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Meldo

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About Me

I Un-Assassinate.

My Interests

MEL LIKES: the ability to think, see, feel, smell, hear, and taste...long and arduous political debates...pleasant conversations not involving politics...the wonderful girls i nanny for and their wonderful parents...crispin glover...bowling...my table top space invaders... male strippers (specifically the ones from mr. mom)...superheroes and what superhuman ability people would have given the chance... cheese... detroit... the noise of movie projectors in a dark theater... love... fashion of the 1930's... oak st. beach... kindness... the smell of wetnaps...friends...
MEL DISLIKES: scorpions... elevators... zombies... comas...cleaning product commercials... Bush...long distance relationships...having my knees touched...

I'd like to meet:

myself a year ago, so i could kick my own ass.

Music:

of late:
islands...art brut...andrew bird...canasta...m.ward...pj harvey's rid of me... radiohead's pablo honey...tchaikovsky's 5th...fen's mix tape....cici's blue mix...sonic youth's goo...

Movies:

marie antoinette (it's flawless)...the big empty (best short ever)...one week (funniest keaton film) sherlock jr (best keaton film)... harry potter (mostly the third one)... fahrenheit 451...the dreamers...the house of yes...moulin rouge... dream with the fishes... lawn dogs... human nature... what's eating gilbert grape... wet hot american summer... vertigo... say anything... eternal sunshine... edward scissorhands... city of lost children... lemony snicket...bring it on... mean girls... 10 things i hate about you... the anniversary party... it happened one night... city lights... don't tell mom the babysitters dead... lord of the rings... point break....saved by the bell: the movie (the hawaii one)... double indemnity... monster squad...breakfast at tiffany's... pride and prejudice (the colin firth one)... gone with the wind... secretary... royal tenenbaums... amelie... quills... queen margot... persona... love actually... so so many more.

Television:

dexter. californication. meadowlands. the tudors.
damn you showtime.

Books:

BOOKS: Sartre (particularly no exit, even though it's just a play...moving on...)... Alain de Botton (particularly on love)...Jonathan Safran Foer (everything is illuminated)... Anthony Burgess (part. the wanting seed... Frances Farmer (will there really be a morning)... James W. Loewen (lies my teachers told me)... George Saunders (the brief and frightening reign of phil)...Trina Paulus (hope for the flowers)... J.K. Rowling (harry potter, of course)...Tim Burton (the melancholy death of oyster boy and other short stories)... Hedy Lamarr (ecstasy and me)... Shel Silverstein (the giving tree)... J.R.R. Tolkein (lord of the rings)...Che Guevara (motorcycle diaries, thanks for stealing it mike)... Alfred Hitchcock, various (stories that scared even me)... Ben Stiller/Janeane Garafolo (feel this book) ...Compilation (this is my best)... Lazar (aaron approximately)... something queer at the haunted school..... POETS: Walt Whitman, John Ashbery, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, Edna St. Vincent Millay...... VARIOUS: psychology textbooks... dictionaries... pharmacotherapy reference guides... non-fiction 60's political books....anything related to 20th century history, part. WWII.

Heroes:

nicholas skala (for actually trying to make the world a better place and not sitting around bitching about it from the sidelines). frances farmer (for being tough). hedy lamarr (for not caring what people thought of her). charlie chaplin (for being a "citizen of the world"). jean-paul sartre (for everything). charles baudelaire (for writing the most beautiful things ever). stephen colbert (because he's amazing).

My Blog

One For the Road

i couldn't resist.   Do you tend to speed when you drive?  not since i crashed my mom's car. Do you smoke cigarettes?  NOPE.  i love being able to say that.Does your temper flare ...
Posted by Meldo on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:43:00 PST

Rambling Thoughts Of A Very, Very Bad Day.

i met a woman on the bus today.  she was fantastic.  she told me i should be a stenographer, but the best thing she said was "i realized i could be a great lesbian, or a mediocre straight pe...
Posted by Meldo on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:18:00 PST

I’m not twelve, and I’m not Cinderella.

a rant, a la "elitist bitch". there has been a recent wave in my life of boys telling me what, i can only assume, they think i want to hear. i am greatly annoyed by this and so here is my pl...
Posted by Meldo on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:06:00 PST

I Have A Day Off And Nothing To Do!!!

1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?i really only have one.  it's on my neck, from where they put in a three-IV port.  i wish i had more.  i love scars and the stories be...
Posted by Meldo on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:33:00 PST

Indeed.

A single moment, residing in the seemingly trivial ability to place a dustcover onto my bookshelf, is, in a way, unrivaled in its joy these last nine months....
Posted by Meldo on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:24:00 PST

Hooray I'm In Detroit!

here's a survey, whilst i wait for my dad to go to bed so i can go to mine.  i'm not promising it will be interesting. 1. First thing you wash in the shower?i shampoo. 2.What color(s) is your fav...
Posted by Meldo on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:57:00 PST

Michael Moore and Health Care.

So i saw Sicko tonight.  It was amazingly touching (and at times very, very amusing. He's good at balancing). And now, I feel an incredible, weighty guilt. I have now had my $120,000 hospital b...
Posted by Meldo on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:04:00 PST

Why I Name Everything Baudelaire.

Ever The Same "Whence comes to you, you asked, this singular sadnessThat rises like the sea on the naked, black rock?" Once our heart has gathered the grapes from its vineyard,Living is an evil. That...
Posted by Meldo on Mon, 28 May 2007 10:11:00 PST

The Loveliest Paragraph.

"He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And in the course of each day his he...
Posted by Meldo on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:00:00 PST

My Rear End.

i can feel it again.
Posted by Meldo on Fri, 11 May 2007 08:38:00 PST