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Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe

To love is to lose and to lose is to die.

About Me

Hi there, I'm Joseph Y. I'm in my mid 30's. I run 2 piercing studios www.evolutionbodypiercing.com and one tattoo shop www.utattoo.com in Providence, Rhode Island. I've been piercing for almost 17 years and pride myself on my work standards, cleanliness,skill, and ethics.While my career as a piercer is one of the most important aspects of my life, I try not to let what I do as a career completely run my life outside of work. While I DO like to network with other friends in the business, my personal life is very diverse and multifaceted.
I collect WAY too much stuff.... Toys,punk,Horrorpunk, Psychobilly and goth records and Cds, Halloween decorations, Antique Corset advertisements, pin up art, Dias De Los Muertos folk art, movies, Dvds and videos in general. Like I said ...way too much stuff.
In my personal life I am:
The kind of person that people either instantly love or hate when they meet me.
The kind of person that will do just about anything for a friend.
I do not fit ANY of the stereotypes/misconcenptions that people seem to have about me.
I DJ everything from Rockabilly to Industrial and everything inbetween. Genres I enjoy spinning the most of course being Horrorpunk, Psychobilly, and Deathrock, My DJ resume includes a 3+ year long residency at Rock & Roll High School at Club Hell. Rockabilly Riot formerly held at Jerkys, soon to be relaunched in another location, Former residencies spinning Goth, Industrial,etc at Corrosion, Heresy, and Resurrection.Currently a resident at Sanctuary on Sundays @ The Dark Lady. I've DJed at Drop Dead Festival in NYC in both 2005 and 2006, as well as guest spots at many other NY Decay events.Also guest spots of note include The 2005 Darkside Walkers Ball, and a recent guest spot at X Mortis for their Monster A-Go-Go event.
I also book live events in the RI and Mass area. Often working with my fiends at Mass.Horror. So any bands that play anything from Rockabilly, Horrorpunk, to Deathrock and and all that fits inbetween, let me know when you're going to be in the RI/Mass area and I'll try to book a show for you.
Bands that I've previously booked include: 45 Grave, Blitzkid, The Brides, Psychocharger, The Rabies, Bell Hollow, Funeral Crashers, Jason James, Holy Cow, just to name a few.

My Interests

Body modification, Piercing, tattooing, branding Scarification,Suspension, etc etc.
Horrorpunk,Rockabilly, Psychobilly,deathrock, Goth,Punk,Oi! ,Batcave, Postpunk.80s New Wave,etc etc.
Clothes, shoes, more shoes, going to clubs, spending time with people that are worthy of what little free time I have.
50's style Pin-ups....mmmm Bettie, women into (and in) corsets. Nothing looks better than a woman with a perfectly sculpted hourglass shape.
Bad horror movies,good horror movies, gorenography.
Pro Wrestling (ROH, CMLL, TNA, and the most important promotion to ever go out of business ECW) , MMA, (UFC, PRIDE )
I also collect toys, my main collection is vintage Star Wars items, and my focus is in unlicensed SW items. I have 2 articles published on the SW collectors archive (www.toysrgus.com) they're in the special Feature section. I've given presentations about bootleg SW toys at conventions.
Some of my other interests include my 1967 Ford Fairlane, old Halloween decorations (especially those with black cats on them), Dias De Los Muertos statues/folk art. and of course my cats, the ONLY children I'll EVER have: Anton,Satana, Mel, and Dusty

I'd like to meet:

People that aren't complete morons about life. People with goals and direction, but still live life on their own terms. People that don't think that they are too old to still have fun. People that don't regret the lives that they've lived, but accept the bad things that they've done as learning experiences. Free thinkers in general.
People into Horrorpunk,Rockabilly Psychobilly,Batcave,Deathrock, Post Punk, New Wave etc, etc,etc.

Music:

I like a lot of different stuff,here's just the stuff I can think of off the top of my head: Misfits(77-83), Samhain, Danzig, 45 Grave,Penis Flytrap, Christian Death, The Damned, The Cramps,The Automatons,The Quakes,Zombie Ghost Train,Zumbis Do Espaco,The Spookshow,Creepin' Cadavers, The Wrecking Dead, Sasquatch & The Sick-A-Billys, Plan 9(both RI AND LA), Rosetta Stone, Empire Hideous, Mister Monster, Blitzkid,The Deep Eynde, Frank The Baptist, Antiworld, London After Midnight, Voodoo Church, Violet Stigmata, Last Days Of Jesus, Death In June, Dreadful Shadows, Zeraphine, Merry Thoughts,Clan Of Xymox, Qntal, Dead Can Dance, And Also The Trees, The Brides, Astrovamps, Shadow Reichenstein, Calabrese,Jerry Lee Lewis,Johnny Cash,Elvis Presley, Deadbolt, Demented Are Go, Deadbillies,Gein and the GraveRobbers, Forbidden Dimension,3-D Invisibles, Frankenstein Drag Queens,Amazing ROYAL Crowns,Rev.Horton Heat, Mad Sin,The Cure,Sisters of Mercy, Balzac, The Spook, Ghoultown, Deadlines,Swans, Nekromantix, Cult of the Psychic Fetus,Corpus Delicti, Love Like Blood,Faith and the Muse,Sex Gang Children,Social Distortion, TSOL,The Mighty Sphincter, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,Die Form, Das Ich, The Everdead, Lords Of The New Church, Flesh For Lulu, Electric Hellfire Club, David Bowie, Last Dance, Voltaire, The Smiths,Bauhaus(and Peter Murphys solo stuff too), Phantom Limbs,Zombina and the Skeletones, Poison Idea,Holy Cow, Hasil Adkins, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Newlydeads,Amebix,Nausea,Ciril,Subhumans, Vice Squad, AntiSeen, Bruisers, Business, Cock Sparrer,Chaos UK, Blitz, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Reagan Youth, Circle Jerks, Quincy Punx,Angry Johnny & The Killbillies, Blanks 77, Pegboy, Jawbreaker,Boss Feul, GG Allin, the Wreched Ones, Doomtree,The Meteors,Ramones and many MANY more..........

Movies:

Star Wars (the ORIGINAL trilogy not the"special edition" crap that he's selling as the original trilogy) The Coffin Joe Trilogy(duh). The classics (orig) Nosferatu, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, Mummy. Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (the orig), Day of the Dead, Return of the Living dead, Redneck Zombies, Psychos in Love, Bad Taste, Dead Alive, Brain Damage, Street Trash, Psycho (orig), Exorcist saga, Halloween saga, Hellraiser, Rosemarys Baby, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Angry Red Planet, Horror Hotel, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, 16 Candles(most John Hughes films actually), Christine, Salems Lot (orig), Rawhead Rex,1st 2 Batman movies, Fight Club, Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, The LOTR trilogy, Snatch, Trainspotting, Bram Stokers Dracula (despite Keanu being in it), Heathers, Beetlejuice, Jawbreaker, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow.... and a lot more Pretty much any bad or good horror movie from the past 50 years.

Television:

Family Guy, Simpsons,DEXTER, Just about any History channel show about WW2, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, or American crime. Wrestling, boxing, MMA. HBO tv such as 6 Feet Under or Sopranos. Ususally IF the tvs on it'll be a movie.....

Heroes:

Myself. I don't really put people on that big of a pedistal.

My Blog

Setlists from WXIN Dark Beats Radio Show

First I want to thank Paul for having me guest DJ with him. It was a lot of fun. My first time on live radio. The equipment that the school gives them to use SUCKS. But other than that we di...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Thu, 08 May 2008 09:59:00 PST

Part 1 of my Record sale list

Here are the 12" records, LPs, split LPs and 12" Compilations that I'm selling so far. IF you don't see a record that you "know" I own, I'm either not selling it yet, another friend called "dibs" on i...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:17:00 PST

Merry Giftmas to all and to all a goodnight

Happy Holidays in whatever form you celebrate them to all my friends. This past week has been one spent with many of the people that matter in my life. I honestly needed it, after the year I've had, w...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:46:00 PST

MY Setlists and Commentary about CORROSION 11/21 @ Club Gallery

This past Tuesday Just plain ROCKED. The night started a little slow (we seem to get a later crowd on certian nights). People traveling from Boston, New Bedford, people from Conn. Regulars bringing th...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:42:00 PST

Setlist and my Rant about HERESY last night (1/15)

Last night at HERESY.........Was one of those nights that reminds me why I'm a DJ. The club was packed (for a Sunday) we had 132 paid admissions, and about 15 on our guestlist. Close to 150 people for...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 03:52:00 PST

Setlist from Rock& Roll HS 11/4

Interesting night, I played some CDs that I had bought at Drop Dead in my early set. Then I got a couple of Metal requests, and figured I'd play some metal and hardcore for a while, just to ballance o...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:54:00 PST

My setlists from DROP DEAD Festival, NYC Halloween weekend!!!

My personal thoughts and experiences will be in another post, it was an amazing weekend, and I'll go into detals of bands I enjoyed etc in a non setlist post.   I played a variety of Gothrock/Dea...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:17:00 PST

Setlists and commentary about HERESYs Oct 23 "Everyday Is Halloween" event

Last night was Heresys "Everyday Is Halloween" pre Halloween costume party. We had a decent turn out, especially considering how little flyering we did for the event compaired to last month.It was goo...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:46:00 PST

Setlist from Resurrection 10/9/05

My early set was fun, my 2nd set, while it garnered a far bigger dance floor response, was me just playing "Goth top 40" for the sake of trying to show up the electronic contingant for having had such...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:54:00 PST

Looong overdue setlist from HERESYs Drop Dead mag release party

Heres what I played early setForbidden Dimension - Graveyard LineCult Of The Psychic Fetus - Orgy Of The DeadEmpire Hideous - Mr. BarnumBrickbats - Too Many VampiresThe Deep Eynde - Suicide DriveMist...
Posted by Joseph Y. AKA DJ Coffin Joe on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:34:00 PST