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About Me

I'm a UCLA MFA Student, Animator, Freelance Assassin...
but my ambition is to become a Registered Sex Offender when I grow up.
I'm also on Facebook and Friendster
Self-Portrait
[full animation viewable at joshuajmorgan.com or newgrounds.com ]
I'm an incurable insomniaddict, an insufferable iconoclast and a no-nonsense Nihilist. Looking back at that last sentence it appears I'm also addicted to alliteration. It also makes me sound like I'm no fun, but I'm actually a big goof-ball. I love to laugh and I love to make others laugh, but I don't consider myself a "comedian" (I prefer the term "Wiseass American"). That said, there are many things that I take very seriously. I'm extremely allergic to religions, political parties, and traditions. I was raised Christian Conservative but thanks to a little thing called an "education" I was able to expunge myself of all the beliefs I'd inherited from my parents and now I consider myself a dead-again Atheist and a recovering Republican (I voted for GW Bush in 2000 and I'm sorry everyone, so very very sorry. There, that at least takes care of Step 8 on my road to recovery...)
Facts:
1. Joshes are mammals.
2. Joshes fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the Josh is to flip out and kill people
I speak pretty good German and a little Japanese (though both languages are slowly leaking from my brain since I never use either anymore). Contrary to popular belief, I'm not a ninja, though a friend of a friend of mine at UCLA started the popular ninja site realultimatepower.net . I'd make a lousy ninja if I tried, as I'm conspicuously tall (6'3"), I have horrible balance cuz my feet are unusually small for a guy of my height (size 8 men's), and I'm freakishly underweight (buck and a half) so I'd snap like a twig, although I've found great truth to the Fight Club adage that "skinny guys fight til they're burger." My raging metabolism not only keeps me lean, but it allows me an almost superhuman ability to consume alcohol. When I do get drunk though, I have a tendency to tell everyone within earshot about I how I've been robbed TWICE at gunpoint (no joke... if you want to hear the story, let's go drinking sometime). In fact, being held up at gunpoint in two separate armed robberies triggered my strong phobia of guns, which is ironic because so many of my animations feature firearms. Those life-threatening experiences also gave me a profound appreciation for living and so I have no intentions of actually performing the suicidal act depicted in my animated Self-Portrait . Seriously, my family and friends can all stop worrying... I really am happy :-)
I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile. I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well. I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave. I will work to elevate you, just enough to bring you down. Trust me.
That's a really old picture that Kurt MacDonald took of me shaving my head, but I've started alternating between a shaved head and a mohawk .
Just for the record, I'm NOT a skinhead... I just have a love/hate relationship with my hair. In fact, I'm so paranoid about people thinking I'm a racist that I don't even separate the coloreds from the whites when I do my laundry. Can't we all just get along?
I really am the worst vegetarian ever, at least compared to all my full-blown vegan friends.
I gave up beef, pork, poultry and other animals after reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, but I still eat seafood and I have a "leftover clause" that allows me to eat my girlfriend's meaty leftovers (I just can't stand to let food go to waste).
If you really want to know how screwed up in the head I can be, check out my DreamBlog at www.joshuajmorgan.com
And now let us read a passage from the Book of Morgan...
Jenesis 1:1 - In the beginning there was Josh. Orphaned at birth, because His conception was so immaculate that He had neither a mother nor a father, the infant Josh was sold into slavery and bought by a nomadic tribe of circus performers who would shoot Him out of a cannon in a stunt they called "Baby-go-BOOM". A talent scout saw the act and took Josh to Hollywood where He starred in numerous diaper commercials before His career was ruined by scandal (Josh swears that blasphemous little bitch told Him she was 11 months old, but nay, the jurors were non-believers). Ruined before His first birthday, Joshua then spent the next 20+ years in a drunken stupor until one day He had an absinthe-induced vision. . . a vision of world populated entirely by people named Josh. Behold, His vision is near fruition and the time shall come for the reign of our savior: Joshua J Morgan .

My Interests

Animation Anime German hip-hop Asian cinema Surrealist film bass guitar Samnang

I'd like to meet:

Anyone...

I'm too lazy to filter out the freaks from the friends so I basically approve anybody and everybody who requests me to add them as their friend or join their group.

So feel free to hit me up about anything you think we might have in common or if you're just looking to add another friend to your pokemon myspace collection, that's cool too.

A few words of warning though:
DO NOT POST VIDEO, AUDIO OR BIG PICS!!!
-- Feel free to post any comments you want, but please please please do NOT post any video, audio or ginormous images on my profile.
COMMENT WHORES NEED NOT APPLY!!!
-- Don't post blogs begging for comments
-- Don't post bulletins begging for comments
-- Don't message me begging for comments
-- Don't comment on my profile begging for comments

I'm also on Facebook and Friendster

Music:

TOOL Eels Soul Coughing Mike Doughty They Might Be Giants Mars Volta Ben Folds Pearl Jam The Clash Joe Strummer (RIP) Radiohead Gomez Led Zeppelin New Model Army The Postal Service Death Cab For Cutie Beirut Primus Les Claypool Pixies Our Lady Peace Barenaked Ladies Moxy FrÃ¼vous TV on the Radio Fair Mona Ill Again Sigur RÃ³s MÃºm BjÃ¶rk RÃ¶yksopp Erlend Ã˜ye Gorillaz Moby DJ Shadow UNKLE The Album Leaf Boards of Canada The Faint Aphex Twin Fischerspooner The Shins Tenacious D Violent Femmes Ween King Missile Brazzaville Man Or Astroman? Antony and the Johnsons Franz Ferdinand Godspeed You! Black Emperor Jeff Hanson Tindersticks Elliott Smith (RIP) Jeff Buckley Imogen Heap Tori Amos Sara Bareilles Alicia Keys Mos Def Talib Kweli Jurassic 5 The Roots Outkast Gnarls Barkley Cee-Lo Green Eminem Xzibit Ludacris Kanye West L.A. Symphony Dilated Peoples Atmosphere MC Chris Die Ã„rzte Falco Pizzicato Five Utada Hikaru Yoko Kanno KCRW German HipHop:

Freundeskreis Die Firma Funf Sterne Deluxe Afrob Eins Zwo Die Fantastischen Vier Samy Deluxe Absolute Beginner Ferris MC Fettes Brot Massive Tone Spax Blumentopf Deichkind Joy Denalane Sekou The Ambassador

Movies:

Check out
my DVD collection
and my Film Diary
@ joshuajmorgan.com .
Favorite Movies:

Fight Club Rules of the Game Wings of Desire The Tin Drum A Clockwork Orange Ghostbusters In the Mood for Love Hana-bi Blade Runner Oldboy My Sassy Girl Brazil 12 Monkeys Being John Malkovich Barton Fink Hudsucker Proxy Royal Tenenbaums Rushmore Battle Royale Office Space Se7en Baraka Cinema Paradiso Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring Matrix Blues Brothers Little Shop of Horrors City of Lost Children LA Story Annie Hall Manhattan Crimes and Misdemeanors Requiem for a Dream Maborosi Ichi the Killer Kill Bill Sin City Toy Story Monsters Inc Finding Nemo Incredibles Favorite Directors:

Takashi Miike Takeshi Kitano Akira Kurosawa Shunji Iwai Hirokazu Kore-eda Kiyoshi Kurosawa Wong Kar-wai Yimou Zhang Luis Bunuel Jan Svankmajer Ingmar Bergman Wes Anderson David Lynch Wim Wenders Werner Herzog Stanley Kubrick Terry Gilliam Quentin Tarantino Woody Allen Spike Jonze David Fincher Joel and Ethan Coen Jim Jarmusch Jean Renoir Chan-wook Park Ki-duk Kim Favorite Actors:

Tadanobu Asano Toshiro Mifune 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano Susumu Terajima Choi Min-Sik Bill Murray Brad Pitt Philip Seymour Hoffman Paul Giamatti Martin Freeman Peter Krause Peter Falk George Clooney John C. McGinley Bruno Ganz Favorite Actresses:

Zhang Ziyi Maggie Cheung Naomi Watts
Anime Anime Films:

Mind Game Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Akira Ghost In The Shell Memories Ninja Scroll Dead Leaves Cat Soup Perfect Blue Millennium Actress Tokyo Godfathers Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Porco Rosso Princess Mononoke Spirited Away Voices Of A Distant Star Anime Series:

Cowboy Bebop Samurai Champloo Trigun Berserk Kemonozume Serial Experiments: Lain FLCL (a.k.a Fooly Cooly) Neon Genesis Evangelion Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Paranoia Agent Texhnolyze Eureka seveN Anime Directors:

Hayao Miyazaki Isao Takahata Shinichiro Watanabe Satoshi Kon Mamoru Oshi Koji Morimoto Hideaki Anno Masaaki Yuasa

Television:

Animated Shows:

Family Guy Simpsons South Park Samurai Jack Invader Zim Futurama Batman: The Animated Series Moral Orel Robot Chicken Sitcoms:

Arrested Development Curb Your Enthusiasm Scrubs Seinfeld The Office Extras Weeds The Job The IT Crowd It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia NewsRadio Sketch Comedies:

Kids In The Hall Chappelle's Show Human Giant Monty Python's Flying Circus The Whitest Kids U' Know Wonder Showzen Acceptable.TV Little Britain Dramedies:

Sports Night Rescue Me Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip Dirty Sexy Money Dramas:

Lost Sopranos Six Feet Under Dexter House Other shows:

30 Days MythBusters Penn and Teller: Bullshit! The Daily Show The Colbert Report

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk:

Fight Club Invisible Monsters Survivor Choke Lullaby Fiction:

To Kill a Mockingbird Catch-22 A Clockwork Orange Brave New World any Philip K. Dick The Bible (j/k... fuck god... no seriously... fuck Him and His book of lies. The Bible is fascinating mythology, nothing more) Non-Fiction:

Once (by Wim Wenders) Fast Food Nation Comics/Graphic Novels:

Calvin & Hobbes Johnny The Homicidal Maniac Transmetropolitan Sin City Watchmen Manga:

Akira Blade of the Immortal Berserk Koroshiya 1 (Ichi the Killer) Lone Wolf & Cub Web Comics:

Creatures In My Head Ctrl+Alt+Del Cyanide and Happiness Diesel Sweeties Exploding Dog Men In Hats (RIP) Natalie Dee Ornery Boy Penny Arcade Perry Bible Fellowship Questionable Content Sinfest Toothpaste for Dinner White Ninja Other reading material:

The Onion McSweeney's

Heroes:

Comedians / Funnymen:

Bill Hicks (RIP) Mitch Hedberg (RIP) George Carlin David Cross Seth MacFarlane Bill Murray Steve Martin Dan Aykroyd Dave Attell Lewis Black Lenny Bruce (RIP) Sacha Baron Cohen John Cleese Larry David Denis Leary Steve Carell Zach Galifianakis Jim Gaffigan Louis C. K. Phil Hartman (RIP) Will Ferrell Dylan Moran Jon Stewart Stephen Colbert Jim Carrey Patton Oswalt Dan Castellaneta Harry Shearer Ricky Gervais John Hodgman Monologuists:

Joe Frank Ze Frank Spalding Gray (RIP) Eric Bogosian Columnists:

Dan Savage Visual Artists:

H. R. Giger Bill Watterson Cam De Leon Han Hoogerbrugge Jim Henson (RIP) Philosophers:

Friedrich Nietzsche Bertrand Russell David Hume Thomas Jefferson Buddha Scientists:

Richard Dawkins Albert Einstein Charles Darwin Carl Sagan Richard Carrier Neil deGrasse Tyson ya i know, my heroes are almost all comedians, but they make me laugh and they make me think

My Blog

Jesus Christ wants to be my friend on MySpace!

I've gotten (and accepted) MySpace friend requests from "Jesus" profiles many times before, but this time I actually read the request, "Jesus Christ wants to be your friend!" and it made me laugh out ...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:57:00 PST

Holy crap, I'm in Luxembourg!!!

I'll be blogging about my business trip in Luxembourg on my website:http://www.joshuajmorgan.com/blog/lux.phpHappy New Year!!!...
Posted by Josh on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:45:00 PST

Please Vote for my Self-Portrait at NewGrounds.com

Self-Portrait It took me over a year since I originally made the damn thing, but I finally got around to fixing up my Self-Portrait so I could submit it to NewGrounds.com. Please head on over to New...
Posted by Josh on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:46:00 PST

The TRUTH about User Pics

Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Stupid personality test

I @*$ing hate those stupid personality tests, but for some reason i decided to take this one and the results made me feel good about myself cuz I'd like to pretend that it really describes me. It's no...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

DreamBlog: www.joshuajmorgan.com

I keep a dream journal on my website: http://blog.joshuajmorgan.com And check out my latest self-portrait: http://www.joshuajmorgan.com...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST