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Don't Listen to Me
I'm an Oxymoron
Created on 2006-03-12 16:37:40 (#9752771), last updated 2009-07-10
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Basic Info| Name: | Joseph Dante |
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| Location: | Pembroke Pines, Florida, United States |
Bio
soul My name is Joey and I hate being named after someone else. I’m twenty-one years old and hardly credulous that I’m still alive. My main passions in life include all sorts of mental and emotional exits, portals to elude reality. I like escaping in the pages of books, the ink of written words, the dust of memories, and the pixels of video games. I am self-oriented, introverted, quiet, and crave solitude to maintain my inner harmony. Friends and family are nice, but my sanity requires a lot of alone time. I am currently a student at Florida International University, working on my Bachelor’s of Arts in English. I hope to be some sort of published writer in the future. I believe in the role of the careful outside observer, the wallflower. I dabble in misanthropy and find humanity sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious. I don’t believe in religion for myself anymore, having succumbed to esoteric views of existentialism. I have a high threshold for weirdness. It would take a lot to freak me out or make me feel unsettled. The physical world is usually quite boring. It’s everything else that has me completely spellbound and enchanted. I like to listen to the spirits shaking in my head. It's just difficult sometimes to hear the whispers when you're always caught in the clamor. |
interests Books: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Catcher in the Rye, The Stranger, The Things They Carried, Candide, The Inferno, 1984, Brave New World, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pale Fire, Mrs. Dalloway, The Hours, The Awakening, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Life of Pi, The Joy Luck Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Fight Club, Running with Scissors, The Bell Jar, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Secrets of a Fire King, The House on Mango Street, Bless Me Ultima, The Secret Life of Bees, Memoirs of a Geisha, Flowers for Algernon, House of Leaves, The Icarus Girl, Harry Potter, The Phantom Tollbooth, A Wrinkle in Time. Video games: Final Fantasy, Super Mario RPG, Kingdom Hearts, Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Trapt, Xenosaga, Destroy All Humans, RPG Maker, Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter, Marvel Versus Capcom, Klonoa, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Monster Rancher, Pokemon, Bust-A-Groove, Crash Bandicoot, Magic Pengel, Harvest Moon, Azure Dreams, Harry Potter, Shadow of the Colossus, Psychonauts. Music: Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple, Ryan Star, Tegan and Sara, Feist, Tori Amos, Lykke Li, Imogen Heap, Kaki King, L.P., Sia, Cat Power, Meiko, Adele, Kate Bush, Poe, Scarling, Vespertine, Gorillaz, Massive Attack, Oasis, Patrick Wolf, Dangerous Muse, The Fray, Shiny Toy Guns, Hellogoodbye, Rufus Wainwright, Kerli, Rasputina, Acceptance, Ladytron, Rilo Kiley, Camera Obscura. Movies: Donnie Darko, Imaginary Heroes, A Beautiful Mind, Amelie, The Lives of Others, Amadeus, Big Fish, V for Vendetta, Fight Club, Memento, Dead Poets Society, Paris Je T'aime, Volver, Persepolis, American Beauty, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, Garden State, Ghost World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, I Heart Huckabees, Doubt, Harold and Maude, Little Miss Sunshine, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Hours, Anna and the King, Memoirs of a Geisha, Raise the Red Lantern, Whale Rider, Pan's Labyrinth, Mirrormask, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Harry Potter, The Emperor's New Groove. TV shows: Daria. |
My writing journal is found at:
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word_alchemy.What the critics have to say:
"Joey, you are a minor discrepancy in the statistics of the universe." -
the_ramblerr"You shouldn't even be a real person. You should instead be a fictional character in a novel." -
amberperez"I don't think I could afford to lose such a noble warrior as you, Joseph." -
eternalbliss04"I am positive there are explosions, and you manage to capture them in glass jars." -
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External Services:
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Schools:
Nativity School - Hollywood, FL (1992 - 1999)Pembroke Pines Charter Middle School - Pembroke Pines, FL (1999 - 2001)
Pembroke Pines Charter High School - Pembroke Pines, FL (2001 - 2005)
Florida International University - Miami, FL (2005 - 2009)
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