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Josh A.

everyone has their reasons

About Me

i enjoy leaving this country, film, and history and philosophy written by dead people. drink when i can. sleep when i can. i'm writing the great american novel, with scratch and sniff pictures. the united states highway system fascinates me. so do the mongols. i have no real plans.

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My Interests

Pillaging. Finger Painting. Reading. Arson. Whiskey. Cattle Farming. Film. Player Pianos. Old People Who Tell Old Stories. What Goes On In The Margins of Life. Breathing...

I'd like to meet:

Charlie Chaplin. My great-grandfather. Jesse James. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jim Jarmusch. The Man Who Killed Kennedy. Jack the Ripper. Baudelaire. Andy Griffith. Hank Williams.

Music:

tom waits, do make say think, sinatra, Thelonious Monk, QOTSA, bing crosby, beastie boys, Woody guthrie, allman brothers, explosions in the sky, lightnin hopkins, townes van zandt, hank sr., elvis, ella fitzgerald, radiohead, cash, the stanley brothers, wu tang clan, and bob dylan.

Movies:

they are good things. I watch them all the time. new, old,French, Russian, informative, pornographic ... makes no difference. La Haine, Pan's Labyrinth, Band of Brothers, 8 1/2, The Return, Bande a Part, Rope, Children of Men, Ghostbusters 2, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Nashville, Three Stooges stuff, Mean Streets, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Hoosiers, Uzak (Distant), The Royal Tennenbaums, Rear Window, Stripes, Layer Cake, Man Bites Dog, Iklimer, Tombstone, The Great Escape, Rules of the Game, Dead Man, Stranger then Paradise, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, Three Amigos, Being There

Books:

I believe in books, yes. Read them whenever I can. All kinds. Ferlinghetti, Eisenstein, Camus, Baudelaire right now.

Heroes:

all dead.