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Joey

I don't need to see it, Dottie. I lived it.

About Me

I worked for 3 days in North Africa as an "orange juice hustler"...

My Interests

I have the raddest friends on the planet.

I'd like to meet:

Library card intellectuals.

Music:

Andrew WgodK, Ramones, Girl Talk, Dragonforce, Teenage Bottlerocket, the Clash, Matisyahu, ALL, Keystone All Stars, Cheap Trick, Stiff Little Fingers, T.I., Teenage Head, Screeching Weasel, Chichi Peralta, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Kix, Descendents, Parasites, McRackins, Queers, Dutchland Diesel, Mana', Dinosaur Jr., Circle Jerks, Celia Cruz, Johann Sebastian Bach, Easy E, Sizzla, DJ Loudmouth, MU330, Big D and the Kids Table, Larry Arms, Bad Brains, Dillenger Four, Poison, .38 Special, Eddie Money, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Yo-yo's, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Waylon Jennings, Rolling Stones.

Movies:

Empire of the Sun, Joe Dirt, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Casablanca

Television:

I stuck a Les Paul through one once

Books:

I read a lot. My favorites are: Peter Pan by JM. Barrie, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hyperspace by Michio Kaku, Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. I also really like Vladimir Nabakov, Jon Krakauer, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Voltaire, and John Steinbeck. I like reading classics, biographies of historical figures, and I also have a guilty pleasure of reading celebrity biographys.

Heroes:

Danny Way, Andrew WK, Jason Perala, Shepard Fairey, Roberto Clemente, Ben Franklin, Leonardo Da Vinci, Antonio Gaudi, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Jon Krakauer, my Dad, Dan Rugh, the Gonz...

My Blog

Knee Surgery Number 4

What up ladies and gents? Yesterday held knee surgery ..4 and it was an unprecedented success (so far). I got another ACL graft from a cadaver and unlike my last surgery, I had no complications and ev...
Posted by Joey on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:14:00 PST

Investor Alert!!!

The International Astronomical Union has demoted Pluto from being a planet to being a "dwarf planet" for failing to completely clear the path around it's orbit. This change in definition has the astro...
Posted by Joey on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:09:00 PST

Walden Pond on Hartswick Ave...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach" -Henry David Thoreau In my case "the woods" re...
Posted by Joey on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:52:00 PST

There goes the neighborhood...

For the last several years I've dealt with the annoying problem of neighbors hating me. The problem is that my friends and I like living in nice houses which usually happen to be located in "nice" nei...
Posted by Joey on Thu, 18 May 2006 06:48:00 PST

Surgery Update

Well I woke up in the recovery room and they told me they couldn't do the ACL revision. They packed the holes in my femur and tibia full of bones from a dead person. (Thank you organ donors!!!!) ...
Posted by Joey on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:10:00 PST

The Agony and the Ecstasy

On Friday March 10th my buddies and I left work early to do an afternoon session...possibly the last Tussey session of the season. We're threading the remaining snow, and jumping or avoiding the spots...
Posted by Joey on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:59:00 PST

Last weekend

Hmmm. Friday night involved getting shooed out of a trendy club in Old City Philly after too many tequilla shots while drunken Cory told bouncers he hated them. Went to Julie's apt. Climbed a fenced&n...
Posted by Joey on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:57:00 PST

A week for the storybooks...

We rocked with the Toasters on Monday. Drank our faces off with friends old and new. On Weds/Thurs, we partied VIP in Punxsy with the party van facing off against the sat. trucks. Punxsy Phil was...
Posted by Joey on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:32:00 PST

Why Verizon Wireless can lick my balls...

Last Thursday night I went into the conclave of all that is incompetent and evil that is the Verizon Wireless store. My two year contract was up, my phone was getting worn out so I rolled in...
Posted by Joey on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:09:00 PST

Guitarists please read....

Now that I'm playing rock and roll again, I feel it is time to address the ongoing epidemic of douche-wang-itude by guitar players that is plaguing stages across the world in this day and age. The gui...
Posted by Joey on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:39:00 PST