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About Me

I've caused a few bruises, fallen on my face, saved a few lives, rocked some faces off, crossed the country (in a van with my friends), crossed the ocean (in an aeroplane over the sea), driven on the freeway through the dead hours of the night, seen concerts and more concerts, written reviews compulsively , gotten burned, risen from my own ashes, graduated from college...and moved up and down the east coast trying to make my life count for something...while meeting cool people along the way.

My Interests

Putting my arms shoulder deep into mud, doing activities that cause me to break myself, saving lives, pumping on your stereo, talking about music and life the universe and everything until 4am, road tripping, living and laughing at high volume...or high valume ;) I also like obviously bad jokes.

I'd like to meet:

Whether I'd like to meet you or not I probably will at some point since I know EVERYONE! Muahahaha. Topping the list are Jon Stewart, Neko Case, Gael Garcia Bernal and anyone else in the DC area as insane about music and shows as the cool people I met in Atlanta!

Music:

Note the 3 D Plan albums, 2 TL/RX albums and 2 Pixies albums. And there you have my "type."

Movies:

Shawshank Redemption, All three Lord of the Rings movies, Almost Famous, High Fidelity, The Usual Suspects, The Boondock Saints, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Television:

I almost never have time to catch these shows, but: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Family Guy, Futurama, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 24, Heroes, Lost, South Park, The Office, Scrubs, Animaniacs, Tiny Toons...and...well, sports. :D

Books:

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter...anything with some magical world - hand it this way.

Heroes:

It might be you.

My Blog

SXSW

We’re at SXSW. And we just saw Yeasayer & Simian Mobile Disco. We (Rachael and I) win at life. And music. SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.
Posted by val jester on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:45:00 PST

Burning the candle at both ends

Luckily Work Forest prepares you for this sort of overcommitment. Over the next couple of months I will be working two jobs, writing for two blogs, trying to increase my involvement in two music...
Posted by val jester on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:31:00 PST

New blog idea

...A blog called Val and Rach SQUEEEE about shows! I think it could catch on. Or Val, Al and Rach SQUEEE about shows! so that way we'd also have a kickass photog. :DSpeaking of shows...
Posted by val jester on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:14:00 PST

Court TV

So thanks to our assistant editor, Steve LaBate (yeah, I'm calling him out), I'm probably going to be on Court TV. His band the Attractive Eighties Women was playing at Lenny's and the Court T...
Posted by val jester on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:54:00 PST

Paste-y stuff

Just so you know, I'm using my own myspace as a test site so that when I post things to the Paste website which require html (you may have noticed that design-wise - I don't do a damn thing with this ...
Posted by val jester on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:07:00 PST

ATL!

Um...Atlanta is awesome. Paste is awesome. Can I stay here?
Posted by val jester on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:24:00 PST

Direction

Having direction in one's life...is a good thing. Well, I guess I always knew where I wanted to go...but it's become clear again.
Posted by val jester on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:53:00 PST

Job searching

Trying to find a job is the most frustrating thing in the world. I feel like I'm stuck in a rut and the faster I try to get out of this rut (handing in 2 to 4 applications per day) that I'm just...
Posted by val jester on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:54:00 PST

The ongoing list of who wants to punch me in the face...

Okay, well, the list of people who will punch me in the face if I don't come back to OB next season: Jess Nigel Zach Steven I think Kyle said he would Ryan Papa I don't think I'm missing anyone ther...
Posted by val jester on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:32:00 PST

Alright, that does it.

I'm gonna be rooting for Spain for the remainder of the World Cup. Team USA = soooo frustrating!!!
Posted by val jester on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:02:00 PST