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Joel

everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed

About Me

this footage from the kinghorse/endpoint/cerebellum/destry show i was at in 11/88 pretty much sums it up.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

fuck if I know. female KINGHORSE fans?

Music:

AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Canned Heat, Neil Young, La Monte Young, Wolf Eyes, Iannis Xenakis, Pearls Before Swine, Aphex Twin, Montrose, Didjits, Pere Ubu, Charley Patton, Wire, :zoviet-france:, Pagans, The Meters, Steely Dan, Trad Gras och Stenar, anything on the Folkways International label, the GRODECK WHIPPERJENNY, Coptic Light, Angus MacLise, Pylon, Sun City Girls, AMM, The Monks, Slint, Archie Shepp, The Monorchid, Albert Ayler, The Soft Machine, Amon Duul 1 and Amon Duul 2, Yellowman, Cecil Taylor, Rocket from the Tombs, Charlemagne Palestine, the Shadow Ring, ZZ Top, Charalambides, Isaac Hayes, the Fabulous Highlighters from Indianapolis Indiana, Led Zeppelin, Minutemen, Sonny Simmons, Codeine, SHEER HELLISH MIASMA, Dr. John, U.S. Maple, John Coltrane, Van Halen, Run DMC, Kinghorse, Thomas Brinkmann, Jandek, Humectant Interruption, Scott Walker, Silver Apples, Broadcast, Danzig (first album only), The Fall, Fading Out/Malignant Growth, Ignition, P.16.D4, Mouse on Mars, Maryanne Amacher, Can, Pita, Robert Wyatt, Polvo, Ernie K-Doe, Doldrums, Gate, Autechre, Supertramp, James Gang, Faust, Tony Oxley, the Stooges, Test, Felt, Genius/GZA, Laddio Bolocko, Crain, Miles Davis (electric period ONLY), Fennesz, Velvet Underground, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Chicago, Davis Redford Triad, FLUXUS, Boards of Canada, I-F, Comus, Dock Boggs, the Dead C., Bukka White, THE WEIRD WEEDS, Watersports, Miminokoto, Major Stars, Blues Control, Circus Lupus, Coloured Balls, the Endtables, Negative Approach, Brightblack Morning Light, the Victoria Lucas, White Witch, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Fleetwood Mac, Esplendor Geometrico, Ennio Morricone, Excepter, The Fix, Fucked Up, Fred Neil, Endpoint, George Harrison, German Oak, Pissed Jeans, Gescom, Golden, The Golliwogs, Gordon Mumma, Hackamore Brick, Hall & Oates, Antman, Speed to Roam, The Web, Gal Costa, Glenn Gould, The Hafler Trio, A Handful of Dust, Harmonia, Hijo Kaidan, Ivor Cutler

Movies:

2001: A Space Odyssey, Pootie Tang, The Flicker, The Seventh Seal, Purple Rain, Blazing Saddles, Friends Forever documentary, The Thin Red Line, What Time Is It There?, Chungking Express, DUNE, Zorn's Lemma, Two-Lane Blacktop, Slacker, Wattstax, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Longest Day, Stalag 17, The Jerk, The Hole, Hard Boiled, Chinatown, The River, The Maltese Falcon, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Manhattan, Goodfellas, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Johnny Guitar

Television:

any Mets game

Books:

Light in August, The Moviegoer, Gravity's Rainbow, The Recognitions, FLUXUS CODEX, You Bright and Risen Angels, old issues of Bananafish, Darkness at Noon, Noise, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tropical Truth, On the Sensations of Tone, Kentuckiana, Film at Wit's End, Homage to Catalonia, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Nature's Metropolis, Soulsville U.S.A., anything by Harry Crews, Silence, Lost Highway (Guarlnick, natch), The Twenty-Seventh City, Hello America, The Day of the Locust, Underground, As Serious As Your Life, The Great Shark Hunt, Steely Dan: Reelin' In the Years, The First Man, League of the Iroquois, 2001 (tho Jupiter was a better pick than Saturn), Lyotard's Political Writings, any Langston Hughes, Behold a Pale Horse (any fucked up weird right-wing conspiracy theory nonsense), The Rainbow Stories, Cathedral, ANY AND ALL DONALD BARTHELME, O Albany!, Ironweed, Theories of the Universe, The Media Monopoly, Minimalism: Origins, L.A. Is the Capital of Kansas, England's Dreaming, Naked Lunch, Go Down Moses, Uncle Tom's Children, ANY AND ALL PHILIP K. DICK (even the shitty stuff), The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Carpenter's Gothic

Heroes:

Bon Scott, Randolph Scott, Scott of the Antarctic, Winfield Scott, Dred Scott

My Blog

all i wanted was a total war

and to knock your daylights out... uncontestedi couldn't hear you, what were you saying?
Posted by Joel on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:41:00 PST

Slip Inside This House

Bedoin tribes ascendingFrom the egg into the flower,Alpha information sendingState within the heaven showerFrom disciples the unendingSubtleties of river powerThey slip inside this house as they pass ...
Posted by Joel on Tue, 08 May 2007 01:13:00 PST

Truth Serum

Me and some friends of mineWe stayed up all night taking truth serumWe soon realized the mistake we madeAnd went our separate separate ways.I went up on the roofWhere I thought I'd find some truthTher...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:08:00 PST

can i ride

i'll arrive though it takes me a while to get therei'll wait around and seek my sharewhen we leave they'll put it therethe same thing's not thereyou should've followed me somewhere to nowherethe voice...
Posted by Joel on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:09:00 PST

R.I.P. Charles Gocher Jr.

from suncitygirls.com:02/20/07With deep regret, we must announce that Charles Gocher passed away yesterday in Seattle due to a long battle with cancer at the age of 54. He is survived by the two of us...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:24:00 PST

everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyedYou get annoyed, you buy a flat, you hide behind the matBut I know she was born to do everything wrong whith all of thatMaria Bethânia, please...
Posted by Joel on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:54:00 PST

irony

I love my mother I love my father I love my sisters too I bought this guitar To pledge my love To pledge my love to you I am a rock Bottom riser And I owe it all to you I saw a gold ring At the bo...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:24:00 PST

Isn't It a Pity?

Isn't it a pityNow, isn't it a shameHow we break each other's heartsAnd cause each other painHow we take each other's loveWithout thinking any moreForgetting to give backIsn't it a pitySome things tak...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:19:00 PST

violet execution

Freak-girl named Heather, I'm on my wayCountdown, puzzled; the absurd, crazedAll I need to do is fall into your wellSeduced by apparition, lower a spellSweet princess plays games all dayShe knows the ...
Posted by Joel on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:17:00 PST

Birds in a parking lot

living in a tree, learn their calls from the car alarmsCall forth that strangerWho knows what's missing in meI'm a consumer of democracyLet the rate of the tourist beginLet it begin, begin, begin, beg...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:11:00 PST