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mel

The unbearable lightness of being

About Me

I LOVE contemporary art, film, photography, music, sewing, designing clothes and travelling the globe. Vintage is where its at in the scheme of things FULL STOP.

My Interests

I am interested in human existence, love, laughter, design, films that blow my mind and abstract art. Not to mention travelling to foreign places and learning about other cultures.

I'd like to meet:

The whole cast of Chico and the Man CIRCA 1978.

Music:

The Beatles, Animal Collective, Morr Music, Joanna Newsom, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Stereolab, Cat Power, Pixies, explosions in the sky, Cranberries, Cardigans, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Interpol, Aimee Mann, Blond Redhead, Wolf Parade, Clap your Hands say YEAH, Radiohead, Tegan and Sara, postal service, Archade Fire, Stars, Metric, Feist, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Modest Mouse, New Order, Broken Social Scene, Margo, Queen, The Strokes, Cat Stevens, Deerhoof, Of Montreal, Joy Division, Coldplay, Human League, The Books, The pretenders, Sufjan Stevens, Nouvelle Vague, any big band jazz from the dirty 30's.

Movies:

The Science of Sleep, Amelie, stand by me, Adaptation, Life Aquatic, Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, One Flew over the coo coos nest, Annie Hall, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, The Hours, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Being John Malkovich, Down Fall, Band of Brothers, Waiting for Guffman, Magnolia, A Very Long Engagement, Fight Club, City of God, Constant Gardener, 21 Grams, Punch-Drunk Love, American Beauty, Sin City, Crash, Charlie and the Chocolate factory (original), Waking Life, In the Bedroom, The Thin Red Line, Sideways, Brokeback Mountain, Syriana, Squid and The Whale, Pleasantville, Shawshank Redemption, Basquett, American Splendor, Groundhogs Day, The Prestige, anything with Kevin Spacey, Phillip Seymor Hoffman, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Madson, Christopher Walkin OR Bill Murray

Television:

The Simpsons, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under

Books:

The Metamorphosis by Kafka, Tao of Pooh, Te of Piglet, Catcher in the Rye, Life of Pi, Blink

Heroes:

John Lennon, Gandhi, Siddartha, Jesus

My Blog

INTENSE Willy Wonka Blog

There's no earthly way of knowing He's singing. Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Rowing. Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining, is it snowing? Is a hurrican...
Posted by mel on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:48:00 PST