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Joshua

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I like motorcycles and I do not like receiving junk mail.

My favorite computer game is Darklands, a 1992 PC role-playing game set in the 15th century Holy Roman Empire. It rulz.

John Singer Sargent owned.

I am weak like a baby bird.

My Interests

Video games, RPGs, music, eating at Gypsy Den every day, eating at Rutabegorz every other day, yoga, peacocks, history, movies, sabre fencing, beetles, German cars, Italian motorcycles and scooters, British motorcycles, cats in clothes, dachshunds, ducks, snails.

I'd like to meet:

People from this world

Music:

Bjork, Joanna Newsom, P.J. Harvey, Amon Tobin, Goldfrapp, Portishead, Martina Topley-Bird, Feist, Dead Can Dance, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dawn Upshaw, Imogen Heap, Calexico, Sparta, Lamb, The Mars Volta, Beck, Radiohead, David Bowie, Erykah Badu, Bit Shifter, Amy Winehouse, Morphine, James Taylor, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Art of Noise, Mandy Patinkin, Billie Holiday, Mogwai, Phil Ochs, Kings of Convenience, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Bill Callahan, Noah Georgeson, Cat Power.

Movies:

Amelié;, Brazil, Miller's Crossing, Lawrence of Arabia, The Mission, Donnie Darko, Labyrinth, Alien, Aliens, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, The Prestige, Damage, The Dark Crystal, Spirited Away, Raising Arizona, The Red Violin, The Princess Bride, Commando, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Duellists, Ronin, Hero, A Fistful of Dollars, The Thing, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Big Trouble In Little China, Smilla's Sense of Snow, The Outlaw Josey Wales, A Very Long Engagement.

Television:

Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Books:


The Phantom Tollbooth

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

The Song of Roland

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles

Smith of Wootton Major

Heroes:


Cato the Younger

Boudicca

Diogenes of Sinope

Banksy

Keita Takahashi

Maestro Giorgio Santelli

Tomonobu Itagaki

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Umberto Eco

Joan of Arc

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Anne Sexton

Stephen Sondheim

My Blog

paige and the cultists/zombies and my triumph

I had one dream last night... though it may have been two, back-to-back.  I was in a city on (I think) the east coast.  I was with some other dudes whom I did not know.  We wound up get...
Posted by Joshua on Fri, 09 May 2008 12:15:00 PST

surveyz ~*

How late did you stay up last night and why?Midnight.  I watched House and then hit the sack.What is the first thing you thought when you got up?What is Sesame doing?Who were you with last Friday...
Posted by Joshua on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:43:00 PST

taxes, credit cards, PMI, insurance and eyes full of gasoline

Well, after all is said and done with taxes, credit card debt, and all that malarkey, it looks like I wind up coming out ahead.  April 2008 is a month free of credit card debt, and it looks like ...
Posted by Joshua on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:37:00 PST

cb350: the road to victory

As I draw close to wrapping up the minor issues with my CB350, I've realized that I'm going to miss it when it's gone. Compared to the CB350, my R60/5 is a rusty, clattering deathtrap. I'm sure that t...
Posted by Joshua on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:58:00 PST

torture/enhanced interrogation

On a message board, I came across a thread in which the participants were debating the use of torture/enhanced interrogation by our current government and its agents.  Someone linked to an "artic...
Posted by Joshua on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:07:00 PST

the replacement for the CB350: the R60/5

The ’73 CB350 I picked up is pretty close to running as it should.  Next weekend, I’m going to take a stab at the carb jets, cross my fingers, and pray to the god I don’t believ...
Posted by Joshua on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:47:00 PST

cb350g = running, coughing

Yesterday and today, my sister and nephew visited.  We got to hang out and chill, and Alex got to chase Sesame around the apartment non-stop.  We also watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly...
Posted by Joshua on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:39:00 PST

obsidian all-blacks: the road to redemption

Okay, so here’s the deal: we are now in our third season, our second in the B2 league. The City of Irvine has its soccer leagues broken down into four categories: A1, A2, B1, and B2. B2 = chumps...
Posted by Joshua on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST

memery survey shit

I am very busy so I will do this survey!1. Was your last kiss a mistake?I don’t think so.2. When was the last time you cried really, really hard?About four years ago.3. If the world was were goi...
Posted by Joshua on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:44:00 PST

fucking cb350

I seriously have no damned idea why my CB350 is not starting.  According to the previous owner, it was running fine just before she trucked it from its storage garage to her place.  When I s...
Posted by Joshua on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:36:00 PST