About

I’m Melissa.

I’m 22 years old.
I double majored in Painting and Sociology, with a minor in Art History.
Some things I’m interested in are: God, volunteer work, the environment, mission trips, art (drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, art history), reading, writing, sociology, social justice, music and my friends.
Music I’m currently listening to: Andrew Bird. Animal Collective. Arcade Fire. Architecture in Helsinki. Band of Horses. Beatles. Beruit. Bob Dylan. Bon Iver. Brand New. Broken Social Scene. Cains & Abels. Celebration. Circa Survive. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Cursive. Damien Rice. Dead Man’s Bones. The Decemberists. Department of Eagles. DJ Dangermouse. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes. Fever Ray. Fitz & the Tantrics. Flaming Lips. Fleet Foxes. Fleetwood Mac. Girl Talk. Gogol Bordello. Grizzly Bear. Imogen Heap. Ingrid Michaelson. Iron & Wine. Jay Z. Justice. Kate Havnevik. Lady Gaga. Led Zeppelin. Manchester Orchestra. Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s. Maria Taylor. mewithoutyou. MGMT. Modest Mouse. Mumford & Sons. Mychael Danna. Noah & The Whale. Passion Pit. Phoenix. Pink Floyd. Placebo. Radiohead. Rolling Stones. Rosie Thomas. Silversun Pickups. Sufjan Stevens. Talking Heads. Tegan & Sarah. Thrice. Tom Tom Club. Tori Amos. Umbrellas. The Velvet Underground. Way Out West. Wolf Parade. Xiu Xiu. 8mm. the 1900′s.
Movies I enjoy are: Batman Begins. The Brothers Bloom. The Darjeeling Limited. Dark Knight. Donnie Darko. Edward Scissorhands. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Everything is Illuminated. Fight Club. Fracture. Garden State. I Heart Huckabees. Lars & The Real Girl. The Life Aquatic. Little Miss Sunshine. Royal Tenenbaums. Rushmore. Snatch. TiMER. V for Vendetta. Wristcutters: A Love Story.
Television shows I sometimes watch are: Arrested Development. Criminal Minds. CSI: NY. Cold Case. Daria. Everything is Art, Modern Family. The Office. Outsourced. Parks & Recreation. Pushing Daisies. Scrubs. The Simpsons.
I Like to read, alot. Books I’ve read recently and enjoyed are: When You are Engulfed in Flames, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Catcher in the Rye, Franny & Zooey, Hairstyles of the Damned, Everything Is Illuminated, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, 1984, The Alchemist, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, The Sign of Jonas, Animal Farm, The Stranger, UnChristian.