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Joseph

'Protect me from what I want' - Jenny Holzer (NOT Placebo)

About Me


My historical information is a smattering of sordid tales and semi-relevant melodramas that should be reserved for a more appropriate venue. At the moment I'm on a journey of self realization, questing on some autonomous path. Feel free to ask me about it sometime.My perpetual sarcasm and unintentionally condescending tone tend to be some of my more noticable attributes initially but I remain fluent in the language of my imperfection which seems to keep me in a humble, yet emphatically insecure mindset. "Go with the flow" has become a personal mantra. I'm not a hipster or trend setter. Instead, I try to stay down to earth and receptive to other people and their opinions... without letting them compromise my own vision. Directness and honesty still have a place in the world as far as I'm concerned. In spite of my struggle to stay realistic when it comes to life, I have those idealist moments. I try to keep an open mind at all times. Team9 vs. Stereogum ~ Ratatat Under Ether
Watch this video and prepare to laugh...and then begin to cry uncontrollably.

My Interests


Art endeavors, under-appreciated objects, gallery hopping, doing my own work. Concerts. Wandering aimlessly. Mulling in coffee shops. I watch a lot of movies, drink a lot of caffeine, and read when it's convenient.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet anyone that has similar interests or feels the need to communicate with the likes of me. However, pompous assholes, arrogant jerks, and pretentious pricks need not apply. And these people...

Music:


Just to name a few...
A

Aberdeen City, Absentee (or Son), Ad Astra Per Aspera, A Fir-Ju Well, AIR, Apocalypse Pow, Fiona Apple, Ambulette, The American Analog Set, Tori Amos, The Animals, Animal Collective, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, The Arcade Fire, Arcitecture In Helsinki, The Arctic Monkeys, The Armisteads (I know for a fact that those chicks rock!), At the Drive-In
B

Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Dan Bern, The Beta Band, Beulah, Andrew Bird, The Bird & Yarn, Bitter:Sweet, Bishi, Bjork, Frank Black, The Black Angels, The Black Keys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bloc Party, Blood Lines, Blonde Redhead, The Blow, Blue Oyster Cult, The Blue Van, Blur, Bob to the Rescue (A good bunch of guys, I must say), Bonde do Role, The Books, Billy Bragg, Brazilian Girls,The Breeders, Bright Eyes, Broadcast, Jeff Buckley, Built to Spill, Tara Busch, Buzzcocks
C

Cake, Call and Response, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Cat Power, Cato Salsa Experience, The Charlatans, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Chemical Brothers, !!! (Chk, Chk Chk), Cody ChesnuTT, Cibo Matto, Cinemasophia, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clinic, CocoRosie, The Comas, Cooper Temple Clause, Cornelius, The Coup, The Crystal Method
D

The Dandy Warhols, Danielson, The Deadfly Ensemble, Dead Meadow, Death From Above 1979, The Decemberists, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Devics, Dirty Three, The Doors, The Dresden Dolls, The Duke Spirit, Bob Dylan
E

Earlimart, Eastern Conference Champions, The Eels, Elastica, Electric Six
F

The Faint, Faithless, Fatboy Slim, The Features, Feist, The Fiery Furnaces, Final Fantasy, Fischerspooner, The Flaming Lips, Four Tet, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou
G

Gabin, Gang of Four, Garbage, Anja Garbarek, Giant Drag, Girls In A Coma, Gnarls Barkley, The Golden Republic, Goldfrapp, Goldrush, Gorillaz, The Gossip, The Go! Team, Grass Roots
H

Emily Haines, Francoise Hardy, PJ Harvey, Head Automatica, Head of Femur, Jimi Hendrix, The Hives, Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions, Hopewell, Hot Chip
I

The Icarus Line, Illinois, Imogen Heap, Imperial Teen, The International Noise Conspiracy, Interpol, Iron & Wine
J

Janis Joplin, Jethro Tull, Billy Joel, Joy Division, Joy Zipper, Jump Little Children, Jurassic 5
K

Kaiser Chiefs, Kaki King, Kasabian, Kings of Convenience, Kings of Leon, The Kinks, Kinky, The Knife, Ben Kweller
L

Ladyron, Brad Laner, Le Tigre, Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, The Living End, The Long Winters, Low, Logan Lynn
M

M83, The Magnetic Fields, Make Up, Stephen Malkmus, The Mamas & The Papas, Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Eric Matthews, Mazzy Star, MC5, Nellie McKay, Melpo Mene, Midnight Movies, M.I.A., Mika, Millionaire, Mirah, Ilona Mitrecey, Moby, Modest Mouse, Morcheeba, Morningwood, Mugison, The Music, My Bloody Valentine
N

Marissa Nadler, Nina Nastasia, Neon Blonde, Neutral Milk Hotel, A.C. Newman, The New Pornographers, Joanna Newsom, Scout Niblett, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana
O

Oasis, Of Montreal, OK Go, Orgy, Our Lady Peace (before Gravity)
P

Pavement, Pearl Jam, Persephone's Bees, Peter Bjorn & John, Pinback, The Pinker Tones, Pixies, Poe, Portishead, The Posies, The Postal Service, The Prodigy
Q

Queen, Queens of the Stone Age
R

Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, The Rapture, Rasputina, The Raveonettes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Lou Reed, REM, Rilo Kiley, Josh Ritter, RJD2, Rolling Stones, Christopher Russell
S

The Sad Lives of Hollywood Lovers, Sam Roberts Band, Scarlet Soho, Screaming Trees, Secret Machines, Serena-Maneesh, The Shins, Sia, Sigur Ros, Simian, Simple Kid, Sleater-Kinney, Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Sneaker Pimps, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, Sons and Daughters, Soundgarden, Souls She Said, The Spinanes, The Spinto Band, Spoon, Stereolab, Kelly Stoltz, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sufjan Stevens, The Strokes, Supergrass
T

T. Rex, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Thermals, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Thievery Corporation, Shugu Tokamaru, Tool, Tricky, Troubled Hubble, TV On the Radio
U

The Unicorns
V

Velvet Underground, Suzanne Vega, Tom Vek, Venus Hum, The Verve, VHS or Beta, The Vines, Violent Femmes, Von Bondies
W

Rufus Wainwright, The Walkmen, Wallflowers, The Weakerthans, Jason Webley, West Indian Girl, White Stripes, The Who, Wilco, Patrick Wolf, Wolfmother
X

XTC, Xiu Xiu
Y

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, Kristeen Young
Z

Zero 7, The Zutons

Movies:


#
2046, 21 Grams, 28 Days Later, 3 Extremes
A
Adaptation, A.I., American Beauty, American Splendor, Amelie, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
B
Bad Education, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Big Lebowsky, Black Snake Moan, Bladerunner, Blue Velvet, The Boondock Saints, Brick, Buffalo '66
C
Cannibal Holocaust, City Of God, Children of Men, The Chumscrubber, Clerks(I and II), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Cube
D
Dancer In the Dark, The Dead Girl, Death to Smoochy, The Devil’s Backbone, Dogma, Dogville, Donnie Darko, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Drop Dead Fred, Dr. Strangelove
E
Elephant, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
F
Fat Girl, Fay Grim, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, The Five Senses, Fluke, Frailty, Frida
G
Galaxy Express 999, Garden State, Ghostworld, Girl Interrupted, Good Bye Lenin!, The Green Mile, Grindhouse
H
Happiness, Hard Candy, Harold and Maude, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Heathers, Heavenly Creatures, Hero, High Art, Hotel Rwanda, The Hours, House of Flying Daggers, House of Sand and Fog
I
I ♥ Huckabees, Inland Empire, Irreversible, I Shot Andy Warhol, I Stand Alone
J
Jacob’s Ladder, Jawbreaker, Jaws, Jesus Is Magic, Jumanji, Junebug
K
Kill Bill (Vol. 1 and 2), K-Pax, Kung Fu Hustle
L
Lady Vengence, Little Children, Little Miss Sunshine, Little Otik, The Lives of Others, Lost in Translation
M
Magnolia, The Matrix, May, Memento, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Monster, Monty Python… anything, The Mothman Prophesies, Mulholland Dr., My Life Without Me, Mysterious Skin
N
Napoleon Dynamite, Natural Born Killers, The NeverEnding Story, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Nightwatch, Notes On a Scandal
O
Office Space, Oldboy
P
Palindromes, Pan's Labyrinth, Pi, The Pianist, Pleasantville, Pollock, The Princess Bride, The Professional, Pulp Fiction
Q
Quills
R
Raise the Red Lantern, The Red Violin, Requiem for a Dream, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Rules of Attraction, Run Lola Run
S
Saved!, The Science of Sleep, The Secret of NIMH, Seven, Shaun of the Dead, Shortbus, Silence of the Lambs, Simpathy for Mr. Vengence, Sin City, Six Degrees of Separation, The Sixth Sense, Songs for Cassavettes, The Slums of Beverly Hills, Strictly Ballroom, The Squid and the Whale
T

Tarnation, Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Thumbsucker, Trainspotting, The Truman Show
U
Unbreakable, Underworld
V
Vanilla Sky, A Very Long Engagement, The Virgin Suicides, V for Vendetta
W
Waking Life, Welcome to the Doll House, What The Bleep Do We Know?, Witches, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
X
Foiled again!
Y
Young Frankenstein
Z
Zombie

Television:

Shows like Six Feet Under, Lucky Louie, Dexter, Carnivale, South Park, Family Guy, Strangers With Candy, Fooly Cooly, Law and Order, Mad TV, and the Daily Show. MTV has been completely corrupted, rendering it a vapid ghost of its former self... Anything on IFC or Sundance is usually pretty cool (to bad I don't have either chanel.

Books:

I don't read as much as I would like to but... 1984, 100 Years of Solitude, Les Miserables, Slaughterhouse Five (and most other things by Vonnegut), I Am the Cheese, Whirligig, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, A Wrinkle In Time, The Count of Monte Cristo, Frankenstein, Firestarter, the His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass), Catcher In the Rye, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Heroes:


All of the friends I've come to know and love.
Especially these guys...

My Blog

My Official Quiz Blog

..>This was kind of fun...The Cure Shares Your Taste in Music..>Which Musician (or Group) Shares Your Taste in Music?Which literature classic are you?Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Dorian Gray. You are ...
Posted by Joseph on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 08:41:00 PST

Acquaint Me With Oblivion

I abhor this aquarium life. All fish are cannibals here, ingesting the last vestige of illegitimate kin. We have become like the Ouroboros, a self deprecating cycle rekindled in our own excrement. Aff...
Posted by Joseph on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:47:00 PST

43% Virgin... Oh my.

Minus 1% for everything that you've done. Then repost as your %. [ start with 100%]1.Smoked.2.Drank alcohol.3.Cried when someone died.4.Been drunk.5.Had sex.6.Been to a concert.7.Given a handjob/gotte...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:55:00 PST

Why are you a heterosexual?

I found this questionaire through a friend. It is attributed to Martin Rochlin, Ph.D., West Hollywood, CA. Heterosexual Questionnaire 1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality? 2. When an...
Posted by Joseph on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 03:37:00 PST

The Dying Breed

Comb every beach and the hair of the corpse.Sandy side up.Let our torch be brought to light.Peel leaches from bone and brine,Corroding in this shielded sight.Away to its northern gestureA sign,The la...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST