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melissa rose

old school new age

About Me

looking for life in all the wrong places. optimistically pesimistic but trying to be a better person. someone who loves good company, smiles and interesting conversation. judging books on content, not covers

My Interests

poetry, dancing, beauty, nature, having fun, slam, old school, yoga, metamorphesus/transformation, writing, theatre, art, passion, travel, typewriters, the zoo, tattoos, books, tea, adventure, learning, music, politics, laughter, museums, consciousness

I'd like to meet:

people who are honest, friendly, creative and talented

Music:

prince, outkast, slick rick, jay-z, KRS-1, showtunes, portishead, bjork, tribe called quest, the roots, the beatles, marvin gaye, rev. al green, young michael jackson, cibo mato, moldy peaches, gorillaz

Movies:

seven, natural born killers, empire strikes back, american beauty, charlie and the chocolate factory, sin city, purple rain, falling down, flashdance, undercover brother, caligula, hedwig and the angrey inch, the great muppet caper, rocky horror picture show, fiddler on the roof, the secret of nihm, pi, titus, trainspotting, midnight cowboy, requiem for a dream, ichi the killer, million dollar baby, Rent

Television:

pee wee's playhouse, absoloutely fabulous, the muppet show, parker lewis cant lose, perfect strangers, the history channel, the soup, best week ever, seinfeld, jepoardy, fraggle rock, chapelle's show, curb your enthusiasm

Books:

the lorax, series of unfortnate events, native son, marabou stork nightmares, mythology, where the sidewalk ends, lolita, the last temptation of christ, thesaurus, dictionary, the prophet, shakespeare

Heroes:

you.

My Blog

"exact change"

"Where is human nature more weak then in the bookstore?" At work I watch people carry ½ empty glasses french manicures and photogentic faces who've attached the sparkle from their eyes to their wrist...
Posted by melissa rose on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:47:00 PST

Rites of passage"

there are times Christopher listens with eavesdropping attentiveness so I carefully explain complex situations walking through mine fields where words are explosions so powerful they change lives li...
Posted by melissa rose on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:20:00 PST

"window shopping"

i sit in coffee shops watching people find my personal silence in a human storm you can read people like books you judge by the cover. i spend lunch breaks watching the specacle i'm nothing specia...
Posted by melissa rose on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:29:00 PST

"family tree"

When my mother scratched you out of the family portrait she carved imperfect reality from her tongue to fit simple ears but how do you explain labels to children "Manic depression" "schizophrenia" "em...
Posted by melissa rose on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:07:00 PST

"mourning after"

plain text indicates female voice italic indicates male voice bold indicates parts spoken at the same time   i dont remember how i got home last night i woke up hungover. got wasted drank too m...
Posted by melissa rose on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:15:00 PST

"Empty"

when I was ten my mother became a celebrity the newspaper headline read: local teacher caught drinking and driving. passed out in the middle of an intersection. a can of beer still clutched in your...
Posted by melissa rose on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:30:00 PST

"a lonely highway with no one to pass the time"

i wrote this one when i was driving home from colorado last year: Slot machines are in every gas station like reversal ATMs dry salt water saturates every side of me moses has given me this highway tu...
Posted by melissa rose on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:30:00 PST

starting.....

i havent used this myspace log thing yet(prolly because i have a livejournal and didnt really need to repeat myself) so from now on i will be posting my poems on this blog(the livejournal will be for ...
Posted by melissa rose on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:44:00 PST