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???Teacher Joe

Come to Dali! Come to Bad Monkey!

About Me

???????! I'll be moving to Dali pretty darn soon!

My Interests

?????????? Right now I'm not much into anything. ???,???,??, ???, ??(???), ???? let's see, I also like drinking coffee, listening to music, reading, watching movies,writing, attempting the guitar

I'd like to meet:

????? ????????? Everyone. But maybe I won't like you.

Music:

All Natural, Allman Brothers, Aphex Twin, Backworld, Belle and Sebastian, Bert Jansch, Billy Bragg, BLind Lemon Jefferson, Cat Power, Common, Clancy Brothers, Sinead O' Connor, Cowboy Junkies, Curtis Mayfield, Dire Straights, Eek a Mouse, Ghostface Killa, Gill Scott Heron, Gordon Lightfoot, Howlin' Wolf, Iron and Wine, Jackson C. Frank, Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Cliff, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Manu Chao, Martin Carthy, Mazzy Star, Mimi & Richard Farina, Pentangle, Portishead, Richard Thompson, Saami, Tuvan, and Mongolian throat Singing(??,??), Steeleye Span, Allman Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel, Kinks, Ian & Sylvia Tyson, Ralph McTell, Sweeny's Men, Roy Harper, Sublime, Dick Gaughan, Skip James, Wild Children (?????), Indian Ragas, Control Machete, Cafe Tacuba, Bach, Debussy, Hadyn, J5, Nick Drake, Northern Cree Singers, Ahousat and Squamish Canoe Family, Wang Fei(??), the Kinks, Generation X, The Dubliners, Great Big Sea, The Jam, Sea and Cake, and much more ????????, ?????, ???????, ????, ????,??????Hip-Hop?

Movies:

Anything by Studio Ghibli(???), Jaco Van Dormael, DArren Aronofsky (sp?),Kurosawa(???), Zhang YiMou(???--???????), Chen Kai Ge(???), Iwai Shunji, Jia Jiang Ke, Li Yang, Stanley Kubrick, Richard Linklater, that's about it as far as directors that I can think of... I have about a million favorite movies. I basically like any movie that has some kind of meaning, or leaves some sort of emotional taste in your mouth. I don't like action movies, but I do like action movies from the 80's or action movies that have absolutely no action in them until all Hell breaks loose at the very very end. I don't like comedies that aren't funny, I don't like horror movies that aren't scary(which is pretty much all of them), I don't like dramas that I can't relate to, I don't like romances with happy endings. ?????????, ?????????? ??????????, ???????(?????), ???????????, ??????????.

Television:

no tv. I haven't watched any for a year. I miss cartoons the most.

Books:

Now Reading: Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller I like Wei Hui(???), Mo Yan(??), Haruki Murakami(????), Henry Miller(??.??), Houllebecq, Camus, Voltaire, Lin Yu Tang(???), Han Shao Gong (????), Guo Xiao Lu (????) Qian Zhong Shu(???), Hemingway, american underground comics(?????????), like eightball, optic nerve, artbabe, I also like some manga(??????????), Barefoot Gen (?????????) is my favorite. I like pretty much any book where the plot isn't so important, but the character is what pushes the story.

Heroes:

Holy shit! I just wrote down why I like Zhou En Lai in Chinese, and it erased it! This is the first time I've ever been censored here!??! ?????????????, ??myspace?????! ???????????????????!

My Blog

More novel development

Finishing what I decided to be my last cigarette, listening to the crackle and fizz of it dying out in the bottle of what was chosen to be my final beer, a magnum of Chimay Blue, I was faced with the ...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:36:00 PST

Love in the time of torches

Last night, my mind was competely full of my problems.  Mainly the girlfriend.  Which is nothing too special for me, as this has been the mail problem plaguing me recently.  The only di...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:17:00 PST

NOVEL IN PROGRESS

Writing Exercises and Character Development..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   Dramatis personae   Major characters   I.  The seven major ch...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:00:00 PST

Indonesian Music

Have any of you ever listened to Indonesian music??  It's incredible!  Its like Hawaiian music almost.  Even more interesting, did you know that blues, traditionally attributed to black...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:20:00 PST

Home again home again jiggity-jig

Well, I've been back in the land of the brave and the home of the free for about five weeks now, and I am almost exactly where I thought I would be, bored as fuck in my mom's basement without a job.&n...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:17:00 PST

3

I've been home long enough, and the oppressive forces of the world that weren't bothering me in China are all around me now again.  I'm going to give trying Ridalin a shot...   I score ...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:00:00 PST

And it's home, boys, home, home I'd like to be, home for a while in me own country....

This is my second full day back in America.  I'm listening to Ye Hai Zi, my favorite Chinese band while I type away at this, waiting for Natalie to come over, and then we'll go to my grandparent'...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:40:00 PST

Old

OK... so its september now, and things haven't changed much, except that I'm teaching again, and that I have a lot of papers to correct. My cat is bigger now. I don't relly get along with too many of ...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Mara told me to make a damn stupid blog about her.oh!of course!just drop fucking everything!!!

lifting an empty glass to the dreams that could have been, and still could be    Left one dream for another, does this mean eternity still i hesitate ready to leave, so many things i ha...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Shooting steam out my ass

SO thinkgs aren't going as planned. The Nigerian students didn't come, the Aussie student didn't come, the italian guy is super introverted, the other american guy goes out, but never talks, and eve...
Posted by ???Teacher Joe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST