Joe - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I used to like cold days, cold truths, staying up all night, obscurantism, avoiding sunlight, drinking until I couldn't remember, the temptation of suicide, fucked-up situations and the refusal to play the game.I still have a fondness for all those things (the last remains fundamental), but I can now delight in their opposites too.In explanation:"'If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.' That's what they used to say. What I used to say was, 'If you can walk, you can walk aimlessly all day. If you can talk, you can talk endlessly about nothing in particular.'" - Aaron Cometbus

My Interests

Old cartoons (Felix the Cat, Flip the Frog, Betty Boop, old Disney, MGM, Warner Bros etc). Fanzines. Writing. Film making. Staying up all night. DIY & DIT. Artists: Chaim Soutine. Otto Dix. UB Iwerks. Richard Dadd. Dave McKean. Charles Crumb. Pablo Picasso. Andy Warhol. Daniel Clowes. Robert Crumb. Sophie Crumb. Arthur Rackham. John Kricfalusi. Tove Jansson. George Herriman. Laith Bahrani - www.monkeehub.com - . Creature(Nicky Green). Poets: Arthur Rimbaud. Philip Larkin. David Gascoyne ('Night Thoughts). T.S. Eliot. Charles Reznikoff. Comte de Lautreamont. Lewis Carroll.

I'd like to meet:

Judy Harris, and thank god I met her.

Music:

The Pogues, Bikini Kill, Syd Barrett, Dwarves, Joanna Newsom, Dicks, The Stuck-Ups, Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, The Smiths, Tori Amos, Sex Pistols, Noel Thrasher, Patti Smith, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Buff Medways, Beat Happening, Shane MacGowan and the Popes, Marilyn Manson (coma black is one of the best abuse songs ever written), Janis Joplin, Iguana Nights, Cat Power, Buddy Holly, Billy Childish, Peter Gabriel, Dr Feelgood, Joan Jett, Atari Teenage Riot, Lou Reed, Flipper, Bangs, Jimi Hendrix, The Frumpies, Nirvana, The Beatles, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ramones, Remainz, Blag Flag, Mika Miko, Screaming' Jay Hawkins' Blind Willie McTell, Throbbing Gristle, The Carpenters, Hound Dog Taylor, Le Tigre, Dexys Midnight Runners, Captain Beefheart, The Ronettes, Chuck Berry, Lydia Lunch, Eddie Cochran, Carly Simon, Robert Johnson, Roach Motel, Furious George, Woody Guthrie, Earth, Babes in Toyland, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Sahara Hotnights, Muddy Waters, Julie Ruin, Bob Dylan, Pixies, Kate Bush, Joy Division, Hole, Carole King, Frank Zappa, The Yardbirds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Shangri-Las, The TrashWomen, The Cramps, BJM, Patsy Cline...

Movies:

David Lynch. Woody Allen. Midnight Cowboy. A Streetcar Named Desire. If I Should Fall From Grace. Pinocchio. Volver. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Rock N Roll High School. The Last Picture Show. Mary Poppins. Don't Look Now. Dawn of the Dead. Shock Corridor. Five Easy Pieces. Lilya 4 Ever. Dog Day Afternoon. The Return of the Living Dead. Live! Tonight! Sold Out! Once Upon a Time in America. City Lights. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Akira. Casablanca. Crumb. Duck Soup. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Saturday Night, Sunday Morning. Dumbo. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Stranger than Paradise. Kurt & Courtney. Dead Man's Shoes. Exotica. The Hours and Times. Mean Streets. Buffalo 66. Requiem for a Dream. Phantom of the Paradise. All the crappy TV films I watched when I couldn't sleep.

Television:

Twin Peaks. Seinfeld. Freaks and Geeks. Gilmore Girls. The World At War. Even Stevens. I'm Alan Patridge. Any sitcom that's actually good (quite a rarity).

Books:

John Fante. Richard Yates. Emily Bronte. John Steinbeck. Tove Jansson. Franz Kafka. Dee Dee Ramone. William Burroughs. Lester Bangs. George Tabb. Lewis Carroll. Aaron Cometbus.

My Blog

What does this poem mean to you?

The clown laughed so hardHe took the jeers as cheers ofValidationEach laughAn indicationOf a job well done.*(Written in ten seconds when I was 18, then recited to some rather disturbed hallmates all o...
Posted by Joe on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:39:00 PST

"Life Is Good!" - MM

We must remember that.A big THANK YOU to:Judy (who saved my life), MM (I hope you know how cool you are, and thanks for the earphones I'm currently wearing), Nat (we went through the mill together), C...
Posted by Joe on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:16:00 PST

Lyrics Are Better Than Poetry. Two - In My Life *(Annotated)

There are places I remember All my life, though some have changed *(Poons, The old Intrepid Fox, Exeter, nearly all the houses in Oxshott) Some forever, not for better *(never for better) Some have g...
Posted by Joe on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:39:00 PST

Lyrics Are Better Than Poetry. One. - Ballad Of A Thin Man

You walk into the roomWith your pencil in your handYou see somebody nakedAnd you say, "Who is that man?"You try so hardBut you don’t understandJust what you’ll sayWhen you get homeBecause ...
Posted by Joe on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:04:00 PST