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Joel

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About Me

UN'OPERA ROMANTICA: An ongoing storyPerhaps I should start at the beginning. Well, that would take far too long, and most of of it would be quite uninteresting to the bulk of you anyhow. So I have lived, mostly well, thanks in large parts to the friends and family that I have managed to accumulate over the years. I recently (as of June 07) moved back to Washington state after an extended stay in Arizona. I left some very good friends there, and likely the only woman I would have considered wedding. I did this mostly to resume my post as a resident aspiring musician. But i have also regained some of my prior friends, and it's damn good to be home.Anything else you want to know can be found on my Livejournal which is where all my postings go anyway... Seriously, you should start an effing Livejournal too, it's free, and the postings are much more fun to deal with than MySpace's blog setup.

My Interests

Rock and Roll, Pissing off theater roofs, My Lady, Guitars and microphones. Suit jackets, Scotch, albert camus, bellevue, billy joel, british anything, che guevara, children of the revolution, chuck taylors, class, clothes, cole porter, comics, commies, creation, cuba, dashiel hammet, double entendre, edward gory, eurotrash, evil, falling for you, folk, frank black, gibson, heroin chic, hipsters, hot moments, hot rod lincoln, humphrey bogart, jd salinger, jean genet, jim carroll, joe strummer, johnny cash, kansas, kurt vonnegut, lenora, les paul, lightning bugs, link wray, lou reed, low fi, making music, marylin monroe, new wave, nick cave, no wave, outlaws, patches, plymouth fury, poetry, psychobilly, punk, ready made, repo man, reverend horton heat, richard hell, richard sala, robert browning, rockabilly, scrabble, seattle, sg, shane mcgowan, skinny boys, skinny girls, skinny ties, social distortion, songs about murder, spookys, stiff records, style, telecaster, television, the 80's, the big takeover, the rain, the wasteland, thinking twice, tom robbins, tom waits, trivial pursuit, true dreams of wichita, unrequited love, vespa, victorian anything, victorian gothic artwork, vox ac30, waking up dead, wizard, woody allen, zombies

I'd like to meet:

Tom Waits, John Lurie, Dennis Hopper, the Marquis DeSade, Mina Murray, Jack fucking Burton, Gracie Law, Billy Clinton (yes the ex president), Shane MacGowan, Father Time, Mother Goose, anyone with a last name of "Grimm", british girls with cockney accents, irish girls. Green eyes, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, Andy, Brendan Beehan, Albert Camus (not because of his philosophy stuff though, mostly just cause he looked so DAMN cool), Chris Onstad, Roast Beef, Gurney, NICK CAVE (especially "boys next door" era), Jack White, MEG white, Nick Zinner, Karen O, Joan Jett, Kelly MacDonald (trainspotting, and if you haven't seen it "Entropy").

Music:

Nick Cave, The Murder City Devils, The Clash, The Gallows, Blue Sky Mile, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Pixies, Mudhoney, George Thorogood, Smog, Lou Reed, The Velvet underground sans Nico, Bob Dylan, The White Stripes, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, The Ramones, The New York Dolls, The Figgs, Elvis Costello, Buddy Guy, Link Wray, The Who, The Misfits, Billy Bragg, Wilco, The ROLLING FUCKING STONES!, The Cure, The Cars, The Stray Cats, Van Morrison, Them, The Violent Femmes, The Pogues, Shane McGowan, Tom Petty, The Damned, John Otway, The weakerthans.

Movies:

Dream with the fishes, The Shining, REPO MAN, Sid and Nancy, The filth and the fury, Christine, Poltergeist 1 and 2, Wirey Spindel, If lucy Fell, Wild at Heart, Crybaby, Sleepy Hollow, Roadracers, A Clockwork Orange...

Books:

The Stranger - Albert Camus, Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger, Raise High the roof beam carpenter - JD Salinger, Nine Stories - JD Salinger, oh fuck it... all JD Salinger stuff. The Amber series - Roger Zelazny, A night in the lonesome october - Roger Zelazny, The Dark Tower series - Stephen King, Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman, American Gods - Neil Gaiman...

My Blog

I just noticed my posts are coming fewer and farther between again...

Man, things are starting to get busy. We have our first show as The Curiosities coming up on February 2nd, and we're trying like mad to make sure we're ready for the show. We didn't get much of a chan...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:48:00 PST

We did the things

I guess maybe we won't be throwing a new years "party" after all. Not enough people showing up and what not... I think I might still want to stay home for it though, and if people want to come by, the...
Posted by Joel on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:06:00 PST

The paycheck and the damage done

Since my paycheck wasn't deposited unitl late friday, after close of business hours, my money wont clear my account until midnight tonight. Suck. The point being, I haven't paid my phone bill yet, so ...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:26:00 PST

Strange things are afoot at the circle k

Dear everyone on my myspace or LJ friends list,I have a dillema.I am still not sure what sort of festivities I want to enjoy for new year's eve. I have two options that sound good though... On the one...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:12:00 PST

Other titles include: Girls of street racing, Girls of Techno Hot Nights etc.

Most of my workday yesterday and today has been spent making bleeds for pseudo porn like this:But I mean, really, who buys this over real porn? I mean, this is MORE shameful....
Posted by Joel on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:00:00 PST

Should I?

Things I should not do today (as evidenced by how I feel after last night):Leave work early just because I feel like it.Take a 3 hour nap after leaving work early.Eat a taco bell dinner.Lose at video ...
Posted by Joel on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:46:00 PST

Why the sad face?

This morning I read an article from the NY Times about a company in Iceland that can map your genome for a measly grand, thereby noting whether you are prone to certain diseases. This is pretty cool, ...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:22:00 PST

We’ve been invited

As a band, can we be ready to play a show by February 2nd? This is a very good question. I guess it depends on how often we practice, which has not been much recently... This should be remedied. Also,...
Posted by Joel on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:06:00 PST

I got a 3/4 coat, a white shirt, my skinny tie and black hair

I've found it incredibly difficult to journal the last two days. Basically since I got back. I'm not sure why. By all rights, my weekend was active and entertaining, and full of journalable events, bu...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:58:00 PST

my musical tastes today

Today I couldn't decide what to listen to and put my Zen on shuffle... so for the next hour, I will tell you what is shuffling on my zen, regardless of embarassing guilty pleasure songs. Luckily it's ...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:07:00 PST