Joseph - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I like everyone. And by everyone, I mean everyone.
My passion is artists. I believe that art comes in many forms. There's the tradition media of acryllic, pencils, watercolors, etc. But, art runs much deeper than that. It also extends into music and dancing, It runs much deeper than that also...I've never met a person who didn't have an artistic streak with something. We're all artists about something.
My art is appreciating artists and teaching artists to market themselves. I aspire to be a producer
But first, I'm writing a book. It's about a subject near and dear to my heart, and I'm going to spend the next year writing it. It's about speaking, so if you're interested in taking my survey for the book, then please let me know.
I've been reading mostly nonfiction lately, but I really like modern classics like John Steinbeck's books. Most recently I've been reading Neil Labute's plays. He's got about ten books out which is very cool. I'm also a huge Sheri Reynolds fan. I just found out that she's doing a play which hopefully comes out in book format, and her next book comes out next year.
I'm very accepting of all values and lifestyles. My biggest values are equality and respect.
I signed up for some dance classes...I'm so bad that I need private ones, so I've taken two of the three that I signed up for. My teacher said that she's vacationing in Cancun for a month or so, but I think that I'm just such a bad study that she's lying to me.

My Interests

Jello shots, artists communes, non-musical plays, Mitsubishi Eclipses, Honda CRX's, speech therapy, karaoke, studying people who are trying to invent perpetual motion machines.

I'd like to meet:

-Cool people in Utah County, even if there are only five of them
-Artists who want to hang their art in my house, preferably paintings
-People who want to see the Neil Labute play by Pygmalion next year.
-People who love the color red
-People who are passionate about something
-Mormons with ADD to be designated drivers
-People who want to drink tequila with Mexicans
-Gladys Hardy

-Everyone else.

Music:

Aqua, Emme Packer, Sarina Paris, TATU, Aimee Mann, Britney Spears (I have a good reason), Tom Petty, and pretty much everything else.

Movies:

Kill Bill, Magnolia, Of Mice and Men, The Big Lebowski, Waking Ned Divine, Four Rooms, Living in Oblivion, Spy Kids, Cat People, Sin City, The Real Blonde, The New Guy, Slaughterhouse Five, Unbreakable, Death Race 2000, Star Wars, Tron, Logan's Run, Your Friends and Neighbors, In the Company of Men, The Shape of Things, Possession, Nurse Betty, Pi, Bound, Chasing Amy, Night at the Roxbury, Run Lola Run, Blood Simple, Starship Troopers, Dude Where's My Car, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles.
My favorite directors are: Coen Brothers, Neil Labute, Brad Bird, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Paul Verhoeven, and Quinten Tarrentino.

Television:

Taxi, Ellen. I'm not much of a TV watcher because of the anti-tobacco commercials.

Books:

John Steinbeck, Neil Labute, Sheri Reynolds, Kurt Vonnegut, modern classics like: Animal Farm, Slaughterhouse Five, and Rapture of Canann.
My all time favorite books in no particular order are: Blankets, Seconds of Pleasure, Cat's Cradle, Monkey vs. Robot, Emotions Revealed, David Boring, The Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Wayward Bus, The System (I've got a reason for this), Brave New World, 1984, Death of a Salesman, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Mercy Seat, The Distance From Here, This is How it Goes, The Plant Operations Handbook, Emotions Revealed, and She Wins You Win.
Graphic novels that I think are very cool are: 100 Bullets, Sin City, Transmetropolitan, Fables, and Swamp Thing.
I've read all of Steinbeck's fiction.
And, I found a play that I want to perform. It's called The Mercy Seat by Neil Labute. It's a two person play, and I'm going to learn it over the next year.
And, I'm a huge Sheri Reynolds fan. I love all of her stuff. She's got an off broadway play now, and her next book comes out next year.

Heroes:

Fred Rogers, Miss Williamson, Martin Luther King, Michael Jordan, Noah, Hannah, Rachel, Elizabeth, Ramsey, Mark, Daniel, Jack Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck

My Blog

dot space space

A friend of mine was watching me type this week, and she said, "There's only one space after a period." I said, "Either way is fine, as long as you're consistent throughout your article. I'm a grammar...
Posted by Joseph on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:12:00 PST

Bukkake

I was in the Japan airport a few days ago, using the restroom. It's a huge modern airport, and has those remote sensor things that flush the toilet and automatically give you water to wash your ...
Posted by Joseph on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:58:00 PST

NOPD beat me down--after a year of reflection

My blog about the NOPD shakedown from a year ago is located here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&f riendID=20524921&blogID=233218847 This year, 2008, my story starts aga...
Posted by Joseph on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:46:00 PST

New themed top 8--Jeffrey Lebowski

Myspace or I have either reached a new high or a new low. I found so many tribute profiles of the main character from my favorite movie that I can add 8 different versions of The Dude as my frie...
Posted by Joseph on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:07:00 PST

New themed top 8--asses

For those who may have misunderstood, the people in my top 8 are not asses. They are generally nice people, good people, and kind people. However, they are displaying their asses. As a random as...
Posted by Joseph on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:24:00 PST

The police dont like it when you do this

This is the first in a possible series of blogs about the police reports that can be found on orem.org . The direct link to the reports is here: http://orem.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&...
Posted by Joseph on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:58:00 PST

The other Maria (guess if this is a sober or drunk blog)

For those of you that don’t know, I have a housekeeper. And for some reason, I always knew that my housekeeper’s name would be Maria. I found Maria on craigslist. She’s a...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:38:00 PST

Crawdads (guess if this is a sober or drunk blog)

In my youth in Idaho, that’s what they always called them, "crawdads." They always spelled it "crayfish," though. I looked at that word, crayfish, over and over again. C-R-A-Y-F-I-S-...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:34:00 PST

New themed top 8--people you should add as myspace friends

My new themed top 8 is people that you should add as myspace friends. I made the list so that you don't have to worry about people saying, "WTF??? why is this person adding me as a friend." ...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:50:00 PST

Fighting for peace is like fucking for charity (WARNING: Explicit language)

In celebration of Mardi Gras week, I'm doing a charity drive. Every time one of my myspace friends has sex between now and next Friday, February 8, 2008, I will donate a dollar to charity. You know ho...
Posted by Joseph on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:09:00 PST