i throw small children around during the day and come home to make drawings and paintings of people at night and on the weekends.
you can view my art at www.joeybates.com
art, i can't see myself not makings stuff. it's not a hobby it's bigger and as of late it is all that's on my mind.
i also have a love for music. i can't breathe without what i listen to.
um...other people...and patrons to help me pay off that enormous school loan of mine. ok, im really looking for people to hang around with in Seattle. i just graduated from college and moved back home for a school year or so. so im looking for people to actually hang out with...specifically in the real world and not online. “i mean your really nice and cute, but andy is hot and cut, cut from marble...“ (if you know the movie im quoting we will most likely get along.
all time quarterback, badly drawn boy, the beatles, beck, ben folds five, belle & sebastion, ben & bruno, beulah, blonde redhead, blur, bonnie prince billy, built to spill, buffalo springfield, cake, camera obscura, cat stevens, the chameleons, chet baker, cursive, damien rice, the dandy warhols, darren hanlon, death cab for cutie, the decemberists, the delays, denison witmer, dismemberment plan, the doves, duncan sheik, elliott smith, four tet, frente, gillian welch, godspeed you black emperor, gomez, gorillaz, hayden, the helio sequence, hood, interpol, iron and wine, jeff buckley, jen wood, jens lekman, jude, julie doiron, kenna, kings of convenience, long winters, low, m. ward, the magnetic feilds, the microphones, mia doi todd, mirah, modest mouse, mogwai, mojave 3, the negro problem, nick drake, pearl jam, pet shop boys, peter bjorn & john, pinback, placebo, the postal service, the push stars, quasi, rachel, red house painters, saturday looks good to me, the shins, simon and garfunkel, sleater-kinney, the smashing pumpkins, sneaker pimps, sodastream, sondre lerche, stereolab, the stills, sufjan stevens, sun kil moon, sunny day real estate, tom thumb, the whitest boy alive, wilco, yo la tengo
amelie, wet hot american summer, rushmore, the royal tenenbaums, fargo, the big lebowski, the nightmare before christmas, all the real girls, jesus' son, harold and maude, just friends
what's that? i have a few television shows on dvd including aeon flux and home movies(----most underrated show of our time)
right now, the book of embraces by eduardo galeano, anything by: julio cortazar, saul williams, denis johnson, j.d salinger, david sedaris