melina

Guitar Center

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:51:00 -0500

Employee: Let me see if I can find something to put this in.
Me: That'swhatshesaid.
(pause)
Me: I'm sorry. I can't help it.

I have to agree with C. Thomas Howell. Each song was like...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:13:50 -0500

I have to agree with C. Thomas Howell. Each song was like listening to two songs playing simultaneously. I wanted to like them but my brain was like, “01100110011101010110001101101011001000000111010001101000011010010111001100100001”

jakefogelnest:

globochem:

This is an anti-Sleigh Bells h8 tweet from a VERIFIED ACCOUNT for the star of the 80’s movie ‘Soul Man.’

Not cool, guy who ALMOST was in Back To The Future but lost the part to Eric Stoltz who would be replaced two weeks into filming by Michael J. Fox! By the way, how did we all let that movie Soul Man slide back in the day? Someone needs to ask Yo, Is This Racist? about that shit.

P.S. Sleigh Bells are dope.

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Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:33:16 -0500

Valentine's Day

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:23:00 -0500

I don’t recall having a romantic one. Maybe, though? Whatever. This isn’t bothersome at all since there are enough memories of enjoyable spontaneity that not getting a box of chocolates, roses, etc., on one day of the year isn’t a downer.

When I was a teen, I wasn’t allowed to date and zero guidance was given about relationships. I could only observe my parents and everybody else’s screwing up around me. The only advice I had to go off of was “Stay away from boys. Don’t ever get pregnant or I’ll kick you out of the house and kill you. And don’t be a lesbian.”

If you want your kid to grow up with a healthy sense of what it is to be a human being, a healthy attitude toward their body with the hope that they might someday meet the right person, get married and have children, that advice is the worst you could give them.

The one person I was secretly in love with for a bunch of years didn’t know until I left for college. I had one “boyfriend” but we didn’t hold hands, only hung out a couple times at the mall with friends and that was it. I was very guarded about my body. It was a brief relationship. He was nice. I was not.

He’d call when Mama’s Family was on tv and he watched it, too. The conversation was awkward in that “Let’s just sit here and sigh together…” way, put on repeat.

As I did with other calls from friends, I set the receiver down, wandered around the house, returned to the receiver, “Mmm-hmm. Yeah. I’m listening…” put it back down and wandered around some more. I even pretended to fall asleep. The receiver and I were on the floor, facing one another, staring each other down. A teen boy’s voice screeched:

“Melina? Are you there? Melina?”

“(smiling, emitting a slight snore)”

“Melina! Wake up!”

“(smiling)”

“I guess you’re asleep.”

Yeah, I’m not a big fan of long phone conversations unless it’s a long-distant friend or family.

Back to love.

When it comes to falling in love, I generally don’t like the OCD chemical reaction. I’ve never had a normal relationship that ended normally. There was always a crazy form of betrayal. I don’t regret this anymore because much was learned. I think it’s wiser to choose to love someone.

Frankly, I’m way more disappointed in having a boring Halloween.

Where are you? I am trying to contact you for long time and you are ignoring me.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:15:31 -0500

I’m where I always am.

You know why.

From the image archive: Ol’ favorite tee. Flattery will...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:49:00 -0500

From the image archive:

Ol’ favorite tee.
Flattery will get you nowhere.

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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:42:41 -0500

"It’s Denzel Washington’s world and we’re all just Denzel Washingtoning in it."

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:08:44 -0500

“It’s Denzel Washington’s world and we’re all just Denzel Washingtoning in it.”

May the Power of Andy Rooney Compel You!

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:57:00 -0500

No Facebook, no Twitter. No circles ‘cause I’m square. Unlink me from linkedin, I don’t care.

I prefer to express myself a different way, thank you:

Nostrand/Eastern Pkwy 3 Subway Stop (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:00:52 -0500

Nostrand/Eastern Pkwy 3 Subway Stop (Taken with instagram)

"There is no me, I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed."

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:03:18 -0500

“There is no me, I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.”

- Peter Sellers

"Films… are one of the means of artistic expression that, more than any other, resembles life,..."

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:22:14 -0500

“Films… are one of the means of artistic expression that, more than any other, resembles life, requires an accuracy, it has to breathe in its gestures and attitudes. To express a dream, a fantasy, is like advanced mathematics.”

- Fellini

"I don’t think the word ‘improvisation’ has any place in the creative process...."

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:14:23 -0500

“I don’t think the word ‘improvisation’ has any place in the creative process. It’s a totally unacceptable word. Even an irritating one.”

- Fellini

Still from “Fellini I’m a Born Liar” (Taken...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:44:56 -0500

Still from “Fellini I’m a Born Liar” (Taken with instagram)

Howard Bloom at Dinner (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:40:50 -0500

Howard Bloom at Dinner (Taken with instagram)

"I just live for the day or the way it should be."

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:47:28 -0500

“I just live for the day or the way it should be.”

- Erasure “Oh L’amour”

Happy tired.

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:18:23 -0400

Happy tired.

"I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t..."

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:45:16 -0400

“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.”

- Lloyd Dobler, “Say Anything”

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Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:07:06 -0400

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Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:05:42 -0400