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About Me

According to Lu: "Vanessa, you're so regal!" However, someone once told me that i'm "elusive."I'm both.

My Interests

French fries, Freeways, San Francisco, Goya, El Greco, Vlady's artwork, traveling, late nite snacking, witty comments, coffee in the morning, long drives, Flint Michigan, hot summer nites, dry humor, English men, sandals, skirts, movies with subtitles, loud music, speaking french, red wine, a cup of HOT WATER, a late nite chat, and love.

I'd like to meet:

you you you your mom, and you.

Music:

The Beach Boys, The Beatles, MoTown, Phillip Glass, New Order, CCR, Pulp, and Puccini's operas.

Movies:

Films by Zhang Yimou, Danny Boyle, Wim Winders, & M. Night Shyamalan; J-Horror Films, Monty Python, Indiana Jones films, The Goonies, Star Wars, Sliding Doors, short films, French and Spanish Cinema, El Laberinto del fauno, Paris Texas, and German silent films by Fritz Lang

Television:

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set then there'd be peace."- John Lennon

Books:

Poets: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mayakovsky, Octavio Paz, Wendy Cope, and Emily BronteWriters: Émile Zola, Amy Tan, Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas fils, Jane Austin, Marquez, John Steinbeck, William Faulknerand of course: Don Quixote de la Mancha

Heroes:

"I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer,"Everything! Everything!" and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly, as if I were a queen."

My Blog

Aching feet, great thighs, lack of sleep, and a smelly suitcase.

LA -----------> NYC-------->Montreal-----------> LA----------> NYC----------> LA---------> SF------------LA. Within the past two weeks. OY! It's nothing really, right???
Posted by V. on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:39:00 PST

cowboys and firemen and princesses oh my!

"Times change and dreams change w/ them. If they always came true, the world would be populated solely by cowboys and firemen, ballerinas and princesses."L.T.
Posted by V. on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:55:00 PST

Rondeau Redouble

"There are so many kinds of awful men--One can't avoid them all. She often saidShe'd never make the same mistake again;She always made a new mistake instead..."- Wendy Cope THUS:  males and femal...
Posted by V. on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:45:00 PST

Living without regrets

So i want to share what i read from author Martha McPhee who pondered the question: "Is it wise to return to your past?"  The past is littered with loss. Each one is a fossil in the folds of our ...
Posted by V. on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:19:00 PST

what gender is a computer. . . .

A spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. "House" for instance is feminine:"la casa." "Pencil," however, is m...
Posted by V. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST