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Joel

Don't bring me no flowers in the graveyard, because I can't smell a thing

About Me

I work at night and sleep most of the day.

My Interests

I like to paint, draw, sculpt, and make woodcuts. Also, I play guitar, harmonica, trumpet, and banjo. I enjoy watching local and broadcast news. Also I like listening into a machine called a radio. Pittsburgh stations - 88.3 fm WRCT, 90.1 fm WIUP, 90.5 fm WDUQ, 90.9 fm WVPM, 91.3 fm WYEP, 91.9 fm WCAL, 92.1 fm WPTS, 102.5 fm WDVE, 103.9 fm WLSW, 104.7 fm WPGB (only Coast to Coast after midnight), 105.9 fm WXDX Cleveland stations - 88.7 fm WJCU, 89.3 fm WCSB, 91.1 fm WRUW, 98.5 fm WNCX, 100.7 fm WMMS. I also enjoy camping, fishing, hiking, and bike riding.

I'd like to meet:

The Moon CURRENT MOON moon phase

Music:

Sonny Boy Williamson, Sam Lightnin' Hopkins, Leadbelly, Canned Heat, The Beatles, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Kingston Trio, Donovan, Beck, The White Stripes, Billy Childish, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Preservation Hall Band, Asylum Street Spankers, Brownbird Rudy Relic, The Detroit Cobras, Cream, Spencer Davis Group, Thee Headcoats and Headcoatees, Operation Ivy, The Doors, Gorillaz, The Willowz, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Led Zeppelin, Peter Paul and Mary, Holly Golightly, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Arlo Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Hank III, Astrud Gilberto, Carter Family, Alan Lomax Recordings, Edison Recordings, Willie Nelson, Bob Log III, R L Burnside, T Model Ford, Cornershop, Calvin Johnson, Portishead, Elvis, Mojo Nixon, Buffalo Springfield, Boss Hog, The Cramps, The Black Keys, The Ramones, The Dead Milkmen, Ko and the Knockouts, Soledad Brothers, Ray Charles, Traffic, Dave Brubeck, Bix Biderbeck, Morphine, White Magic, George Thorogood, The Byrds, The Pixies, Wolfmother, The Ventures, Iron Butterfly, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Fishbone, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Them, Pink Floyd, Neds Atomic Dustbin, They Might Be Giants, Tool, Helmet, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Hope Sandoval, John Mayall and the Blues Breakers, Sonny Terry, Brownie Magee, Mazzy Star, Velvet Underground, The Count Five, The Animals, Blind Faith, Chuck Berry, Otis Redding, Butthole Surfers, The Dead Kennedys, The Sonics, Sonic Youth, The Yardbirds, Verde, Rossini, Elmore James, The Melvins, Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsys, Miles Davis, Brian Auger, Grandpa Jones, Faith No More, Berlioz, Scott Joplin, Stephen Foster, Vivaldi, The Grateful Dead, John Lee Hooker, Meat Puppets, The Misfits, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Sonny Rollins, Cream, The Raconteurs, Blind Faith, Thrush Hermit, Nirvana, The Sighted Owl, Channel Scorpion News, Fats Domino, Zao, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, White Cheddar, Mr Gnome, From the Ground Up, The Good The Bad and The Queen, The Deadly Snakes, Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, Dizzy Gillespie, France Gall, Black Mountain, and a whole mess more.

Movies:

I watch alot of Music DVD's, Dark Days, Off the Charts, Night of the Living Dead, The Yellow Submarine, Tim Burton films, The Jerk, Ghost World, Gangs of New York, Casino, Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii, No Direction Home, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Natural Born Killers, Koyanisqatsi, Amelie, Song Remains the Same, End of the Century, Buffalo 66, American Splendor, Crumb, The Lorax, Dumbo, Song Of the South, Jungle Book, Fantastic Planet, The Royal Tenenbaums, Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Animal House, Blues Brothers, American Folk Blues Festival Vol 1-3, Monterey Pop, Festival Express, Hail Hail Rock n Roll, Gimme Shelter, Blow Up, Easy Rider, The Strawberry Statement, Crossroads, Ghostbusters, Missing In Action, Silent Movies, Big Lebowski, Better Off Dead, Dark Crystal, Secret of Nimh, V for Vendetta, Nacho Libre, Art School Confidential, Thank You For Smoking, Dead and Breakfast, What the Bleep? - Down the Rabbit Hole, Idiocracy, Helvetica

Television:

VH1 Classic Rock, Fuse, Music Videos, On Demand, Wondershozen, This Old House, PCN tours, CNN, Antiques Roadshow, Maximum Exposure, KDKA Morning News, ABC World News Now, IFC, Petticoat Junction, Dobie Gillis, Late Night Black and White, History Channel's: Cable in the Classroom, Family Fued, Price is Right, Match Game, Deal or No Deal, Carnival, How It's Made, Fear.net, Something Weird on Demand

Books:

"Meet You in Hell" - Les Standford "Future Shock" - Alvin Toffler "City and Suburban Survival" - Tom Brown "The Johnstown Flood" - David Mcullough "Assassination Vacation" - Sarah Vowell "The Modern Encyclopedia" -Reference Book 1921

Heroes:

Otto Kuhler and Joseph Pennell

My Blog

Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy

"Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy" for the Wii looks freakin' insane! You can build your own damn ships, boards, characters, whatever! I guess the game is based on classic side scroller sh...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:21:00 PST

Sleepy Hollow Tavern

At work on Saturday night, word came across the newsroom scanner that the Hollow Tavern was on fire. For anyone familure with route 30 in Westmoreland County, the "Sleepy Hollow" was a bar and re...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:26:00 PST

Nemicolopterus Crypticus

You know what? Pterodactyls are freakin' awesome. And if you think that as dinosaurs go it can't get any better, now they find ... tiny pterodactyls. Sweet! Earlier this week there was an articl...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:24:00 PST

Personal Prognostications

Just as Punxatawny Phil is making predictions today, I'm also going to try to make a few prognostications of my own. Not only is today Groundhogs Day, but tomorrow is Super Bowl XLII, and t...
Posted by Joel on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:00:00 PST

Helvetica

Two nights ago my girlfriend and I watched a documentary called "Helvetica". Normally a film about typefaces would seem to be a bit boring, but the movie was actually really amazing! The ...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:38:00 PST

This Years Christmas Card

Folding directions:http://www.geocities.com/wolvesfire74/cardfold.jp g Well, it's that time of year again for my annual Christmas card. Many of you may get prefolded hand out versions in black and whi...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:25:00 PST

Living Room Renovation

Well, I've finally broke down and started to fix the hole that was in the living room ceiling for the last two years. Within the next few weeks we will have an almost new room. Cait picked o...
Posted by Joel on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:44:00 PST

Make Wine Not War

Well, I have finally started the process of making my own wine. With the frozen grapes I harvested from my first year at the house, a small amount of grapes from this year, and a bit of con...
Posted by Joel on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:04:00 PST

Puffins and Stuff

There was this really great photo of a bird in flight in the paper last night. The bird was a puffin and it was carrying a couple small fish in it's mouth. It really made me start to think abou...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:04:00 PST

Glass and Vegetation

Cait's dad was in town last weekend, and on Sunday we took him into Pittsburgh. For a while now, Cait has been trying to get me to go to Phipps Conservatory to check out the Dale Chihuly exhibit, so S...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:57:00 PST