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Joey

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Baton Rouge. We're here. It's hot. It rains. The traffic is intense. LSU rocks. I'm working to obtain the coveted three letters...a href="
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My Interests

Film Studies/Criticism Film History Theatre Pop Culture Rhetoric/Communication My Los Angeles Lakers My Los Angeles Dodgers Women's Tennis- Maria rocks! Philosophy Sociology Psychology Anthropology Literature Spirituality Politics Jazz fatherhood Thomas Merton Education

I'd like to meet:

Jack Nicholson John Carpenter Phil Jackson Oliver Stone Noam Chomsky Howard Zinn Norah Jones Charlie Rose Angelina Jolie Bill Clinton Maria Sharapova

Music:

So much of music is about temporal and emotional elements- so it depends on the day, mood, and whether or not I am writing- but I'm always open and willing to listen.Z?

Movies:

Let's do directors (in no particular order): Oliver Stone John Carpenter Welles Truffaut Griffith Hawks Hitchcock Craven Murnau Morris Antonioni Spielberg Lucas Coppola Scorsese Wilder Lewton Micheaux Lee Singleton Peebles Flaherty Grierson Larentz Fellini Bergman Godard

Television:

CURRENTLY: Charlie Rose The Daily Show Lost Studio 60 Veronica Mars South of Nowhere Big Love 60 Minutes Entourage The Sopranos Battlestar Galactica Justice League Unlimited Ebert & RoeperALL-TIME: The X-Files Buffy Angel Millennium Family Ties

Books:

Currently reading: um, a shitload of stuff

Heroes:

Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Gustav Klimt, JFK, Thomas Merton, Jack Nicholson, Bill Clinton, Phil Jackson, Morrie Schwartz, George Lucas, Oliver Stone, John Carpenter, Charlie Rose

My Blog

Borrowing the Diary

So Kobe has initiated this borrowing/sharing thing at his school. It got so bad and confusing that his teacher had to make Fridays the official "toy swap" day. Now, I found this cool that my kid wants...
Posted by Joey on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:31:00 PST

The Panic Button

Ok, so when we moved to our new house we found a refrigerator magnet hid neatly on the backside of the freezer. It was something that alarmed me when I first uncovered it because it read: "PANIC BUTTO...
Posted by Joey on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:12:00 PST

HALLOWEEN AS AN EVENT

Growing up, Halloween was always a favorite experience of mine. At school you had a party. This party was then followed by an evening of saturating your neighborhood with friends and obtaining absurd ...
Posted by Joey on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:49:00 PST

ZEN MOMENTS FROM FATHERHOOD Part II

"Monster House" is one of the genuine classics from this decade. We all have those initial movie memories-- the ones we can barely remember but can through fragments (we had no VHS or DVD early on)-- ...
Posted by Joey on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:13:00 PST

Zen Moments From Being a Father

I really should be working. I should be. I need to be. But this morning, I felt a kind of emotional jolt from him and it has stuck with me. These are the kinds of moments where fatherhood is present m...
Posted by Joey on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:33:00 PST

Presence Defeats Resistance

I return to this exercise in introspection with renewed vigor. So much has happened since I last posted here. I'll begin with LSU. The school has become such a focus and the work I do there is growing...
Posted by Joey on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:25:00 PST

The Long Day Is Over (Post 2)

Feeling tiredBy the fireThe long day is overThe wind is goneAsleep at dawnThe embers burn onWith no repriseThe sun will riseThe long day is over I listen to Norah blend these words into my mind and he...
Posted by Joey on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:11:00 PST

Post 1

I never imagined I would be doing this "blog" thing, but perhaps it is more therapeutic than I woefully anticipate. I am in Baton Rouge. It is fucking hot here. Memphis gets hot. Baton Rouge gets hell...
Posted by Joey on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:25:00 PST