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The Joey Machine

li'l rub-a-dub

About Me

= seriously so kinda totally L.A.
= outlet for repressed joy.
= only a machine in the sense that the cotton gin is/was a a machine.
= no. 1 single the week i was born : "another one bites the dust." an omen, absolutely.
= exceptional speller.
= one-man band.
= little-known fact: burgeoning underground weho gay circles now call cute guys "joey"s.
= i look really familiar to you, for some odd reason.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/14/2004
Band Website: thejoeymachine.com
Band Members: will.
Influences: the beach boys big star curt boettcher todd rundgren steely dan van dyke parks randy newman those beatles harry nilsson sandy salisbury the millennium harpers bizarre lindsey buckingham fleetwood mac emitt rhodes bread supertramp wham! elvis costello joe jackson cheap trick mothers of invention buck owens george jones jon brion michael andrews dwight twilley little feat mercury rev ed harcourt tobias fröberg ben folds five aztec camera sly + the family stone phil spector mark isham c. debussy chaz mingus abba yada yada yada
Sounds Like: squeeze 10cc ed harcourt joe jackson new radicals elvis costello headlights
Type of Label: None

My Blog

hold tight!

It’s been awhile, to paraphrase Nickelstaind. So, in the last-year-and-a-half:I’m a full-time employee of Darker My Love and Bros. Local moving company. I guess I was last I wrote, but ...
Posted by The Joey Machine on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:47:00 PST

addendum

Maybe it's not so far fetched after all: New York Times: Government-Subsidized Rock Bands(registration required, I think)I'm moving to Canada. Or Sweden....
Posted by The Joey Machine on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:04:00 PST

while my heart is still beating

I got this overwhelming sense of doom the other day, and started frantically thinking of all these odd organizations that give grants to artists, y'know, so they can not have to work for several month...
Posted by The Joey Machine on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:11:00 PST

no one feels the darkness down in the basement of the ramada at night

So I was in the basement of the Ramada Inn on Vermont in Hollywood one night last week, watching a friend of a friend's Jonathan Richman-cum-Wire-cum-Railroad Jerk-cum-Pants Yell! band; a real festive...
Posted by The Joey Machine on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:44:00 PST

party, free-style!

To be perfectly clear here, y'allz best scoot over to my website and download all my music. Or just download some of it, hey, whatevz. It's absolutely free, and it's all yours, just for being a frie...
Posted by The Joey Machine on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:14:00 PST

a million little pieces

I had my first solo L.A. gig in front of people I don't know all lined up last Thursday. Some cabaret in scenic West Hollywood Adjacent. Took my vitamins, shaved my pits, put on my silk boxers, and ...
Posted by The Joey Machine on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:49:00 PST