Joshua David Lickteig - ProfilesArchive

About Me

..I need a mantra. And some orange juice. And some other things.

My Interests

Laughs, Sincerity, Organizing, Sleeping, Writing, Running a clean pizza-cutter along the counter and quickly holding it to my ear, ring-wup-buzz. Crab at the booty. 'Tain't gonna do no good.

I'd like to meet:

Kim Peek
Charles Dickens
Andy Kaufman
Michael Showalter
Zora Neale Hurston
Al Gore
Ernest Hemingway

Alfons Lickteig
David Wain
Thom Yorke
Rivers Cuomo
Megaman

Music:

Weezer, Talking Heads, Beach Boys, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Shostakovich, Wire, Television, Rentals, DEVO, Mozart, Frank Black, Joy Division, Fugazi, Kraftwerk, Pavement, Gary Numan, Elvis Costello, Depeche Mode, radiohead, Gogol Bordello, Genesis, Minutemen
Current Album Binges:
Joy Division
Also:I like to write music on guitar and sing melodies. Alackaday, my schedule permitteth not for the grandeur of a performing band. Listen here!

Movies:

Russian Ark, Altered States, Sex Lies and Videotape, The Cable Guy, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stop Making Sense, Wet Hot American Summer, Last Days, Everything is Illuminated.
And, oh yeah, you owe it to yourself to see An Inconvenient Truth

Television:

The Extras

Books:

Authors/Editors: Dickens, Easton Ellis, Hemingway, Murakami, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Brian Greene, Art Spiegelman, Vonnegut and Kerouac and all that stuff, Webster and Bartlett totally, still haven't gotten my hands on one of Byrne's books--Sheesh!

Heroes:

My grandparents, Rivers Cuomo, David Byrne, Ernest Hemingway, Kim Peek, Andy Kaufman

My Blog

Philip's Glass House

I particularly like the AT&T (now Sony) building from Philip Johnson. I wanted to briefly write about him, but then I remembered I.M. Pei and felt like admiring his buildings for a while. I ...
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Thu, 03 May 2007 09:29:00 PST

A row written

Fields: no notes, textCrows settled in the spacestretched across skies, Four pears betwixt themto share.
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Wed, 02 May 2007 08:17:00 PST

New Ideas

To me, Duchamp's The Fountain epitomizes a maximum for his time. His perspective exposes previously unacknowledged or unrecognized dimensions that give analyzing in art a new twist. Vast social implic...
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:26:00 PST

Bizarre Cubiques and Futurist Tweaks

It seems to me that the artistic innovations in Cubist works allowed Futurists to adopt a special set of rudiments. Seminal works like Picasso's Portrait of Ambrose Vollard hint at the unique ideas wi...
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:34:00 PST

Access

A process is hiding from me tonight Inside the tree that works in a darkness, I'd like to think some boy's been having fun. But having fun like this is wrong and kills. Access does that. Often allows ...
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:04:00 PST

Thoughts on some Impressionists

I see striking similarities in the intentions and interests of Monet and Pissarro. Each brings an intense intellectual and analytical approach to art. Monet developed and perfected a unique approach t...
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:12:00 PST

About Someone With Whom I've Worked Before

Again,Collective service renders some abilitiesto the same during the day:Of North, from shore to ridgethere is a distance;Calm waves do remainMountains in the sea.How natural it is, I know,to work pl...
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:11:00 PST

Aurora

If Hemingway is Saturday Dickens could be Sunday, had he lived with us. Here then, Faulkner thus. Duke, burned up Southern dog days an' them hazy dusks there was hiding no thing from the dark Zora thr...
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:13:00 PST

First thoughts for a new year

First thought: Toss one off Second thought: Smoke Drink some water look for keys put slippers on go outside clap, scrape see wallet through window, car is locked. Come inside drink some water ...
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:24:00 PST

On a Strip

How Kerouac would have loved the computer. Write all the way down with no stops, create a narrative stream ON A STRIP that need not be contained, but in a small chassis, on a drive, peripherally. Conv...
Posted by Josh of Next Tuesday on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:48:00 PST