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Josh di Donato

Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?

About Me

I'm a standup comedian. Some people think I'm funny. Watch some clips here and determine for yourself. If you don't think these clips are funny, then you hate Jews. If you couldn't tell I was kidding just then, perhaps you have a low threshold for irony, or maybe you're just really homophobic. ------------------------------Look at my cool list of movies, bands and other listy things! I'm so cool! If you haven't heard of a lot of the things on my list, don't worry, not everybody can be this underground and edgy and cool and on the cutting edge. And stop hating Jews. --------------------------------NOTE: The Moustache Phase occurred during a very dark time for me, and I have those pix up here to remind myself how bad things can get. -----------------------------------I'm obsessed with making people laugh, taking polaroids (unsexy kind), karaoke, and bringing down The Man. And helping other ---------- achieve --------. ---------------------------- Let's be superficial internet friends! Send a note though. I'm not a total MySpace Friend Slut. Believe it or not, I've actually met most of the people on my list here. That may change now that I have video clips up here.------------------------------------------------------- ---- ..---------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------
You're the Rock Star!
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You Belong in 1963
1963 If you scored...1950 - 1959: You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!1960 - 1969: You are a free spirit with a huge heart. Love, peace, and happiness rule - oh, and drugs too.1970 - 1979: Bold and brash, you take life by the horns. Whether you're partying or protesting, you give it your all!1980 - 1989: Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day.1990 - 1999: With you anything goes! You're grunge one day, ghetto fabulous the next. It's all good! What Year Do You Belong In?
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My Interests

making the people laugh, righting my wrongs of wrongy wronghood, daydreaming about January 20,2009, karaoke, taking polaroids, improving my pool game.

I'd like to meet:

That dude with the hat. That lady with the scarf. Christopher Guest. James Brown. Bill Murray. Robert Altman. Robert Evans. Oliver Platt. Nick Hornby. James LeGros. James Spader. Gus Van Sant. My old friend Tom H. . Eddie Izzard. Allison Anders. Donald Roller Wilson. Wes Anderson. Paul Thomas Anderson. Loni Anderson. The Fat One of the guys on the Andersen's Pea Soup sign. Your sponsor's mama. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- BANDS REQUESTING AN ADD: Don't push it. If you really do sound like Pavement, Spoon or Smog, OK. But don't be all "We sound like a mix of the Stones and Bowie, so you'll totally love us!". ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------If you are an individual with a wish to add me to your list, and we've never met, interacted or communicated in any form, perhaps a note would be in order explaining whatever inspired you to enter the sacred bond of superficial internet friendship with me, beyond a mad grab for many many people on your list. As unlikely as it sounds, I really have met most of the people on mine. What I'm saying is - SEEMINGLY RANDOM ADD REQUEST = WRITE ME A NOTE!

Music:

Spoon, Pavement, Belle and Sebastian, Fiery Furnaces, Smog, Shaggs, Otis Redding, Velvet Underground, Zombies, Throwing Muses, Field Music, Raincoats, Slits, PJ Harvey, The Fall, Will Oldham and the Palace thing, Cat Power, Stereolab, Clash, Bob Dylan, Ween, New Pornographers, AC Newman, Captain Beefheart, Beta Band, Pixies, Flaming Lips, Devo, Blondie, Ramones, Gang of Four, Eagles of Death Metal, Lee Hazlewood, Soft Boys/Robyn Hitchcock, Nina Simone, Beastie Boys, Starlight Mints, Brian Eno, Woody Guthrie, Elliott Smith, The Jam, Casual Dots, Grandaddy, Gories, White Stripes, Television, Beck, Magnetic Fields, Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers, Nirvana, Tom Waits, Wilco, Rilo Kiley, That Dog, Joseph Spence, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Le Tigre, Hot Hot Heat, Whirlwind Heat, Nick Cave, Public Enemy, Buddy Holly, Silver Jews, Smack Dab, Beat Happening, Clay Allen, Ted Hawkins, T. Rex, Misson of Burma, De La Soul, Roxy Music, Make-Up, Jorma Whitaker, Black Sheep, A Tribe Called Quest, Camper Van Beethoven, Ex-Models, Kinks, Weezer, Ill Ease, Jonathan Fire Eater, Donovan, Tenacious D, Devandra Banhart, Dressy Bessy and the Elephant 6 groups, Foo Fighters, Tall Boys, early Liz Phair/REM/Cramps/David Bowie/B-52's/Pretenders/Billy Bragg, Michelle Shocked, Freestyle Fellowship, Kraftwerk, Uptown, Boredoms, Smiths, Ksip Spence, Neil Michael Hagerty and the Howling Hex, Interpol, Gilberto Gil, Elastica, MC Paul Barman, Syd Barrett, LCD Soundsystem, Mates of State, Troy Gregory, Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney, Bobby Conn, The Who, Mirah, Ben Kweller, Polyphonic Spree, Buzzcocks, Delgados, Suede, Breeders, Air, Mars Volta, Diamond Nights, Portishead, GBV, MBV, JSBX, TMBG, Talking Heads, Clor, Goudron, Mike The Plumber's Plumbing Wrench. I absolutely love the Beatles, but I would never list them on an internet band list, so you'll never know about that. -------------------------------------------- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- START YOUTHINK.COM QUIZ RESULTS --
What Beatle are you?
Ringo
You love to laugh & be around others. Very laid back & generous. A tad quirky though.

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Tom Waits... charismatic story-teller with a
penchant for freaky people and unusual
settings. You thrive on the concept of the
underdog coming out on top.

Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
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Movies:

Bottle Rocket, Harold and Maude, Flirting with Disaster, Spanish Prisoner, Royal Tenenbaums, The Big Lebowski, California Split, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Ghost World, Pulp Fiction, The Aristocrats, I Heart Huckabees, Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Mr. Jealousy, Kicking & Screaming, Walking & Talking, Drugstore Cowboy, Wet Hot American Summer, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, Down by Law, Rushmore, those Christopher Guest movies, Bedazzled (1967), Jackie Brown, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Five Corners, Heathers, Rumble Fish, Stranger Than Paradise, Slacker, just about anything with Bill Murray or Phillip Seymour Hoffman and half of Owen Wilson's and James LeGros' movies, all Marx Brothers movies, Kipperbang, Another Country, Metropolitan, Lolita (1962), Mulholland Drive, Starstruck (Australian New Wave musical), Eight Arms to Hold You, Fight Club, The Brinks' Job, Dr. Strangelove, Family Business (1986 Costa-Gavras), To Have and Have Not, Lake Placid, Lost in Translation, Wings of Desire, Stripes, Gas Food Lodging, A Clockwork Orange, The Bad Seed, Napoleon Dynamite, The Nanny, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Dazed & Confused, Magnolia, Election, Yellow Submarine, Near Dark, The Rapture, Psycho (1960), Safe, Tie Me Up!Tie Me Down!, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Vampire's Kiss, The Amateur (1981), Kaleidoscope, Little Murders, Sling Blade, Reel Life, The Magic Christian, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, Busting, Freebie & the Bean, Mother Jugs & Speed, Ocean's Eleven (2001), Sex Lies & Videotape, The Muppet Movie, Valley Girl, The Closet, She's So Lovely, Shadows (Cassavettes), Unprecedented, Caddyshack, OutFoxed, American Splendor, Last Days of Disco, Anchorman, The Girl on the Bridge, Mrs. Parker and The Vicious Circle, Office Space, The Paper Chase, Lost in America, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), Rollercoaster, The In-Laws (1979), Simon, Modern Romance, Glengarry Glen Ross, Paris,Texas, Joe Versus the Volcano, Dolores Claiborne, Nashville, Before Sunrise, Fahrenheit 911, Christmas in July (and everything I've seen by Preston Sturges), Head (w/ The Monkees), The 40 Year Old Virgin, and many, many more.

Television:

Upright Citizen's Brigade, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, Strangers with Candy, Simpsons, Ben Stiller Show, Fishing with John, You Bet Your Life, SCTV, first generation SNL, TV Wheel, The News Hole, Daily Show, Sports Night, White Shadow, Bosom Buddies, The Bob Newhart Show, Larry Sanders Show, Family Guy, In Search Of.

Books:

Just read Early Bird by Rodney Rothman and recommend it highly- Stuff by PD James, Hunter S. Thompson, Ted L. Nancy, Al Franken, Raymond Chandler, Nick Hornby, David Sedaris, Daniel Handler, Myla Goldberg, Pagan Kennedy, Italo Calvino, Tony Hendra, Oscar Wilde, Truman Capote, Heinrich Boll, Stephen Fry, Jose Luis Borges, Peter Cook, Robert Evans, Kurt Andersen, Jon Stewart, Tom Tomorrow, Bill Griffith, David Rees, Sabotage in the American Workplace, one big book I couldn't possibly mention the name of, Molly Ivins, Pop-up books. I would list among Derrida, Chomsky, Lacan, Mark Leyner and Pynchon amongst my favorite authors, but on account of I have never actually completed any of their books, I think it would be disingenuous. But I really want you to think I've read them.

Heroes:

Andy Kaufman, Andy Warhol, Alfred Jarry, Lord Buckley, Groucho Marx, Janeane Garofalo, David and Amy Sedaris, Al Franken, Peter Cook, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Ernie Kovacs, Bugs Bunny, Brother Theodore, and Lenny Bruce and Mitch Hedberg, minus the heroin.

My Blog

Top 24 - The NY Edition

I just changed my "Top Friends" list in tribute to my awesome work trip to New York City, USA. It includes a few New York institutions, Comedy friends and regular friends who either liv...
Posted by Josh di Donato on Tue, 22 May 2007 02:42:00 PST

Cut it out, robot fantasy ladies!

I would like to ask all the hot porn princesses who keep sending me friend requests to please stop. I know you've just moved into my area, and want to meet some new friends, and my picture is cute, an...
Posted by Josh di Donato on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:28:00 PST

Coming soon- tons of Polaroids from Coachella!

That's right, you're gonna so be able to see them, too. I thought I'd post this short thing because I'm requesting MySpace Specialness from a bunch of the people I shot this weekend. From a bunch of p...
Posted by Josh di Donato on Tue, 02 May 2006 03:00:00 PST

An Open Letter to Chris Martin of Coldplay

Dear Chris Martin, Im compelled to write you and post it here on MySpace in the hopes that this will find its way to you. Even if you never read it, Ill feel better knowing I communicated my feel...
Posted by Josh di Donato on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:39:00 PST

Why you should listen to the New Pornographers

Here's what I thought when I heard that name for a band from my friend Eric J. Lawrence- no, thanks. I am bored by pornography, why would I want to listen to a band called that? I've had experiences...
Posted by Josh di Donato on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:29:00 PST

I feel separate, different and alone, and here's why...

I have no blogs. There's a lot of shame surrounding this fact. Maybe admitting it is the first step.
Posted by Josh di Donato on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST