S'more About Me - February 5, 2003

Name: Meli

Location: Portland

Date of birth: December 22, 1982

My college: The Art Institute of Portland

Major: Apparel Design

Favorite aspects of my major: illustration, patternmaking

Hobbies: sewing, singing, web design

Favorite word: vicariously

Favorite colors: purple, turquoise, pink

Favorite month: December or May

Favorite scents: spring air

Places I've traveled: Atlanta, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, England and Scotland

Favorite place I've traveled: Edinburgh, Scotland

Favorite artists: Vincent Van Gogh, Piet Mondrian, Erte, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali

Favorite designers(fashion or otherwise): Antoni Gaudi, Verner Panton, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford

Favorite food: scallops or Lindt truffles

My celeb hot list:
1. Zach Braff
2. Alex Kapranos(lead singer, Franz Ferdinand
3. Alexander Despatie(diver...mmm)
4. Jude Law
5. Jake Gyllenhaal

Favorite comic strip: Mutts, Zits, Get Fuzzy, Luann

Favorite TV shows: Scrubs, Friends, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Trading Spaces, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Favorite kind of restaurant: Anything Asian...Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, etc.

Favorite bands/artists: Coldplay
Radiohead
Stevie Wonder
John Mayer
Muse
Foo Fighters
Incubus
Weezer
Queen
Cake
Travis
Beck
Death Cab For Cutie
The Postal Service
Outkast

Songs of the Moment: Muse - Time Is Running Out
The Hives - Walk Idiot, Walk
Modest Mouse - Float On
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
Jem - They
Audioslave - What You Are

Favorite places to hang out: Starbucks, Samantha's

Where you're most likely to find me: on my bike, The Art Institute, the central library, somewhere downtown

Favorite holidays: Christmas, New Year's Eve...any Friday the 13th(it's good luck for me, I've noticed)

Favorite authors: Langston Hughes, Madeleine L'Engle

Favorite TV talk show host: Conan O'Brien

Favorite Movies: The Color Purple, American Beauty, The Matrix, Amelie, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Sliding Doors

Political persuasion: registered as a democrat, but really not all that political

Things I'd like to have right now: a car, a $500 gift certificate to a fabric store, a job at Nordstrom



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