Val

I'd like to meet:

open-minded creative types. cynics and realists. armchair philosophers. history buffs, reenactors, and historic preservationists. environmentalists. organic farmers/gardeners. people who will love my animals as much as I do. people with INDOOR spayed/neutered cats, dogs, rabbits, rats, etc. caretakers of feral cat colonies. others involved in animal welfare, shelters, and rescue. "dangerous breed" lovers. independent music lovers. others facing disabilities. thrift shoppers. DIY-ers. aim - VallieSong

I'd NOT Like to Meet:
people who are planning to "hit" on me. sexists. racists. homophobes. religious zealots, missionaries, or anyone else who wants to convince me I am going to hell. anyone who is always right. anyone who is always wrong. developers or other destroyers of our historical and natural resources. perpetrators of domestic violence. animal and child abusers. backyard breeders. puppymillers. fur farmers. factory farmers. PETA supporters. (unless you are willing to be educated.)
Why am I anti-PETA?
PETA wants to ban pit bulls!

Please, learn all you can about an organization before lending them your support. High-ranking members of PETA were also recently convicted for animal cruelty.

The Truth About PETA is just one of many websites showing the other side of the story. PETA certainly does have some good impact, but there are other organizations much more worthy of support!

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Animal Breed Zip Code

Music:

indie, 80s-early 90s alternative, 80s-90s emo, oi, twee, new wave, shoegazing, some goth, electro, folk, whatever - current playlist (in no particular order): Archers of Loaf, Knapsack, The Swans, Gary Numan, Prefuse 73, Hum, Butthole Surfers, Antarctica, Joy Division, Cocksparrer, Death in June, Camera Obscura, This Mortal Coil, Einsturzende Neubauten, Ted Leo, American Analog Set, June of 44, Big Black, Legendary Pink Dots, Rilo Kiley, Q and not U, Tortoise, Murder by Death, Husker Du, Current 93, Portishead, Soft Cell, Engine Down, Cocteau Twins, Cursive, New Order, Psychic TV, Public Image Ltd., Information Society, Covenant, Christian Death, Spoon, Milemarker, Magnetic Fields, Bjork, The Pixies, Depeche Mode, The Church, The Jam, Velocity Girl, Mission of Burma, The Cure, The Clash, Low, The Dirty Three, Spaceman 3, Sinead O'Connor, The Cranberries, Notwist, Sonic Youth, Afghan Whigs, Interpol, Blake Babies, Tear Garden, Spiritualized, VNV Nation, The Damned, Modern Lovers, Aerogramme, Refused, Belle and Sebastian, The Delgados, Quicksand, Rival Schools, 90 Day Men, Radio 4, 7 Seconds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, David Bowie, Neu!, Blonde Redhead, Camouflage, TV on the Radio, Do Make Say Think, Sensefield, Saint Etienne, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elliott Smith, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Royal City, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Don Caballero, Beck, Gary Jules, Slint, Stereolab, Wolfsheim, Guided by Voices, Fifteen, Gabin, Red House Painters, Mark Kozelek, Wire, Technician, Ministry, Me Without You, Face to Face, The Casualties, Six by Seven, Radiohead, Slowdive, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ms. John Soda, I am Kloot, Radiohead, Native Nod, Dillinger Four, John Vanderslice, Psychadelic Furs, Bloc Party, Black Eyes, Underworld, Exploited, Moonbabies, Bauhaus, Northern Liberties , Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Duran Duran, Nation of Ulysses, Agent Orange, Superchunk, U2, REM, Split Enz, Catherine Wheel, The Stone Roses, The Dickies, Blondie, Ride, Tones on Tail, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Autechre, The Crystal Method, Propellerheads, Social Distortion, The Sounds, The Cars, Everything but the Girl, Pop Will Eat Itself, Dandy Warhols, Sigur Ros, Buzzcocks, Violent Femmes, Arab Strap, David Hurn, The Libertines, The Constantines, Smashing Pumpkins, Trans Am, June Panic, Pleasure Forever, Coheed and Cambria, Brazilian Girls, The Dears, Fuzzbox, The Bangles, Echo and the Bunnymen, Adam Ant, Elvis Costello, Pet Shop Boys, The Replacements, The 4-skins, Hefner, Jazz June, Blur, Fatboy Slim, Foo Fighters, Moby, Oasis, For Stars, DJ Qbert, Rocket from the Crypt, Front Line Assembly, Simon and Garfunkel, Run DMC, and more

Movies:

24 Hour Party People, 28 Days Later..., Acacia, All the Little Animals, Amelie, Amores Perros, Brazil, The Butcher Boy, Children of Men, The City of Lost Children (La Cité des Enfants Perdus), Delicatessen, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fahrenheit 451, Full Metal Jacket, Kafka, Kill Bill, The Meaning of Life, Misery, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Night of the Living Dead, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nosferatu, Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno), Pi, Le Roi de Coeur (King of Hearts), The Royal Tenenbaums, Saving Pennsylvania, Shadows and Fog, Shaun of the Dead, The Shining, Silence of the Lambs, Stranger than Fiction, Twelve Monkeys, Vertigo, Wallace and Gromit movies

Television:

PBS, CourtTV, Independent Lens, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Law & Order, Animal Precinct, Frontline, Antiques Roadshow, NOVA, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but mostly I wish to "kill your television"

Books:

the ones I'm writing but have yet to finish... Margaret Atwood, John Berger Ways of Seeing, Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage, Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ralph Ellison Invisible Man, Erich Fromm The Sane Society, William Golding Lord of the Flies, Gunter Grass Local Anaesthetic, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Heller Catch-22, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, James Herriot, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, Henry James, George Orwell, Dorothy Parker Arrangement in Black and White, Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wall Paper, Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Ran with the Wolves, Edgar Allan Poe, J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, Elie Wiesel Night, Edith Wharton, E.B. White, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway

Heroes:

no man can be my hero...