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Joe

Sometimes I have to concentrate.

About Me

Flies are buzzing 'round my head, Wish I could fill them all with lead. So they made atonal clanging sounds, when their small black bodies struck the ground.Also, I draw stuff.Examples are in my picture gallery.Buy Them. Buy Them From Me. (please?)
You Have a Phlegmatic Temperament
Mild mannered and laid back, you take life at a slow pace.
You are very consistent - both in emotions and actions.
You tend to absorb set backs easily. You are cool and collected.
It is difficult to offend you. You can remain composed and unemotional.
You are a great friend and lover. You don't demand much of others.
While you are quiet, you have a subtle wit that your friends know well.
At your worst, you are lazy and unwilling to work at anything.
You often get stuck in a rut, without aspirations or dreams.
You can get too dependent on others, setting yourself up for abandonment. What Temperment Are You?
JOSEPHTONYBALDWIN
Jis forJolly
Ois forOdd
Sis forShy
Eis forEnchanting
Pis forParsnip
His forHumorous
Tis forTender
Ois forOverwhelming
Nis forNice
Yis forYoung
Bis forBrainy
Ais forAmorous
Lis forLoud
Dis forDaring
Wis forWise
Iis forImportant
Nis forNice What Does Your Name Mean?

My Interests

I am interested in intangibles. The exceptions to rules. And dentistry-themed graffiti.

Music:

At the moment I'm mostly into free jazz, improv, electro-acoustic, noise, electronica, outsiders and anything else which pushes mad new synesthetic shapes into my head (Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, Derek Bailey {RIP}, Keiji Haino, Anthony Pateras, Text of Light, The Necks, Hafler Trio, Gastr Del Sol, Merzbow,Moondog, Autechre, Oval, Venetian snares(!), Mainliner, A.M.T., Captain Beefheart, Will Oldham, DNA, Smog, Big Black, Shellac, Mclusky, Joe Meek, Rodd Keith) I could go on & on & on & ONbut this was just off the top of my head and if I wanted to add any more I would actually have to go and look at my records which would be a bit sad. (I had a look anyway and realised I'd forgotten Slint! and Mogwai! and Mission of Burma! and Agorophobic Nosebleed! and Aphex! and Beta Band! and Jim O'Rourke! and Nurse With Wound! and Ten Benson!) ......MUST......STOP.(and The Locust!)

Movies:

Anything by David Lynch, the Big Lebowski, Watership Down, Space is the Place (Sun Ra's Sci-Fi-Blaxploitation epic!) Any kind of 50's and 60's horror and/or sci-fi trash, especially the stuff my friend Greg brings 'round every once in a while. He knows far more about underground cinema than I ever will. The last one we watched was a thaiwanese floating head movie. Apparently, in the East, instead of vampires they have a woman whos head detaches from her body with her vital organs dangling underneath, which then proceeds to float around biting people. This one was a particularly fine example and featured a scene in which a large bald monk tears his shirt off to reveal a swastika made of shiny black sticky tape stuck to his chest, just before he starts shooting flying demonic snakes out of the air with his amazing firework fingers. I shit you not.

Television:

Don't really watch teh idjut box, so here are some of the DVDs I own that were tv series :The Day Today, Brasseye, Jam, Nathan Barley, Dave Goreman, Alan Partridge, Twin Peaks, Futurama, Spaced, Tales of the unexpected, family guy.

Heroes:

These people are my heroes because they have all taught me to pay attention: Ralph Steadman, Don Van Vliet, Will Self, Chris Moriss, Autechre, Chris Ware, J.D. Salinger and last but not least Stephen King. I unashamedly love King's books, they were (and still are) my comfort blankets. I've read everything he's written at least three times and that includes 'Danse Macabre' His anatomy of the horror genre. What? Me? Sad?