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Joseph

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

About Me

37.5% Filipino
25.0% Korean
12.5% Native American
12.5% Swedish
12.5% Irish
You'd better believe it.

My Interests

Filmmaking!geeky stuff,
movies in general, writing, video games (Nintendo especially), environmental issues, classic rock, heavy metal, industrial/electronic rock, manga, comics, webcomics, clinical depression, mint chocolate chip ice cream

I'd like to meet:

Anyone. You.

Music:

The Beatles, Beethoven, Iron Maiden, Rush, The Flaming Lips, blink-182, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Postal Service, Depeche Mode, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Radiohead, Death Cab For Cutie, The Cure, Megadeth, Whitesnake, Weezer, The Traveling Wilburys, David Fuckin' Bowie, The Cars, Green Day, Simon & Garfunkel, The Pixies, Fatboy Slim, Van Halen, Gorillaz, Queen, KISS, Led Zeppelin, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Foo Fighters, Boxcar Racer, Outkast, Chopin, Metallica, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Rilo Kiley, Queensryche, I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man (not really, I just like saying that), Tenacious D, Deep Purple, The Police, Guns 'n' Roses

Movies:


Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
(or pretty much anything Studio Ghibli or Hayao Miyazaki)
Fellini's 8 1/2
Hobbit-Man Trilogy: Frodo VS The Volcano
The Star Wars , or: Anakin VS The Volcano
Shichinin no Samurai
Blade Runner
Bettel Ruck Tomollow!
That movie where Robert De Niro drives a cab around New York
The Terminal
Rushmore
The Crow
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Casablanca
Dawn of the Dead (Romero and Remake)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Army of Darkness
The Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
City Lights
Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown
The Big Lebowski
Metropolis (Otomo, 2001)
Yo jim bo!!!
(Meet zee Feebles)
Adaptation.
BATTLE ROYALE.
Waking Life
*Heavenly Creatures*
Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon, 1902... now available on google videos!)
Sunset Boulevard
Alice in Wonderland
Mildred Pierce
Short Round and the Temple of Doom: Featuring Indiana Jones
Oldboy
and Infernal Affairs!
Beauty and the Beast
The Wizard of Oz
EZ Rider
Nightmare Before Christmas
Jaws
The Matrix Reloaded
Sideways
Alien(s)! ...and Predator!
...and Alien VS Predator . ...seriously, though, it was pretty good.
Two-Thousand and One: A Space Odyssey
The Good, The Bad & The UGLY
The Squid and the Whale
Snatch.
Audition. Yeah, baby.
Back to the Future
Marlon Brando in: The Godfather
...and On The Waterfront...
__END OF EVANGELION__
The Iron Giant
))(( [...back and forth forever...]
A Christmas Story
EyesWideShut
Brokeback Mountain
Lawrence of Arabia (best epic ever)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Lost in Translation
Before Sunrise + Before Sunset (sigh)
The Apartment
The Blues Brothers
Goodfellas!
The *Shining*
Scarface (De Palma)
}The Royal Tenenbaums{
Boyz N The Hood
Punch-Drunk Love
Fightclub
Any film with Alison Lohman in it. Because Alison Lohman is a Goddess.

Television:

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Card Captor Sakura, Chobits, Boys Be, Now and Then Here and There...


Futurama (the greatest, geekiest show ever made),

The Simpsons, Sealab 2021, Samurai Jack, The Family Guy , The Boondocks... Oh, and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC mini-series.

Books:

I read Webcomics more than anything, but here goes...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the Holiest Book of the Geeks), Megatokyo, The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, Love Hina, Sorcerers & Secretaries, Vol. 1, The Far Side comics, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Charlotte's Web, Speak, The Little Prince, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Calvin and Hobbes, Harry Potter (don't look at me like that, it kicks ass), Les Miserables, God's Debris... among other things...

Heroes:

Peter Jackson
Shigeru Miyamoto
Federico Fellini
Akira Kurosawa
Wes Anderson
Sergio Leone
Terry Gilliam