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valerie

your biology is your biography

About Me

I really like Turn Around Norman right now. He's a street performer that turns 360 degrees without anyone discerning any movement. a few words about him: "Never had the objects seen him turn with greater delicacy, greater intensity. Extending and contracting himself impossibly, like butter that melts and then congeals, like musical butter, a butter pat with harmonica stops, making the trip from skillet to refrigerator and back agian several times a second. He stepped out of time, as if time were a pair of pants. He folded time over the back of a chair and paraded around it, trouserless and unashamed, sniffing at the rose that never fades He turned like a radioactive worm in amber, like a bushel of phosphorescent plankton turning in the colon of a constipated sea serpent." -Tom Robbins.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

being entertained (music, theater, sports), vipassana meditation, massage therapy and all the modalities, watersports, 2-tracking, camping, the french horn

I'd like to meet:

Old friends, new friends, tried and true friends, black and blue friends.

Music:

so much so much . . . Frank Black, The Strokes, Albert Hammond Jr., Ben Folds, Beck, Pixies, Ween, Belle & Sebastian, Eels, Tom Waits, Mercury Rev, Wilco, Yo la Tengo, The Postal Service, Jim O'rourke, Kings of Leon, Broken Social Scene, Brazilian Girls, Metric, They Might be Giants, Van Morrision, Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Allman Brothers, Bad Co., David Bowie, Led Zep, Taj Mahal, Beatles, Air, Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Tycho, Hot Chip, Gorillaz, Modest Mouse, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Beth Orton, Cat Power, Beta Band, Franz Ferdinand, Arcade Fire, Grandaddy, The Rapture, The Presets, Badly Drawn Boy, Fields.,Ratatat, Peter Bjorn & John, Phoenix, G-Love, P.O.S.,The Faint, Cold War Kids, Deerhoof, Gogol Bordello, Spoon, Irving, Silversun Pickups, Gotan Project, Cordel de fogo Encantado, Infected Mushroom, LCD Soundsystem, !!!, Soulwax, Steve Aoki, CSS, Klaxons, Manu Chao, Camera Obscura, and so much so much more. . .

Movies:

coffee & cigarettes, sin city, eternal sunshine...(Gondry =)), garden state, amelie, kill bill, run lola run, run ronnie run, mirrormask... more and more

Television:

ER, adult swim, world series poker, Project Runway

Books:

lamb (Christopher Moore), jitterbug perfume (Tom Robbins), autobiography of a yogi, house of god, stiff, the way of the peaceful warrior, running with scissors, celestine prophecy, course in miracles, the prophet, karma and chaos, sacred contracts (Carolyn Myss) . . .taber's medical encyclopedia, davis's drug guide, IV drug compatibilities handbook, critical care nursing

My Blog

sea lion woman

wonderful wonderful Chicago! I had myself a little taste of Detroit last week (or 2 weeks ago?, time eludes me) love myself some lafayette coney island (twice I indulged!) Love the good ol Detroit s...
Posted by valerie on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:28:00 PST

I could do coachella every day

Every morning, wake up around 10ish, go down the street for coffee and food, make a strong breakfast for everyone, dabble in the music all day, return to a hot-tub and freshly made pizza. Life just c...
Posted by valerie on Tue, 01 May 2007 12:40:00 PST

skin stretched over a frame

Trying to name this blog is quite difficult! So much happened over the past two weekends! Just amazing, incredible yumminess! I spent two weekends ago up in the mountains on a drum retreat. All in...
Posted by valerie on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:56:00 PST

good shit

Assignment #1 was : getchur foot in the door and see what this travelling nurse buzness is all about.  Assignment #2 : "yaye!", "I'm free","ER nursing in Detroit is shitty of the shit; I can...
Posted by valerie on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:52:00 PST

my ass...

was officially kicked tonight... The Rapture... whoa.  kinda had a clue what I was in for, but I kept thinking: 'they say it's great but let's not go there and get disappointed' ... well I have a...
Posted by valerie on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:24:00 PST

drumming

Last night, on the full moon, I had a wonderful time at the SanDiego women's drum circle.  This is not the first time I've gone, however it is the first time I've felt like I could drum forever a...
Posted by valerie on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:32:00 PST

roger waters

f*ckin amazing - all there is to say! who joined him on stage but Nick Mason... mm hmm, was there flying pigs? ah yes.  My first experience at the  Hollywood Bowl (lovely lovely venue)... a...
Posted by valerie on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:43:00 PST

zebras in Mexico!!!

I didn't know there were zebras in Tijuana but I got my picture taken with one today!  Bonnie, (Terry's daughter) and her son Damen are staying with us for the week and their plan was to go to Ti...
Posted by valerie on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:29:00 PST

lolla and then some

I realized how much I truly loved seeing The Flaming Lips at Lollapalooza when I woke up this morning having dreamed of seeing them again and being vip (vip was sitting in a bed stage left with freque...
Posted by valerie on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:07:00 PST

lovin LA

It's sunny as hell where I am every day and I hear it's rained 5 days straight in Michigan!  Michiganders keep your heads up - very soon you'll have a tan as kick-ass as mine!  Every da...
Posted by valerie on Thu, 18 May 2006 03:23:00 PST