Hi there! My real name is Fred Van Vactor. If you had a name like that, wouldn't it make sense to have your own web-site? That's exactly what I thought! Hello and welcome to fredvanvactor.com. Make yourself at home. There's plenty of food and drinks in the fridge for you all. Oh yeah, can you do me a favor or two?

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Dear Diary, 

Today I woke up on the floor (comfortably) at my friend Lisa's house in Eugene.  This was a good thing!  The night before she made me a fancy dinner of shrimp curry, rice, and asparagus It was so good!  We also drank some tasty chilled white wine and watched the movie; Forgetting Sarah Marshall on the computer.  I had seen it once before, but had forgotten how funny it was.  At one point, I think some chilled wine came out my nostrils.  Lisa made a warm fire in the wood stove.  My belly was full and I slept like a log.  

Today I drove down to little ole Eugene to put some posters up for my upcoming gig this weekend. I had just fixed the windshield wipers not long ago, and must not have secured things down properly. While driving down the I-5 South at 70 miles per hour, one of the little plastic grids above the hood came loose and flew over my Nissan around milepost 219. I didn't even flinch. I was too busy concentrating on drinking red wine, text messaging, taking bong hits, and mooning a passing School bus.

(wrote this a few days ago..)

When envisioning this website, I pictured myself constantly posting all kinds of stuff like: pictures, videos, ditties, daily blabbering.  I am apparently slacking!  Well now that it’s officially the New Year, it’s time to give myself a little dose of boot camp discipline! To quote my sisters words-