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Mel

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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 I love art, I love the wilderness, I love the sleeping cities I spend most of my time painting, creating porcupine quill beads, knitting, embroidery, plant pressing, reading and cutting up newspapers, making biscotti, and tidying up

My Interests

visual art, botany and herbology, embroidery, knitting, bead-making, politics, being outside because i'm always inside Other people's art, writing

I'd like to meet:

New friends and contacts in Vancouver. Artists and creative types from all over the planet.*NOTE: I NEVER go on messenger with people I haven't met in person. I have NO interest in "hooking up" and getting stupid online, especially with a camera, so please do not bother asking. If you persist, I will delete you.

Music:

all kinds of stuff. my scratchy record collection: Taj Mahal, Boney M, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Mahonia Jackson, Bruce Cockburn, Joni Mitchell, Maria Muldaur, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chopin, Rach 2, No Means No, Simply Red, Crosby Stills Nash and Young surviving CD's: Guided by Voices, Deep Puddle Dynamics, ASOP Rock, Slayer, Public Enemy, whatever gets left at my house. also all the wicked music i get on myspace (see friend list) JULY /07....i have alot of old,unlabelled, blank cassette tapes that i'm listening to since my friend gave me a tape player for my birthday. my discoveries are shocking!

Movies:

January 19, 2007 saw Children of Men twice- second time to catch Gregg's tip. watched The Thin Red Line again. missed seeing Pan's Labyrinth. LOVED the Simpsons Movie! never watch Solaris on the first date.

Television:

A Touch of Frost, The Office, Little Bear, Sesame Street, South Park, Waking the Dead, Prime Suspect, Most Haunted, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Little House On the Prairie, Cantonese news broadcasts, The Passionate Eye, Six Feet Under

Books:

Favourites: Blindness,Love in the Time of Cholera, The Bone People,Black Elk Speaks, Larry's Party, The Dong With the Luminous Nose, The Last Unicorn (which i haven't finished but been reading since i was twelve) last book read- The Lighthouse by P.D. James favourite authors: Jose Saramago, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Timothy Findleyfeb./07: just finished 'A Certain Justice' by PD James may 07: read Crow lake again on the bus. currently reading Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie.

Heroes:

Frida Kahlo, David and Richard Attenborough, Lino, Hazel Wilson, David Suzuki, Anne. B. MacNab, Black Elk, my family, Bill Reid, Dollymomma, Steven Hassan

My Blog

afternoon nap dream

i dreamt that i was in another house and was watching through my own eyes in my own perspective. i was somewhere else, in a very large house on a farm. i was in the top of the house having an aft...
Posted by Mel on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:04:00 PST

trailer dream; sleeping backwards in bed

I dreamt I began to notice little things out of place, and the odd strange thing happening. A ring deposited into a shoe. A petal deposited on my pillow. Locked doors where there are no locks. It was ...
Posted by Mel on Sun, 13 May 2007 09:59:00 PST

a trace of a dream

all i remembered was seeing people laying on the ground in an intricate star formation as though i was flying over them in a helicopter. i was holding the hand of a young girl and telling her, " its a...
Posted by Mel on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:16:00 PST

St. Paul's- dreamt jan.10/07

last night i dreamt someone was smacking the back of my head. i opened my eyes and found myself crumpled on the floor and facing the ceiling. someone was  trying to open my door and my head was b...
Posted by Mel on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:07:00 PST

Jedi Night- a poem i don't want to write alone

    i need my Jedi Knightness the weapon to light The Way. i don't want this dark gun in my hand ahead of me. its black, right into the corners while i feel for the trigger trying to shoot m...
Posted by Mel on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:59:00 PST

Dream:Stolen Away- dreamt Dec. 14/06

i dreamt that someone was coming to see me but he was taken hostage by evil authorities who were going to send him away. they called me on the phone while they held him in a room in an airpo...
Posted by Mel on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST

After I see a Puppet Show, I Dream

After seeing "10 Days on Earth" by Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, I dreamt profusely, but all I remember is this:   I was dashing all day, and hurried into a busy restaurant. i squeezed b...
Posted by Mel on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:36:00 PST

DreamSpeak- "I Promise to Take Care of Them"

woke up at 3:15 am during a dream. i dreamt that i was made of wood and resin and paint, and so were others. we were outdoors, on a wide expanse of pavement surrounded by more wide open space. i ...
Posted by Mel on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:30:00 PST

The Louis Riel poem for those that missed it

Riel wrote this poem for his prison guard about three weeks before he was hanged. The snow, Which renders the ground all white, From heaven, comes here below: Its pine frozen drops invite us all. To w...
Posted by Mel on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:07:00 PST

Undated Dream: Bee stings and Firemen

(in a public setting) I met my parents for lunch. For some reason I left in order to buy something and took a bus across town to a small bookstore that kept birds as a tourist attraction. I was sittin...
Posted by Mel on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:44:00 PST