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Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings)

'Ist gibt kein Morgen mehr!'

About Me

I pour all my efforts into keeping myself entertained and intellectual. The things I like: music/movies/reading, I really like. Most people call it being a nerd because...well because they are lazy and everyone just thinks about making money. I am willing to give my time to what I like. I talk too much and I write film scripts for the most part. My personality & opinions are probably my best and worst traits. My opinion of peoples' intentions fuels quite a bit of my life. Things seem to have gotten all too plastic. I cringe when I see E! channel and think that people actually find that entertaining. That's not all of me, but that's why people communicate. If I could describe myself, detail perfect, in this little box; well then I'd want to get away from a computer and go find out who I was. (image composite,property of horsedrownings.com)

My Interests

Watching, writing and directing films. Lots of my time is spent pouring as much potent material into stories and film scripts as possible. Whiskey, Rye and Jager. Coffee, it deserves statues and is a modern wonder/treasure (Screw gold and diamonds, I like coffee). Keeping up on local metal shows and rock shows in general. Women (an unyielding and sometimes dangerous study). Listening to music has gone from a joy, to a need over the years. Driving blow-out-your-ass music & film is what keeps me in motion. Some days I just wake up with the hunger to go cruisin' and turn up the stereo. Paintball, it's a real rush and those who play know. I still read comic books and damn near anything readable (poetry, magazines, novels.); presented thoughtfully and sometimes profoundly. Read kiddies read! Feed that brain aneurism.

I'd like to meet:

People that dig what I dig. If you've invested time in Shenmue, heard most of Anthrax's albums or you have your own quality insight, chances are we'd talk.

Music:

Mostly metal, but you know if it's good I'm there. Bands: no specific order: Anthrax, Pantera, Rammstein, Clutch, Public Enemy, Fear Factory, Megadeth, Megaherz/Eisbrecher, Joe Cocker, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Rory Gallagher, Ministry, Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Taty, American Head Charge, S.O.D.: Stormtroopers of Death that is, Oomph!, Steppenwolf, Testament, In Extremo, Brujeria/ Asesino, Static-X, Black Oak Arkansas, Dr. Hook, White Zombie, Overkill, BLS, Angelo Badalamenti, Claudio Simonetti: Goblin, Ry Cooder, Jim Steinman, Social Distortion, N.W.A.....

Movies:

The Warriors, Phantasm, Streets of Fire, Nosferatu, The Golem, Ali: Angst Essen Seele Auf, They Live, Taxi Driver, Ninja Scroll, Riki-Oh, The Stalker, Sin City, Spriggan, Zombie Flicks from the Italians, Amelie, Martial Arts films: Sonny Chiba, Bruce Lee, (old) Jet-Li, Crying Freeman, Nekromantic, Premutos, Park Row, Enemy at the Gates, Blue Velvet, Dillinger. Films by the directors: Dario Argento, John Carpenter, David Lynch, Walter Hill, John Milius, Sam Fuller, Takashi Miike, Yip Wai-shun, John Ford, Go Nagai and damn near everybody in modern Japanese Horror and Italian Horror (Fulci/Bava). Mad House animation. I have always enjoyed films and there is no end to what I see or have seen.

Television:

Come on already with all this reality shit, put the 'King Biscuit Flour Hour' back on and call it a day. The Shield, Aqua Teen, Miami Vice, Family Guy, Cartoons the old stuff (Merry Melodies, etc.): (A good Tom & Jerry axe to the scalp can fix any mood) , Titus, Three Stooges, the [Adult Swim] stuff. Horror series: Tales from the Crypt, Outer Limits and (some) Twilight Zone

Books:

Golem: Gustav Meyrink Eaters of the Dead: Michael Crichton (read it, scratch head, repeat) Anything Richard Matheson, John Steakley, Stephen King, (some)Clive Barker Poets: Ferlinghetti, Bukowski, George Trakl, Heinrich Heine, Herman Hess Comics by: Daniel Way, Eric Powell, Garth Ennis (kick ass rinse and repeat writing: Fury, Punisher,Authority), Kazuo Koike, Chris Claremont, Frank Tieri and Peter David The Brothers Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm-one hell of a library documented by them. Fukuzawa Yukichi's biography Once again, I'm a reader.

Heroes:

Kate Phillips, Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Garth Ennis, Samuel Fuller, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Dimebag(Diamond) Darrell Abbott, Scott Ian, Till Lindemann, Alexx Wesselsky, Bukowski and anyone who lived and died for what they believed in.

My Blog

When yer dead!

They'll throw it all away. All those baseball cards you collect. Everything that was important to YOU, it'll be gone then. You're important now. They want you to pay your taxes, get your trash put out...
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:51:00 PST

Throwin it all on the line.

...And when the sun comes up, I hope everything is dry; cause I'm movin' away from it and if it isn't in check, who cares. I'll keep doin' what I do again and again 'til I'm dead. As always: Edel...
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:55:00 PST

Lawyers and Lawnjockeys

Been bustin' ass, just to feel like I get to light the way for someone else's path, to their mansion and stand rustin'.
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Thu, 08 May 2008 01:39:00 PST

Kate: My old(est) friend!

One of my college teachers passed on, Kate Phillips. I believe she was 94. She told me stories about: workin' with John Ford, hangin' with Thomas Edison, writin' the Blob, hangin' with the guys who wr...
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:41:00 PST

Skull fuck comment

Shoulda known that Nowah days all you kids spit rap So I been written' like a cunt When I shoulda done put up a shunt. Wrote 12 pages this week That of corpse reek But you aint' in tah' it Cause I'm b...
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:38:00 PST

Death Sentence

It was pretty excellent all in all. It had a great lead in, look at 'Death Wish'& The Punisher comics first, then enjoy the new retribution take. It had horrible editing and predictably paced stor...
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:24:00 PST

Cold (part 1)

So I wrote this as an 8 line paper/short for a German class, called ’die Stuhlerin’ at the time. Just typing up some short story stuff and thought I’d share, 3 of about 300 pages. En...
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:00:00 PST

The Heat (part 2)

(read ’Cold’ blog first, that’s part 1) The Heat by Joshua Gosselin It’s been a couple of days since I found that man’s flesh stuck in the other guy’s gut. The...
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:56:00 PST

Best Story Ever

Just wrote it. It blew away in the wind after Tenacious D read it and played Best Song (tribute). I scrambled, lunged, but the great north wind won. None of that happened. I’ll probably finish t...
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:10:00 PST

Life on the Moon?

If there is, they probably hate us for all the reality t.v. we’re broadcasting. They would be fed solely on green cheese and hate us to no end, for being the smartest and dumbest motherfuckers i...
Posted by Josh(Befriender of Ducks and King of the Lemmings) on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:46:00 PST