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Melissa

About Me

I don't use MySpace!I am one half of the deadly duo known as CORENATOR & THE MELISSABISSA!My cat sneezes. That is all.
Critical Reviews "You're more than a Winnipeg social. You're the fucking Royal Albert. You're the fucking home of rock'n'roll."
(Cretin Rob, UMFM, Trouser Idol Judge 2005)
"Your voice is sort of what Joan Jett and Pat Benatar would have sounded like, had they aged properly."
(Corydon Idol judges, 2004)
"Hey! You're that chick from Fight Club! You looked better in the movie."
(Drunken Bar Italia patrons, 2003)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anybody who doesn't immediately subscribe to the philosophies of failure.
Oh, and also, Jon Stewart.

My Blog

2006

...good riddance. Seriously. One of the worst years I can personally remember. I don't make resolutions. However, I have vowed that 2007 shall not suck as much as 2006 did.
Posted by on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:57:00 GMT

nineteen ninety four.

I can't forget the earth that covered Jackie Kennedy. There was a velvet rope around it, but I was smaller than most my age, and nobody stopped me when I squatted on my heels and pressed my palm ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:44:00 GMT

Warren Buffett Makes Himself Look Good

Though it's old, in this conversation with Warren Buffett, the multibillionaire manages to prove, despite his dry and even archaic sentences, that he is perhaps the most ethical member of the ass...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:18:00 GMT

The Official Manifesto -- Originally Published Oct. 22, 2003

In retrospect, this was actually kind of awesome. Even more awesome, I remember having some significant interest in this particular political party. Maybe it's time to relaunch it? ---- The Official M...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:42:00 GMT

Prufrock. Discuss.

For all the hundreds of times I have read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, it never occured to me that he was debating proposing marriage to a lover. And yet, at least insofar as online criticism ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:41:00 GMT

smeared eyeshadow and the stillness after

It's hard to catch your breath when you've been holding it for five years. That long? The finger count says "yes." ----  One inebriated (but very kind) person tried to give me a very chaste kiss ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:29:00 GMT

alive, she cried (who is that from?)

I'm not so very unsure  -- I just need a reason. -- She whispered in my ear as I scratched grooves into the table. Something about me. I laughed at what she said and cut the wood a little de...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:17:00 GMT

Round Two: Question Period

Thank you to all who answered the call on my last blog posting: your stories were beautiful to read and to imagine. There's a second part of this experiment, and here it goes: Send me a message on My...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:38:00 GMT

coo coo coo.

Because he knows I love it, my father sometimes regales me with tales of landmark psychology experiments. In one of the most famous studies, researchers selected a group of pigeons. No...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:57:00 GMT

three random ideas.

One of the things I enjoy the most about the touring musician circle is that, as far as that particular social group extends, the most famous place in Canada isn't Toronto, or Vancouver. It's not Otta...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:08:00 GMT