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Josh

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About Me

You would like to know about me?
Aaaawwww. That's so sweet.

Well, I am currently teaching English composition at the University of West Georgia. After being a student for nine years (or intoxicated for three years and a serious student for six), I am now trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Well, to be honest (because Myspace is all about honesty), I am trying to find ways to get around making those kinds of lifelong decisions. I just want to roll wherever my interests take me. Right now, I am balancing in some sort of strange transition period (think Raymond Carver and Albert Camus teaming up to write a picaresque--yeah, that sort of thing), and I have no idea where I am about to roll. But I am looking forward to it, and I hope that it makes me a little dizzy--in that tickle-your-tummy sort of way.

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My Interests

Staring.
Staring at books. Staring at television and movie screens. Staring at people. Staring at trajectories as I play frisbee golf. Staring at myself. Staring at nothingness as I discuss culture and philosophy with other people.
I know that my response has sounded pretty glib up to this point, but I do have a strange penchant for staring at things. Lately, I've found myself staring out of second and third floor windows--the original reality television. The height doesn't indicate any sort of god complex. It's more like I'm house sitting for god. I'm just looking down from one of his windows and admiring how well he keeps his garden.

I'd like to meet:

You.

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Music:

Classic Rock
Rock
Bluegrass
Folk
Big Band
Jazz
Blues

Houses Of The Holy
Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO)
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin III
Songs You Know by Heart : Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s)

Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
Galore
Evil Empire
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. 1-2
Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of the Grateful Dead

MTV Unplugged in New York (Nirvana)
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered)
Dark Side Of The Moon
Undertow

Aenima
Ten
Jim Croce Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits
Elton John - Greatest Hits 1970-2002
Dazed And Confused (1993 Film)

James Taylor: Greatest Hits
The Best of Van Morrison
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Abbey Road
Appetite for Destruction

Cross Road
Crunk Hits
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Movies:


Citizen Kane
Pleasantville (New Line Platinum Series)
Casablanca
Toy Story & Toy Story 2 (2 Pack)
Dazed and Confused
Mulholland Drive
Amelie
In the Bedroom
American Splendor
Scream (Dimension Collector's Series)
It's a Wonderful Life
Beauty and the Beast (Disney Special Platinum Edition)
Moulin Rouge! (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Guys and Dolls
Nine Lives
Junebug
As Good As It Gets
Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
Forrest Gump (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
10 Things I Hate About You
Love Actually (Widescreen Edition)
Kill Bill, Volume 2
Dead Poets Society
Rebel Without a Cause (Single Disc Edition)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Original Director's Version)
Big Fish
Life of Brian
Dogville
Everyone Says I Love You
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
In America
Mars Attacks!
The Princess Bride (Special Edition)
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Television:

ON NPR:
Fresh Air
The Infinite Mind
Speaking of Faith
This American Life

MY LATEST KICKS:
Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Pushing Daisies
The Ultimate Fighter
College Football
3 a.m. Music Infomercials
Hannah Montana
That's So Raven

Books:



Brave New World
The Plague
The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)
Essential Rumi
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Games People Play: The basic handbook of transactional analysis.
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
The Brothers Karamazov
The Stranger
The Fall

Invisible Man
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye

King Lear (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category
Don Quixote
We (Twentieth-Century Classics)

Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
The Complete Stories
Cathedral
Paterson
The Symposium (Penguin Classics) powered by frazy.com

My Blog

Currently Awaiting: The Bazaar

Part 3   Having put my identity in order and gotten my initial networking underway, I knew it was time to stop decorating myself and to get down to business.   But first, I must confess some...
Posted by Josh on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:32:00 PST

Currently Awaiting: The First Land

Part Two   Having been called out of my daily routine within the margins of my students' papers, summoned to fulfill a task no less important than the completing of a soul, I sat at my computer, ...
Posted by Josh on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:12:00 PST

Currently Awaiting: The Beginning

There comes a time in a man's life when he grows restless . . . wait a minute, this is Americaeveryone is always restless. Anyway, it can be a funky feeling sometimes and can confuse the hell ou...
Posted by Josh on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:06:00 PST

Saddest Songs of All Time

This is in response to Jade's blog assignment that I post the five saddest songs OF ALL TIME. You should see the ones that Jade listed on her page. At first, I thought that I didn't know any sad songs...
Posted by Josh on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:27:00 PST

Unnecessary Censorship

This is a smart video in terms of showing how censorship can actually lead to a more perverted moment for the audience than if the clips had remained uncensored. It is similar to The Blair Witch Proje...
Posted by Josh on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:17:00 PST

Slo Mo

The quality of the video is not very good, but for some reason, watching it made me feel kind of like a kid again. It is a bunch of everyday things happening in slow motion. The waterballoon is partic...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:28:00 PST

Something Old

To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, Creeps in this petty Pace from Day to Day, To the last Syllable of Recorded Time; And all our Yesterdays have lighted Fools The way to dusty Death.Out, out, b...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:49:00 PST

Something New

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gi...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:44:00 PST

Something Middle School

All right stop, collaborate, and listen. Ice is back with my brand new invention. Something grabs a hold of me tightly Flows like a harpoon daily and nightly. Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know. Turn...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:33:00 PST

Memories

I thought that I would write about memory since mine pretty much sucks. The next three posts are the only three things that I have ever memorized: one in sixth grade, one in twelfth grade, and the oth...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 07 May 2007 12:03:00 PST