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Meena

If you don't like your situation then change it... if you can't change it, then leave

About Me

I make films.....
direct
produce
write
photography
Specialising in dramas and documentaries
See www.creativeviewproductions.org for some community film related stuff... Production Company CAMERA GIRLS FILMS website www.cameragirls.org.uk is being developed now.......... Other than FILM my passions are FOOTBALL n MUSIC n WORDS...

My Interests

First and foremost Filmmaking
acoustic guitars
creative writing
travelling ... discovering new places..adventures!
food!
movies movies movies
books...
photography
Spoken word
performance art
Paint
Monopoloy (c'mon, it's a great game!!) AND I Love The Beautiful Game
I'm a GUNNER....

I'd like to meet:

FILMMAKERS
MUSICIANS
POETS
Drop me a line of poetry
or a breath of fresh air

Music:

The 7 Arts of War - CHECK OUT -
www.myspace.com/rivasoulblu

Logh
Cat Power
Broken Social Scene
Jose Gonzalez (saw him live in Birmingham...OH MY GOD)
Jewel - her earlier work
Beth Orton, Mandalay, Tracy Chapman, David Bowie, Eric Clapton - his acoustic albums, Death Cab For Cutie, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Regina Spektor, Polmo Polpo, Damien Rice, Michael Jackson (you CANNOT argue with this one), Tori Amos, Alanis Morisette, The Cranberries, Rage Against The Machine, Goo Goo Dolls - hear their music and lifts me up, Buffalo Tom, Nick Drake, Mazzy Star, The Zephyrs, Oasis, The Rockery (they're on My Space), The Editors, Snow Patrol, Eagles, Jet, Mates of State, Posies, R.E.M, The Strokes, Bob Dylan, Sun Kill Moon, Ken Stringfellow, Nick Cave, Air, Nina Simone, Silverchair, The Elms, The Editors, The Knife, EVAN OLSON

Movies:

Really difficult to narrow it down, excuse the long list..... Elizabeth (I ADORE Cate Blanchett)
Pieces of April - Love Katie Holmes
Requiem for a Dream - this film changed my life WATCH IT, The Station Agent, Godfather, The Ususal Suspects, Bridges of Madison County - a quietly understated film, Interview with the Vampire, Legends of the Fall, Thirteen, E.T., Minority Report, Brokeback Mountain - saw this Twice at the movies.. Cold Mountain, 10 Things I Hate About You - based on Taming of The Shrew u know, My Beautiful Laundrette, You Can Count On Me - despite the cheesy sounding title it is a fantastic indie flick, The Pianist, The Piano, Roman Holiday, The Big Sleep, Se7en, Troy, Chicken Run, Wallace N Gromit, Spirited Away, Koyla, Dancer in the Dark, Goodfellas, Moulin Rouge, The Prestige, Stand By Me

Television:

Don't get much time to watch TV...and not really a fan of it..but do like these shows..... One Tree Hill, Dawson's Creek, Everwood

Books:

My first love in life was literature, here is just an ultra small sample of the books that have touched me in some way........The God of Small Things, Anne Rice novels, Poetry by Sylvia Plath and Tony Harrison, Orientalism, A Suitable Boy, Hamlet, The Prophet, Last Exit To Brooklyn, Anything by E.E.Cummings, Dr Faustus, Anything by Shakespeare

Heroes:

Mahatma Gandhi
Hamlet
Martin Luther
Plath
WILDE!
Arsene Wenger (don't laugh!)

My Blog

NEW Poem - COME TO MY FUNERAL

Come to My Funeral Come to my funeralWear a wreathe of loveCarry a lifetime of sorriesa lifeline ofbeen and donesnevermoresand has gones See if I open the door againBend back...
Posted by Mee-na-ski on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:46:00 PST

Poem: The Past

EVERYTHING I EVER WAS "BEFORE" HAS CONTRIBUTED TO MAKE ME THE PERSON I AM TODAY "The Past" And in that moment there was lifeAnd in this life there is nothing ...
Posted by Mee-na-ski on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:28:00 PST

Poem: PREMA SATYA DHARMA SHANTI AHIMSA

The following poem was inspired by the track "No War" by artist/rapper RivaSoul and was performed at a Social Party event in Oxford and London recentlyPrema-Satya -Dharma-Shanti-Ahimsa  maybe ...
Posted by Mee-na-ski on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:58:00 PST

Poem: Hearthead

Heart Headfeathered friendsgenerally I likelooking outacross the meadowbandwidthsky clouds vasttrees potted in car parkasphaltand days film overnights rollplaying deadto the sound ofmy anticipationat...
Posted by Mee-na-ski on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:26:00 PST

Poem: I'm A Child Again

I'm a child againwatching my dreams sinkseamlessly intodustdaylight throwing faultsinto timenose pressed to windowI watch you:an animal at the zooalmostan object of fascinationyour linesyour eyes your...
Posted by Mee-na-ski on Wed, 31 May 2006 11:09:00 PST

20 Something Hours

twentysomething hours twisted over weeks   some eighteen drinksoftea bags soaked & split   notesoftime dropped onto broken slabs of floor   several long moments of laughter so hard...
Posted by Mee-na-ski on Wed, 31 May 2006 11:06:00 PST

Disappointment

Disappointment. daily i wring hands quietly observing silence   We must respect the dead when blarring music, windows rolled south and speeding today   The Hearse crept up out in front me, s...
Posted by Mee-na-ski on Wed, 31 May 2006 11:04:00 PST

Poem: The World Fits Into My Pocket

the world fits into my pocketas your mouth beamsthrough the oceans between usand the sighs ripple my clothes under the coversas I lay stilled by anticipationcrouching at the seat of hopeand melancholy...
Posted by Mee-na-ski on Wed, 31 May 2006 11:02:00 PST