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Interested In:
Just looking around
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Member Since:
Jul 2003
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Hometown:
West Chester, PA
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Josh's URL:
http://profiles.friendster.com/884506
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Other education:
West Chester East High School, University of Chicago
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Occupation:
journalist
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What I enjoy doing:
the usual distractions, now augmented by baby stuff
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Favorite Books:
Lolita, Invisible Man, Tristram Shandy, Disgrace, Catch-22, 1984, The Known World, Bill Drummond's The Manual, John Cage's Silence
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Favorite Movies:
The Thin Red Line, Decalogue, Rear Window, Insider, Once Upon a Time in the West, Spinal Tap, Lawrence of Arabia, Sunset Blvd, The Good/Bad/Ugly, Chinatown, In the Mood for Love, Night of the Hunter, Jaws, Toy Story 2, Heat, Unforgiven
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Favorite Music:
Brian Eno, Mekons, Bruce Springsteen, Wire, OMD, Fleetwood Mac, Drive-By Truckers, CCR, Delgados, AC/DC, Joy Division, Clash, Neil Finn, Husker Du, Prince, Buddy Holly, Eminem, Emmylou Harris, Fugazi, New Order, Pixies, Camper Van Beethoven
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Favorite TV Shows:
Amazing Race, The Wire
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About Me:
I've been a proud papa for five months now.
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Who I Want to Meet:
Parenting is fun. In fact, I hear my daughter stirring right now!
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feared cat in Hyde Park, Oak Park, and
other assorted parks. If only he could
get that Trader Joe's monkey off his
back, he might just take over the
world.
details about bands you've never (but
should've)heard of (and has been in a
few, too), but he also has his finger
on the pulse of the Boomer generation.
One time, my dad called me up in the
middle of the night with the sole
purpose of discussing a review Josh
wrote of a Lost Poets record while in
college. "That kid's gonna go places,"
said my dad in this strange Robert
Evans kind of voice at the end of the
conversation. Shit, even 50 year old
men who disdain rap music bow before
the authority of JK's crisp writing. My
dad also liked the interview Josh did
with Ray Bradbury, and I'm inclined to
wholeheartedly agree -- even though
Josh neglected to ask Ray about his
distant relatives "Franken" and "Boo."
decided to think of his fifteen
favorite albums says a whole heap
about him. He was my first friend to
get married, and my only friend who
has known what he wanted to be since
before college: a rock critic. Which
isn't to say that Josh is a formulaic
person, more that he's just really
sure of himself when it comes to what
he likes. I think that's why he's
able to be so productive and so
energetic. He's maybe the only person
I can talk to on the phone
indefinitely. Calling someone
enthusiastic makes them sound like a
retard, but in Josh's case I mean that
exactly as it sounds.
that he could rap as well as Ice Cube.