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Joseph

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About Me



A Bad Day in the Valley

Who am I? Where am I coming from? Why am I here?

No, really, who am I? Where am I coming from? What am I here? I don't remember...

I'm a guy living in a small town who is trying to figure out the answers to life, the universe and everything. I'm always looking for fellow travelers on this quest. People who believe asking the questions is at least as important to finding the answers.

I'm a recovering journalist who has found some peace as a librarian at a small town library. I'm a musician with delusions of grandeur. I plan on writing the "Great Southern Novel" one day.

I'm looking for happiness in life. I've tried finding it in another person, but know now that doesn't work. It's here, somewhere inside me, probably near the liver.

Right now, life is okay, which in the grand scheme of things isn’t too bad.

My Interests

Music (listening, writing, performing), reading, writing, movies, politics, science fiction, journalism, video games (especially classic arcade games), computers (Macs)

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Hawking, William Shatner, Sting, Paul McCartney, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Leonard Nimoy, the Me from the evil parallel universe (but I'm the one with the goatee, so does that mean this is the evil parallel universe?), The Manhattan Transfer, the person who invented the cheese puff

The 2008 Presidential Primary Playlist

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Music:


MacJams (Music hosting site)
The Beatles, The Clash, Adam Ant, Coldplay, The Manhattan Transfer, The Damned, Death Cab for Cutie, Percy Grainger (composer), Sir Edward Elgar (composer), Gustav Holst (composer), Ralph Vaughn Williams (composer), Billy Idol, Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, The Cure, Enya, Moya Brennan, Loreena McKennitt, Dougie MacLean, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Black Flagg, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Paul McCartney, Radiohead, R.E.M., The Police, Sting, Semisonic, Trip Shakespeare, The Samples, The Hilltops, Blue Mountain, The Psychedelic Furs, Thomas Dolby, The Thompson Twins, New Wave, classic Punk (that means stuff from the 70s and the early 80s and The Ramones don't count)Look for these Independent musicians: Revolving Doris, Peter Greenstone, Tobin Mueller, Tom Atwood, Mystified, Richard MacLamale, The Orbiting, LeDebutante, R.T. Cooper, Mikki Nylund

Movies:

Star Wars series, Star Trek series, Casablanca, Bad Santa, Office Space, Contact, crappy sci-fi, good sci-fi, musicals - Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, Phantom of the Opera, etc., Anything by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Citizen Kane, Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, Blazing Saddles, Tron, Tommy Boy, Michael Moore documentaries, The Harry Potter movies (through #3 wasn't that great), Alien, Aliens, The Fantastic Four, The Maltese Falcon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, anything with Godzilla in the title, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Conspiracy, Dune (the bizzare 80s version and the Sci-Fi Channel version), Titus, Hamlet (the Kenneth Branagh version), The City of Lost Children, Drop Dead Georgeous, Time Bandits, My Chauffeur, Grosse Point Blank, Better Off Dead, Holiday Inn, White Christmas, A Cristmas Carol (Reginald Owen version), The Muppet Movie

Television:

Any Star Trek series, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica (new series), The Shield, Lost, 24, The Office (U.S. and U.K.), Boston Legal, Family Guy, Futurama, Myth Busters, documentaries on The Science Channel, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Father Ted, Brilliant, Dr. Who, Little Britian, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, Squidbillies, 12 oz. Mouse, Moral Orel, Robot Chicken, Home Movies, South Park, Reno 911, CNN, Discovery channels, History Channel, National Geographic Channel, VH1 Classics (We Are the 80s), Heroes

Books:

Authors: Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Faulkner, Larry Brown, Jack McDevitt, Ben Bova, Willie Morris, Al Frankin, Douglas Adams, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Eudora Welty, Robert SilverbergBooks: Cosmic Banditos, Where Were You Last Pluterday, The Harry Potter Series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, The Stars My Destination, The Demolished Man, What Would Buddha Do?, Restoration comedy and drama, poetry of the Romantic era, The Leonardo Code (not The Di Vinci Code, a totally different animal), Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel. books on politics or journalism

Heroes:

Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Stephen Hawking, Gene Roddenberry, Madeline Murray O'Hare, Albert Einstien, the guy who invented the cheese puff and the guy who invented grape soda

My Blog

Back.... to the 80s!

We're doing a little time traveling over at MacJams with weekend with the MacJams Live Aid Challenge. In the past months, there have been various musical challenges at MJ which encompassed the 60s and...
Posted by Joseph on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:41:00 PST

Ready for some water

I finally took the plunge, pun intended, and bought a pool.I've been threatening to do this for a couple of years. Basically since I've been working on my patio. But, a couple of weeks ago, my friend ...
Posted by Joseph on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:22:00 PST

Ah Crap!

As if I didn't have enough things going wrong, now my flip flops are trying to kill me!Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but according to studies at Auburn (insert favorite Alabama shoe wear...
Posted by Joseph on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:21:00 PST

R.I.P. Bo Diddly

Possibly the most famous musician I ever got to have a beer with died earlier today.Rock 'n' roll pioneer and Mississippi native Bo Diddly died today at the age of 79. He was a rock 'n' roll innovator...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:22:00 PST

Have you ever wondered...

How exactly does one throw one's hands in the air like they just don't care?Do a lot of people care about just how they throw their hands in the air? Am I not doing something correctly while throwing ...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:13:00 PST

Revenge of the Return of the Summer Movies: Episode IX

Ah, the summer movie season is here. It's a time to sit back, relax in a nice cool theater, leave your brain at home and mortgage the house so you can get popcorn. The summer movie season is usually p...
Posted by Joseph on Fri, 30 May 2008 01:10:00 PST

Into the Final Frontier

The man who wrote one of the most recognizable television themes ever died earlier this month at age 88. Alexander Courage wrote the theme for the original Star Trek series in 1965. The fanfare for th...
Posted by Joseph on Thu, 29 May 2008 11:49:00 PST

First Phoenix Mars Lander Images

The Phoenix Mars Polar Lander has successfully landed near the Martian Polar Ice Cap. This marks the first time we have successfully landed a probe near the polar ice caps where scientists hope to fin...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 26 May 2008 09:01:00 PST

Kittens, kittens everywhere...

I like cats.Growing up, we always had cats. A few house cats, a couple of pure-bred cats, but mostly just "cats." Only during college did I not have any cats, but, there usually were some around and t...
Posted by Joseph on Wed, 21 May 2008 08:19:00 PST

Political Silliness Laid Bare

It's an election year, so naturally the political silliness is reaching its peak. Sometimes it's lighthearted, like the examinations of Hillary's pantsuits. Sometimes it's run into the ground, like th...
Posted by Joseph on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:59:00 PST