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Jo)))ey Bear (D.R.)

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About Me

MySpace tweaks and layouts at MusicTweak.I love music. that's numero uno for me, regardless of whatever detrimental effects it has on anything else.that being said, i feel most at home when i'm around instruments and amplifiers, and other musicians...it's where my heart is, and where my brain is most of the time, as well...i play guitar in a band called we were statues that my friends and i started in october 2007. playing music is rad.i'm also happily married (over 2 years now) so i have no interest in adding any e-whores to my friends listcurrently listening to: ornette coleman - the shape of jazz to come

My Interests

music (playing it, writing it, learning it, listening to it, showing it to other ppl, talking about it), art (designing stuff for my band, drawing, doodling), writing, movies, the handful of good shows on television (scrubs, futurama, the family guy, aqua teen hunger force, arrested development) hanging out with my wife and bros

I'd like to meet:

Cormac McCarthy
Annie Proulx
Ian Mcewan
Herbert Asbury
Ernest Hemingway
Stevie Wonder
Townes Van Zandt
Daniel Johnston
Ian Williams (Battles, Don Caballero)
Matt Pike (High on Fire, Sleep)
Dead, Euronymous, Hellhammer, Count Grishnackh (Mayhem)
Pushead
Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover(Melvins)
Chuck D
Stephen O'Malley

Music:

Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Capsule - Blue
Loma Prieta - Last City
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
The Depreciation Guild - In Her Gentle Jaws
Oceansize - Frames
*shels - Sea of the Dying Dhow
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go, Seclusion, Sleep and Release, A Story in White
Gospel - The Moon is a Dead World
The Power & The Glory - Call Me Armageddon
Melvins - Nude with Boots

Movies:

garden state, gangs of new york, boondock saints, shaun of the dead, tapeheads, high fidelity, anchorman, slither, rushmore, the royal tenenbaums, the life aquatic, little miss sunshine, the motorcycle diaries, jesus camp, undead, dead alive, jacob's ladder, ocean's 11 & 12, dawn of the dead, donnie darko, sideways, about schmidt, punch drunk love, thank you for smoking, ferris beuller's day off, the sixth sense, unbreakable, signs, the village, requiem for a dream, pi, almost famous, the big lebowski, the hudsucker proxy, shawshank redemption, A.I., rent (yeah, i'm man enough to admit it) moulin rouge, romeo and juliet, night of the living dead, 28 days later, a life less ordinary, trainspotting, one hour photo, kung fu hustle, ichi the killer, star wars, sin city, batman begins, crash, closer, the baxter, farenheit 9/11, supersize me, bowling for columbine (i love documentaries in general), spider, wild bill, the quick and the dead, tombstone, the unforgiven, the missouri breaks, the proposition, (i'm getting into westerns like crazy here lately) the primer, xmen I, II & III, ghostbusters, the slaughter rule, bring me the head of alfredo garcia, stay, the departed

Television:

mythbusters the sopranos deadwood john from cincinnati

Books:

anything by cormac mccarthy

Heroes:

cormac mccarthy, demetri martin, stevie wonder

My Blog

top albums 2007

sunn o)))/boris: altar -  at turns gorgeous and unspeakably ugly, an exercise in extremes, and a worthy outing for both bands atavist: II ruined - the low end theory personified, plus a grief cov...
Posted by Jo)))ey Bear (D.R.) on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:21:00 PST

you’ve been asleep long enough

it's time to wake up. www.zeitgeistmovie.com this is the first time any film has ever had the balls to tell me just how stupid i've been, and that i am powerful enough to rise above that stupidity.&nb...
Posted by Jo)))ey Bear (D.R.) on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:56:00 PST

Japanese Power Trio Kicks Out Jams, Destroys Microphones

so, today i'm posting my review for the boris album akuma no uta.  i recently downloaded it off of emusic.com (killa site, by the way) along with about 9 or 10 other albums, which i'll...
Posted by Jo)))ey Bear (D.R.) on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:04:00 PST

music reviews

So, I've never done a blog before (I kept a journal on stlpunk, but that was mostly to be a little emo baby and talk about my life and how much it sucks) now, I've decided to instead just catalogue th...
Posted by Jo)))ey Bear (D.R.) on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:35:00 PST