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Joe Heaps

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About Me

"If all else fails, you can always serve as a horrible example"

CLICK HERE to see available prints published by the Bridgeman Art Library!



My Interests

painting, and everything else

Music:

Punk rock!, Black Flag, Barnyard Playboys, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Unsane, Ween, Reid Paley, Kings County Queens, Al Duvall, Public Enemy, Monster Magnet, Skynyrd, Hendrix, Stones, Black Sabbath, Flipper, Bad Brains, Germs, Husker Du, Kinks, Circle Jerks, Beastie Boys, Biz Markie, Digital Underground, Descendents, Ramones, Dead Boys, Stooges, Dictators, Unband, Foetus, Marvin Gaye, Motorhead, Zeppelin, Kreisor, Jimmy Nations, Paleface, Saint Bastard, Woman, Missing Dog, Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh, Willie, Johnny Cash, Flat Duo Jets, Johnny Winter, the Atomic Bitchwax, Fu Manchu

Movies:

Life of Brian, Raising Arizona, Big Lebowski, Blazing Saddles, Robo Cop, Dead Man, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Starship Troopers, Repo Man, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Buffalo 66, Adaptation, Taxi Driver, Pope of Greenwich Village, Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, Air Guitar Nation, Team America, Caddyshack, westerns, anything with Rockets Redglare

Television:

football

Books:

Dostoevsky, Catch-22, Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Gentlemanly Repose by Mike Ruffino, Iliad, Odyssey, Herodotus, Gogol, The Dwarf by Per Lagerkvist, books about artists, history, Voltaire, Twain, Poe, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell, Kafka, Huxley, Thurber, Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor, Ambrose Bierce, Sinclair Lewis, DeLillo, Vonnegut, Exley, Norman Mailer, Chomsky, Confederacy of Dunces, archy and mehitabel, Camille Paglia, Denis Johnson, Bill Bryson, D. Sedaris, Please Kill Me

My Blog

Cheryl Dunn interview

This is from Whitehotmagazine.comCheryl Dunn moves pretty fast.She's a veteran photographer and filmmaker who knows how to get to know people.By taking advantage of opportunities, following her instin...
Posted by Joe Heaps on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:06:00 PST

Charley Friedman interview

This is from whitehotmagazine.comCharley Friedman is a badass artist and a heck of a guy. We met at the Good World on Orchard Street, and discussed art and life over Stoli martinis.Joe Heaps Nelson:&n...
Posted by Joe Heaps on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:56:00 PST

Heaps interviews artist Nelson Loskamp for the Internets

This is from whitehotmagazine.comNelson Loskamp, interviewed by Joe Heaps NelsonNelson outside his studio on Classon Avenue, BrooklynI reckon I have known Nelson Loskamp for about nine years. In the ...
Posted by Joe Heaps on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:53:00 PST

Old Skool...Double Trouble, from "Wild Style"

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Posted by Joe Heaps on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:52:00 PST

"So Come On" by the Atomic Bitchwax

The Atomic Bitchwax...
Posted by Joe Heaps on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:51:00 PST

Heaps interviews art dealer Don Carroll for the internets

Don Carroll of Jack the Pelican Presents....Interviewed by Joe Heaps Nelson(this is from white hot magazine dot com)There was a group show in the next room, and a video soundtrack of screaming guys pr...
Posted by Joe Heaps on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:15:00 PST

Patches

       Down by the river that flows by the coal yards stand wooden houses withshutters torn down. There lives a girl everybody calls Patches. Patches mydarling of old Shantytown.W...
Posted by Joe Heaps on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:09:00 PST

Surfing Armageddon, by George Tabb

George Tabb's book, Surfing ArmageddonGeorge is the best. George is hilarious, wicked, and smart.Highly recommended....
Posted by Joe Heaps on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:52:00 PST