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Melanie

Plum Mean and Precious

About Me



I like bugs. And hospitals. And bug hospitals.

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My Interests

writing, music, bugs, cats, prose poems, photography, collage/assemblage, hello kitty, psychology, hospitals, doodling, dreams, hoarding/collecting, sleep, outer space, deep sea fishes, architecture, interior design, miniatures, jellyfish, abandoned places, fragments, iceland, kawaii, scraps of paper, stickers, buttons/badges, and so on...

I'd like to meet:

O, you know who you are.

Music:

Duran Duran, Billy Corgan, Hanson, Lou Barlow, Franz Ferdinand, Clinic, Radiohead, The Beatles (& George! solo), David Sylvian, Roxy Music, Klaxons, Aphex Twin, Beck, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, T.Rex, My Chemical Romance, Sigur Ros, Secret Machines, weird ambient techno and spacemusic, Indian classical, etc...

Movies:

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Attack of the Mushroom People, Phantom of the Paradise, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Room with a View, Lilo and Stitch

Television:

My Name is Earl, The Office, Ugly Betty, BBC mysteries, America's Funniest Pet Videos

Books:

Janet Frame, Cydney Chadwick, David Searcy, Angela Carter, Tanith Lee, Kobe Abe, Kathe Koja, Joyce Carol Oates, Patrick McGrath, James Joyce, David Mitchell, Koji Suzuki, William Faulkner, Guy de Maupassant, Haruki Murakami, anything recommended on Simon's Reader

Heroes:

St. Dymphna

My Blog

My brain

So recently I had an MRI done of my brain, which was pretty cool, except for the part where they gave me a shot of contrasting fluid.  The radiologist looked at the pictures and said everything w...
Posted by Melanie on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:14:00 PST

Year-end Wrap-up

So 2007 was a big year for me, in very good ways.  I got to walk with Hanson and see The Prettiest Boy on Earth up close, made a lovely heartfelt book and mixed CD for Gerard and got to give them...
Posted by Melanie on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:30:00 PST

2nd step to fame

If you go to the Cicadamania news page and look at the news for May 30th, and follow the link that says "A massive brood XIII photoset on  Flickr", guess whose photos it takes you to?That's right...
Posted by Melanie on Thu, 31 May 2007 02:09:00 PST

video

i never update this thing.  how many blogs does a girl need? but i am very excited because not only has mychem allowed everyone to post their video on their own personal myspaces (are you paying ...
Posted by Melanie on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:54:00 PST

Two tags' a charm

Or not.  Anyway, I've been tagged twice (by Hysan and by Ruth) so I may as well play along. The rules: Blog Tag The first player of this game starts by listing Six Weird Things/Habits about them...
Posted by Melanie on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:38:00 PST

top 8 shakeup

so just now i decided i should have actual people in my top 8 instead of half of them being bands.  except i left billy in there (he's not really a band, is he?) because i didn't want him to...
Posted by Melanie on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:49:00 PST