joined on 06/22/07
last updated 02/18/08
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about me
"I am a graveyard that the moon abhors."
"Spooky, though he's done better"
"A small tasty cheese biscuit for the head"
"Death of rock an roll journaled"
"Yeah, and Syd Barrett was an astrophysicist"
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February 18, 2008
An editing robot, in the purest John Henry steel drivin' man vs. machine sense; owns a steel-plated, dustproof, top secret Pentagon laptop. Never sleeps. Is polite to nuns. Personally knows Larry Harvey.
Doesn't like to talk about it, but served three tours in Nam. "Yeah, I was in the Shit," he told me once. "Now get the fuck out of my face."
Knife fighting expert, I think. Dead aim from fifty feet, they say.
Yellow belt in ancient art of Zumba. Ham radio enthusiast. Master woodworker. Philatelist. Thespian. Avid 17th century film buff. Ombudsman.
Joab is all of these things.
December 20, 2007
Joab is someone I look forward to sharing the privilege of absurdity with, consistently if not constantly.
Kasey turned me onto this 1969 movie ( www.imdb.com/title/tt0064674/), and I just laughed my ass off when I saw it. It's about an American superhero, Mr. Freedom, who comes to France to save the country from the Swiss communists. It's fiercely anti-American and, given the country's actions after 9/11, quite prescient.
*the first scene depicts the country as rife with riots and gun-fire, yet the sheriff, who turns out to be Mr. Freedom, is nonplussed by it all.
*Mr. Freedom's cos...
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"Isis" (Bob Dylan): Maybe 5 or 6 times in the past 20 years I offhandedly heard a Dylan song that would end up defining my life for some period of time. He's that good to me. Isis was the latest, which I heard maybe 3 years ago walking around 5 AM in Alexandria. The story's astounding, even though it doesn't make a lick of sense.
"Wilder than Her (Dar Williams): I love that a guy sang this about a girl. I love how Dar sung it w/o changing the pronouns.
"TKO" (Le Tigre): 22-year old dyk...
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You know what I love about burners? The way how the first time you hear of something going wrong is by them saying NOTHING went wrong and everything went fine. They got this "No discord-here, please move along," shit down!!!*
Case in point, the local-for-me regional Burning List was all a'buzz not only about PDF, the regional burn held last weekend, but also of a second, new, burn related event in the area held that very same weekend, called Wickerman. Wickerman was not an official regiona...
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