Melissa

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Student
Location Ocean Grove, New Jersey, United States
Interests Music, dance, learning drums and bass, early childhood education, art history, books, sewing, cooking, going to live shows, museums, Chelsea galleries, looking for a job, caring for horses, volunteer work, anything that involves art, reading, studying, tutoring, pilates, yogilates, museum hopping, dance, educating others, traveling, shopping-love thrift and independent music stores, seeing independent films, live concerts, cooking and baking, research, going into the country to get away from the shore(sometimes this place drives me nuts so I go up to New England to chill)
Favorite Movies Away We Go, Deer Hunter, Milk, Control, Candy, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Factotum, Rachel Getting Married, The Hours, Little Children, Into the Wild, Grandma's Boy, Half Nelson, I'm Not There, Juno, My Life Without Me, Since You Went Away, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Lady Sings the Blues, Factory Girl, I Shot Andy Warhol, Basquiat, To Be and To Have, The Miracle Worker, A Patch of Blue, Splendour in the Grass, West Side Story, Goodfellas, Grass, Bowling for Columbine, Six Weeks, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Brokeback Mountain, American Gangster, Mean Streets, The French Connection, Last King of Scotland, Mommie Dearest, Falling in Love, To Sir With Love, Funny Girl, Fantasia, Glengary Glen Ross, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Godfather films, Stranger than Fiction, Donnie Brasco, On the Waterfront, Streetcar Named Desire, The Doors, Almost Famous, The Last Waltz, Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads), Don't Look Back, The Goodbye Girl, Mr. Holland's Opus, Centerstage, Arthur, Milo and Otis, Charlotte's Web (love the book also), Stealing Home, Mahogany, Less Than Zero, 10 Things I Hate about You, Once, Bird, Atonement, Starter for 10, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Awakenings, The Wall, Metropolis, New York Stories, Manhattan, Match Point, Trainspotting, No Direction Home, and so on.
Favorite Music Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, PJ Harvey, any grunge, Laura Marling, any motown, NIN, Jane's Addiction, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Frames, Damien Rice, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, any Opera or classical, Miles and Coltrane!It's endless!
Favorite Books The Tao of Equuis, Any Joyce, Dostoevsky, Shelley, Oscar Wilde, or Kant, Edie:An American Biography, Middlesex, Summerhill School, The Triumph of Darkness (Louis Braille Bio), The Montessori Method, Blink, 1984, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Awakenings, Prozac Nation, The Shock of the New, Color of Water, Art and Culture, Antigone, Lysistrata, Ovid Metamorphoses and Art of Love, Go Ask Alice, Positively Fourth Street, Last Lecture, Tao Te Ching, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Lorax, The Bracelet, Miles, The Inferno, A Separate Piece, Diary of Anne Frank, Diary of Laura Palmer, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, The Idiot, Tales of the Jazz Age, Rex, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Time Machine, Dreams, Oedipus Rex, A Streetcar Named Desire, La Boheme, La Traviata, Plato's Symposium, Dreams of My Father, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, The Glass Castle, Iodine. The Happiness Tree