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Joel

I am, therefore you Shut Up.

About Me

I'm Joel. I'm short, sardonic, sarcastic and I spend the majority of my life behind a piano. I'm a professional musician - which means I actually earn a living by composing and playing music - I do not live in my mother's basement and I do not work in a pub. Though I do primarily consider myself a songwriter, I'll be honest and say that I make the majority of my income through composition and arranging. I'm currently scoring a British film called "A Dying Breed", which you'll all be able to see next year. I hate people who can't spell, punctuate, or who restrict their vocabulary to pre-teen levels. I value intelligence and honesty above most anything else, and despise the witless anachronisms of the puerile mind. I really don't need lots of friends, if you want to add me for no particular reason, go add my band!

My Interests

Anything musical will pique my interest, as will all forms of literary or cerebral entertainment.

I'd like to meet:


Anyone with talent or any creative verve. Those that understand the epigram; "No one ever drowned going overboard for something they believe in".

Music:

I'll listen to anything with a melody, from Mozart, Wagner and Chopin, through to Pearl Jam, Queen, Three Days Grace and Jellyfish. I'm particularly fond of the piano greats - Billy Joel, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ben Folds would be three particularly shining examples of musicians with that accolade.

Movies:

If you can get me to sit down for two hours straight and watch a film without falling asleep or getting up and doing something else, I'll buy you a beer.

Television:

I haven't owned a television in years - watching television is like putting your brain on autopilot. If I wanted mental chewing gum, I'd read a Dan Brown novel.

Books:

Jasper Fforde, Iain Banks, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Will Self, Alice Sebold, Elfriede Jelniek, William Gibson, John Fowles, Patrick Suskind, Paulo Coelho... The list is almost endless.

Heroes:

Bartolomeo Cristofori, Wagner, Chopin, Ben Folds, Billy Joel - anyone who took what they had and made something outstanding of themselves.z