Josh

Laurel Elementary, Hillel Hebrew Academy

University of California - Los Angeles, Attended - , Class of , Bachelor's Degree, Art

Comedian/Activist/Troublemaker

I belong to an elite society that I can't tell it you about, even though the internet is not technically at the level of press, radio or films. Oh, also, I was kicked out of the Masons for wearing too much pink.

Comedy, making amends, indie rock, funky jams, karaoke, polaroids, Jamba Juice, french fries, chips & salsa, board games(esp.Taboo)

Shrub, TheOnion, TheRag, F&L in Las Vegas, Without Feathers, Sabotage in the American Workplace, Answer Me! vols. 1-3, stuff by Sedaris, Calvino, Hunter S & Jim Thompson, Wilde, Capote, Hornby, Paul Auster, J. Blume, Boll, PD James, PK Dick, Jonathan Swift, From the Mixed-Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler, Basketball Diaries, Baked Potato Video Guide, the Big one, 12 & 12

Bottle Rocket, Harold&Maude, Big Lebowski, Magnolia, Spanish Prisoner, any Christopher Guest things, I Heart Huckabees, Sling Blade, Out of Sight, Kipperbang, Royal Tenenbaums, Ghost World, Down By Law, Bedazzled('67), Hannah & Her Sisters, Flirting with Disaster, Rope, Hedwig&TheAngry Inch, Lost in Translation, Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, The Drugstore&Midnight Cowboys, Napoleon Dynamite, Go, Wet Hot American Summer, Mulholland Dr., Velvet Goldmine, Hard 8, Another Country, Stripes, Kicking&Screaming, Chinatown, The Bad Seed/Nanny/Rapture, Brazil, Tarantula, C.from Black Lagoon, Heathers, Run Lola Run, Dazed&Confused, Days of Wine&Roses, Office Space, Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Unprecedented

Pavement, Spoon, Zombies, Cat Power, Belle&Sebastian, Fiery Furnaces, Will Oldham/Palace, Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, Smog, Jonathan Richman, Radiohead, White Stripes, Ween, GBV, Throwing Muses, AC Newman, Devo, N. Simone, Magnetic Fields, Dylan, Orange Juice, all the Elephant 6 groups, PJ Harvey, L.Cohen, Wilco, XTC, Band of Bees, Beta Band, Os Mutantes, Stereolab, Clash, Eagles Of Death Metal, Lee Hazlewood, Soft Boys, E.Costello, Kinks, Jorma Whitaker, Tom Waits, S.Mints, Smiths, Etta James, Pixies, Fall, Howlin' Wolf, Ted Leo &The Pharmacists, Slits, Raincoats, X, REM in the 80's, The Jam, Weezer, Otis Redding, Franz Ferdinand, Talking Heads, Replacements, Buzzcocks, Portishead, Daniel Johnston, Shudder to Think, Supergrass, Cocteau Twins, Nick Cave/Birthday Party, Shaggs, Brian Eno/Roxy Music, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Komeda, Nirvana, Donovan, Cramps, early Liz Phair, Elliott Smith, Railroad Jerk, Beck, Shocking Blue, Beastie Boys

Hilariously bad election night coverage, Fishing with John, Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Strangers w/Candy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911, SCTV, Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, White Shadow, Rockford Files, Columbo, Streets of SF, 6ft Under, Sports Night, Ernie Kovacs

I'm a comedian. Some of my writing is at TheRag.com. I am easing out of Friendster semi-retirement, so that'll have to do for now.

Wes Anderson, upstanding citizens who want to help figure out something worthwhile to do for the next four years, folks with a compatible sense of humor/taste in music, anyone with hot tips on karaoke action in the greater Los Angeles area, or places to do standup comedy in California, Arizona, Nevada. Anybody who would like to open a chain restaurant called Truman Chipotle with me.