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ioshva

by land, by sea // by dirigible

About Me


All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

McCarthy. The Road.

My Interests

being done with school.
long talks.
literature.
creative writing.
dissipation.
smells of rain or snow.
spring.
autumn.
sounds.
words, words, words.
colo(u)rs.
long drives.
where the city ends and the country begins.
cooking.
music.
verisimilitude.
spices.
red wine.
good ideas.
absurdity.
sleeping for more than three hours at a time.
aestheticism.
writing letters.
modernism.
bourbon.
sushi.
ocean.
used bookstores.
smells.
lepidoptera.
thrift shops.
wood floors.
elephants (in the room or otherwise).
used record stores.
thunderstorms.
you.

I'd like to meet:


A full night's sleep.

Music:

Neutral Milk Hotel.
Rilo Kiley.
Johnny Cash.
the Decemberists.
Ryan Adams.
the Shins.
Elliott Smith.
Iron and Wine.
Modest Mouse.
Tilly and the Wall.
the Mars Volta.
Joy Division.
Kashmir.
the Cure.
the Postal Service.
Wilco.
the White Stripes.
Radiohead.
Nirvana.
Talking Heads.
Cursive.
Bright Eyes.
Camper Van Beethoven.
Doc Watson.
Miles Davis.
the Flaming Lips.
the Elected.
Jenny Lewis.
Pixies.
Mew.
Snow Patrol.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Movies:

Snakes on a Plane. (Even though it hasn't even been released yet, this will be the most badass movie in the history of badass movies. There's snakes. And they're on a plane. And Samuel L. Jackson gets to fight them.)
the Godfather.
the Godfather 2.
the Big Lebowski.
Office Space.
the original Star Wars Trilogy.
Amelie.
Garden State.
Lost in Translation.
Igby Goes Down.
I heart Huckabees.
Clerks.
most Coen Brothers films.

Television:

Six Feet Under.
the Sopranos.
Entourage.
Rome.
Big Love.
Sports Night.
Family Guy.
the Simpsons.
Deadwood.

Books:

Vladimir Nabokov.
Cormac McCarthy.
William Faulkner.
Ernest Hemingway.
"Calvin and Hobbes."
Aaron Gwyn.
Flannery O'Connor.
Albert Camus.
Randall Keenan.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
David Sedaris.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
William Melvin Kelley.
Alice Walker.
Toni Morrison.
the Harry Potter series (lit snobbery be damned).
Jean-Paul Sartre.
T.C. Boyle.
Martin Amis.
Franz Kafka.
T.S. Eliot.
Wallace Stevens.
Ranier Maria Rilke.
Arthur Rimbaud.
and whatever I'd rather be reading instead of what I have to read.

Heroes:

I love you // and I want to // shoot all the superheroes from your skies.

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My Blog

Been meaning to

Yeah, so I haven't updated this thing since I left for Shepherdstown. Shit. Sorry. We still don't really have internet at the house. We are able to pilfer some wireless connectivity off of an unknown ...
Posted by ioshva on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:42:00 PST

Shepherdstown or Bust

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Posted by ioshva on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:04:00 PST

Dear John

Dear Charlotte,This is really hard for me to say, but this just isn't working out. It's not you, it's me. Really. You're a swell city and all, especially for bankers and NASCAR enthusiasts. Unfortunat...
Posted by ioshva on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:13:00 PST

The best voicemail message. Ever.

Left by a drunk on Tuesday night.   Daniel Eades 304-573-xxxx. Listening to Bright Eyes do a cover, well, Conor Oberst is ... Chris says hello. Listening to Conor Oberst do a cover of a Daniel Jo...
Posted by ioshva on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:43:00 PST

Official shit.

Yesterday my diploma finally arrived in the mail. I now officially have my master's degree. And it only took a month-and-a-half after the actual graduation for the University to get it to me. Speaking...
Posted by ioshva on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:54:00 PST

Taken from Meredyth

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Posted by ioshva on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:43:00 PST

Tour of West Virginia

Hello friends and readers. Tomorrow morning I embark on a week-long tour of West-by-gawd-Virginia. First stop: Morgantown for my brother's graduation. I know, hard to believe, but my baby brother is ...
Posted by ioshva on Sat, 13 May 2006 06:53:00 PST

The single greatest word in the English language

DONE!
Posted by ioshva on Wed, 10 May 2006 02:41:00 PST

No sleep till Brooklyn

And in this case, by Brooklyn, I mean Wednesday. After Wednesday, I'm done with grad school. Starting Wednesday night, I plan to sleep for approximately twenty-four hours and clebrate for another...
Posted by ioshva on Tue, 09 May 2006 01:10:00 PST

I Never Even Asked for Light

Lullaby for the Working Class - I Never Even Asked for Light     1.   sunlight to warm rock, / like hand to paycheck. / trade hat for lampshade, / then it's tree to timber. // waking up...
Posted by ioshva on Fri, 05 May 2006 11:42:00 PST