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Joel

About Me

a chameleon who takes on abstract shapes, brutally honest (read: deceptive), absent sometimes from life's little board meetings, frustrated but enduring and endearing.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

so i had 'myself' written here, and decided that was a little silly, so i'm just going to be honest and say I want to meet Joni Mitchell. I'm not entirely sure but I felt that way even before I got into her music. I saw her on the Isle of Wight Festival documentary, when she gave her "You're acting like fucking tourists, man" speech before playing a beautiful piano rendition of 'Woodstock'. Nuff said.

My Blog

battle over the homeland

Not classified as 'news' in certain places but I just had an intense confrontation with a mouse that I thought would at least classify as human/mouse interest story. Who is right? Who is wrong? ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:37:00 GMT

a beef with indie music

Dont get me wrong, I love music (really), I love meeting musicians and hearing independent bands, but sometimes being involved in independent music is painful. Often the same people who talk about sce...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:11:00 GMT

Revelations, accidents, coincidences, contingencies

So its been one nightmare to another today. And so you dont think Im having a nervous breakdown, Ill say now that everything is for the time being okay now. Anyway, as probably most of you already k...
Posted by on Fri, 26 May 2006 16:41:00 GMT

Tories, rapture, tuition

So a Conservative government now.  I've heard people talk about it before (and maybe still) with a certain amount of dread, I think to some extent because of the sheer boredom which the endless s...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:48:00 GMT

My Obligatory 'Get Out & Vote' Post

So this is where I'm supposed to push aside everything else I might have to say to encourage anyone who might be reading to go out and vote today. While I don't disagree with the idea of going out to ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:52:00 GMT

Predictions/Recollections

"When we refuse to be dejected by disconfirmed predictions we are only asserting a permanent need to live by the pattern rather than the fact, as indeed we must." -Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Endin...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:08:00 GMT

blog the first

So I have a blog now. It was an idea that occurred to me recently, and while I'm not sure if it will allow any clearer communication between me and the rest of the world, I figured it would be good th...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:45:00 GMT