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Melissa's Gone

In the dungeon of your mind, who is chained to the wall?

About Me

Step 1: Application in 5/15/07
I tend to be a closeted nonconformist but involved social activist. I.e. I hate the government but serve in Americorps, I'm anti-establishment although I tend to work quite well in the environment. Some may say I'm hypocritical with my refusal to shop at wal-mart and my affinity for caramel macchiatos from Starbucks. And I say to those people, Starbucks sponsors Jumpstart, which makes them good, and directly affects me. They may not pay the Ethiopian coffee growers living wages, which does bother me but I'm too poor to buy a $7 free trade completely organic wheat grass smoothie that probably tastes like shit. It's unfortunate that being socially conscious with your purchasing power requires that one be rich, which in turn requires within this capitalist system that you disenfranchise others. I may be a hypocrite in some respects, but fuck, I'm not as bad as the urban assault vehicle driving soccer moms purchasing organic bananas for their precious little in vitro fertilized-louis vuitton wearing-blackberry carying preschoolers. Remember, I'm too poor to be trendy.
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My Interests

Fire and sharp objects. Bamboo. I love to travel (not just saying this to sound worldly either, I've been to 4 continents), and wish I could do it more often, underwater basketweaving (yes I've actually done it), driving around (although this, of all, has become too expensive), world politics, volunteering and sleep

I'd like to meet:

My sanity

Music:

Tool, Cold, Trapt, My Chemical Romance, Flaw, Il Nino, Un Loco, Mudvayne, Mindless Self Indulgence, Fallout Boy, Depeche Mode, Bloodhound Gang, Tears for Fears, Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, A Perfect Circle, System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, Earshot, Static-X, Crossfade, Thousand Foot Krutch, Taproot, Three Days Grace, Tori Amos, Poe, Crystal Method, Death in Vegas, Soul Coughing, Korn, Ultraspank, Tupac, Nelly, Kanye (gotta represent), Sevendust, 30 Seconds to Mars, VAST, Mansun, Tinstar, Radiohead, Coheed & Cambria, Acid Bath, Lords of Acid, God Lives Underwater, Incubus, and I HATE dashboard confessional

Movies:

Boondock Saints, Seven, Summer of Sam, Corpse Bride, Poseidon Adventure (the old one), Fight Club, Usual Suspects, Citizen Kane, Battleship Potemkin, The Shining, The Corporation, City of God, Born Into Brothels, Maria Full of Grace, Layer Cake, Trainspotting, The Perfect Crime (en espanol), The Goonies, Fast Runner :), Army of Darkness, Spun, Malice, Requiem for a Dream, and anything on Sundance or IFC, most of the time anyways, and things with subtitles, I love listening to people speak in other languages

Television:

TV rots your brain. So I figure if you're going to decay anyways, might as well do it quick. So on this list is such intellectual stimuli as ATHF, Sealab, Frisky Dingo. I was in love with the Gundam Wing series a while ago. What can I say, Heero Yuy was a bad ass, even if he was a cartoon.

Books:

The Soccer War and others by Kapuszinski, anything by Orwell, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Crime and Punishment, the Metamorphosis, the Illuminatus Trilogy, The Handmaid's Tale, To Dance With the White Dog, A Million Little Pieces (so what Oprah, who really believed he had a root canal with no painkillers? dumbass), The I Hate America Corporate Reader, Stephen King, Disobedience, Mad In America, old textbooks

Heroes:

Apparently I need to be prayed for because I have no heroes. Ok, Jesus is my freakin' hero now, thanks to you I've been saved. Wait, now you want me to send you $15?? What the hell is this?! But seriously, Jesus was a really cool, progressive guy. All down with the man and shit, anti-establishment, equal rights, I like him.

My Blog

The end is the beginning is the end

I'm graduating today in a few hours.  I'll have a little cheering section, and there will be a nice dinner afterwards, which other than funerals and my leaving for Africa, is the only time where ...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:15:00 PST

"Smell this and tell me if it's gone bad."

Aaah, so what am I doing up at this time of night?  This is so unlike me.  Maybe I actually am preparing for grad school.  But, after an interesting development, I decided that I'd look...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:17:00 PST

It's Permanent

Yes, that would be my tattoo.  Finally got it, a dragon on my right foot.  Actually, I got it a couple weeks ago, so not really "new" any more.  I'll put a pic up of it eventually. ...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:10:00 PST

Fall is on the horizon

So summer is almost over.  After taking 20 credits I hardly noticed it at all.  I didn't walk around barefoot enough, didn't go to the beach, and definitely didn't get enough sun.  My f...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:24:00 PST

Lotion and Cigarettes

Procrastination is the enemy, and MySpace is its weapon of choice.I'm supposed to be doing a paper, 2 in fact, and instead I'm blogging.  But I am so extremely awake, and in a really good mood, a...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:31:00 PST

remember not to forget

Must be that the birthday season is upon me, that I'm thinking back to old times.  Running into old favorite songs and album covers doesn't help much either.My problem with al this is not that I'...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Wed, 31 May 2006 10:25:00 PST

I want to tell someone!

Ooooh to all my friends - after watching the commercial I'm just dying to tell you all that cervical cancer can be caused by a virus!  YES!  A virus!!!!  Eeek!  Ok, I feel better n...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Fri, 26 May 2006 10:37:00 PST

I'm an anarchist? Who knew?

You scored as Anarchism. Anarchism92%Communism83%Socialist75%Democrat67%Green58%Fasci sm25%Republican8%Nazi0%What Political Party Do Your Beliefs Put You In?created with QuizFarm.com...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Mon, 22 May 2006 08:29:00 PST

Finally...

Yaay, I've just rejected Spotlight Entertainers.  Yeah, umm, I don't need an escort.  Ok, maybe I do but not some chick...Aaahh...listening to my new CD. Ya'll (whoever you are) should check...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Fri, 19 May 2006 08:41:00 PST

Reject!!!

Yaay!  I feel popular and wanted now.  I got invited to a group and BAM!  Rejected the offer.  Woo hoo.  It was for paid online surveys or something like that.  So ok, it...
Posted by Addicted to Self-Loathing on Sun, 14 May 2006 07:21:00 PST