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[MELISSA BRODER VIDEO INTERVIEW RESPONSE]
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Melissa Broder wrote the books When You Say One Thing But You Mean Your Mother (2010) & Meat Heart (2012)
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in this video she appears in flared, swaggerfilled sunglasses & a big hooded coat
she chews gum
she flashes images of a crystallized skeleton head
she laughs in the train station
she has rly nice hair
she appears in her bedroom
she appears in front of a Buddha statue, telling it things like, ‘i have no clue who i am’
she wears at least 4 different shirts throughout this video
she appears in a ‘pony tale’
she writes ‘I DON’T KNOW’ among a list of names
she puppets 2pac to speak with her thumb & pointer finger
she uses repetition in a mantra-like form here
her mom & dad make a handful of appearances
Melissa appears w/ ice cream in a cone
her father tells her he taught her Shakespeare & that he gave her her ‘poetry gene’
she plays Lil Kim’s ‘Drugs’ instrumental the ‘whole way thru’
she says ‘i’m a frightened human being’
