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Joy

it's all in your head

About Me

In my time on this earth, I intend to: organize social change, laugh loudly, think deeply, reach out, dream big, love hard, grow in strength and patience, and never ever give up.

My Interests

grassroots community organizing, environmental justice, journalism, small business, public transportation, women's reproductive rights, thrift stores, dreams, Indian food, snail mail, accessable media, Sunday naps, science fiction, cooking, dialogue, free mental health, the underdog.

I'd like to meet:

People who give a shit. And time travelers.

Music:

Consolidated, Patti Smith, Sinead O' Connor, Johnny Cash, That One Guy, The Talking Heads, Shesus, Jesus Lizard, Cat Power, Morphine, the Breeders, Bjork, Portishead, Gil Scot Heron, Jimi Hendrix, Fiona Apple, Helium, Ani Difranco, Stereolab, Ween, Blondie, The Ike Reilly Assassination, Concrete Blonde

Movies:

V for Vendetta, Hellboy 2, Existenz, The Life of David Gale, Mothman Prophecies, Pan's Labyrinth, White Oleander, Gangs of New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Iron Jawed Angels, Slackers, The Corporation, Manufacturing Consent, Walk the Line, 21 Grams, Control Room, Natural Born Killers, Amores Perros, Out Foxed, Fight Club, Amelie, Benny and June, Farenheit 9/11, The Weather Underground, Motorcycle Diaries, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Big Fish, Waking Life, La Lengua de las Mariposas, 8 1/2, Romero, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Dr.Strangelove, A Scanner Darkly, Zapatista, The Matrix

Television:

PBS, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Simpsons

Books:

Myths of Free Trade, Fast Food Nation & Reefer madness, Commonsense Rebellion, The Sense of Being Stared At, Machiavelli's The Prince, Jung's Symbols, The Number Devil, Brave New World, The Lovely Bones, Innocents, 1984, Tao of Physics, Sylvia Plath's Diaries, Farenheit 451, Revolt of the Elites, Control of Nature, Valis, The Dreaming Universe, The Optimists, The Cider House Rules

Heroes:

Dennis Kucinich, Cincinnati community leaders, Eugene Debs, Hugo Chavez, Hegel, Ghandi, Carl Jung, Nelson Mandela, Howard Dean, Charles Darwin, Che Guevara, Jesus, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Sanger, Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Frida Kahlo, Emma Goldstein, Roald Dahl, Sylvia Plath, Karl Marx, Francis of Assisi, Martin Luther King Jr, Lewis Carroll, Shayne Claiborne

My Blog

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around the Bend (with download tips)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCFXSIndYIk ...
Posted by Joy on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:29:00 PST

Hell No

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OTM8Y3a5zQ ...
Posted by Joy on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:17:00 PST

tightening their grip

Dead cities, desperate people...If our neighborhoods fail under a "successful" economic systemThen maybe they will thrive someday when that system is gone.If energy is neither created nor destroyedThe...
Posted by Joy on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:08:00 PST

The Truth about the Wall Street Bailout: How "Free Market Capitalism" R...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVDPxVy7h38 How much longer will we accept the privatization of profit and socialization of risk? Time for a detox of the economic system. These are clips from...
Posted by Joy on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:53:00 PST

Is this the U.S. Congress or the Board of Directors at Goldman Sachs! De...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feyu2Db2QuU ...
Posted by Joy on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:45:00 PST

Seeds = hope for the future

click to read how 2,000 year old seed sprouts
Posted by Joy on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:34:00 PST

living big (small)

I wonder if I could ever live so small. It does seem to be the necessary trend ...click to see small & eco homes...
Posted by Joy on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:10:00 PST

for those of you who’ve wondered about the lizards ...

here's what I found out about the scurrying in OTR: wikipediamore detailed...
Posted by Joy on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:43:00 PST

Green Industry Hub Rises From Rust Belt Ruins

Encouraging developments in Pittsburgh with exciting implications for Cincinnati. Check out the video report at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june08/greenjobs _05-12.html Here's the tran...
Posted by Joy on Fri, 16 May 2008 09:23:00 PST

swol

Damn thismy throat is closing up and nose stuffed from allergies plusmy last wisdom tooth to come in is being a BIATCHand ... someone give me a job worth working please
Posted by Joy on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:21:00 PST