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Joseph

I am here for Networking

About Me

Actor, martial arts instructor, and personal trainer in New Orleans.

Here is the link to my martial arts school in New Orleans, Shaolin-Do Kung Fu & Tai Chi
Here's my page on personal fitness training
Here is my health, fitness, and martial arts blog

My Interests

Film, theater, martial arts, nutrition, sustainability, permaculture.

Permaculture

(warning: this video is like an hour long)

Details the rise and rise of the "Permaculture Concept" as espoused by Bill Mollison and geoff Lawton.

I'd like to meet:

People involved in filmmaking, theater, functional fitness, mind/body disciplines, sustainability, permaculture, primitive living skills.

Music:

Authentic music that comes from the soul & imagination. I dig acoustic instruments, plaintive voices, and beautiful melodies. Music that searches to the frontiers of emotion and experience. Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Rose Melberg, The Frames/Glen Hansard Townes van Zandt, Patti Smith, Charles Mingus, Leonard Cohen, Golden Arm Trio, Hank Williams, Otis Redding, Thelonius Monk, Chris Black, Willie Nelson, Edith Frost, Billy Bragg, Merle Haggard, Pogues, Johnny Cash, Le Tigre, Transgressors, Meat Purveyors, Flametrick Subs, Bad Livers, The Smiths, Dylan, Will Oldham, Daniel Johnston, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pixies, Husker Du, Roger Miller, Carl Perkins, Al Green, Serge Gainsbourg, Philip Glass, Neil Young, Smog, Split Lip Rayfield, David Byrne, Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, Piazzolla, Tosca, Gloria Deluxe, Jerry Lee Lewis

Movies:

Kenneth AngerGuy Maddin: The Saddest Music in the WorldKiller of SheepSlacker, Waking Life, Spirited Away, Underground, Magnolia, Stroszek, Killer of Sheep, Juliet of the Spirits, Pink Flamingoes, Ikiru, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, Short Cuts, Fitzcarraldo, Eraserhead, Salesman, Dead Man, Repo Man, Anchorman, You, Me, and Everyone We Know, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, I Heart Huckabees, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Fanny and Alexander, Super 8 1/2, Mod F*ck Explosion, Matewan, Safe, Children of Paradise, Junebug, Flesh, Trash, Heat, film people: Richard Linklater, Kurasawa, Werner Herzog, Bergman, Woody Allen, John Sayles, Fellini, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sascha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell, Wes Anderson, Bill Murray, Sofia Coppola, Owen Wilson, Paul Morrissey, David O. Russell, Todd Haynes, Todd Solondz, Kenneth Anger, Francis Ford Copppola, Scorcese, Robert Altman, David Gordon Green, John Waters, Bruce LaBruce, Miyazaki, Maysles Brothers, Guy Maddin, Jim Jarmusch

Television:

Deadwood, Iron Chef, The Wire, Entourage, Ali G, Monty Python

Books:

Haruki Murakami, Andrei Bely (Petersburg, The Silver Dove), Celine, Jonathon Ames, Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, On the Road, Brothers K, Raymond Carver, Thom Jones, Jack London, J.D. Salinger

Heroes:

Spalding Gray, Alfred Jarry, Benvenuto Cellini, Andy Kaufman, Frank Wedekind, Kerouac, Jack London

My Blog

2008 Shaolin-Do Spring Festival in Austin, TX

This year's Spring Festival, hosted as always by my teacher, Master Joe Schaefer, 6th degree black belt in Austin, TX, was possibly the most exciting and smooth-running martial arts event I've ever at...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:50:00 PST

Holistic Nutrition

For most of my life, I have been interested in the subject of nutrition and have read many books and explored many holistic approaches to diet and health.  Many nutritional paradigms are directly...
Posted by Joseph on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:11:00 PST

The next chapter

Hurricane Katrina gave me an opportunity to reflect on my life and think about the years ahead.  I always have many fantasies of adventures I'd like to take, places I'd like to live, and careers ...
Posted by Joseph on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:19:00 PST