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Joe

The ludicrously tragic... like when a clown dies.

About Me

That's why they call them 'business socks'.

My Interests

Music, literature, science, comics, video games, sci fi, board games, shiny things, pieces of string

I'd like to meet:

Real, honest-to-god ninjas.

Music:

Sunny Day Real Estate, the Mountain Goats, the Faint, Guided by Voices, Plastic Mastery, Neutral Milk Hotel, John Vanderslice, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Low, Timb, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, the Pixies, Beck, the Rapture, Belle & Sebastian, Aphex Twin, Man... or Astro-Man?, the Decemberists, the Rolling Stones, the Velvet Underground, Interpol, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Atom and his Package, Nirvana, the Kills, Barcelona, the Magnetic Fields, Pink Floyd, ...And You Will Know us by the Trail of the Dead, Bob Dylan, the Clash, Elliott Smith, Pedro the Lion, the Promise Ring, the Refused, the (International) Noise Conspiracy, the Gossip, Yo La Tengo, the Divorce, Jandek, The Arcade Fire, the Microphones/Mt. Eerie, and that's all I can think of right now

Movies:

Being John Malkovich, Fight Club, Night of the Living Dead, the Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Memento, 2001, Pootie Tang, Brazil, Pi, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wild Zero, the Boondock Saints, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, and basically anything with zombies in it.

Television:

Twin Peaks, Fishing with John, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, The State, The Simpsons, Futurama, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Red Dwarf, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Arrested Development, 6 Feet Under, Dead Like Me, The Sopranos, Lexx

Books:

The Stranger, anything by Charles Bukowski, Edgar Allen Poe, Dean Young, Alain Moore, or Franz Kafka, Maus, the Sandman, Catch a Star by Timothy White

Heroes:

Batman, Richard Feynman, Jack/Tyler Durden, Bender, Homer Simpson, Gamera, Godzilla

My Blog

Married Life

It's pretty good at 1 month!
Posted by Joe on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:36:00 PST

1 Word Quiz

Oh, I do so love internet quizzes...1. Where is your cell phone?Table 2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend? Maya 3. Your hair? Short 4. What are you doing? Typing 5. Your father? Seattle 6. Your favorite...
Posted by Joe on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:13:00 PST

It's tiny, but...

The chance is that Maya and I will be moving to Evanston in a couple of years.  There's also chances of Baltimore and Philly.
Posted by Joe on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:22:00 PST

Things you could buy me, if you really wanted.

    1) Nintendo Wii    2) Lego Mindstorms (I have a robotics project in mind)    3) Assorted circuitry-resistors, transistors, potentiometers, BNC connecto...
Posted by Joe on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:20:00 PST

St. Joseph's Day

Is Monday the 19th.  Wow... I need to start cookin'.
Posted by Joe on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:29:00 PST

I do love surveys

1. WHAT CURSE WORD DO Y0U USE THE MOST?I love 'em all. 2. DO YOU OWN AN IPOD? A-yup.3. WHAT PERSON ON YOUR TOP 8 DO YOU TALK TO THE MOSTMaya, by default, since we're shackin' up. 4. WHAT TIME IS Y0...
Posted by Joe on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:29:00 PST

Not to insult y'all

    But of all my myspace friends:1) at least 38.3% of you have pictures taken of you, by you, quite possibly for the express purpose of posting on myspace (72.3% of these blatantly tak...
Posted by Joe on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:00:00 PST

This will NOT be a bulletin

1. WOULD YOU GET BACK WITH YOUR EX IF YOU COULD?Which one?  Maybe one or two of them.  None now that I'm in a stable, committed relationship.  I think I'd lose a thorax.2. WHAT KIND OF ...
Posted by Joe on Wed, 31 May 2006 01:37:00 PST

Nothing against anyone

I just don't feel like rearranging my "Top 8".  There are people who I never see in there, but, eh, it's just silly.
Posted by Joe on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:17:00 PST

Are they really?

Are they really remaking Slither, the movie about killer worms?  Ugh.
Posted by Joe on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:09:00 PST