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Josh

Now I Wanna Groom Your Dog

About Me

I live a block away from Time Square and ten minute walk from work with two of my best friends from college. We still have not come to a conclusion wether this is a good thing since we know each other so well or a pathetic thing since we all thought we would have wives and house's filled with kids by now. I work in Rockefeller Center so I could not care less if I ever see another Christmas tree as long as I live or even an ice skating rink for that matter. They never play "Gates Of Steel"! How can you run an ice skating rink and not play "Gates Of Steeel"????? I used to like giving out directions to people on the street but since I have been working at Rock Center I grew tired of it and now give out inncorrect ones. I am currently working on a book about a record store I owned a long. long time ago. The book is coming along at a slugs pace so will probably be done in time to be the biggest read on the New York City Olympics in 2012. Reserve your copy now.When ever I dial on a regular land phone I always dial "9" before the number and then wonder why the call will not go through. Sometimes, very rarely, I answer the phone at work "Sound Exchange" which my boss does not appreciate too much. When I walk through a door I always look to see if there is someone behind me because one time I droppedthe door and it hit someone in the face breaking their nose. I am terrible with spelling and puctuation but will always find mistakes in anything anyone else writes.I have the greatest apartment in New York City. Two floors, two living rooms, two bathrooms, four bedrooms and a full back yard and I still cannot belive that I live here (Or know how tho spell believe)! Ever since I saw "Finding Nemo" I am worried that my fish are attempting to escape from their tank so I purposly killed one of them and left him in the tank to show the others who's boss! I know this "About Me" has gone on way too long.I do not ride the citys subways unless absolutely necessary (which I think I spelled wrong) and will never step foot on a NYC bus because of something horrible that happened over the summer on a crosstown bus and no I was not robbed, beat up or anything else you might think of. Because of the cold weather I was forced to begin rideing the subway and it is good to see all the guys who were just released from New Yok Hospital after having been diagnosed with aids and now were trying to raise enough money to go into a shelter for the night were still there. However the bus is still taboo.But if you think about it, NYC is like some really huge reality show and if i did go down into the subway station I may miss something. One time I was walking to work and there was a humongous tree lying across St. Marks.I grew up in Columbia, Md and left a lot of great friends down there, but I rarely return there so if you want to see me you better haul your ass up here! God knows I have enough room in my apartment for you. "It's tough luck, get used to it;the only kind you're likly to get. Poverty,payday,dig down deeper in debt. Between predators,creditors and the police. Marriage,miscarriages,presidents preists. What's wrong with them? What's the matter with me?Just bed bug crazy like a dog's got fleas. Everybody's crazy, it isn't just me."-"Crazy"-ALL

My Interests

Rock N Roll (Too old for Drugs and not getting enough Sex) This song was much better when done by the Subhumans (Canadians!) but this will have to do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipCqtC3BxU

I'd like to meet:

Thanks to a nice outdoor gas grill in our backyard I have now become obcessed with barbequing. I am looking for anyone who wants to come over and hang outside feasting on delicios barbequed food under the skyscrapers of Midtown Manhatten. Chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs and even veggie burgers for my non meat eating guest and tofu dogs for the vegan ones. So come down for a "Crucial Barbeque" every Sunday night. And if you know where the term "Crucial Barbeque" comes from, you get an extra dog tossed on the grill. .. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

"What do you love most about music?""To begin with...everything."))))))))) All/Descendents, Lemonhead, Supersuckers, Pissed JEans

Movies:

The Muppet Movie,Muppets From Space,Almost Famous,Stoked!, Bubba Hotep,Vanilla Sky,8 Men out,Love Liza,Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind,End Of The Century,Fast Times At Ridgemont High,Dogtown And Z-Boys,Eight Men Out, 12 Monkeys,25th Hour, Spaceballs,Clockers,The Edge Of Quarrel,SayAnything and of couse, High Fidelity

Books:

The Wanderers-Richard Price,Dream Brother-The Lives And Music Of Jeff And Tim Buckely by David Browne (Ironically I really do not like either of theirs music),Hells Angels-Hunter Thompson, Rock And the Pop Narcotic-Joe Carducci,The Breaks-Richard Price,HOW SOON IS NEVER-MARK SPITZ,East Of Eden-John Steinbeck (Struggled at parts , but I am glad I made it through it),Mystic River-Dennis LeHane,Our Band Could Be Your Life-Michael Azerod,Colossus Of New York-Coleson Whitehead (He even got the fried chicken right),Somebody's Gotta Tell It-Jack Newfield,Knockout Artist-Harry Crews,The Stranger-Albert Camus,Bright Lights Big City-Jay Mcinery(Ah, the 80s),Rolling Stone Magazine-Robert Draper(It's not about the music),The Wasp Factory-Ian Banks,Never Mind The Pollacks-Niel Pollack,The Minus Man-Lew McCreary,Bloodbrothers-Richard Price(check out the 1976 movie. Richard Gere's first movie!) and of course High Fidelity.

Heroes:

Jim Henson, Cameron Crowe, Joan Jett,Lester Bangs, Joey Ramone and Jenny Lilly

My Blog

Bowie + Crosby = Mould + ? (ARGH!)

Since Christmas time is upon us again, a mystery that has been haunting me for many years once again rears it's ugly head. As most people have probably seen many, many times, there is a video (and la...
Posted by Josh on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:15:00 PST

Top 5 Songs Not To Listen To Before You Fly

Top Songs Not To Listen To Before You Fly Across Country 1-Air Traffic Control -Jets To Brazil 2-Fire And Rain-James Taylor 3-Plane Crash-Inspiral Carpets (DUH!) 4-Sending Postcards From A Plane Crash...
Posted by Josh on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:36:00 PST

Speak before you think Part 2

The company I work for has a location in New Orleans. No one within the company had any idea what was going on with the New Orleans location and if everyone down there was alright. On Friday we r...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:51:00 PST

Back To School In Black

While on my vacation last week I noticed an extordinary amount of AC/DC  "Back in Black"shirts on kids. At first I thought maybe the band was breaking out into a even wider audience (11 to 17 yea...
Posted by Josh on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:44:00 PST

This Moment In Tourist History

This morning I went out for a cup of coffee and a family of tourist stoppd me and asked me if i could give them directions. "Sure", I said. "Where is Hell's Kitchen?" they asked. "Your in it," I answe...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Speak Before You Think

In Rockefeller Center there is a humongous Orchid show located in the plaza. Today a tourist asked me if I knew what they had inside. I toold her, "Well, I'm going to go on a limb her and say..Orchids...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Anarchy On The Greyhound!

When I take the bus or train down to Maryland I try to dress as punk rock as possible. Usually the sight of me in my hardcore shirt with tattoos flying,docs and ripped holes in my jeans will make peop...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Firm Beliver

Today at work I was feeling a strange tender pain in the side of my arm around my triceps area. As I tried to work it out a coworker asked if I was ever a smoker. When I replied that i was for awhile ...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My Left (Big)Foot

Today on my day off I watched a show on the the National Geographic Channel entitled "Big Foot" about wether or not there really is a Bigfoot out there. They say that if there is there would have to ...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Low Expectations Of The English

So at my work I deal first hand with people from all different parts of the world. One thing I have noticed is that people from the UK and parts of Austrailia seem to be awed by very simple things. Ev...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST