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About Me

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My Interests

The-a-tah, comic books, purple, klowns, swordfighting, magic, impressionist art, existentialism, fire, teaching, China, travel, math, science, engineering, Halloween, reading, improv, movies, music, androids, automatons, humanoid robots, and cyborgs

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I'd like to meet:

Androids, automatons, humanoid robots, and cyborgs.

Music:

Hip-hop, modern rock, showtunes, alternative, top 40, jazz, folk, classical, and just about anything else. Not necessarily in that order. Faves include Nirvana, Muse, The Killers, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, U2, The Cat Empire, Sting, Eminem, Ludacris, Linkin Park, Christina Aguilera, F.I.R., PuffyAmiYumi, Metallica, No Doubt, Audioslave, Garbage, Beastie Boys, Korn, Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, White Stripes, Raconteurs, Damone, Death Cab for Cutie, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Chopin.

Movies:

LoTR, Pan's Labyrinth, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, The Matrix, X-Men, Pirates of the Carribean, Grindhouse, Quills, Hero, Sin City, Kill Bill vo. 1 and 2, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, The Crow, Bladerunner, Labyrinth, Beastmaster, Clue, and The Muppet Christmas special (where the Swedish Chef tries to eat Big Bird).

Television:

Buffy, Angel, Carnivale, House, American Idol, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, Simpsons, Robot Chicken, Venture Brothers, Futurama, ATHF, Criss Angel - Mindfreak, American Chopper, Mythbusters

Books:

Easier to just name authors: Neil Gaiman, Tracy Chevalier, Gregory Maguire, JK Rowling, Phillip Pullman, CS Lewis, Dan Brown, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, Hermann HesseFavorite comic book: Fables

Heroes:

You, for reading this far

My Blog

Quick Update on Gwen Stefani/Akon Concert

Last Wednesday, I went to the Gwen Stefani and Akon concert at the Tweeter Center with my friend Mary. As to be expected, we were the only people above the age of 18 there. Still, they put on a good s...
Posted by Joyeous on Mon, 28 May 2007 06:48:00 PST

AnimeBoston

AnimeBoston 2007 is right around the corner. According to Marcelo, I must go, and I must go in costume. I do not have a costume. I do not even watch very much anime, save a few episodes of Trinity Blo...
Posted by Joyeous on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:10:00 PST

Happy Pi Day

Eat pie. Watch Darren Aranofsky's "Pi." Recite pi to the 100th digit. Eat more pie. Have I mentioned that the way I sign my initials looks just like capital Pi?
Posted by Joyeous on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:19:00 PST

10 Names

Stolen from Michael.1.YOUR REAL NAME:Joye 2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME (first 4 letters of real name plus izzle)Joye-izzle (that's so lame)3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME (fav color and fav animal):The Purple Sheep (t...
Posted by Joyeous on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:04:00 PST

Tenacious D

was awesome last night. So weird seeing them up close. Basically, all they did was reenact the movie, so it was good I had seen it first. Also, they ended the encore with Pinball Wizard. :-)...
Posted by Joyeous on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:56:00 PST

8 Films to Die For

I definitely want to go to this. Any other takers? 8 Films to DIE for BTW, those people who were in the computer lab today and were making fun of my blog, you SUCK. Yeah, you know who you are....
Posted by Joyeous on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:47:00 PST

Ironic Dismemberment Fun

From this week's Weekly Dig : Forget slasher flicks: the truly scary shit this All Hallow's Eve is the stuff you can only taste with your ears. We're talking old-school, histrionic, sound-effects...
Posted by Joyeous on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:52:00 PST

Project Runway Fans/Spooky World People

Is this or is this not PuncH's jacket? And they even have the dress to match! The guy who designed these ended up winning the whole show....
Posted by Joyeous on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:54:00 PST

Halloween Radio Show

I am a Foley Artist (fancy way of saying Sound FX) for the upcoming Halloween Show, Tomes of Terror on October 30 and 31. In case you think you've never heard the story of The Monkey's Paw (...
Posted by Joyeous on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:04:00 PST

Spooky World Saturday

That's when I'm going (at night). Lemme know if you want to go too. This could be your chance to meet one-fourth of my Top 8 Friends. Woo hoo! Spooky World...
Posted by Joyeous on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:17:00 PST