CURRENT MISSION

My current mission is to pack as much living as I can into a box of creativity so that I may open it up at specific points and write amazing films about expereriences I have had or about people I have known. I also would like to get pizza at some point.

ABOUT ME

Josh is a person who was established in November 1979.

He has basic biographical information such as he was born in Illinois, hails from Oklahoma, and lives in Seattle, Washington (and is currently living and studying in Berlin, Berlin Deutschland!).

Josh is a student. He is a Cinema Studies major at the University of Washington.

Josh is a Filmmaker in Training. He is constantly planning ways in which he can learn and improve. He has some experience and is seeking more. He is also looking for like-minded, Creative Individuals with whom he can collaborate.

Josh is a work in progress.
Josh is a vegetarian.
Josh is an avid Pepsi drinker.
Josh firmly believes that Costello is the only Elvis that matters.
Josh commutes by bicycle most days.

Josh is, in a word, "oblong". Oblong is a Strange Word that describes an Odd Shape. He feels as though he exists as such an Odd Shape in this universe.

Josh has heard the joke, "I'm just joshin' ya" one to many times. The humor of said joke had a half-life of one second with him. He no longer thinks you are funny if you use this joke in conversation with him.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am only registered for the moment, as my apartment in Berlin has no couch (it's true!). Upon returning to Seattle and settling into my new apartment, however, I will be opening up my couch to people who are traveling across the US.

I plan on staying with someone somewhere at some point soon.

As far as building the community goes, I am a newbie. But I am telling many friends about this place and trying to drum up some grassroots support.

Interests

A brief list of things that in which I am interested:

baseball (St. Louis Cardinals & Seattle Mariners in that order), filmmaking, the long path of learning, macs, movies, pepsi, the creative cycle, and tremendous brunettes

• film making
• vegetarian
• movies
• traveling
• cycling
• baseball
• boxing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Annie Hall, Magnolia, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Punch Drunk Love, Batman (1989), Jackie Brown, High Fidelity, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Fargo, The Graduate, Ghost World, Apocalypse Now!, Philadelphia Story, The Goonies, Raising Arizona, Zelig, Amilee, Kenneth Brannagh's version of Hamlet, Adam's Rib, City of Lost Children, Batman Begins, Serinity, Better Off Dead, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Love Actually, Rushmore - Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic in that order, Almost Famous, Bringing Up Baby, Vertigo, The Lord of the Rings collectively as one movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Gegen die Wand, Im Juli, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, King of Comedy, most of the Coen Brothers films, Scorsese is really a hero...

Music: Wilco, Mike Doughty, Badly Drawn Boy, Built To Spill, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Waits, Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers, The Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, The Who, The Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, Elvis Costello (the Only Elvis That Matters), Sinatra, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Cornershop, The French Kicks, Pearl Jam, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Outkast, Anticon, Rufus Wainwright, Death Cab for Cutie, Van Morrison's album "Astral Weeks", Most of the songs from "Headwig and the Angry Inch", Neutral Milk Hotel, Derek and the Dominos, The Band, Elliott Smith when I'm especially down, some Pavement, the song "Bastards of Young" by The Replacements, The Toadies (so good and so underrated), some Everclear here and there, at least half of George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass", the musical score for television's "Arrested Development", John Coltrane's Blue Train, I really like the song "Nantucket Sleighride" by Mountain, etc.

Books: Catch 22, On The Road, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Grapes of Wrath, any Shakespeare, Invisible Monsters, Ficciones, I dig reading film theory and all things cinema related, Ender's Game, etc...

Gimme some Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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