Overzealous shutterbugs and text junkies, have some respect. You're at a show for a reason, turn the phones off and listen up. (00:40)

Val’s band members include a tight group of hand selected, old friends, drummer Eric Micali, Wayne Dorrell on guitar and keys and bassist Chris Lucas. (00:38)

From ’Human Behavior’ to ’Earth Intruders’, Val has always been obsessed with Ms. Guomundsdóttir. (00:24)

Teen angst combined with canine-like crooning resulted in Val’s first musical masterpiece- Gray. (00:32)

Screw global warming skeptics, it’s not going to hurt anyone if you are environmentally active and aware.

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All Val need is ‘On Top of Spaghetti,’ ’This Old Man’ and ‘Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea,’ and he’ll be all ready for a preschool jamboree tour. And, UI promises to be there.

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Love him or hate him, Michael Moore has a point that universal healthcare is compelling. Will it take having America in a dire place in order to understand that affordable (or free) healthcare is necessary?

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There’s always one closet brain in every high school burnout crew, and that was Val. (00:28)

The scariest thing in music today is that it's turning into X's and O's rather than that something you can touch and hold. That and the fact that today's youth think it's free.

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New York terrestrial radio is flooded with frustratingly conservative jocks like O’Reilly and Savage that boil Val’s blood daily. (00:21)