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Val

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About Me

On really romantic evenings with myself, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.

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My Interests

Drinking red wine, watching movies all day, taking joy in the ridiculous, reading, carbs, rocky shores and grey skies, impromtu drives at 2 in the morning, adventures in LA, karaoke with friends, movies on the couch with a bottle of pinot, experiments in vegetarian cooking, obsessing over clothing options, planning trips I may never take, closet writing, "arty" films that make me talk instead of sleep.

Music:

Weezer, White Stripes, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard, Rilo Kiley, Iron and Wine, Tegan and Sarah, Frou Frou, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Aqualung, Death Cab for Cutie, Simon & Garfunkel, The Shins, The Killers, Rufus Wainwright, QUEEN, Vanessa Carlton, Postal Service, Third Eye Blind, The Frames, Damien Rice, The Ramones, MIKA.

Movies:

Closer, Moulin Rouge, Dead Poets Society, Eternal Sunshine, Garden State, Stranger Than Fiction, Moonstruck, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Love Actually, The Goodbye Girl, Shakespeare In Love, Motor Cycle Diaries, The Dreamers, Awakenings, V for Vendetta, Walk the Line, Rudy, Once, Boogie Nights, Paris Je t'aime, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Much Ado About Nothing, anything by Baz Luhrman, Bertolucci, Kubrick, or Mike Nichols

Television:

Sex & the City, Project Runway, Entourage, The L Word, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.

Books:

Austin, the Brontes, Camus (I just had an alphabetical moment), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Irving, Rand, Thoreau.

Heroes:

Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Cynthia Nixon, John Patrick Shanley, Oliver Fix.

My Blog

Thank you, universe

So, today I had this epiphany about how things in my life are fallling together like puzzle pieces. And I know I can sound new-agey, but I am seeing how that whole "focus on what is at hand and the u...
Posted by Val on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:02:00 PST

Amazing

I know that to most people this must seem cheesy, but every time I watch Inside the Actors Studio (assuming that he's not interviewing someone like P Diddy), when it's over, I get that incredibly over...
Posted by Val on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:02:00 PST

Take THAT, sweet tooth!

So, as you may or may not know, I gave up all sweets this Lent in an effort to kick my nasty sweet tooth. Tonight we had a family dinner and they wanted me to be able to partake in desert, so they go...
Posted by Val on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:32:00 PST

Cleaning break

Taking a page from Sammi, I too partook (not a word, I think) in the movie quote generator.  Here are some classics ....... "I see dead Val." "Go ahead, make my Val." "Here's looking at Val, kid...
Posted by Val on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:35:00 PST

Toxic Kharma

Okay, so I have a number of ideas what I have done that may have caused my life to explode.  No wait, it's more like a series of small explosions that make me want to crawl under the covers and h...
Posted by Val on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:27:00 PST

27 Days

In my effort to lose the 10 pounds I have gained this last school year (thanks to the eating habits of a certain friend whose name rhymes with spammi), I have decided to forego the eating of sweets fo...
Posted by Val on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:10:00 PST

Confusion & Transference

For Ralph I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading--treading--till it seemed That Sense was breaking through-- And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum-- Ke...
Posted by Val on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:04:00 PST

Tagged

We've been tagged!If you've been tagged . . .RULES: Each player of this game starts with "5 weird things/habits about yourself". People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 5 weird things/...
Posted by Val on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:26:00 PST

A deep breath and a leap.

"I am not a courageous person by nature.  I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find the courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live.  It is...
Posted by Val on Sat, 20 May 2006 05:08:00 PST

Smammi's One Word Survey

you can only type one word, no explanations...1. Yourself: Val2. Your crush: Zoo3. Your hair: Blonde4. Your Mother: Crazy5. Your Father: Asshole.6. Your Favorite Item: Claddagh7. Your Dream Last Night...
Posted by Val on Wed, 17 May 2006 10:19:00 PST