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Ben Valis
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making plans with far-reaching effects
Male
29 years old
san francisco, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 11/23/2009
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ben's Interests
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| General | pumping up the party, no credit, Brazil, Panama, Japan, Africa future, enjoyable living, sunshine, rain, hiking, biking, music and more music and blown-out art and music. | | Music | Radar Brothers, Vaz, Wrangler Brutes, Silver Jews, Lungfish, Karl Blau, Bruce Springsteen, Butterglory, Crack The Sky, Panoply Academy, Midnight Oil, Most Secret Method, The Wilderness, US Maple, Unwound, Abe Vigoda, The Delfonics, Mono Mono, Sir Victor Uwaifo, Fat Day, Tom Tom Club, B52's, Ghostface, Talking Heads, Leonard Cohen, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Yound Marble Giants, Gang Of Four, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Uzeda, The Ramones, Mount Eerie, Tabukah X, Meat Puppets | | Movies | Thudercrack, Romance, Welcome to the Dollhouse, City of God, SuperTroopers, Werner Herzog, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Gaspar Noe, Czech New Wave, Dogma 95, Todd Solondz, oh wait, I'm getting redundant. | | Television | The Wire. The Sopranos. Arrested Development. Making fun of local news. Sometimes even sports, dude! | | Books | Danticat, Murakami, Kundera, Kingsolver, London, Wikipedia, The Economist. Lots of George Pelecanos lately. City of Quartz has some interesting parts. Is Kafka nuts? |
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Silver Jews, radical honesty, LACAN, ROWDYISM!, Baudrillard Discussion Society, Oh yeah, Amphetamine Reptile, HAMILTON/PARKVILLE/GARDENVILLE/BALTIORE/NORTH EAST!!!!, Naked Cult of Hickey
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ben's Details
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| Status: | Swinger | | Here for: | Serious Relationships | | Orientation: | Not Sure | | Hometown: | Baltimore | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Occupation: | san francisco taxicab driver, drummar | | Income: | $30,000 to $45,000 |
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ben's Companies
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Royal Farms Stores
Baltimore, Hamilton!, MD US
Chicken Cleaner Person
Oh god it was horrible! I was 14! Led to life of vegeterianism.
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Summer 1994
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The Small Intestine
Baltimore, next to Hamilton., MD US
Allright
PUNK ROCK SHOWS ARE THE BEST JOB EVER!!!
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June 13th 1997 Until August 2nd 1998
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One World Cafe
Baltimore, Federal Hill, MD US
Bro
It's all about handing out fliers telling people you're quitting your job, leading chants against your boss and getting crowdsurfed out of the building!
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1998 until 2p.m. Sunday March 26th 1999
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Funk's Democratic Coffee Spot
Batimore, Fells Point, MD US
Dude
It's all about getting fired (and barred from the store) for having a pie smashed in my face at the weekly poetry reading!
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Spring 1999
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Borders Books
Towson, MD US
bookseller, and, after many demotions, turned to
corporate infiltration displays from Ak Press, Seven Stories, Autonomedia, Verso, et al.
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May 1999 until January 2003. WAY too long
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Bill's Moving
Baltimore, MD US
Moving Man. Occasional Art Handler. Once I got
to shovel ice and frozen dog excrement in the freezing rain so this lady's basement wouldn't flood.
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September 2001 until July 2003
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H & M
Arundel Mills, MD US
One Day Employee
Man do I really want to work at the Gap? Don't think so.
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January 28th 2003
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Holy Frijoles
Baltimore, Hampden, MD US
host/server
The Sunday Brodeo! Jarritos. Drunk Horse. Boys. The Breeze.
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very end January 2003 until July 10th 2003.
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San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco, CA US
Every day
I ask myself this: What the hell am I doing with my life? Data entry, van driving and forklift operation are the sobering answer.
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August 2003 until August 2004
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Veterans/Arrow Cab
San Francisco, US
nothing pumps up the party
like the punk rock taxi!
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August 2004 'til Current
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