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Joshua

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About Me



Little Lebowski Urban Achievers

Kingpun

Bruce Tors

Jew-ason

Hilly G-Funk

Jew-niper

Meli

Dee

Puma Strut

Rissa

Rev. Shawn

Hank The Tank

McFunbags

Camacho

Jess-sucka

Johanna Banana

It's a man, D

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My Interests

Modern Art, Poetry, Red Wine, Museums, Itchy Sweaters, The London Underground, Used Book Shopping, Graphic Design, Polaroids, Journals, Rainy Days, Forests, Postmodernism, Vinyl Records, All Things Victorian, Converse Sneakers, Whiskey, Porkpie Hats, Old Souls, The Wee Hours, Bass Guitar, Mint Chewing Gum, Neckties, Etymology and Linguistics, My iPod and iMac G5, Architecture, Winter, Art Films, Mix CD's, Airports, Skateboarding, Modern Piracy, Dry Humor, Fireworks, Digital Photography, Vintage Clothing, Disneyland, Scratchy Blues Recordings, Sushi, Philosophy, Classy Individuals.

Music:



Air, Arcade Fire, At The Drive-In, Autolux, The Autumns, Bauhaus, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Bjork, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blonde Redhead, Blur, Boards Of Canada, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, David Bowie, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Broadcast, Broken Social Scene, Built To Spill, The Buzzcocks, Cabaret Voltaire, Calexico, Califone, Camera Obscura, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Catherine Wheel, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Chameleons, Chapterhouse, The Clash, The Clientele, Cocteau Twins, John Coltrane, The Concretes, Elvis Costello, The Cramps, The Cure, Curve, Daft Punk, Miles Davis, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, Depeche Mode, Dinosaur Jr., Do Make Say Think, Doves, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Echo & The Bunnymen, Editors, The Fall, Felt, The Flaming Lips, For Against, Fugazi, Serge Gainsbourg, Galaxie 500, Gang Of Four, The Go-Betweens, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Woody Guthrie, Hot Chip, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Interpol, Iron & Wine, The Jam, Jawbreaker, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Joy Division, Junior Boys, Kitchens Of Distinction, The Knife, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Leadbelly, Les Savy Fav, Lowlife, Lush, M83, M. Ward, Magazine, The Magnetic Fields, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Mazzy Star, Midlake, Charles Mingus, The Misfits/Danzig, Mission Of Burma, Mississippi John Hurt, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Muddy Waters, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Of Montreal, OMD, Pale Saints, Charlie Parker, Gram Parsons, Pavement/Stephen Malkmus, Peter Bjorn & John, Pinback, Pixies, A Place To Bury Strangers, Portishead, Prince, Public Image Ltd., Pulp, Queens Of The Stone Age, R.E.M., Radiohead, The Rapture, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek, Django Reinhardt, The Replacements, Ride, The Rolling Stones, The Rosebuds, Roxy Music, The Sea And Cake, The Shins, Sigur Ros, A Silver Mt. Zion, Silversun Pickups, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Slowdive, The Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, The Smiths/Morrissey, Son House, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Stars, Stars Of The Lid, Stereolab, The Stooges/Iggy Pop, Suede, Talking Heads, Television/Tom Verlaine, …Trail Of Dead, The Trash Can Sinatras, TV On The Radio, U2, Unwound, The Velvet Underground, The Verve, Tom Waits, The Walkmen, Wilderness, Wire, Wolf Parade, Xiu Xiu, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young.

Movies:

Art/Indie, Cult, Documentary, Film Noir, French New-Wave, Silent.

Books:

Art Books, Classics, Current Events, History, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Poetry.

My Blog

My Top 100 Albums of 2007.

In 2006, my top 10 albums of the year included quite a few runner-ups. This time around, I found formulating the list to be an especially daunting task given that there were so many great releases ov...
Posted by Joshua on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:53:00 PST

My Top 10 Albums of 2006.

Please respond to this blog with your own list! :)Top 10:Belle And Sebastian - The Life PursuitTV On The Radio - Return To Cookie MountainPeter Bjorn and John - Writer's BlockJunior Boys - So This Is ...
Posted by Joshua on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:27:00 PST

Avenged Thirteenfold.

Put on an album from your favorite OC punk band, pour yourself a Jack and Coke and get comfy.. it's time for photos from Friday the 13th at the Slidebar!Mal and I started out the evening at the thorou...
Posted by Joshua on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:23:00 PST

Sonic Youth @ OCMA.

Photoessay of the 9/30 Sonic Youth show at the Orange County Museum of Art. The show was held to mark the opening night of the 2006 California Biennial. My camera batteries were dying, so I wasn't a...
Posted by Joshua on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:32:00 PST

Banksy Exhibition.

Photoessay of Banksy's brilliant "Barely Legal" exhibition at a warehouse in downtown LA. The guy is the next Warhol.The line took up several city blocks (and about an hour of our time).Where there's...
Posted by Joshua on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:01:00 PST

Coachella 2006.

Damn Photobucket made these smaller, but ah well, here goes.. Coachella 2006 in all its (shrunken) glory.Rob Dickinson from Catherine Wheel.White Rose Movement.The Walkmen.Deerhoof."The crew."The crow...
Posted by Joshua on Fri, 05 May 2006 11:46:00 PST