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Joe

esse quam videri

About Me

Camping, whiskey, running, fire, friends, respect, parties, promises, solitude. I met my match and it all makes sense now.

My Interests

Travel. Music. 2s. Re-inventing.

I'd like to meet:

(1) "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." -Soren Kierkegaard... (2) "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." - George Orwell... (3) "I was born with all the addictions of an artist but none of the talent."I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 .. ..

Music:

Kings of Convenience, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Velvet Underground, Motorpsycho, Sportfreunde Stiller, Death from Above 1979, Phoenix, Sam Cook, George Bush Doesn't Like Black People, Supergrass, Johnny Cash, Social Distortion, Murder by Death, Four Tet, Method Man, Otis Redding, Mos Def, Outlandish, Franz Ferdinand, Styxx, The National Bank, Van Morrison, Postal Service, CCR, early Dylan, 10 Years After, Cream,Tocotronic, The Pixies, Architecture in Helsinki, Citizen Cope, TV on the Radio, DePhazz, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, JJ Cale, Miles Davis, Ratatat, the Knife, Old 97's, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Decemberists, The Apples in Stereo, Toots and the Maytals, Yo La Tengo, K-Os, Gym Class Heroes, The View, Beethoven, Binary Star, Bloc Party, Buena Vista Social Club, Hank Williams Jr., Cut Chemist, People Under the Stairs, Datarock, Chromeo, Ok Go, Peter Bjorn and John

Movies:

are good.

Television:

SHOOT YOUR TV.

Books:

No Logo, anything by Don Blanding, Those Devils in Baggy Pants, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Fast Food Nation, A Walk Across America, Rainbow Six, Saying Yes in Defense of Drug Use, China: Friend or Foe?, The Game, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Ansel Adams, the backs of cereal boxes, Alaska, anything banned in China, A World of Strangers

Heroes:

People with mustaches, Mary Quant

My Blog

Thailand, Laos, Cambodia

4 March 2007From 20 Jan. 07 to 2 Mar. 07 I traveled through south-east Asia, allowing about two weeks for each country. This is what I remember happening.ThailandI flew from Dalian, China to Shanghai ...
Posted by Joe on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:32:00 PST

Living in China

15 November 2006It's been awhile. Yeah, I know. Of course there have been lots of things that have happened to me in the last five weeks but to be honest I'm too lazy to write about them. I don't thor...
Posted by Joe on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:28:00 PST

Trans-Mongolian Express

17 September 06Five liters of water, 1 liter of vodka, 6 oranges, 72 Baby wipes (no showers on this puppy), 7 packs of pocket tissues (no toilet paper either), an avocado, crackers, chocolate covered ...
Posted by Joe on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:41:00 PST

Trip Around the World (Russia)

17 September 06 I took a night bus from Tallinn, Estonia to St. Petersburg, Russia. The bus ride was of course not fun. We boarded at 2300 and were to arrive at 0900 the next day. Upon entering the bu...
Posted by Joe on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:40:00 PST

Trip Around the World (Denmark, France, Holland, Estonia)

1 Sept. 2006Ok. I'm a slacker. Truth be told I've done a whole slew of things in the last....... hell I don't even know when I last updated this thing. And since there is so much to cover I'm putting ...
Posted by Joe on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:59:00 PST

Trip Around the World 4.0 (Deutschland)

26 June 06I've experienced the beginning of my CIA training over the last weekend. I left for Copenhagen and forgot my passport at home in Berlin. I realized this before actually getting on the bus to...
Posted by Joe on Tue, 30 May 2006 09:16:00 PST

Trip around the world 3.0 (Nicaragua)

14 April 06 I think it's easter. I'm pretty sure it's easter but no one has told me that is. The fact that no one has been to work all week down here and huge processions of Nicas go by all day with l...
Posted by Joe on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:59:00 PST

Trip Around the World 2.0 (Honduras)

5 April 06The Woman in the Tool Shed:After about 3 days in Utila I realized It'd be a lot cheaper to rent an apartment than stay at the hotel I was at even though the hotel did have a nice pool that w...
Posted by Joe on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:36:00 PST

Trip around the world 1.0 (Guatemala)

12 March 2006 I'm trying to write this thing in order from now on. I stopped working at El Retiro about two weeks ago after partying entirely too much. I left for a few days so I could go pick Lauren ...
Posted by Joe on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:47:00 PST