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Melissa

On The Road

About Me

I have an obsession of the mind, therefore I am always thinking. Ex-Pro Snowboarder, broke my back in 1998. Started doing photography. In and out of drugs, Sober, been to allmost every state in the US and country in Europe on tour taking photos the whole way. Working on my book of photography. Me & my camera have been married to Punk Rock for the last 10 years (documenting the re-surrgence of early English Punk) Chances are pretty good if your in it, I have a photo of you. I love my dog Gunther. Just playing catch-up from a life of over acheivment. Cant' spell to save my life. Easy going, get along with most. Have lived in Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Strong Island, and Detroit. Echo Park now. Very Hi-Energy. Drive a Jeep. Can fix shit and build new. Learning to walk in Heels. Love to get Shit Done!

My Interests

Rock-N-Roll Photography, Automotive Photography, Detroit, Snowboarding, Touring, My Dog Gunther, My cat Emmit, Music of all kinds starting with Punk all the way to Willie Nelson. It's A Jeep Thing. Sexy people who play Instruments, Or ugly people that play instruments and that's what makes them sexy. Driving big trucks cross country. My friends Bill & Bob. Art, Fashion, Furniture, anything Visual. www.punkrockphotogirl.com coming soon w/all my photos past & Present.

I'd like to meet:

People who are productive, creative and like to laugh at the cruelty of life

Music:

I will get to that soon. Sooo many Bands. Some ..1's: Cock Sparrer, Rose Tattoo, Discharge, U.K.Subs, Vice Squad, G.B.H., Easy Action, Betty Blowtorch, Negative Approach, Social D, Lorretta Lynn, Shelby Lynn, Audioslave, Willie Nelson, Lynard Skynard. Trash Brats, Gore Gore Girls, The Paybacks, White Stripes, Bomb Pops, Shep Wrench, Wolf Eyes, Violent Ramp, Corvairs, Broadzilla, Queen Bee, love the Detroit bands. Killswitch Engage. Anti-Nowhere League, Billy Bragg, Angelic Upstarts, Earth Crisis, Bad Brains, Antischism, Avail, DK, DI, DOA, Ignite, SNFU, The Line, Deviates, Circle Jerks, TSOL, Alabama, Flatt & Scruggs, AC/DC, Electric 6, Pebbles Volumes, Exploited, Battalion of Saints, J.CASH, Blitz, Blood for Blood, Dropkick Murphys, The Pogues, Murphys Law, The Business, Anti-Flag, One-Way System, 4-Skins, Woody Guthrie, Cockney Rejects, Defiance, US Bombs, Avengers, MDC, Christ on a Crutch, Angry Samoans, Youth Brigade, NOFX, Bad Religion, Public Enemy, D.J. Quick, E-40, Eazy-E, Ice-T, The Clash, Studio One Records, Moon Ska Records, The Gun Club, Poison Idea, The Pimps

Movies:

Anything that Film Threat put out(Ouch is my fav), Bad B movies, Horror, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Kern, John Waters, Blue Velvet, RAD, Curb Dogs, Demented Chowder Pilots, Any Music Documentary, all behind the scenes extras on dvds, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Kids, Gummo, Another State of Mind, oompa loompas, Bones Brigade, Michele Gondry, Chris Cunningham, music video director reels, pi, Bob Dylan Don't Look Back, C.H.U.D., Devo movies, Wallace & Grommit, Who: Live at Isle White

Television:

Dont have cable, but I like to rent box set seasons on dvd and watch them all in one sitting. Wonder Woman, Airwolf, A-Team, McGyver all the old shit, CMT, PBS, BBC

Books:

Questions like this tend to overwhelm me, too many. Some that are on the shelf: ASMP, Cash, Russell Banks, Charles Bukowski, Shampoo Planet, Please Kill Me, Let it Blurt (Lester Bangs), any Legs McNeill, American Roots Music, The Land Where the Blues Began, Nick Zedd, Seeds of a man, Woodie Guthrie, Fuck You Heros, Richard Kern, Coming up For Air, Animal Farm, On The Road, The Americans, The Diamond Signature, The Jungle, The Dictionary, Diane Arbus, The Filmakers Handbook, Irvin Welsh, Mojo Magazine, Class War, The Complete Richard Allen Novels, Motorhead. More photo and more music books than I know what to do with other than dust, pull out for reference and to look at over and over again

Heroes:

Myself. Ed Colver, Jenny Lens, Glen Friedman, Terry Bones

My Blog

Shootin up the block

Wow, a shooting occured right across the street lastnight from my house. This is the second time I have been involved in a shooting on Alvarado, last time it was my car. What up Gangsta?
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:21:00 PST