Michele Merkin

About Me

Well . . . I have five friends. There's one who is kind of stable and normal, but only one. The others well . . . one is my "sister" and can best be described as the brunette English version of me, my partner in crime, my pepper. Another is bi-sexual in every sense of the word, and is totally tragic! Then of course there's my manager and mentor, who recently tumbled down two flights of stairs after a girls night out. And last but not least, there's my friend who has recently decided to become a madam! Yah, they're all fabulous and crazy . . . so what does that say about me? Am I fabulous? Maybe. Am I crazy? Definitely! I used to be the kind of girl who thought that a person was measured by the amount of friends that he or she had, but have come to realize that it is not quantity, however the quality of your friends that matters most. Yes, I can count my friends on one hand . . . and I am the luckiest girl in the world!

My Interests

shopping, traveling, flipping houses, drawing, dinners with friends, playing taboo, dressing up, going to the beach, laughing more, living more, and loving more!

I'd like to meet:

Not interested in meeting anyone. In fact, go away!

Music:

Whether I'm breaking up, making up, chilling out or stressing out . . . it's Zero 7, and Sia Don't get me drunk or I will bust out The Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique" album, and rap it from start to finish...trust me when I say that it's a scary sight! All in all I have a pretty eclectic taste in music! A quick scroll through my ipod you'd find . . .Elysian Fields, Cat Power, Frou Frou, Theivery Corporation, Kansas, Pink Floyd, Aqualung, The National, Elliot Smith, Massive Attack, Fiona Apple, Morcheeba, Kanye, Pearl Jam, The Damnwells, Bill Withers, Pheonix, The Fugees, Nirvana, Tracey Chapman, Portishead, Stevie Wonder, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, A Tribe Called Quest, Audio Bullys, the Garden State Soundrack and soooo many more

Movies:

First films that come to mind . . . Flirting with Disaster, A Walk on the Moon, Everything is Illuminated, A Scanner Darkly, Borat, Wedding Crashers, Pieces of April, The Station Agent, Playing by Heart, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Irreversible (quite possibly the most disturbing movie film ever made), Scarface, City of Lost Children, Bladerunner, Braveheart, Pretty Woman, Phenomenon, Coming to America, Pan's Labirynth, and to forget The Princess Bride would be inconceivable! I'm in love with love, so the sappy movies always get me. I've probably seen "The Notebook" 10 times and I still cry everytime! It's Pathetic. Watching "Almost Famous" with me could be pretty annoying since I know the film by heart.

Television:

Project Runway and The Daily Show with John Stewart are the shit. When I want to laugh...Who's line is it Anyway? When I want to cry...the news

Books:

Eleven Minutes, Naked, Zahir, The Giving Tree and Where the WIld Things Are, The Alchemist, The Da Vinci Code, Running with Scissors, Angels and Demons, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Prophet, Perfume, Lolita, The Catcher in the Rye, Love in the Time of Cholera, actually everything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, To Kill a Mockingbird, Einstein's Dream, Into Thin Air and Into the Wild. For quick mindless reading on the plane I love Ken Follett and Sidney Sheldon.