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valerie

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

i just want my art to feed noisy bellies, clothe frozen toes and obliterate concrete pillows. oh yes, and pay my rent.

My Interests

jesus,art, fashion, pugs, traveling, roommates, food, kids, tennis, soccer, bowling, opera, breakdancing, poetry, cleveland in the summer, marathons and boys that love jesus and grow to love me purely and passionately as well...and really mean it.

I'd like to meet:

DAVID BOWIE...hands down, minus Iman.

Music:

bowie, the beatles, radiohead, tv on the radio, headlights, asobi seksu, mocky, fiery furnaces, built to spill, arcade fire, ted leo and pharmacists, fiona, feist, kings of convenience, whitest boy alive, nina simone, linus, and so on and so on....oh yes, and margot and the nuclear so and so's

Movies:

dear frankie, the labyrinth, three iron, moonlight mile, monsoon wedding, absolute beginners, midnight madness, clueless, xanadu(guilty pleasure), breakin' 1 and 2, the freshest kidz, style wars, beat street, wild style, etc. etc...

Television:

welcome back kotter and greys anatomy

Books:

catcher in the rye, bone palace, e.e.cummings, frannie and zooey, drawing a blank, will put more later...

Heroes:

jesus and my friends...

My Blog

STARS & STRAW

  love set in the virginal wombruptured courage within her breastbirthed among the stock and strawlove laid his head in bethlehem eastern stars led eastern menwith wisdom on their tonguesto seek ...
Posted by valerie on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:56:00 PST

AT MARAH

  out of the abundance of the heart the mouth, it speaks and abundantly the heart is shouting let me - let me breathe!   welling tears fill the gutters of your eyes blurring whites and pupi...
Posted by valerie on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:35:00 PST

BRIDGED AND GOVERNED

enough with heavy wordslet's unload all the bricksi've chewed up and spit outvitamins of pessimiststhe grit lodged in my teethmuch like debris of sandlend mouth and gums to frowningdisabling the posit...
Posted by valerie on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:37:00 PST

AN OATH

i've lost my smile in the swamplandsof heartache and forlorn lovemy breast has since stopped poundingthe beat of my lovers drumthe stars set in my eyesnow veiled with cataractshave hopefully blinded m...
Posted by valerie on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:24:00 PST

AMOROUS RIGOR

send me genuitywrapped inside a manwith hazel eyes, puppy soft hairand a healthy southern tansend me sincerityrunning solid in his thighspumping swiftly through his veinsswimming deep inside his minds...
Posted by valerie on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:16:00 PST

SECOND SKIN (babes resurrect)

calloused and slatedill ignored & well neglectedcaked in a skin of filthwith the cord still connectedwrithing with vulnerabilitydrenched in such humilityborn from the despairof an unwashed naked body(...
Posted by valerie on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:34:00 PST

TWO WEAKS

dodge the bombsignore the threatspay it all no mindcontinue on with your businessand go about your daylose your jobyour child falls illand puppies die everydaybut you need to keep pressing onand go ab...
Posted by valerie on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:47:00 PST

salvaging peace

I don't think anyone knows quite how they're going to react to heartache, how hard they'll fall or how graceful they will be.  I certainly am not exempt from those indefinites.  Perhaps afte...
Posted by valerie on Fri, 18 May 2007 06:03:00 PST