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♫ valerie ♫

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About Me

I love art - music, photography, literature, poetry, film, painting/drawing, collage. I'm addicted to chocolate covered expresso beans. I own too much lipgloss. I love driving with the windows down. I love loud music and big sunglasses.

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My Interests

God. Life. Culture. Art.

I'd like to meet:

Jesus, Paul, Henri Nouwen, Saint Francis, Jerome, Jason Upton.

Music:



A:
Aaron Sprinkle; ...And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead; A Girl Called Eddy; A Perfect Circle; AFI; Air; The Album Leaf; Alison Krauss; Alkaline Trio; All Night Radio; American Analog Set; Andrea Bocelli; Animal Collective; The Anniversary; Aqualung; Arcade Fire; Arctic Monkeys; Athlete; Audio Bullies; Azure Ray.

B:
The Beatles; Band Marino; Babyshambles; Backstreet Boys; Bebo Norman; Beck; Bela Fleck and the Flecktones; Belle & Sebastian; Ben Folds Five; Ben Harper; Beluah; Billie Holiday; Billy Joel; Bjork; Bloc Party; Blue Oyster Cult; Blur; Bob Dylan; Bonnie Summerville; Boston; Brad Paisley; Breaking Benjamin; Brian Adams; Bright Eyes; Broken Social Scene; Buddy Green; Bush; Butterfly Boucher.

C:
Caedmon's Call; Cake; Caleb Carruth; Calla; Camera Obscura; Cary Brothers; Cat Power; Celine Dion; Chris Mason; Coheed & Cambria; Coldplay; Colin Hay; Conor Oberst; Counting Crows; The Cure; Cursive; Claude Debussey.

D:
Dallas Green, Damien Rice; The Dandy Warhols; Danny Elfman; Danny Orteli; Dashboard Confessional; Dat Politics; Dave Barnes; Dave Matthews/Dave Matthews Band; David Bowie; David Byne; David Mead; Dean Martin; Death Cab for Cutie; Decemberists; Depeche Mode; Derek Webb; Devendra Banhart; Dido; Dios Malos; Dirty Pretty Things; Don Chaffer; The Doors; The Doves; Drew Thomas; Duran Duran.

E:
The Eagles; The Eames Era; East River Pipe; The Eels; Eisley; The Elected; Elliot Smith; Elvis Presley; Elton John; Emilianna Torrini; Emmylou Harris; Enya; Ester Drang; Explosions In The Sky.

F:
Faithless; Feeder; Finger Eleven; Finley Quaye; Fischerspooner; Five for Fighting; Fleetwood Mac; The Foo Fighters; The Format; Frank Sinatra; Franz Fernidnand; The Fratellis; French Kicks; Frou Frou; The Funky Lowlies; Fredric Chopin.

G:
Garth Brooks; Gavin DeGraw; Gilbert O' Sullivan; Gnarls Barkley; Goldfinger; The Goo Goo Dolls; Grand National; Gavenhurst; Greenday; Guster.

H:
Hanson; Hard Fi; Harry Connick Jr.; Helen Stellar; Her Space Holiday; The Hives; The Hombres; Hootie and the Blowfish; Hopedoor; Hot Hot Heat; Howard Shore.

I:
I Nine; Imogen Heap; Interpol; Iron & Wine.

J:
Jack Johnson; James Blunt; Jars of Clay; Jason Mraz; Jason Upton; Jeff Buckley; Jeff Finlin; Jem; Jennifer Knapp; Jessie Rogers; JET; Jimmy Eat World; John Cale; John Lennon; John Mayer; Johnathan Rice; Jose Gonzalez; Joseph Arthur; Juanes; Justin Barnard; Justin McRoberts.

K:
Kaiser Cheifs; KD Lang; Keane; The Killers; The Kooks; KT Tunstall.

L:
The La's; Le Tigre; Lenny Kravitz; Leonard Cohen; The Libertines; Lifehouse; Lillium; Lindsey Buckingham; Lisa Hannigan; Live; Louie Armstrong; Luxembourg.

M:
Maria Taylor; Mariah Carey; Maroon 5; Mars Volta; Matchbox 20; Matisyahu; Matt Kearny; Matt Wertz; Mellowdrone; Metric; MeWithoutYou; Michael Buble; Michael W. Smith; The Microphones; Modest Mouse; Morrissey; Motion City Soundtrack; Mount Sims; Moving Units; Mum; Muse; MuteMath; My Morning Jacket.

N:
N'Sync; Nada Surf; Nancy Wilson; Nena; The New Pornographers; Nick Drake.

O:
Oasis; OK Go; The Old 97's; Over The Rhine; Panic! At The Disco; Paul Westerberg; Pedro The Lion; The Perishers; Perry Como; Pete Yorn; Peter Gabriel; Phantom Planet; Phill Collins; The Police; The Postal Service.

Q:
Queen.

R:
Radiohead; Razorlight; Red Hot Chili Peppers; The Red House Painters; Remy Zero; The Restoration Project; Rich Mullins; Rilo Kiley; Rita Springer; Rob Stearns; Rocky Votolato; Rosie Thomas; Rubyhorse; Rufus Wainwright; Ryan Adams.

S:
Sarah McLachlan; Savior Machine; Say Anything; The Shins; Shout Out Louds; Showbread; Sia; Sigur Ros; Simon & Garfunkle; Sixpence None The Richer; The Smiths; Snow Patrol; Sondre Lerche; The Sounds; South; Spirit Stereo Frequency; Spoon; Steely Dan; Stereophonics; Sting; The Streets; The Strokes; Styx; The Submarines; Sufjan Stevens; Super Furry Animals.

T:
T.O.K.; Ted Leo and the Pharmacists; Teddy Greiger; Theivery Corperation; The Thrills; Todd Ganovski; Tom Petty; Tori Amos; Train; Trembling Blue Stars; Trent Monk; Turin Brakes.

U:
U2.

V:
Van Morrison; The Verve Pipe; The Vigilanties of Love; Vyvienne Long.

W:
The Walkmen; Waterdeep; We Are Scientists; Weezer; Wilco; Wolf Parade; The Worship Band; Woven Hand.

X:

Y:

Z:
Zero 7; The Zutons.

Misc: 16 Horsepower.

Movies:

The Two Towers; In America; Matchstick Men; Gardenstate; I 3 Huckabees; White Oleander; Rebel Without a Cause; Oh Brother, Where Art Though?; About a Boy; Moulin Rouge; Pirates of the Carribbean; Say Anything; The Breakfast Club; Big Fish; Moulin Rouge; Down With Love; The Fox and The Hound.

Television:



Play the Moses Game

Books:

The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce (C. S. Lewis); The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (J. R. R. Tolkien); The Wounded Healer, Bread for the Journey, Reaching Out, The Road to Daybreak (Henri Nouwen); Worship-A Way of Life (Patrick Kavanaugh); Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2 (Steve Stockman); The Call, The Final Quest (Rick Joyner); The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Mask of the Red Death (Edgar Allen Poe); Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Julius Ceasar, Sonnet 116 (Shakespear); Antigone, Oedipus the King (Sophocles); Chanticleer and the Fox (Barbara Cooney); Make Way for Ducklings (Robert MeCloskey); Charlotte's Web (E. B. White); Love You Forever (Robert Munsch)

Heroes:

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because i had nowhere else for them...
"There is a just-caught fish on somebody's dock, and there are people inside listening to nothing while the windows bay at the dogs outside and there is you, but you're not home." -Michael Wilson, Heads Bowed Eyes Closed, No One Looking Around
"Therefore, my dear sir, I know no advice for you save this: to go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside." - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet
"Live as if you were living for the second time, and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now. -Viktor Frankl
"We are born, so to speak, provisionally, it doesn't matter where. It is only gradually that we compose within ourselves our true place of origin so that we may be born there retrospectively and each day more definitely." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." - G. K. Chesterton
"It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatross, potentials unknowingly murdered." - Ben Okri
"No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought." - C.S. Lewis
You are Bettie Page
Girl next door with a wild streak
You're a famous beauty - with unique look
And the people like you are cultish about it What Famous Pinup Are You?
You Are Most Like Gisele Bundchen
Slightly exotic and perfectly gorgeous Which Victoria's Secret Angel Are You?

My Blog

Tainted Love

The best thing that ever happened,The one who made me complete,But life has made me bitter, a liar and a thiefSo I betrayed my love for pocket change and earthly things.Stabbed in the back; betrayed b...
Posted by valerie on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:27:00 PST

VA, DC, NY...

Well, I just got back from NY. It was pretty much amazing. I know all of you are insanely jealous so here are some pictures for you so you can feel like you were there. ;)On Danielle and I's way up th...
Posted by valerie on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:19:00 PST

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer...

...and with it came a long-awaited post. During the school year, in my buisiness, I forget how much I love to read. Then comes summer and my love is rekindled. I believe that my favorite part of summ...
Posted by valerie on Sun, 21 May 2006 07:44:00 PST

i don't feel any different...and i have no resolutions...

i don't really know why i'm writing this. actually, my reason for writing is more out of feeling obligation than actually having anything to write about. i suppose it is about time i write. i've had t...
Posted by valerie on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 07:50:00 PST

Welcome to MySpace

Yeah, so I signed up for MySpace. Why? Because all the cool kids have it. Enjoy your summers kids! ...double click.
Posted by valerie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST