Josh - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Clearly, I'm a musician. (Why else would half my photos contain musical instruments? I mean, it could be like, a weird fetish, but that'd be one REALLY expensive fetish to have, right?) I perform all over NYC as a freelance woodwind doubler, occasionally as an orchestral string player (usually as a violist...nobody ever seems to quite have enough of those), and am working on presenting several solo recitals in the near future.
When I'm not blowing into things, I also serve as the VP-Operations of the perfume industry's newest and most fabulous entity, Scent By Alexis, conceived and co-operated by my best friend, Alexis Karl, one of the art world's most sought-after figurative artists. We've recently made an incredibly well-received debut in Fifth Avenue's venerable Henri Bendel, and will be appearing again several times over the course of the year. We've also recently been picked up by Harvey Nichols. (HARVEY NICKS, sweetie darling!) Look for us in French Vogue, and see our products at

La Creme Beauty

and see Lex and our gorgeous product at

Scent By Alexis

(I did all of the hair, makeup, and photo styling for the website; photos by the phenomenal Veronique Roblin, also responsible for my flute headshots)
As if that weren't enough, I also work in real estate...I'm a busy, busy boy!
It's all about the Benjamins, baby.
I'm hopelessly addicted to coloratura sopranos (I want Natalie Dessay to have my baby), and I absolutely lose my mind over a good filet mignon. Since I'm also a money-hungry shopping-prone kinda boy, I also teach private music lessons and I occasionally pimp out my more attractive female friends to the stockbrokers in my building for a handsome fee. (This last, of course, is jest. I do no such thing. I would finally have that condo in Dubai if I did. However, if you ARE interested in any of my lovely female friends, I'm not saying we can't work something out.)
I'm a booze-swilling blast at parties, I bake one HELL of a lemon tart (I went to culinary school and studied pastry, but pastry chefs have to wake up at like, 4 am, and I am SO not that boy, so I don't do it professionally, but I throw an extremely fabulous dinner party), and I have no gag reflex. (Aren't you glad you knew that?)
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My Interests

classical music, theatre, cars, traveling, reading, dance, real estate, virology, foreign literature, gemology, cooking/baking, geology, fellatio, astronomy, meteorology, fashion...if it's fun, educational, feels good, or someone else is paying, I'm there.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet interesting, talented people who aren't morons, and reconnect with old friends/acquaintances/people I may have at one time not detested; and meet people to play chamber music with!

I would also love to meet orchestral personnel contractors who love great doublers. *blinks cutely*

And...if you're checking out my profile, and my little Meebo window says I'm online...SAY HELLO. It's what I put the damn thing there for! :)

Music:

Any and all classical music, particularly concerti for wind and string instruments, showtunes (the beltier, the better...Emily Skinner and Julia Murney are my heroines), pissed-off chicks with guitars (Ani, mostly), depressed chicks with pianos (cheer up, Sarah, it'll be ok...Adia does NOT believe you failed her), and freaks with psychotic vocal ranges (Diamanda Galas, Yma Sumac, Edson Cordiero, Adam Lopez, Debelah Morgan, Mariah, Natalie Dessay...); Velvet Chain, which is the best band EVER (love you, Erika! Someday we will get around to that duet...)

Oh, and Frieda. Frieda Chan is the hottest flutist on earth. I tremble in the shadow of her beastly Brannen.

C'est Moi: Josh Plays The Clarinet Solo from Rhapsody in Blue...and yes, I know I didn't smear. I don't LIKE the smear. Gershwin did not WRITE the smear, so I don't PLAY the smear. I think it sounds ridiculous. Listen anyway :-)

And now, Josh Plays The Oboe...Ooooooh!

Josh will now play the English horn, and wish he sounded more like Julie Ann Giacobassi

Movies:

Gia, Big Eden, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Kill Bill (both of 'em), anything Hitchcock, anything where someone gets brutally and/or creatively murdered by an unstoppable psychopath...makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Television:

All I really watch (when I have time) is the Food Network, Discovery Health, the Science channel, and occasionally HGTV...

Books:

The Chronicles of Narnia, anything by Clive Barker (particularly Imajica, which may be my favorite book of all time), Greek tragedies, anything by: Sartre, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Poppy Z. Brite; The Bell Jar, She's Come Undone/I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb)...there are way too many to list here.

Heroes:

Aren't we all just a *teensy* bit too old to be talking about heroes?

Fine. Wonder Woman.

There. Happy?