to meet:

Travelers, revolutionaries, journalists, philosophers, zinesters, musicians, life-lovers, novelists, rebels, friends.

Music:

Coldplay, Philip Glass, Feist, Frédéric Chopin, Interpol, Robyn, Jarvis Cocker, John Mayer, The National, Neko Case, John Lennon, Beth Orton, Bond, Oliver Lankard, Bloc Party, Morrissey, Cat Power, Natasha Bedingfield, José González, Loscil, Nelly Furtado, Lupe Fiasco, Sinéad O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, Dustin O'Halloran, Amy Winehouse

Movies:

The Hours, Lost in Translation, Mulholland Drive, Last Tango in Paris, Winged Migration, Children of Men, Shopgirl, Trainspotting, Brick, Inland Empire, Control Room, An Inconvenient Truth, Love in the Time of Cholera, Frida, Sin City, Babel, Atonement

Television:

The Office, Degrassi, Planet Earth

Books:

Lolita, Disturbance of the Inner Ear, The Method Actors, The Hours, Fahrenheit 451, Falling Angels, The Children of Men, Mrs. Dalloway, Shopgirl, Love Freedom Aloneness, Blankets, The Time Traveler's Wife, Atlas of the Human Heart, Dogs and Water, Sex Matters, Hawksley Burns For Isadora, Love in the Time of Cholera, Fun Home, Little Women, Jane Eyre, A Farewell to Arms, Atonement, Full Frontal Feminism

Heroes:

Tina Fey is rad.

My Blog

23/4/2008

Seven books so far as sources for the term paper. You know what bothers me about it? Not the paper itself, just its name. Term paper sounds so collegiate, so academic, so sophisticated. I feel li...
Posted by Melissa on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:35:00 PST

19/4/2008

Revelations in motion.Defining motion is to the discretion of the writer. Cover letter.Preliminary sources and outline.Audit.Term paper.Presentation.Interview.Readings as scheduled.Exam. Exam. Exam. E...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:26:00 PST

26/3/2008

Theory of proximity?        ...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:05:00 PST

26/2/2008

Midtermfest. It's like Oktoberfest, without the beer, fun, Germans, and...it happening in October. Half of American lit: done. Tomorrow: other half of American lit, holistic health. Next Tuesday: envi...
Posted by Melissa on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:49:00 PST

23/2/2008

I'm probably too idealistic to be able to do, uh, anything without having questions/moral issues/ethical issues/ideological issues. Good or bad?Actually, I don't care if it's good or bad. As long as y...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:08:00 PST

20/2/2008

Today...I am digging out old albums I have not listened to since I was all tangly limbs and lost in the Garden State with you, you lovely sarcastic person, you. 'Belief' sounds just as good as the fir...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:58:00 PST

17/2/2008

Right now: frustrated, annoyed, bored, fed up, and despaired.Of course I'm upset - I just realised that the world can be a horrible, horrible place. My optimism has been hit in the face by the ir...
Posted by Melissa on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:16:00 PST

Art that is magnificent.

(Melissa Dickinson, "Our Work Here is Through") (Audrey Kawasaki, "Snail Me") (Richard Philips, "Law, Sex, and Christians") (Chuck Close, "Self Portrait") (Johannes Vermeer, "Girl With A Pearl Earring...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:31:00 PST

7/2/2008

Things I miss which make me feel alive, besides the obvious ones that you probably know: air being pushed behind strong legs, stretching canvas/applying gesso/mixing colors/doing sketches/smelling tur...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:29:00 PST

3/2/2008

20 March:8,35 - depart on train, BWI Int'l Airport, Baltimore, MD11,18 - arrive on train, Penn Station, New York, NY16,17 - depart on A train, Penn Station, New York, NY17,04 - arrive on A train, JFK ...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:33:00 PST