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Josh

I see Broke Ass Hos, Broke Ass Hos, Broke Ass Hos, Broke Ass Hos

About Me

I'm a Jack of all Trades and a Master of Nothing.
I am a modernist trapped in a savagely post-modern age, hence, the mismatched socks, and the exact replica of Damien Thorn's birthmark tattooed on my scalp.
I love Math, Movies, Music, Writing, Drawing, Languages, Hunting for Supernumerarily-leaved clovers, Playing Poker, and on and on. My big sister calls me a Renaissance Man, though I think that sounds egomaniacal... Nothing wrong with ego, but it tends to put people off.
The Rest of my About me has suddenly disappeared, and I will have to rewrite it soon. Actually, it may not be suddenly at all... I haven't checked in a long time...

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My score on The Sexuality Spectrum Test :
Gay Preference
(You scored -14 (-52 being completely gay, 0 being bisexual, and 52 being completely straight))
You are not exclusively homosexual, but you prefer the same sex over the opposite sex. While you might be willing to fool around with the opposite sex to some extent, you would go all the way with the same sex. If you are sexually inexperienced, it is possible that this could change after you do some experimenting.
Link: The Sexuality Spectrum Test ( OkCupid Free .. Dating )
You Are 50% Left Brained, 50% Right Brained
The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning.
Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others.
If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic.
Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet.
The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility.
Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way.
If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art.
Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports. Are You Right or Left Brained?
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Your Language Arts Grade: 100%  

Way to go! You know not to trust the MS Grammar Check and you know "no" from "know." Now, go forth and spread the good word (or at least, the proper use of apostrophes).
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My Interests

Previously, there were links here to poker sites that I found reliable and trustworthy, and which were fun and allowed Mac users to play. I have taken those links away because fascists have taken away my access to these sites. If you live in the US, the fascists have taken away your ability to play on these sites as well.

If you believe it is not the job of the government to impose their fudamentalist idealogy on freethinking, responsible adults who are citizens of a country which purports to be free, please sign this .. petition .

I'd like to meet:

(In no particular order... added as I think of them):

Update: Those listed in bold have been contacted by me, told they were my hero, and have accepted my friend invitation... or have otherwise had conversation with me in some format .....

Kurt Vonnegut (too late, I guess... RIP)
Leonard Cohen
Mike Patton
Maynard James Keenan
David Cross
Edward Norton
John Linnell
John Flansburgh
David Bowie
Oliver Stone
Wes Anderson
Clive Barker
Jack Dangers
Benoit Mandelbrot
Michael Ian Black
Henry Rollins
Gene Ween
Dean Ween
Thom Yorke
Trey Parker
Tim Burton
Brad Pitt
Michael Penn
Johnny Depp
Juliette Lewis
Serj Tankian
George Romero
Julian Sands
Dario Argento
Trent Reznor
Jimmy Fallon
Kevin Rowland
Trevor Heins
Nick Cave
David Lynch
Bill Murray
Piper Laurie
Matthew Sweet
John Carpenter
Crispin Glover
Diamanda Galas
Donovan Leitch (the elder)
Angelo Badalamenti
Jack Black
Joni Mitchell
Dave Chappelle
Jon Stewart
Ralph Bakshi
Adam Sandler
Mary Timony
Lyle Lovett
Stephen Hawking
Neil Diamond
Zack De La Rocha
John S. Hall
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Kyle MacLachlan
Danny Elfman
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Reverend Ivan Stang
Don McLean
The Brothers Quay
Kitano "Beat" Takeshi
Ian Anderson
Chuck Palahniuk
Jon Spencer
Ani DiFranco
Tina Fey
Polly Jean Harvey
Roman Polanski
Masaharu Morimoto
Ozzy Osbourne
Stan Ridgway
J. Mascis
Dave Kendall
Jonty Hearnden
XZibit
Nina Hagen
Steve Jobs
Peter Schilling
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Flava Flav
Amy Poehler
Bob Odenkirk
Steve-O
Ramsay Campbell
Steve Martin
Lucio Fulci
Rik Mayall
Robin Trower
Michael Stipe
Dick Van Dyke
Malcolm McDowell
Yoko Ono
Wes Craven
Alton Brown
Al Franken
David Fincher
Peter Jackson
Leonard Graves Phillips
Grandmaster Flash
David Cronenberg!

Music:

I make my own... check it out:

OK - I'm going to try and do this now. It may be an exercise in futility...
Most of this is straight from my iTunes library - the order is semi-alphabetical (first name first, if you care).

13th Floor Elevators
A Perfect Circle
A-Ha
Aimee Mann
Aldo Nova
Alice in Chains
American Head Charge
Angelo Badalamenti
Ani Difranco
Annie Lennox
Aphex Twin
The Aquabats!
Ass Ponys
At the Drive-In
Autechre
Axis of Justice
Bad Acid Trip
Bad Religion
Badfinger
Beastie Boys
Beatles
Beck
Between the Buried and Me
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Dipper
Billy Idol
Biz Markie
Bjork
Black Sabbath
Blake Babies
The Blood Brothers
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Bloodhound Gang
Blondie
The Blue Men
Blue Oyster Cult
Body Count
Boingo
Booth and the Bad Angel
Brad Mehldau
The Breeders
Buffalo Tom
Bullet Train to Moscow
Butthole Surfers
Camper Van Beethoven
Catherine Wheel
Chattabox
the Chemical Brothers
Chicago
Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
Chris Isaak
The Connells
Counting Crows
Cowboy Junkies
Cracker
The Cranberries
Cream
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Crowded House
The Cure
Cypress Hill
DVDA
D12
Danny Elfman
Darkwell
Dart
David Bowie
David Essex
David Wilcox
The Dead Kennedys
The Deadneks
Deftones
Depeche Mode
Destiny's Child (for real!)(but only 'The Writing's on the Wall, for some reason...)
Devo
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Diamanda Galas
The Dickies
Digital Underground
Dillinger Escape Plan
Dinosaur Jr.
Dio
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
The Dogg Pound
Don McLean
Donovan
Dukes of Stratosphear
Duran Duran
Ed Hamell
Einsturzende Neubauten
Ella Fitzgerald
ELO (Electric Light Orchestra bitches!)
Elton John (pre-'84)(do I really need to qualify this list... no more!)
Eminem
Eurythmics
Evan Dando
Faith No More
Faithless
Falco
Fantomas
Fiona Apple
Frank Black
Frank Zappa
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Front Line Assembly
G. Love & Special Sauce
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners
General Public
George Michael
Glenda Collins
Goblin
Grandmaster Flash (and the Furious Five)
Hamell on Trial
Harvey Danger
Heart Throbs
Hed p.e.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Helium
Helmet
Henry Rollins
Ice-T
Incubus
Indigo Girls
Inside Out
James Kochalka Superstar
Jane's Addiction
Janis Joplin
Jawbox
Jazz Jammers
Jeff Buckley
Jefferson Airplane
Jello Biafra
Jellyfish
Jethro Tull
Jim Croce
Joe Meek
John Linnell
John Zorn's Naked City
Johnny Cash
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Joni Mitchell
Judas Priest
Julee Cruise
Juliana Hatfield
Juliette & The Licks
k.d. lang
Kaada
Kane Hodder
Kate Bush
Kevin Rowland
Killing Joke
King Missile
The Kinks
The KLF
The Knack
Kool Keith
Korn
Kurtis Blow
Lemonheads
Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Cohen
Les Claypool
Live
Living Colour
LL Cool J
Lovage
Lucinda Williams
Lush
Madness
The Mains
Maldoror
Marilyn Manson
Mark Mothersbaugh
The Mars Volta
Mary Timony
Matthew Sweet
Maynard James Keenan
MC 900 Ft. Jesus
MC Paul Barman
MC5
Meat Beat Manifesto
The Melvins
Michael Penn
Mike Patton
Missy Elliott
Mono Puff
The Moody Blues
Motley Crue
Mott the Hoople
Mr. Bungle
Muse
My Bloody Valentine
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Negativland
Neil Diamond
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Nick Drake
Nico
Nina Hagen
Nine Inch Nails
NoFX
NWA
The Ocean Blue
Oingo Boingo
OK Go
Our Lady Peace
Outkast
Ozzy Osbourne
Pat Benatar
Patsy Cline
Paul Simon
Pavement
Pearl Jam
Pet Shop Boys
Peter Gabriel
Peter McCall
Peter Schilling
Phantom Planet
Phil Ochs
Pigface
Pink Floyd
The Pixies
Pizzicato Five
PJ Harvey
Plasmatics
The Police
Pop Will Eat Itself
Portishead
The Pretenders
Prick
Primus
Primus
Princess Superstar
Procol Harum
Prodigy
Public Enemy
Puscifer
Q and Not U
Queen
Queensryche
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Rammstein
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Renholder
Reverend Horton Heat
Rick Stone
Rob Dickinson
Rollins Band
Roni Size
Rufus Wainwright
Run DMC
Samiam
Sarah MacLachlan
Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages
Screaming Trees
Shonen Knife
Shudder To Think
Simon and Garfunkel
Simple Mainds
Sinead O'Connor
Sir Mix-A-Lot
Slayer
Slipknot
Smoke
Snoop Dogg
Soft Cell
Sonic Youth
Soundgarden
Sparta
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Stan Ridgway
Stan Rogers
Stance Punks
Sting
Stroke 9
Stylex
Styx
Sugarcubes
The Sundays
Suzanne Vega
Sven Vath
System of a Down
Tapeworm Project
Team Sleep
Tenacious D
Tennessee Ernie Ford
They Might Be Giants
Thought Gang
'Til Tuesday
Titannica (bitches!)
Toad the Wet Sprocket
The Toadies
Tomahawk
Too Much Joy
Tool
Tori Amos
Tracy Chapman
Travis
Trent Reznor
U2
UNKLE
Violent Femmes
Wall of Voodoo
Ween
Wendy O Williams
Wham!
The Who
Whodini
Wu Tang Clan
Wire
XTC
Yellowcard
Yoko Ono
Zack De La Rocha

Movies:

Lots and lots! Here is a very abridged list, finally...
NOTE: it has come to my attention that a lot of people see things like 'The Wicker Man' or 'The Omen' and think I am talking about the remakes of said movies that came out in the last couple of years. DON'T BE RIDICULOUS! As a rule, I despise the idea of remakes. If a movie was good enough to remake, why don't you just rerelease the original movie? So, now, in the interest of being specific, I must put asterisks (*, for those of you who don't know) by the movies which have been remade, to make sure that people realize that I am talking about the original masterpiece, and not the crappy-ass remake some uncreative filmmaker decided to make because he wanted a lot of money and couldn't think of an original idea to save his life. Thank you and have a nice day.
2000 Maniacs
2001: A Space Odyssey
28 Days Later
Adaptation
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Amelie
American Beauty
American Psycho
Army of Darkness
Audition
Barefoot in the Park
Battle Royale
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Begotten
Best in Show
The Bikini Bandits Experience
The Birds
Blood Feast
Blue Velvet
Bottle Rocket
The Brood
Carrie*
City of Lost Children
A Clockwork Orange
Color Me Blood Red
Damien: The Omen 2
Dark City
Dead Alive
Edward Scissorhands
Evil Dead 2
eXistenZ
The Exorcist III
Eyes Wide Shut
Fahrenheit 911
Fight Club
The Final Conflict: The Omen 3
God Told Me To
Halloween
Happiness
Heathers
Hellraiser
I'm From Hollywood
Ichi the Killer
Identity
Jacob's Ladder
Ju-On: The Grudge
Labyrinth
The Life Aquatic
Lost Highway
Marnie
Martin
Meet the Feebles
A Mighty Wind
Monkey Shines
The Mothman Prophecies
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Natural Born Killers
The Ninth Gate
The Omen*
Pi
Psycho*
Rabid
Rear Window
Repulsion
Ringu
Rope
Rosemary's Baby
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Seven
Shaun of the Dead
The Shining*
Singles
Student Bodies
Suspiria
Taxi Driver
Team America: World Police
The Tesseract
They Live
The Thing
This is Spinal Tap
Top Secret!
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
U-Turn
Vertigo
Very Bad Things
Videodrome
Waiting for Guffman
The Wicker Man*
Wizard of Gore
Zombie

Television:

(also in no particular order... we have to be fair don't we?):
Wonder Showzen,
Meerkat Manor,
TV Funhouse,
Living With the Kombai Tribe,
On The Air,
Mr. Show,
Saturday Night Live,
VH1 Classic,
Cash in the Attic,
The Adventures of Pete and Pete,
Twin Peaks,
Beavis and Butthead,
The Idiot Box,
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse,
House,
MXC,
The Honeymooners,
The State...
More to come, I just gotta think for a bit.

Books:

Slapstick,
The Wanting Seed,
The Thief of Always,
Ender's Game,
Beautiful Losers,
Cat's Cradle,
A Clockwork Orange,
Running With Scissors,
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea,
The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror,
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
On Beyond Zebra,
Confessions of a Mask,
The Dark Tower series (except part four, which was a waste of time...),
The Great and Secret Show,
Sirens of Titan,
The Long Trip to Teatime,
The Ghastlycrumb Tinies,
Monkey Vs. Robot,
the Damnation Game,
the Annotated Alice,
Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride,
Alan Mendelsohn: the Boy From Mars...
Should I really continue?

Heroes:

I have a whole lot of heroes, for different reasons. The following list is not all-inclusive, and will likely change when I think about it on random days: (in no particular order)
Alfred Hitchcock
Kurt Vonnegut
Leonard Cohen
Mike Patton
Luis Buñuel
Freddie Mercury
Leonhard Euler
Thom Yorke
Lenny Bruce
David Cross
Donovan
Nick Drake
Anthony Burgess
Yukio Mishima
Maynard Keenan
Ozzy Osbourne
Leah Hostetler
Stanley Kubrick
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Wes Anderson
Zack De La Rocha
David Lynch
Billy Culbertson
Clive Barker
Dr. Seuss
Mike Jones

more to come...

My Blog

It's Been a While (update blog)

Boy, has it ever been a long time since I felt like blogging. I suppose I oughtta do one of those update blogs that people often ask for.OK - so when did I last get on? Lemme go check...Late April! ...
Posted by Josh on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:18:00 PST

Constantine I, Wikipedia, the Dark Ages

How do you do-Last night, I saw a commercial for the movie Constantine. It made me remember that in the class in which I am a Teacher's Assistant, we were told the story of Constantine, because it rel...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

§50: Rumors and Misunderstandings -or- The Journal Entry That Got me Slapped

Hey folks-A long time ago, when I started transcribing Journal Entries from high school on here, there was one in particular I wished I could find. I found it last night, and, although I definitely d...
Posted by Josh on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:01:00 PST

A Message I Just Sent to Myspace

Hi folks,I finally contacted Myspace about my biggest peeve. I thought you'd enjoy the letter. it's nothing special or witty, but I think many of you will appreciate the effort.here you go:Hey folks...
Posted by Josh on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:46:00 PST

Self-righteous hypocrites on campus

Hey folks-Take a look at this picture:That guy was on my campus all day today. He had kids with him, presumably his, which is a horrifying prospect.In case you can't make out all the words on his sign...
Posted by Josh on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:05:00 PST

§49:The Worst Field Trip Ever

Hey folks,I was watching many episodes of Beavis and Butthead the other night, and there was this one where they go on a field trip to an art museum, and it reminded me of what a bunch of ridiculously...
Posted by Josh on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:00:00 PST

I'm disturbed

This blog will be short. I just wanted to share something that I find somewhat disturbing and very confusing.I just saw a commercial... for a commercial.Seriously.It told me I should log on to Comcas...
Posted by Josh on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:19:00 PST

The last followup to 'A letter I sent to Pogo.com'

Hi folks,I got yet another response from Pogo on the topic I have been talking with them about. This one clearly was a form-letter, so I said my final piece and I'm letting it go.In the interest of f...
Posted by Josh on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:14:00 PST

Follow up to 'A Letter I Just Wrote to Pogo.com'

Hey folks-I just got a reply from EA games, the parent company to Pogo.com, about my letter.I found their explanation to be lacking in logic, and have replied to it.What follows is their reply, and th...
Posted by Josh on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:42:00 PST

Two articles I wrote (revision of earlier post)

Hey folks,I just wrote an artricle on Helium.com about prayer in schools.Click this link to read it.I'm sure you realize this is an important topic to me. I've actually been thinking about it for wee...
Posted by Josh on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:09:00 PST