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The Anti Comma

The Anti Comma Formerly Known As Joe

About Me

The Anti Comma is a website dedicated to all things creative.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

someone who can html me.

Music:

the Clientele, Pavement, Rogue Wave, Sleepy Jackson, Simon &; Garfunkel, U2, the Zombies, A.C. Newman, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Belle &; Sebastian, the Decemberists, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Jackson, Kanye West, John Legend, Sting, Annie Lennox, Bob Dylan, Grandaddy, Radiohead, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, the Sea and Cake, My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualized, Bjork, the Talking Heads, Elliott Smith, the Kinks, Slowdive, Serge Gainsbourg, Neutral Milk Hotel, Destroyer, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Love, Ali Farka Toure, Van Morrison, Okkervil River, the Velvet Underground, the Pixies, Rod Stewart, Beulah, Manu Chao, Boards of Canada, the Orb, Guided By Voices, the Books, the Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Augie March, Islands, Django Reinhardt, Johnny Cash, Fela Kuti, Broadcast, British Sea Power, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Joanna Newsom, the Beta Band, Os Mutantes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Peter Bjorn and John, Fleetwood Mac, Marvin Gaye, the Flaming Lips

Movies:

About A Boy, American Splendor, About Schmidt, American Beauty, Annie Hall, Boogie Nights, BRICK, Ed Wood, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Forrest Gump, Ghost World, I [Heart] Huckabees, Junebug, Kids, L.A. Story, The Last Unicorn, Lost in Translation, May, Monster, Pleasantville, Pulp Fiction, Rushmore, When Harry Met Sally, Vertigo, The Woodsman, the Royal Tenenbaums, Bananas, Band of Outsiders, Breathless, the Big Lebowski, Dr. Strangelove, Clerks, Traffic, Shaun of the Dead, Saving Private Ryan, Hotel Rwanda, the Limey, Fallen Angels, the Apartment, 12 Monkeys, Following, Good Bye Lenin!, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Lost in Translation, Murder by Death, Office Space, Punch-Drunk Love, Quiz Show, Reservoir Dogs, Sideways, Sleeper, Young Frankenstein, Amelie, Rashomon, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, the Graduate, Good Night and Good Luck, Jurassic Park, La Dolce Vita

Television:

the Office (BBC and NBC), Arrested Development, Grey's Anatomy, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Colbert Report, M*A*S*H, Band of Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Nip/Tuck, Big Love

Books:

Lolita, 1984, Lord of the Flies, the Lord of the Rings, Catch-22, A Confederacy of Dunces, Ham on Rye, Slaughterhouse-Five, Post Office, Ender's Game, the Roominghouse Madrigals, On the Road, Cat's Cradle, the Inferno, Choke, the Trial

Heroes:

Writers of fiction, our grandfathers, various Englishmen up to and including Hugh Grant, Ricky Gervais, Peter Sellers, and Alasdair Maclean

My Blog

Woodrow Wilson

as the day finally drags its long legs into bed,its head pokes out over its covers,and I can see it,just over the crest of the nearest hill,over a few blocks on the nearest road headed west,and as a L...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:41:00 PST

en la guerre, part 5

hungry, nowI can see what Buk went through --one candy bar a day --and myself having only a bowl of cereal and two pop-tarts before noon, today,and it's nearly eight in the evening now,and I'm starvin...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:42:00 PST

en la guerre, part 4

the Professor and the Fool dancethe Fool his dance of blusterand the Professor his dance of courtesythe Professor in his plaid jacketthe Fool in his Castro cap, his army jacket, dreads, earringsThe Fo...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:33:00 PST

en la guerre, part 3

on every freeway,and every rail line,I watch for homeless people.you see, homeless people in downtowns,huddled in front of liquor stores and office buildings,or on freeway offramps,sign in hand,don't ...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:01:00 PST

holyshit.

10. Joanna Newsom  YsMore music needs to sound like this. And I'm not talking about her voice, or thefact that she plays a harp, but the arrangements and the style of it all& man. More lacking in tha...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:14:00 PST

en la guerre, part 2

on the way to Santa BarbaraI spot the ocean for the first time on this tripand the Clientele launch into"The House Always Wins"its jazzy, staccato beatechoing simultanteously the dull pull of the trai...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:39:00 PST

en la guerre, part 1

KLIKbouncertrasherUnderstand Local ArtistDFlierthe slogans neatly arranged one after the other along the aqueduct's wallsthe great stone rivera few young Mexican men stand outside a Home Depotand furt...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:11:00 PST

blogettin ("wii're an american band")

hahahahaha so my siblings got a Wii. if anyone else out there has got one, Wii (ahahahaha) should be friends! just ask me for the console #. all in all it's a pretty neat machine. so far I've played ...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:39:00 PST

number 65, or listening to Swan Lake

I was listening to Swan Lake right now and looking at my computer screenwhen I heard a noiseand in the mirror saw a quick flash of motion behind meand turned around, my mouth in a big "O"in time to se...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:35:00 PST

number 51, or listening to The Mountain Goats

I understand that I'm bitter,and conversely that there have been hundreds of thousandsbefore me more wronged and less bitter because of it,and it's not that I consider myself a victim,or even that I h...
Posted by The Anti Comma on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:18:00 PST