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Melanie

How am I not myself?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

with you...but if you're not in South Korea...

Music:

Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Patty Griffin, Nina Simone, Martha Wainright, Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Neil Young, Jeff Buckley, Neko Case, Radiohead, My Morning Jacket, Tori Amos, Sarah McLaughlin, Aretha Franklin, Bjork, Devendra Banhart, Ella Fitzgerald, Emmylou Harris, Frou Frou, Ida, Imogene Heap, Iron and Wine, Lauryn Hill, Mirah, Nick Drake, Oasis, Over the Rhine (Good Dog Bad Dog), Simon and Garfunkel, Rufus Wainright, Rusted Root, Ryan Adams, Sarah Harmer, Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, U2, Van Morrison

Movies:

Documentaries. Singin' in the Rain, I Heart Huckabees, Amelie, Frida Kahlo, Zoolander, Shawshank Redemption, Lost in Translation, Vanilla Sky, A.I, Donny Darko, Magnolia, Love Actually, Closer, North Country, Erin Brockovich, and Thelma and Louise.

Books:

The Alchemist--Paulo Coelho; Franny and Zooey--J.D. Salinger; Guns, Germs, and Steel--Jared Diamond; The Color Purple--Alice Walker; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings--Maya Angelou; Damien--Herman Hesse; Vagina Monologues--Eve Ensler; The Art of Looking Sideways--Alan Fletcher

Heroes:

Michaella Jacoby, Malalai Joya, Frida Kahlo, Mother Theresa, Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., best friends

My Blog

Vanity

Everything reads Vanity with a capital V. I was okay walking to the doctors office with friends without a shower--the stench of day old bonfire in my hair and a miasma of 48 hour deodorant in my pits....
Posted by Melanie on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:18:00 PST

scrAmBled eggs and baCon

It's been a long time since I wrote what I was really feeling. I'm feeling tired and I want to go home. But I don't have a home to go home to. And the fundamentalist brainwashing brainwave rushes in l...
Posted by Melanie on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:40:00 PST

Yellow

Yesterday, it all started with the color yellow.  I had a thousand reminiscences.  Wearing yellow was another first for me.  I wore the color yellow yesterday.  You say ridiculous?...
Posted by Melanie on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:08:00 PST

Ear, nose, and throat

What's new in Korea?  I'm heating myself out of my skull.  Liz (no hard feelings) came over this weekend and gave me her chronic virus special for the E.N.T.--ear nose and thr...
Posted by Melanie on Tue, 09 May 2006 04:21:00 PST