About Me

.Joshuadavid.
.Not one of "those" people.
.Other Worldly warrior...
.ART.

28, into boys, although i'm not the average stereotype. i live in san francisco and am quite the busy boy. i've always been different and i just keep getting more obscure as time goes on. but that's a good thing sometimes, right?
i get tattoos by this guy.
i'm a force to be reckoned with and no one who knows me would deny that...

me:

i have beautiful and amazing friends.
i believe that people come in all shapes and sizes, nationalities, backgrounds, and orientations, and that everyone is beautiful. i'm over all the advertisments, media, and marketing, that tells us how to look, what to wear, and what is attractive. free your mind from the machine people.
i'm into people who are, 'breaking the mold.'
i'm in love with art.
i'm a performance artist and work here in san francisco, all over the US, and internationally.
i constantly try and help people...
i'm a rare breed, half german and half korean with a splash of cherokee indian.
i'm working my shit out or trying to at least.
i'm currently living one of the most fucked up beautiful lifes ever experienced by one before. i'm sure of it.
i find beauty in most things that others would find ugly/ i have a skewed vision of what beauty is.
i always root for the underdog and i love runts the most.
it really annoys me to eat with plastic silverwear.
i enjoy the most trashy things one can enjoy as well as the most luxurious things in life all at the same time.
running out of staples really annoys me.
i'm a good tipper.
i really am a big dork and could give a shit less what people think.
i'm a free hand body piercer, and a suspension performance artist.
i'm a shapeshifter and a gender delusionist...
i'm notorious for falling asleep while people try and watch movies with me.
most people who know me think i'm nuts, i think i'm one of the most sane people i know though.
i can make a mean batch of brussel sprouts.
i'm a scorpio with a leo rising and leo moon.
i drink A LOT of tea.
i make the most funny faces in the shower when the water hits my face.
i'm a really happy person that follows my heart and am indefinitly chasing all my dreams and making them realities. i'm doing it... now it's your turn.
i have an extremely fucked up past that has only made me some type of calm and reserved gentle warrior like icon/ action figure. look for me on QVC. situations abound where i have to play docter on my friends often. i learned how to do home stitches when i was twelve. it's not uncommon for me to pop shoulders back into place at a house party where my friends have fallen off the roof.
other times i'm a terror to behold. loud and crazy, a channeler of several different personalities, complete with accents.
sometimes when everything is too much for me i fill the bathtub up and lay there with my head under the water preending like i'm a sea creature from some other planet. water is very important to me, if you don't like taking showers and baths or bodies of water then we can't be friends as you will most often find me in one. without it i lose my essence...
i think i'm obsessed with avocados.
i'm the one who will pee on you in the shower and not say anything until you notice m smiling. then we can have a pee contest.
i have a mullet.
i want to have a cocktail party where all we do is drink rum out of bottles and talk in pirate voices while we have a contest on who can rip off the most, "support our troops stickers" from cars in san francisco. the winner gets a drunkin pirate kiss from yours truly. arggg.
it makes me smile when i see two busses pass each other on the street going the opposite direction at the same time.
i believe in past lives and feel that i've lived many before i have taken this form. maybe thats why i'm so unusual.
i love sleeping to classical music playing softly in the background. it makes for astonishing dreams. i have nothing left in this life but to live them out.
my favorite thing is to go on long walks with music blaring in my headphones and get caught up in the beauty of this city, this heart, and this life.
lately i seem to be stopping everynow and then and having a silent moment of satisfaction that this is my life. you know the moments when everything slows down and that perfect song is playing and everything gets really dreamy and sureal? i live for these moments.
i'm definetly learning alot at the moment.
my life is an adventure... an epic one.
xo

My Interests

adornment, all body types, ambient music, atmosphere, art, being a piercer, bliss, deuce deuce, destroying sterotypes, dusk, eating organic only, electric nights, eleven eleven, emotional connections, epic moments, experimental music, finding broken umbrellas in the street, getting into trouble, getting real, getting dirty, ginger, graffiti, hanuman, healing, hip hop, idealism, impermanence, incredibly hot showers, infatuations, ketchup, knowing i'm not done yet... i haven't even fucking started, letting go, life, living my life to music like some twisted montage, LONDON, making out, modest beauty, modification, movement, my new business venture, pause, people who have crushes on me, people who inspire me to create or learn, positive energy exchanges, release, reminding myself daily of how blessed i am, reno, ritual, roadtrips not headtrips, sage, saki and soju, scars, shapeshifting with ease, skin, slowly tattooing my entire body, spark plugs, standing in my power or trying to, suspension, the faux, the number 11, traveling, working, working on cars, working on myself, working to stop working, working on driving you crazy, writing, and transgretions of the human heart.

I'd like to meet:

intresting people who are real, non scene, and have a pre-disposistion for getting into trouble, boys with tight jeans and hair like a girl, girls with filthy mouths, performers, freaks, club kids, circus kids, activists, normal kids, people to colaborate with, people to make out with, designers, musicians, photographers... and people to ride bikes with around the city, drink 40's in paper bags, and have wicked cuddle parties with.

I am now repping one of the most epic fashion companies i have ever been in touch with... we are ready to launch the new collection as of 5.5.08, and i hope you will check back with a link to the website and view the works of art that i would love to put in your hands, on your bodies, and in your lives.... this is just the beginning.

Music:

inserts list of pretentious bands here---

Photographers...

Floria Sigismondi, David La Chapelle, Austin Young, Marianne LaRochelle, Tina Cassatti
..

Movies:

santa sangre, across the universe, city of lost children, edward scissor hands, pan's labrynth, sweety, like water for choclate, legend, killing zoe, fight club, pillowbook, may, running with scissors, the house of yes, the secretary, chocalat, amelie, the devils backbone, night breed, the legend of leigh bowery, the 5th element, mirrormask, freeway 1 and 2, sin city, etc...

Television:

is poison.

Books:

geek love
Magazines;
Juxtapoz magazine, Add Busters, Zinc, Paper, Iam.bmezine, etc.

Heroes:

i think that you should be your own hero actually...
but here are some of my hero's
who save indigenous people and their cultures!
http://www.survival-international.org

My Blog

xo

an ex lover of me told me a story about his nephew last night...he said she asked him if he knew jeffree star... and he said... yes... (she gasped)and then she asked him if he knew RENO and he said ye...
Posted by RENO on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:37:00 PST

...to know me is to love me....

and i love you... ...
Posted by RENO on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:02:00 PST

A Show, Videos for the first time...

after much hesitation i have finally decided to post some videos of my suspension work. here's a video from BM 07' El Circo Show. Piercer Nicholas Andre of Nomad SF. Recorded by siouxzen kang. xox ...
Posted by RENO on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:14:00 PST

please watch this film.

i really think that everyone needs to watch this film, it's a little cheesy with it's editing, but the content is real. it's about time people know the truth, common knowledge is a very powerful...
Posted by RENO on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:28:00 PST

.rain.

coming home from the bar tonight (a friend was driving) i saw a pretty intense car accident. they were hopefully ok. life is precious and short people. our time here is over in an instant. honor th...
Posted by RENO on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:57:00 PST

.the I 5.

so my latest adventure ie; driving back from the outskirts of LA to san francisco... WITH MY NEW CAR! well used car that is. heh. i don't need anything fancy pants or payments to boot. i'm sorry, b...
Posted by RENO on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:14:00 PST

tales of the emergency room part two. some repitition involved as well.

ok. so update time.. wow.things have been really crazy lately. as most of you know i cut my hand in half on thanksgiving... yes almost in half. i sliced my hand in two inbetween my thumb and first fin...
Posted by RENO on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:00:00 PST

but wait it gets better...

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Posted by RENO on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:32:00 PST

when i moved to san francisco...

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Posted by RENO on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:58:00 PST

ok. so i chopped my hand in half... what now?

so i accidently chopped my hand in half with a ginzu knife on thanksgiving and spent the day in the emergency room waiting for them to put my hand backtogether. yea, don't ask... i made them give me ...
Posted by RENO on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:00:00 PST