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josh

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About Me

ME! ME! ME!

My Interests

composing music, playing music, wasting time, smoking flowers, cooking, dancing, painting, sculpture, reading, snuggling, slow kisses, mushy stuff, breve lattes and coffee in general, sunny park days, laughing until I start to cry, sunsets, and then sunrises, eggs sunny side up, people watching, soaking in hot baths until I'm a lobster, chocolate, really good chianti, sport coats, forests, foggy rain days, museums, going through old stuff people abandoned, finding neat things on the street, origami, potato people, analog guitar pedals and tube amplifiers,the way copper turns all green and oxidized, fine dining, assorted neat containers,hummingbirds, wood floors, white clam chowder,kites, old grandfather clocks, stretching in bed in the morning, and then going back to sleep, cracking the top of a creme brulee, sticking my hands into sacks of grain,light blue, fresh squeezed raspberry lemonade, riding with the top down (metaphorically speaking), people who look bookish, hippie girls in sun dresses and their free spirits, Tuvan throat singing, camping trips, galaga and other old school video games, soft t-shirts, a cigarette after the holy trinity of fun, mod things, French things, baby smells, cartoons, rapier wit, generosity of spirit, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, watching movies, fighting evil, manifesting benevolence, Ive become interested in the geological and spiritual aspects of stones.

Music:

Radiohead, Blonde Redhead, Thom Yorke, M. Ward, Nicole Atkins and the Sea, Bright Eyes,Elliot Smith, Andrew Bird, The National,The Shins, Joanna Newsom, Emily Haines, Amy Winehouse, Mazzy Star, Portisehead, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, The Decemberists, Sigur Ros, Iron and Wine, Casiotone for the Painfully alone, Jackson and his computer band, Devotchka, Mum, Bjork, Astrud and Bebel Gilberto, Ratatat, Interpol, the cure, Yma Sumac, Peter Gabriel, Diamanda Galas, The Cardigans, Henry Mancini, Bernard Herrman, Paul Motian, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald, Bille Holiday, Nina Simone, The Flamingos, Etta James, Cole Porter, Lionel Belasco, Django Rihnehart, My Morning Jacket, Age of Rockets, My Brightest Diamond, Hella, Lightning Bolt, Tears for Fears, Edith Piaff, Goldfrapp, White Stripes, Death Cab for cute, The Postal Service, M83, Midlake, Explosions in the Sky, The Arcade Fire, Sun Kil Moon, Azure Ray, Jeff Buckley, Amy Milan, Nick Drake, The Beatles, The Walkmen, Amadou et Miram, The Cloud Room, Stars, Nina Nistasia, Broken Social Scene, Muse, Angelo Badalamenti, Manu Chao, Mogwai, David Bowie, Trail of Dead, Add N to X, Built to spill, Ladytron, To Be a High Powered Executive, Rescue Mission, The Jetsuns, The Story of, Bach, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Mussagorsky, Saint Sens, Go Team, , Lemon Jelly, Boards of Canada, Tilly and the Wall, Andrew Bird, Cyndi Lauper, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Dizzie Gillespie, Wille Nelson, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Toots and the Maytells, ..... I think you get the idea of what Im into.. I update this periodically.

Movies:

the good ones

Television:

only to vegify, not to watch

My Blog

get lifted

this week has been brought to me by:new smellsfrom the packages the records sit infrom the boxes and whatnots at the new cafe gig(like opening a new toy on your birthday smells)from the speakers all o...
Posted by josh on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:19:00 PST

self-pity

Self-pity I never saw a wild thingsorry for itself.A small bird will drop frozen dead from a boughwithout ever having felt sorry for itself.DH Lawrence
Posted by josh on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:19:00 PST

the daily grind in one day

Within twenty four hours I have managed to secure employment and keep the vicious and remorseless city from spitting my humble dreams to the gutters. Once again will I spill the sacred black liquid in...
Posted by josh on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:13:00 PST

ballad for the people of the holliday blues

Every winter the cold feels colderor should I say the old feels older?for lonely peopleChristmas magnifies lossand spits in their eye for not being grateful. ( which have grown as green as the mistlet...
Posted by josh on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:18:00 PST

Big Ben

My brother is now a father. His son, Benjaman, was born at Five a.m yesterday morning. He weight is eight pounds, two ounces; All appropriate digits and appendages are intact and functioning. Aside fr...
Posted by josh on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:03:00 PST

cpu blues haiku ( A tribute to juggnartha)

broken computerfret not I will reply soonim having it fixed
Posted by josh on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:10:00 PST

for those who care

The record is finished. All we lack now is mastering and packaging. Its been a long hard road.I dont know whats in store for me. We will see Im sure.
Posted by josh on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:05:00 PST

mix

heres rob working hard on the mix and a glass of chianti...
Posted by josh on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:14:00 PST

exhale...

Things are going to work themselves out as they should and I am humbly trying not to get in the way. My lips should only part now for a cigarette, and my fingers are following suit.
Posted by josh on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:21:00 PST

We have released a new track

Okay peepsMy band The Lower 4th has released a new track from our forthcomming LP. Its on my profile. PLEASE listen to it and tell us what you think! EnjoyloveL4
Posted by josh on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:24:00 PST