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V!

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About Me



Background from flickr user

My Interests

filmmaking, documentaries, poetry, reading, writing, laughing, coincidence, passion, music, adventure, surprise, coffee, art, beer, rats, comics, organic food, learning, knitting, dancing, Seattle

Music:

Bad Religion, Tori Amos, Modest Mouse, Talking Heads/David Byrne, Antigone Rising, Mates of State, Kristen Hersh, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Sleater-Kinney, Indigo Girls, Phillip Glass, Mike Doughty, Ani DiFranco

Movies:

Personal Velocity, The Hours, Habla Con Ella, The Godfather, Pieces of April, the Harry Potter movies, LOTR, Saved, Shaun of the Dead

Television:

Veronica Mars, Firefly, Babylon 5, Who Wants To Be a Superhero?, The Venture Brothers

Books:

I have piles of books in all corners of every room in which I can feasibly put stuff. I love every single one of those books. Including the ones I've not yet read.

Heroes:

Greg Graffin. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ani DiFranco, Carollee Schneemann (I sold her laxatives!)

My Blog

Preaching to the Choir

I usually don't re-post things but every once in a while, even I come across something that I find important enough to blast into the cyber-world around me.  This was posted in yesterday's o...
Posted by V! on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:34:00 PST

I think Chris Cornell is fucking with my head

Sometimes I just want to wallow in bittersweetness.  Listen over & over to the songs that make me cry.  Like after seeing Chris Pureka when I kept listening to Burnin...
Posted by V! on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:51:00 PST

You Are What You See

Today I did a tech scout for a piece I'm shooting on Wed. The location we're filming at is rather conservative so I was asked (not for the first time) to remove my nose rings. I obliged without thin...
Posted by V! on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:57:00 PST

We Make Our Life By What We Give

Each year my yoga studio does a gift wreath to benefit a local women's & children's shelter. I always pull a tag or two off so today when I saw the gift wreath had made it's debut I made a bee-line t...
Posted by V! on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:24:00 PST

Post Mortem

3 DP's, 4 AD's 2 2nd AC's, 3 camera ops & endless grips later, I think (again) that The Taken is finally finished. We did a re-shoot yesterday with some amazing special effects makeup by a guy who's ...
Posted by V! on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:14:00 PST

Coming Up for Air

Waiting for feedback on the video I'm editing, I wound up with my first free weekday in...many weekdays. So I ate lunch with Dan, ordered a book, paid some bills & came up with some cool ideas for my...
Posted by V! on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:04:00 PST

Holy Shows, Batman!

In the next 2 weeks there are so many great shows happening around here that I don't want to do anything except see all this awesome music! Tonite: We Wrote the Book on Connectors & A Gun That Shoots...
Posted by V! on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:32:00 PST

Back to Reality

Literally got back moments ago from the best vacation of my life. Two weeks on a beautiful Hawaiian island with my awesome Dan-pants. Pictures forthcoming but highlights include an amazing hostel, o...
Posted by V! on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:11:00 PST

Hullabaloo Has Arrived!

Hullabaloo Issue 1 is here! And just in time for tomorrow's Portland Zine Symposium! Bea & I take off at 7am so don't ask me what the hell I'm doing on MySpace at this hour! Get your copy for $2 + ...
Posted by V! on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:34:00 PST

Reason 3,894,176,302 why women’s clothing sizes are bullshit

This morning, at my favorite thrift store EVAR I tried on 2 skirts. One which called itself a size 12, the other which called itself a size 7. Both fit. I somehow managed to be a medium & a plus-si...
Posted by V! on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:27:00 PST