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Joel

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About Me

i'm joel, i listen to lots and lots of music, i write alot of music. i love playing shows, going to shows, making music, hearing music, thinking about music, talking about music, preparing a fantastic noodle dish... I read alot, i don't enjoy arguing about politics, or being around people who are doing it. i also love cats. if you reallly want to know more talk to me....i don't have time for close minded strokes.

My Interests

Life.Art.Death.Relevance.

Music:

LATELY (in NO PARTICULAR ORDER as of 3/4/08):
HEALTH
Sole
Xiu Xiu
Andrew Bird
Animal Collective
Magnetic Fields
Ulver
Mort Garson
Beach Boys
Cocteau Twins
Jesus and Mary Chain
My Bloody Valentine
The Smiths
Mew
Agalloch
Weakerthans
Martha Wainwright
Iron and Wine
Black Flag
Germs
Converge
Why?
Grizzly Bear
Velvet Underground
Nico
The Byrds
The Cryan Shames
Anything Spector
The Beatles
Gang Starr
Silver Apples
The Troggs
No Age
AIDS WOLF
Boris
Envy
Mono
Xasthur
Paysage D'Hiver
Broken Social Scene
Feist
Vampire Weekend
Sufjan
My Brightest Diamond
Ex Models
Black Sun Ensemble
Black Angels
Matmos
Glass Candy
Antony
DFA1979
Kinit Her
The World On Higher Downs
Kitty Rhombus
Crime Novels
Screamin' Cyn Cyn and the Pons
Projection People
Cemetary Improvement Society
Neko Case
Radiohead
Fleetwood Mac
Jeff Buckley
Depeche Mode
Avett Brothers
Jay Reatard
Die Kreuzen
Mecht Mench
Clit Boys
Tar Babies
White Denim
Boards Of Canada
more more more...

Movies:

Battlefield Earth, Waterworld, Porky's 2, Naked Gun 2 1/2, Revenge Of The Nerds 4:Nerds In Love, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4:The Next Generation, Booty Call, Barbershop 2, The Friday After Next, Bring It On 2, Grease 2, JumanjiActually, lately I really love insane comedies, art films, Jhorror, Cult Films and trash cinema...

Television:

Reba, Cybil, Murphy Brown, Designing Women, America's Funniest People, Mo'esha, In Tha House, American Idol, 700 club

Books:

Entangled With A Texan, Yentil (Script), How to draw a superhero

Heroes:

Gahan/Gore, Allen Ginsberg, Lloyd Kaufman, Gary Wilson, Brian Wilson, Johnny Depp, Kevin Shields, Johnny Whitney, Takashi Miike, Steve Stevens, Quentin Tarantino, Ghost Rider (Dan Ketch only), Freddie Mercury, Jamie Miller, Parker/Stone, Buddha the Cat, Matt Groening, The Genuis/Gza, Jackie Chan, my beautiful friends and...of course... Mrs. O' Leary (and cow)

My Blog

Hello everyone

Heyyyy.... I haven't blogged in a while... Hmmm...most importantly...I'm playing in a band called Funeral Wine now, with some very good friends....It's an experimental black metal/post rock project.&n...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:57:00 PST

You Don't Have To Kick It! READ READ READ!

Hey Hey Haaaaaaaeeeeeeeyyyyy, Just wanted all of you beautiful readers of my blog (all 3 of you) to know that the first issue of the zine I write for is out.  It is called "Audiose" and if you li...
Posted by Joel on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:26:00 PST

Top 10

It's been awhile since we've had a lovely little update...but thats because my modeling career for Faded Glory is really taking off...Let's not forget my controversial intake of qualuudes. Ok maybe I'...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 10 May 2006 01:11:00 PST

My Show

In case none of you are aware, I have a show on 90fm (89.9) from 9am to 12pm every Monday! I would love for you to listen to it! Here is my playlist from today's show, if you are interested...Pink &...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:03:00 PST

Leave Your Top 10

Here's Mine. Gang Gang Dance-God's Money Cocteau Twins-BBC Sessions Animal Collective-Sung Tongs Cinemechanica-The Martial Arts Umbrellas-Self Titled American Analog Set-Promise Of Love The Red Chord-...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:08:00 PST

Rest In Peace Uncle Buddha 1987-2006

Today I lost one of my oldest unconditional friends...Buddha was an amazing siamese cat...with human-esque demeanor...I'm at a loss for words... I'll miss you buddy...  
Posted by Joel on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:19:00 PST

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Thank you all so much for coming the show at the Mission on February 10th. We all had a blast and the other bands Spudmonkey/Innatrance/Middleworld rocked it!   I didn't break a string...awe...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:08:00 PST

when roommates put on bare midriff t-shirts and wrestle in the lawn...

thank you to EVERYBODY who came out to the first Oh! The Infamy show, we had an awesome time!  we hope to be playing many more shows soon , so stay tuned...also we have a live tracks up on our we...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:54:00 PST

January 6th: The Dials w/ Oh! The Infamy at The Mission January 7th: SILIK w/ Shattered Red

I'm pleased to officially announce that Oh! The Infamy (the name we've decided on..)  will be playing their first show at The Mission Coffee House with awesome Latest Flame Records band The ...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:30:00 PST

good news bad news good news bad news bad news bad news bad news bad news

Wow. Brandon quit SILIK, who knows what the fuck we are going to do now.  Come see what might be one of our last shows ever in Stevens Point at the Boys and Girls club on January 6th. My car is f...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:23:00 PST