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“I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that's left are fruit

About Me

I’m just a guy trying to last trough this struggle, which we refer to as life. I am a used musician that has lost the ability to play guitar, (hopefully temporary) because of a stroke I suffered in 2005. But shed no tears for me, mine is but a temporary hell, at least I’m still able to conjure a coherent thought and function somewhat normally if not limited. But trough it all, I have found that in general, most people are not good at all, most people are bastards. Bastards with a creamy bastard filling and a hard outer bastard crust. But, thats what I have noticed. You can observe a lot just by watching. I know this section is called “About Me”, so let me share a little known fact about me that I don’t share with just any one. But I figure what the hell, if your taking the time to read this you can’t be all that bad or ehter your just really bored. I am, some might say, "a self-effacing narcissistic son of a bitch that suffers from depression, anxiety, and a slight touch of God complex, I have troubles maintaining relationships or interaction with REAL people, Or as they usually call it, antisocial behavior". At least thats what my therapist thinks, I think, she was sort of vague on the point. But hey, don’t we all feel that way at one time or another? So, I sometimes like to escape the familial surroundings and comforts of this cracker box I call home and venture out in the world where I can usually be found running after parked cars. When I'm not doing that I am active in the music industry, and I now manage a very talented and beautiful young artist, Natalie Wright. Natalie is a phenomenal musician and songwriter with a haunting voice that flows through her music like sunshine through water. Her songs will captivate and steel you away like a thieve in the night. The lost love and brokenhearted characters in Natalie’s songs whisper from the journals of real life stories” I started out working with Mary Estella on her musical career and now she is leaving to attend college in Illinois. I like to collect friends like one collects stamps. I started this myspace thing as a therapeutic way to pass my mornings and to keep up with a few bands. My oh my, it’s funny how Time has a way of preventing everything from happening at once. And now, well I have so many friends that I don’t know what to do. You know, I wonder if you could kill time without injuring eternity, or “El tiempo da buen consejo”. Anyway, I am married to a wonderful woman and am the father of seven, yes bitches, I said seven beautiful children that are grown and gone. Just the way we like it. I have proudly served my country in the US Army from 1978 until 1984, I am a reformed republican who has recently seen the light. Now I am bound by truth, integrity and the right side of the isle. I do not believe in this stupid war in Iraq. I fully support each and every one of our men and women in the armed forces, but we should have stayed in Afghanistan. There was no Al Qaeda in Iraq, they were in Afghanistan and still are along with the Taliban who are as we speak are growing expeditiously. There should be signs by the exit doors of all planes that carry our troops to Baghdad that read;"Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here."Hey, If you cannot be a poet, be the poem..........
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My Interests

( THINGS I LIKE ), My wife, A beautiful mind, Other people’s dogs, jelly beans, Peeing in the shower, I like living, I like great music, having running water, my cats, almost everyone in my family, maybe you, a clean bathroom, my parents, taking pictures, the late 60's and early 70's, boxers, really old people, sand dunes, the ocean, manatees, rockets, Blue sky, I like a good hamburger, an ice cold beer, a woman’s voice, an open bar, digital cameras, aero planes, football, the feel of 100% 76 stitch cotton sheets, earth tones with a bit of depression in them, tootsies rolls, to smell the air right after a rain shower, to sleep until I wake up, an old book, bon fires, an old pond a six pack and a cane pole, German wine, to stare up at a full moon' old cartoons, peanut butter and jelly, Inquisitive minds, beautiful people (inside), true friendship, gardens, walking on the beach, Jesus Christ, morality, writing, holding hands, shopping, kisses, a good tan, intelligence, me, imagination, daydreaming, internet, butterflies, banjos and flutes, mountains, camping, Love, soft skin, trees, rainbows, sleeping on a boat, brand new house, credit cards with no limits, loose cattle, going to the zoo, people I have known all my life, fine art, a great steak, a good bottle of wine, the Midwest, summer time, guitars, fresh fruit, A warn blanket on a cold night, running in and out of the rain, a clean bathroom, moonlit pastures, home, bluegrass and folk festivals, doing dishes together, pillow fights, catching great big fish, crispy crème, import beer, Florida Gators, NFL, Sundresses, flip flops, Sunshine, you, road trips, backstage, a bathroom that I can play baseball in, pizza, milf', my headphones, getting mail, going to the beach I think I already mentioned that so this times it’s going to the beach when your drunk, driving way too fast and a bunch of other shit I can’t remember.((((((((THINGS THAT I DON’T LIKE))))))))))))))Shitty people, creeps, little fish, winter, the smell of old clothes,Burnt toast, litter boxes, mosquito’s, illegal aliens, empty rolls of toilet paper when’s it too late, losing a whole year, wobbly wheels on shopping carts, rubber neckers, people who drive the speed limit in the go fast lane, people who don’t do what they said they were going to do, fresh oiled road (you good folks up north know what I mean), unexpected bills, clocks that don’t keep the right time, stray animals, stray mammals,electric fences, shopping during Christmas, soccer, little kids hands (they freak me out, especially when they want you to hold it), albino grasshoppers s there creepy, dirty dishes and miller lite.

I'd like to meet:


Want this badge?Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then one day you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe. ~Denis LearyAnd while one spirit said these words to me, the other wept, so that--because of pity-- I fainted, as if I had met my death.And then I fell as a dead body falls.

Music:

Natalie Wright, The Duhks, Ollabelle, The Avett Brothers, Big Cosmo & The New Traditionals, Dan Frechette, Dread Clampitt, Colton Mckenna, Loverboy, Darrell Scott, Default, Smile Empty Soul, Steve Forbert, Dropkick Murphys, Jack Johnson, Mat Kearney, G-Love, Tommy Shaw, Sam Pacetti, Shawn Camp, Will Kimbrough, Nickelback, Crooked Still, Donna The Buffalo, Van Zant, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The EELS, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, JJ Cale, Supertramp, The Beatles, The Wailin Jenny's, Patty Griffin, Catie Curtis, Nina Simone, Kasey Chambers, Boney James, Boz Scaggs, Diana Krall, Tierney Sutton, Ornette Coleman, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Ten Years After, Joe Walsh, The Eagles, Carlos Nakai, Tito & The Tarantulas, Los Lonely Boys, Colin Hay, Lazlo Bane, Johnny Cash, Allman Brothers, Lisa Loeb, Mountain, Bad Company, Faith No More, Head East, The Doors, Rage Against The Machine, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Ted Nugent, Cheaptrick, Foreigner, Ani Difranco, John Lee Hooker, Amos Lee, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Captain Beyond, White Witch, Black Oak Arkansas, Angel, Scorpions, Moody Blues, Cole Porter, Damien Rice, Gram Parsons, Evan Dando, John Coltrane, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Janes Addiction, Gov't Mule, Lucinda Williams, The SubDudes, Tommy Womack, Dr.Hook And The Medicine Show, The Raconteurs, Julian Lennon, Dido, Devo, The Tubes, Jimmy Buffett, Ryan Adams, Tom Petty, The Stones, Third Eye Blind, The Wreckers, Big and Rich, Gretchen Wilson, Craig Morgan, Little Big Town, Dwight Yokum, Hank Williams sr. & jr, Kenny Chesney, Marty Robbins, Old Crow Medicine Show, Shooter Jennings, Willie Nelson, Bob Wills, Hank Snow, Johnny Horton, 3 Doors Down, Jimmy Fleming, Jethro Tull, Blue October, Chevelle, Bush, Fleetwood Mac, Godsmack, Shinedown, Hinder, Seether, Band Of Horses, Stan Rogers, Nathan Rogers, Nick Drake, Montrose, Men At Work, Limp Bizkit, Kansas, Sonya Kitchell, Scott Joplin, Frank Sinatra, Bach, Dean Martin, Al Jolson,Boston, Def Leppard, U2, Phil Collins, The Clash, Mary Estella,REO Speedwagon, Taylor Swift, The Grascals, Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent, Bill Monroe, Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Grateful Dead, John Lennon, Heart, Joni Mitchell, Carol King, Hawkwind, KISS, Stone Sour, Whiskeytown, Iron & Wine, The Gourds, Emmylou Harris, Calexico, Jessi Colter and all the Jacksonville bands that I have come to know and love and anything that is some type of Blues, folk, folk rock, rock, bluegrass, Americana, country and everything else music related.

Movies:

ANYTHING WITH BETTIE PAGE IN IT, I MEAN COME ON ,SHE WAS A SWEET SWEET VIXEN!!! The Departed, The Godfather, Signs, An American Haunting, The Lord Of The Rings (all three of them),Black hawk down, Pulp Fiction, Garden State, 50 First Dates, IceAge, Meet Joe Black, K - Pax, Fried Green Tomatoes,Phenomenon, CITIZEN KANE, Forrest Gump, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Finding Nemo, The original Jungle Book, Taxi Driver, Little Shop of Horrors, The Wizard Of Oz, What Women want, Face Off, Reservoir Dogs, It's a wonderful life, Apocalypse now, A clockwork orange, The silence of the lambs, Raiders of the lost ark, Goodfellas, Duck Soup, Disney's Song Of The South, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Star Wars, Casablanca, Swordfish, The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones, Rent, The Sound Of Music, The Matrix, Stargate, Easy Rider, Billy Jack, Spartacus, Treasure Island, The Hunt For Red October, Underworld, Predator, Love Actually, All of the Monty Python movies, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, The Terminal, Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Van Helsing, Troy, Sling Blade, I Robot, Pirates Of The Caribbean, What Dreams May Come, 8 Mile, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, An American Werewolf in London,Scary Movie, Sense And Sensibility and too many to name.

Television:

SCRUBS.........................Maybe the weather if there is a hurricane coming.

Books:

The Catcher In The Rye, Beyond Good And Evil, Paradise Regained, The Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, The DaVinci Code, Anything by JRR Tolkien, Interview With A Vampire and all things Anne Rice amongst others, ""The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home"". ~~Christopher Columbus

Heroes:

MY WIFE!! She is truly a blessing which, the angels from above have lent me, shes just the bee's knees.. Anyone serving in the armed forces, Especially my nephew P.J. Osborne, he is a Marine had to go back to Iraq for the THIRD TIME. I mean come on, just how damn much do these guys have to. My son-in-law Steven Cordell who is proudly serving in the US Navy and intends to make a career out of it. Anyone who has the gut's to stand all alone in front of a crowd and perform a song they wrote. People who stand up for what they believe in even in the face of adversity. my parents, AND FINALLY, anyone who works’s in the medical or the rehabilitation field. They are truly angels of mercy. NamastéMentre che l'uno spirto questo disse, l'altro piangea; si che di pietade io venni men cosi com' io morisse.E caddi come corpo morto cade.

My Blog

The new crack and other oddities;

Earth to Val, earth to Val, come in, are you reading us? No, don't bother me, I'm on myspace. Wanna take a trip? Not unless there is Internet access, someone might send me a message. Want to go to the...
Posted by **VAL** on Wed, 23 May 2007 05:06:00 PST

RANDOM THOUGHTS ----

RANDOM THOUGHTS ---- Did you ever wonder where random thoughts come from? Recently I have pondered this mystical question. Since my embolic ischemic stroke in 2005 I have leaned quite a few things th...
Posted by **VAL** on Wed, 16 May 2007 10:47:00 PST

THE DEAL WITH MY FRIENDS

I sometimes change most of my friends around in my top 24. There are three determining reasons for this: First, who in my family is on my good side on any particular day. Second, which of my friends h...
Posted by **VAL** on Thu, 10 May 2007 12:22:00 PST

22 things I dont give a crap about!

22 things I don't give a crap about!1. Gangster Rap.2. Any and all things, Paris, Brittany, Pam Anderson, Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake, the Backstreet Boys reunion, Tyra Banks, Rosie, Simon, all...
Posted by **VAL** on Mon, 07 May 2007 06:52:00 PST

SUNDAY MORNING RAMBLINGS

Did you ever wonder why Imus got fired and it was all over every news channel for two weeks for saying nappy headed hoes and why Rush Limbaugh's radio show can play a parody titled "BARACK THE MAGIC N...
Posted by **VAL** on Sun, 06 May 2007 05:42:00 PST

Becoming Illegal

This is a copy of a letter I ran across some time ago. Funny as it is, it is in fact, the truth. Becoming Illegal (Actual letter from an Iowa resident and sent to his senator)The Honorable Tom Harkin...
Posted by **VAL** on Sat, 05 May 2007 07:27:00 PST

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds

I haven't written in a couple of weeks because I have been on Holiday and I have been recovering from being on Holiday. With that said, I have a few things on my mind. First off, my family and I are k...
Posted by **VAL** on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:13:00 PST

FullSail Recording Studio;

We went to FullSail studios last night and laid down two tracks and they are killer! This guy, his name is Juan, I didn't get the last name but he won a Latin Grammy for producing and mixing one of Ri...
Posted by **VAL** on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:10:00 PST

Rants and Raves for a Sunday afternoon. There's no football.

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but ...
Posted by **VAL** on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:37:00 PST

Suwannee Springfest 2007

March 23rd / 24th. Mary and myself was Randy's guest at the Suwannee Springfest in Live Oak FL. I met the most amazing people there and saw some of today's brightest stars in Bluegrass, Country and Fo...
Posted by **VAL** on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:34:00 PST