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m e l i s s a

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About Me

some of my pictures

My Interests

taking pictures, collecting old cameras, painting, music, playing guitar/bass, teaching, scientific research, less compilation errors, computation as a pathway to a better future.

I'd like to meet:

larry david. people who want to play music.

Music:

bardo pond, grey daturas, unwound, akron/family, sonic youth, low, gy!be, a silver mt. zion, isis, neurosis, mare, tragedy, his hero is gone, kylesa, tortoise, growing, dirty three, mono, majority rule, pg. 99, mogwai, tim hecker, fennesz, belong, william basinski, yellow swans, axolotl, bedhead, yo la tengo, blah, blah, blah.

Movies:

evil dead, army of darkness, pi, killdozer, maximum overdrive, repo man, happiness, waking life, 28 days later, old boy, sympathy for mr. vengeance, sympathy for lady vengeance.

Television:

arrested development, curb your enthusiasm, six feet under, family guy, the office, the twilight zone, and lost. yes, i like lost. go fuck the self.

Books:

henry miller, ernest hemingway, isaac asimov, kurt vonnegut

Heroes:

isaac newton, roshbert lybon

My Blog

portishead

due to being on the portishead mailing list, i got two tickets to their private rehearsal show tonight in downtown!! my only hope is that i actually get in!! i have no idea if these tickets are actu...
Posted by m e l i s s a on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:26:00 PST

vacation, take two

that's right, i'm off to the big island of hawaii tomorrow for a week in paradise. take two because i was in costa rica only two months ago. vacations rule.
Posted by m e l i s s a on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:57:00 PST

Russia, it seems you have a great significance.

Ruby's dress became a waterfall of sequins. Running the Sample Windows NT 1.Ich hoffte, sie sollte sein wie mein Leben. I have never parted with that picture--I never will.Of my kind uncle, that I kno...
Posted by m e l i s s a on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:26:00 PST

why i love junk mail

because i could never write anything this awesome just to get past spam filters:Like an idol, she gave only one thing: a feeling of unease deepening steadily toward terror.Below the knees your legs lo...
Posted by m e l i s s a on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:14:00 PST

i got a package in the mail today!

and that means it's time for a new b-log. i got my new camera in the mail. the best part is that i could take 237 pictures tonight and upload them. i still have to figure out the uploading part. t...
Posted by m e l i s s a on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:12:00 PST

best records of 2006...

...a small list. i had a list then accidentally threw it away. i will try to recreate it for you now.1. joanna newsom - ys. duh, and i don't care what corey says. this is by far the most beautifu...
Posted by m e l i s s a on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:29:00 PST

music blah blah blah

music that made life a little easier this fall, especially as i was writing my prospectus/preparing for the candidacy exam:iTunes playlist:unwound - below the saltgrey daturas - she was the cutie of c...
Posted by m e l i s s a on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:18:00 PST

digital slr?

I'm pretty sure this is going to be the last film year for me. The price of film is increasing, and what was originally my main argument against digital - real film processing is of higher quality th...
Posted by m e l i s s a on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:26:00 PST

moya

no matter how shitty things are (oh i have to pay $150 in school fees before friday?, you want that homework assignment typed up by when?, and you also want these results by when?) i listen to this so...
Posted by m e l i s s a on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

AIM

xmopissax: my god xmopissax: what a day AlexTheNinjabot: oh! but on the plus side AlexTheNinjabot: this girl said "you look cute without your glasses" AlexTheNinjabot: and i really wish i had said...
Posted by m e l i s s a on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST