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Josh the Sofa King

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I have obtained total logistic control.

Shockingly, named one of 2005's Artists of the Year by nytheatre.com

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Elvis (which might be tough), Stephen Colbert, Lewis Black, Craig Finn of the Hold Steady, Will Ferrell, Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Drew Barrymore, George Steinbrenner, and Curt Schilling in a dark alley.

I have met: Tim Quirk from Too Much Joy! Lifelong acheivement fulfilled at the ten year reunion show at the Knitting Factory.Tony Siragusa. He's doing some reality tv show where the re-did the barbershop right underneath my Hoboken apt. Shook his Super Bowl ring hand. He was on the team that beat my Giants. Irony kills. Ted Lange (Isaac from the Love Boat) in my office. Didn't see THAT one coming. Alison Pill - who told me how she gets her great reviews. Paul Rudd in Urban Outfitters. Nice guy. Elliott Gould in an elevator. He lost his viriginity at 21. Courtney Love at the Bowery Ballroom at a Mooney Suzuki show. Tanked. Principal Belding from Saved By The Bell at karaoke in LA, in Baltimore and then again in Minneapolis. Barry Williams [aka Greg Brady] on a boat in Baltimore's inner harbor. Anna Chlumsky [the My Girl movie] who was in 12th Night of the Living Dead's staged reading. The Donnas at Maxwell's. Damn you Carlos! Rosie Perez at Office Sonata, and then again at Tim. Savion Glover, who also met my parents and then talked to Bruce Springsteen. "Bachelor" Bob Guiney, who was kind of a jerk, in Baltimore. Dick Valentine of the Electric Six at Maxwell's, who is one of the awesome dudes on earth. The lead singer of Radio 4. This awesome dude who professionally impersonates Groucho Marx A guy who helped build & design Yoda for George LucasI also totally chickened out on talking to Elizabeth Berkeley, but I've shared a bathroom with Antonio Banderas.

My Blog

New Impetuous show is up & running!

If you haven't already heard, The Chronological Secrets of Tim is our new play (from my theater company, Impetuous Theater Group) that runs this weekend and next.  It's the story of one man, one...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:21:00 GMT

Best Tunes of 2006

Flawed, flawed, flawed.  2006 was a music season riddled with holes, disappointments, overhyped returns, and very few pleasant surprises.  I felt like I searched harder and farther to find s...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:13:00 GMT

Theater Review: Hermanas (Fringe)

Review number two on nytheatre.com   Hermanas, a new work by Monica Yudovich, is the kind of warm-hearted, very polished situation comedy that one simply doesnt expect to see at the Fringe Festiv...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:04:00 GMT

my review of Aruba.

This summer, I'm participating in the nytheatre.com summer reviewing squad.  This appeared on nytheatre.com last night. ARUBA On one of the muggiest nights of this young summer, it seemed ironic ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:12:00 GMT

wha happened

I am So ticked off.   I had this amazing riff on the Star Wars holiday special that I was three quarters of the way through.   and something went all Pete Tong w/my computer and it friggin ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:31:00 GMT

The King of Hoboken's Top Ten - Year in Music '05

The King of Hoboken presents the best in music 2005   Every year when I sit down to put together my list, I invariably wind up wondering out loud, was this a great year in music?  This yea...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:39:00 GMT