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Joshua Young

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About Me

Hey. I'm Joshua. Some of you know me personally, some of you don't. Oh, well. This page, i am turning into a place where i keep some of my writing.
I am going to post short stories, journal entries and a few excerps from my novels on this Myspace account... So, feel free to read what i have and give me response, feed back, whatever.
My second novel "Have You Heard of Wes Anderson?" is out now, available online or at select bookstores. See linesandblood.com for details.HAVE YOU HEARD OF WES ANDERSON? A Novel by Joshua Young.. Come sit, listen, and sing with Mike, Danny, Jenny, Steve, Ishmael, and William as these six college kids show us thier lives between classes, and thier search for anyone who knows what they know. These friends fill their worlds with obscure bands and records, independent films, crummy 24-hour restaurants, cofffee and cigarettes, and Mario Kart. So, come in and watch the bond of friendship, the bond that good art makes,and how suicide can affect a group of friends. Watch then grow, and hurt, and sign, and dance to The Faint.
Please listen, and laugh, and cry, but always (always) sing along.This is for William
$10Anyway. Thank you for dropping by. Joshua B. Young

My Interests

Writing. Reading. Film. Vonnegut. B.E.Ellis. Haruki Murakami. Raymond Carver. Joshua Marie Wilkenson, Mark Wunderlich. John Cassavetes. Terrance Mallick. David Gordon Green. Wes Anderson. PT Anderson. ...

I'd like to meet:

anyone.

Music:

Top Ten (or so): No order. Mineral, End Serenading Cursive, The ugly organ Death cab for cutie, we have the facts and we're voting yes The velvet teen, elysium Pedro the lion, it's hard to find a friend Kilmer, Reason can decieve, Faith can be misplaced, but love Sunny day real estate, Diary Brand new, deja entueda Modest mouse, the moon and antarctica Built to Spill, there's nothing wrong with love Ten Grand, this is the way to rule Elliott Smith, XOcurrently listening to Franklin for Short - the gift curse, Broken Social Scene -s/t, Damien Jurado - Newest One, Tom Waits i Mule Variations, Sigur Ros -TAKK, Belle and Sebastain - Tiger Milk, The Velvet Teen - Elysuim, more

Movies:

GEORGE WASHINGTON, all the real girls, undertow, Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, Mean Streets, Anything by the ANDERSON'S, Fight Club, Seven, Requiem for a dream, Good Will Hunting, 28 days later, Buffalo 66, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless mind, Amelie, City of God, Almost Famous, Ratcatcher, Y Tu Mama Tabien, Ameros Perros, 21 grams, The three burials of M. Estrada, The Departed, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Passenger, Me and You and Everyone we know, Noi, A very long engagment, Broken Flowers. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE. GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK. BRICK. A little miss sunshine. PRIMER. sex and lucia, lovers of the artic cirlce, breathless, 400 blows, contempt, day for night, THE DREAMERS, the prestige.

Television:

Top ten or so: Arrested Developement, chapelle show, NEWSRADIO, project greenlight, seinfield, CURB Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Lost, The Office currently watching: The Office

Books:

the perks of being a wallflower. catcher in the rye. less than zero. Survivor. The stanger. The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Bluebeard. The wind-up bird chronicle. Dance Dance Dance (or anything by Murakami) Anything by Raymond Carver. Fierce invalids home from hot climates. Kafka on the shore. demien. siddhartha. Being there. Feed. Breakfast of champions. Glamorama. Will you please be quiet please. Currently reading: Grace Paley: Enourmous Changes...

Heroes:

Haruki Murakami. Kurt Vonnegut. Bret Easton Ellis. Charlie Kuaffman. JOHN CASSAVETES, DAVID GORDON GREEN, TERRANCE MALLICK. Barry Uhl. Christopher Simpson. The Kadane Bros.

My Blog

excerpt from novel: IN THE SHADOW OF A CITY

In the Shadow of a City Joshua Young              Drew killed Jacque a week ago, I don't know, maybe two. I watched the whole thing from the hall,...
Posted by Joshua Young on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:16:00 PST

Have You Heard of Wes Anderson? A novel

My second novel, Have you heard of Wes Anderson? will be coming out on paperback soon! Lines and Blood books will be releasing this in a month or so (the exact date is not known right this second). So...
Posted by Joshua Young on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:56:00 PST