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melanie

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About Me

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter"
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
“Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut
techie geek. rocker chick. bowie nut. tattoo enthusiast. grammar nazi. control freak. klutz.
i love thunderstorms, the rocking and the rolling, starfruit, and the sound of a violin or cello.

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My Interests

:: typography :: design :: movies :: music :: drawing pictures :: sewing books :: making stuff :: burlesque! :: fat squat snorty wrinkly BULLDOGS!! :: FOOD :: cooking :: andy warhol :: tattoos :: printmaking :: car and shower singing :: dancing :: driving...fast :: salsa and chips :: pinups :: tiki :: erotic art :: watching and making movies :: reading or listening to audio books :: wishing i had more time to make art :: rebelling against the damn da vinci code, most punctuation, and the bush agenda :: equal fucking civil human rights :: humanism :: ethical culture :: writing :: relaxing :: listing :: counting :: and systematically consuming plain m&m's, according to quantity and color per bag ...and other wildly satisfying OCD behaviors ::

I'd like to meet:


artists. humanists. queers. foodies. geeks. nerds. alan cumming. mandy patinkin. hermione.

Music:

lots. all sorts of stuff. first and foremost, the man. the myth. the legend. david bowie.
the reverend. the cure, iggy pop, the faint, the vines, rolling stones, QOTSA, interpol, (old) weezer, the strokes, BRMC, blondie, eagles of death metal, electric six, franz ferdinand, radiohead, foo fighters, sunny day, muse, rapture, scissor sisters, ted leo & the pharmacists, morrissey, smashing pumpkins, postal service, french kicks, george michael, andrew bird, t rex, the beta band, spoon, everything but the girl, moving units, pj harvey, paolo conte, nirvana, portishead, dandy warhols, beck, the bravery, sea and cake, tricky, pussycat dolls, smiths, the strokes, suede, old chili peppers, buena vista social club, massive attack, violent femmes, elvis costello, velvet underground, cake, stevie wonder, janice joplin, old lenny kravitz, loius xiv, fiona apple, travis, b52's, dean/frank/sammy, and anything 80's...

Movies:

labyrinth, princess bride, memento, harry potter, monsters inc, usual suspects, sexy beast, snatch, amelie, being john malkovich, brick, four rooms, shaun of the dead, high fidelity, huckabees, the yards, igby goes down, kung fu hustle, life aquatic, royal tennenbaums, lost boys, mad max, LOTR, matchstick men, o brother where art thou, office space, pieces of april, requiem, rocky horor, sleepy hollow, three kings, titus, little shop of horrors, billy elliot, talented mr. ripley, the day the earth stood still, eight legged freaks, fargo, hard candy, go, the pianist, pirates of the caribbean, swordfish, triples of belleville, happiness, magnolia, mulholland drive, tank girl, la cage aux folles, anything tarantino, hitchcock or almodovar, anything alan cumming, johnny depp, or steve buschemi is in, cheesey sci-fi, and horror movies (although im becoming too spooky in my old age to watch the scary stuff anymore....) tons and tons more.

Television:

DEXTER, LOST, top chef, CSI, weeds, entourage, L word, house, big love, tudors {and the BEST shows EVER, six feet under & carnivale ...RIP !!!}

Books:

kurt vonnegut, chuck palahniuk, david sedaris, hunter s. thompson, dumas, asimov, huxley, irving, lovecraft, orwell. edgar allen poe. hg wells, and dr. suess. guillaume apollinaire. i love short stories, mostly fiction, and of course, harry potter.

Heroes:

Dana Hall. 1980-2004