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~Val~

Seven More Days All I Gotta Do Is Survive

About Me

MUSICIAN, FIDDLER, SINGER, FOLK GUITARIST. DAUGHTER, SISTER, FRIEND, LOVER, WRITER, KIND SPIRIT

My Interests

Playing, Listening, Creating music. I love music in all of its forms! Dancin', shaking what my momma gave me, cuttin' up the rug. I love coffee in the mornings, walking my dogs in the woods ( I have 2 beautiful Female dogs, a golden retriever and a black lab), hiking, my family (they mean the world to me) reading, laughing, being extremely silly .. sitting in silence, organizing,knitting, baking, cooking, singing, driving, going on walks, swimming(oceans and lakes, I hate pools they burn my eyes) and exploring the unknown...

I'd like to meet:

NEIL YOUNG!! ..BOB DYLAN!!!! ~*KIND SOULS, WITH A GREAT DEAL OF PATIENCE, INTEGRITY, WISDOM AND HUMOR. PERSONS FROM ALL OF LIFE'S MANY PATHS*~

Music:

Bob Dylan , Neil Young, Indigo Girls, Tracy Chapman, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez,Gillian Welch, EmmyLou Harris, Arlo Guthrie, Wilco, Drive by truckers, the andrews sisters, Van Morrison,Eric Clapton, Nick Drake, THE SPIKEDRIVERS, Jesse Henry, Iron and Wine, Cream, Ween, Simon & Garfunkel, Rusted Root, Dr. John,Doc Watson, Joni Mitchell,CSNY, Natalie Merchant, Robbie Roberston, Ronnie Hawkins,Cat Stevens, the Band, Scarlett Rivera, Ralph Stanley, Gram Parsons,Richie Havens, Jason Webley, Steely Dan,Linda Ronstadt Trampled by Turtles, Old Crow Medicne Show,the Allman Brothers, Jack Johnson, Prince,Hillbilly Gypsies, Old and In the way, the grateful dead, eva cassidy, Kate Wolf, the nitty gritty dirt band, Melissa Etheridge,Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Del Shannon, Buddy Holly, Buffalo Springfield,Paul Butterfield, Marvin Gaye,Al Green, P-funk , Sly and the Family Stone, Buddy Guy, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Traveling Wilbury's, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, John Lennon, The Beatles, The Stones, Crazy Horse, The Yardbirds, The Byrds, Leon Russell, Moe, Phish, String Cheese Incident, Paul Simon, Levon Helm, Muddy Waters,Nina Simone, Jimmi Hendrix, Guy Clark, Medeski Martin and Wood,Ravi Shankar, Led Zepplin, Johnny Lang, Allsion Krauss, Blind Faith, Huddie Ledbetter, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Coburn, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Steve Earl,Robert Johnson , Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sublime, James Taylor, Tom Waits, any of Les Claypool's projects,Bob Marley, Stephen Marley, The Roots, Yonder Mountain,Johnny Cash, Vassar Clemmens, the Rolling Stones , Eric Clapton,NIN ,John Prine, Leon Russell, Buddy Holly, Hole, Lucinda Williams...Many many many more...

Movies:

I love old movies, To kill a mockingbird, Citizen Kane, Easy Rider, Patt Garrett and Billy the Kid. Some recent include, Unconditional Love, Where the Buffalo Roam, But I'm a cheerleader ,The City of God, Amalie,No Direction Home, Walk the Line, The Last Waltz, Winged Migration, Niagra Niagra, The Color Purple, Life is Beautiful, Donnie Darko, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lord of the Rings (all, and the books of course). I Heart Huckabees, Garden State, Run Lola RunThere are two types of people in the world...those who loved Moulin' Rouge and those who hated it....I walked out of the theatre

Television:

Animal Planet of course, I love The Dog Whisperer. Very interested in animal psycology. Also love the simpsons, the family guy, seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm, six feet under, Dave Chappelle, South Park, the daily show, the colbert report, SNL THE "TRUTHINESS" OF STEVEN COLBERT

Books:

She's Come Undone by wally lamb,the Life of Pi, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Random Family, the DaVinci Code ,The Chronicles of Bob Dylan, To Kill A Mockingbird, Cannery Row,Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, Memoirs of a Geisha, Prozac Nation, Charles Dickens, Tolstoy ,some random authors and works of fiction and nonfiction. Love biographies and sociology Jonathan Kozal, and excursions from the artic expeditions. Kurt Vonnegut, Allen Ginsburg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kinky Friedman, Abbie Hoffman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Karouac,(The Alchemist....read it!) basically anything i can bury myself in.

Heroes:

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Janis Joplin, Tracy Chapman, The Indigo Girls, my Mom, Melissa Etheridge, Mother Tereasa, all the women throughout history who have brought us this far

My Blog

Stand

Burn your bridges without a second glance. Man has done it before and he'll do it again. You've begun deconstructing something that was once so well put together. But unlike bridges and structures...
Posted by ~Val~ on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:20:00 PST

Retrospective

Looking back, I remember  the waves crashing down on her little girl dream. Under a red sky of utopian wishes and on a deserted beach we sat. Just she, and I, and her lonline...
Posted by ~Val~ on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:29:00 PST

Need

To Pull my hair out To Pull your hair out To scream every curse word i've ever heard To throw everything I value and love out the window... Whoops There You go! No Time... ...know time.. Now Time...
Posted by ~Val~ on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:14:00 PST

Sweet Summers Sweat

Seductive summer surf one to two feet fair form maybe bigger when Ocean Mama takes a deep breath and undulating, a gargantuan set cascades in. Position and timing all you've got when Mama either toppl...
Posted by ~Val~ on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:58:00 PST

Women who run with the Wolves

This is an excerpt from a book that I am currently reading.  I hope you enjoy as much as I did.   "So what is theWild Woman?  She is the Life/Death/Life force, she is the incubator.&nb...
Posted by ~Val~ on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:21:00 PST

As True Now As It Always Was

"Slow Train" by Bob DylanSometimes I feel so low-down and disgustedCan't help but wonder what's happening to my companionsAre they lost or are they found, have they counted the cost it'll take to brin...
Posted by ~Val~ on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:14:00 PST

a winters day

flowers can never be enough a breast to cry on and a lifetime of  the warmth you've known,  gone.  a winters day at last- when the snow and ice came; fitting. I cried last night. I...
Posted by ~Val~ on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:42:00 PST

Joni Mitchell-Cactus Tree (1970)

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Posted by ~Val~ on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:48:00 PST

Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie

Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie by Bob Dylan (I'm going to memorize this!) When yer head gets twisted and yer mind grows numbWhen you think you're too old, too young, too smart or too dumbWhen yer lagg...
Posted by ~Val~ on Wed, 02 May 2007 03:57:00 PST

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany'swritten by George Axelrod, novel by Truman Capote Paul Varjak: You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick...
Posted by ~Val~ on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:11:00 PST