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val

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me

"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more".

My Interests

blunt honesty, board games, cafes, carbohydrates, change, coffee, my chucks, Cranium!, dancing, 24 hr. diners, Duck Hunt, flip flops, great smiles, Greek food, Halloween, long island ice teas, long showers, makeouts, procrastinating, protesting, resolutionless debates, road trips, rotweilers, Scrabble, sexuality, shock value, shooting pool, simplicity, snail mail, spooning, Tetris, thrift shops, Twizzlers, ultimate frisbee, wit.

I'd like to meet:

People who get it... some good scrabble competitors, and anyone who can make me some good kimchi chigae!!

Music:

Kings of Convenience, Joanna Newsom, Adult., Rilo Kiley, M.I.A., Peggy Lee, Jamiriquai, The Beastie Boys, Tori Amos, The Foo Fighters, Weezer, The Get Up Kids, Ben Folds Five, Coldplay, Incubus, At The Drive In, Sparta, Sunny Day Real Estate, Lovage, Bjork, Massive Attack, The Postal Service, Fiona Apple, Portishead, Deathcab For Cutie, Led Zepplin, Heart, Pink Floyd, Lauryn Hill, Norah Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliot Smith, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Tool, A Perfect Circle, The Dead Milkmen, Cake, Method Man, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, Jurrassic 5, Q-Tip, The Pharcyde, Zero 7

Movies:

Better Off Dead, Say Anything, True Romance, PCU, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Rushmore, Election, The Royal Tenenbaums, Donnie Darko, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects, High Fidelity, Memento, Seven, Office Space, The Princess Bride, Shawshank Redemption. Fav. Directors: John Hughes, Kevin Smith, Wes Anderson. Favorite Comedians: Gearge Carlin, Jay Mohr, David Cross, Margaret Cho, Dane Cook

Television:

The Daily Show, The Office, Likeable or Not, House, The Dog Whisperer, Family Guy, The State.

Books:

Gender Myths, The War on Choice, Jihad vs. McWorld, Broken Windows, Bowling Alone, Parable of the Sower, Praying for Sheetrock, The Scrabble Dictionary... some favorite authors are Phillip K. Dick, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Sedaris

Heroes:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Angelina Jolie, Tori Amos, Oprah Winfrey, David Cross, Pete Cavazos

My Blog

Didn’t see that coming...

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Posted by val on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:00 PST

An apology....

Anyone who really knows me understands how important this presidential race has been. And they'd also know that I've been supporting Hillary from day one. Not just because she's a woman, not just beca...
Posted by val on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:47:00 PST

My next car...

MIT developing carbon-free, stackable rental cars - Engadget...MIT developing carbon-free, stackable rental carsPosted Nov 2nd 2007 11:51AM by Joshua TopolskyFiled under: Transportation Sure, we know...
Posted by val on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:29:00 PST

May 11, 1988 6:55am

So, this is pretty much outta nowhere but... who else agrees that the day long narrated sequence near the end of Goodfellas is the best ever?!?!? And who else would've li...
Posted by val on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:39:00 PST

I'm meeting this guy today...

Fact: Dwight Shrewt would want this desk - $35 (Upper West Side) Reply to: [email protected]: 2007-07-31, 12:08AM EDTFact: Wikipedia defines Utilitarian as "the good to be maximized."...
Posted by val on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:00:00 PST

Missed Connections

So my new job affords me alot of downtime and with this xtra time I've been on craigslist alot looking for apartments and furniture and free stuff. But I also discovered craigslists other gems such as...
Posted by val on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:07:00 PST

Apartment pics!

This is the view of the living room that is to the right once you walk in the front door. Then to the left is the kitchen, that altho huge, im not too fond of. Alot of work is gonna be done here. H...
Posted by val on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:58:00 PST

Val is in the hizouse!

I finally got an apartment!! 3 weeks and 14 apartments later I found exactly what I wanted. It's in a small, privately owned corner brownstone. I've got the entire second floor to myself!!It's g...
Posted by val on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:45:00 PST

Shout Outs!

So it's a dreary day in New York but I wanted to give some shout outs to a few peeps who made me smile today ;) Jane, even though Im a cynical biatch most of the time you see the good in me and s...
Posted by val on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:28:00 PST

Here! Bali pics. See you next month....

bali! bali! So, our first two night were spent in Kuta which is a pretty happenin place. Great shopping, good food and bars. But it wasnt until we checked into this little piece of heaven that I reall...
Posted by val on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:38:00 PST