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drew valera

all you need is love

About Me

parents, hug your kids....they actin' crazy.

My Interests

Boston, iPod, Shows, Music, Books, Traveling, NYC, Vintage Guitars, Road Trips and Good Times

I'd like to meet:

"Rock 'n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the roll and called it rock, which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands. How could we possibly believe that? It's just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it's sort of become like professional wrestling. The fans know it's phony, but they don't care." - Tom Petty

Music:

I listen to a lot. From Stevie Wonder to Coldplay, Ted Leo to the Beatles, Minus the Bear to Oasis, Led Zeppelin to Jeff Buckley, Cake to John Legend, Iron and Wine to Usher, Elliott Smith to the Strokes....everything in between. I dig it all.

Movies:

Big
American Beauty
Garden State
Goodwill Hunting
Stay
Grandma's Boy
I heart Huckabees
Bullets Over Broadway
Snatch
Blow
In Good Company
United States of Leland
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Office Space
Say Anything
Anchorman
Wedding Crashers
Stranger Than Fiction
High Fidelity
The Jacket
Fight Club
Super Troopers
Signs
Walk the Line
Almost Famous
Napoleon Dynamite
Old School
Se7en
Family Guy (the movie)
Donnie Darko
SAW trilogy
and tons more..

Television:

Six Feet Under, Entourage, Weeds, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Flight of the Conchords, Man vs. Wild, Dirty Jobs, That 70's Show, The Office, The Sundance Channel, and I usually just leave the Discovery Channel on..

Heroes:

whoever invented "LOL"

My Blog

9/11

I need to say something. I just saw a commercial for a 20 dollar bill made of silver. The front looks like a normal 20 dollar bill but made of silver, and the back has the twin towers with the numbers...
Posted by drew valera on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:26:00 PST

the classics

Sometimes I have trouble listening to classic albums. There's some albums out there that rest within their plastic cases in stores or beneath CD collections... or find shelter and safety within ipods....
Posted by drew valera on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:38:00 PST

the problem with people today is...

we take everything for granted.Nobody gets excited anymore for anything because there's no more wonder. We have everything at our fingertips and all the things that once seemed like luxury, is now jus...
Posted by drew valera on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:01:00 PST