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About Me

I do my best to make people laugh both personally (at home, at work, at play, to borrow from a Sparks song) and professionally. I performed improv with Eugene ComedySportz for three years, until we closed our doors on March 25, 2006. Since then I have performed with the Portland ComedySportz Farm Team, and I am also the founder of Kitsch Alive!, one-half of the improv comedy duo Man Ray Stevens, one-quarter of Crap Shoot Quartet, and a member of the Fifty Pound Puppy improv troupe. . . please look for "Joseph Perry" on my friends page and feel free to add my comedy page --- thanks!I am a pop culture fanatic who prefers vacation destinations that allow for theaters, museums, concert halls/clubs, coffee houses, and so forth, to be within walking distance. I have had film history/criticism articles about Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel, and Astroboy published in "Filmfax" magazine; film reviews published in "Eugene Weekly/What's Happening"; and poetry published in several small poetry journals, including one I used to publish myself ("Sisyphus Poetry Quarterly").Hopefully the foregoing doesn't sound too pretentious, because I am easy to talk with. I have a relaxed personality --- except when I'm doing a loud character on stage or belting out songs by the likes of David Bowie, The Psychedelic Furs, and The Sex Pistols at karaoke.
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My Interests

films, music, literature, improv comedy, writing, poetry, pop culture (especially Asian, French, and British), dialectic empiricism, karaoke, avoiding overexposure to the sun's harmful rays
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I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Leonard Cohen, Kiss, Liz Phair, Kristin Hersh, PJ Harvey, Luna, Lori Carson, Diana Krall, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Powderfinger, Doves, Echo & the Bunnymen, Smiths, Ramones, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Philip Glass, Bill Nelson, Sleater-Kinney, Elvis Costello, Starsailor, UFO, Snow Patrol, Judas Priest, XTC, Eisley, British Sea Power, Storm (Large) and the Balls, Kate Bush, Wolfmother, Jonathan Richman, Hammerfall, Wall of Voodoo, Nick Drake, Saxon, Stranglers, Altered Images, Keren Ann, Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Rosebuds, Camera Obscura, The Fratellis, The Veils, Tortoise, Maximo Park, Monsters Are Waiting, Klaus Nomi . . . and SO much more! Classical music, as well.

Movies:

For starters: Blue Velvet, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Exotica, Lost in Translation, Taxi Driver, Mulholland Drive, Bitter Moon, Red, Withnail and I, The Company of Wolves, Stranger Than Paradise, Manhattan, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, The Science of Sleep, I Heart Huckabees, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Prestige, Children of Men, The Fountain, Volver, The Descent, Inland Empire, The Page Turner, Cache, the Lone Wolf and Cub Series . . . the list goes on and on! I tend to gravitate toward art house, independent, and foreign films, and my favorite genres include film noir, Asian horror and thrillers, quirky comedies, silent, and horror and science fiction films from the silent era through the 1960s.

Television:

Seinfeld, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, I Love Lucy, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Coupling (BBC version), Monty Python's Flying Circus, Boris Karloff's Thriller, Twilight Zone, Lights Out

Books:

Ulysses by James Joyce, The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen, A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami, Days Between Stations by Steve Erickson, the novels of Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Jean Cocteau, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, and lots more

Heroes:

"We could be heroes Just for one day . . . Whatcha say?"

My Blog

Kitsch Alive! presents Match Game this weekend!

All the comic mayhem of the classic 1970s game show Match Game hits the Lord Leebrick stage live this Friday and Saturday in Kitsch Alive's improv comedy version . . . and you could be one of the luck...
Posted by Joseph on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:00:00 PST

My new improv comedy group debuts!

Tonight and tomorrow, Kitsch Alive! debuts as part of the Late Night @ Leebrick comedy series. For full details, please go to www.myspace.com/josephperrycomedyAlso, here is a link to today's Reg...
Posted by Joseph on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:16:00 PST