Joel
Joel Gunz
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Oh no -- hot lava! How are we ever going to get across?
Male
43 years old
PORTLAND, OREGON
United States
Last Login: 7/20/2009
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Joel's Interests
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| General | Max Gunz (10/10/1991), Liza Gunz (5/22/2000), drums, cooking, wine (fine and otherwise), the New Yorker/the Atlantic/Harper's/McSweeneys, truth & philosophy, the girl in the vintage sweater and creative eyeglasses sitting at the next table, writing, reading, coffee, the deisel-and-dust scent of the NYC subway system, Orrontaeus Finnaeus, the Piri Reis map, soft Corinthian leather. | | Music | Charlie Parker, The Funk Brothers, The Crusaders, Jack Johnson, Portishead, Poulenc, The Beatles, Ravel, The Shins, The Carpenters, Eric Satie, Camille Saint-Saen, Debussy, Pat Metheny, Tower of Power, Rush, Sinatra (Frank), Louis Prima, Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones, Wynton Marsalis (pre-Lincoln Center years), George Benson, Victor Wooten, Bootsy Collins, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Mel Brown, Dave Brubeck, Joe Pass, Tchaikovsky, Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Mendelssohn, any of James Brown's alumni -- you know who you are!, shout out to Curtis Salgado, John Coltrane, whatever the girl in the vintage sweater and creative eyeglasses sitting at the next table has on her iPod, Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride, Logan Whitehurst, Dave Matthews (yeah, I know), Rachmoninoff, Lawrence Welk's Tibetan Throat Ensemble, Buddy Rich. | | Movies | Hitchcock: Vertigo, Psycho, Notorious, North by Northwest, North by Northwest, Foreign Correspondent, The Birds, Topaz, To Catch a Thief, The Lady Vanishes, Dial M for Murder, The Lodger; Christopher Guest: Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind; Coppola (the elder): The Godfather, Apocalypse Now; Jarmusch: Broken Flowers; Tarantino: Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction; Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Coppola (the younger): Lost in Translation; Welles: Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, The Trial, The Lady from Shanghai; Godard: Masculin/Feminin, Breathless; ,Jan Svankmeier: Little Otik, Conspirators of Pleasure; Scorsese: Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver; Rohmer: Autumn Tale Disney: The Moon-Spinners, Bambi, Cinderella, Snow White, Old Yeller; whatever would impress the blonde girl in the vintage sweater and creative eyeglasses sitting at the next table; Fritz Lang: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Rancho Notorious, Fury, M, Metropolis; Movies made from James Ellroy novels: The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential; Coen Brothers: Raising Arizona, O Brother Where art Thou?, Fargo; Miscellaneous: Thumbsucker, Sin City, The Triplets of Belleville, The Third Man | | Television | Chrysler Cordoba commercials, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Sarah Silverman Show. I get all of my news from The Daily Show. | | Books | Umbert Eco: The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino, The Island of the Day Before, Travels in Hyperreality; Mark Helprin: Winter Tale, Memoirs from an Antproof Case, A Soldier of the Great War, various shorts stories; T.C. Boyle: A Friend of the Earth, The Road to Wellville, East is East, various shorts stories; Nicholson Baker: Vox, the Fermata, The Mezzanine, Room Temperature, A Box of Matches, Double Fold, U and I; Dave Eggers (Begrudgingly): A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall know our Velocity!, How We Are Hungry; Milan Kundera: Identity; Sarah Vowell: Radio On, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Take the Cannoli, Assassination vacation; Graham Swift: Waterland, Last Orders; Hemingway: everything (prehumous); Fitzgerald: everything; Salinger: absolutely everything; Raymond Chandler: everything fiction; Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point; Cook's Illustrated: anything; Abraham Maslow: Religions, Values, Peak-Experiences; Alice Miller: Drama of the Gifted Child; James Tate: Return to the City of White Donkeys; Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses; David Edgerton: The Shock of the Old; Thomas Frank: The Conquest of Cool; Stephen Johnson: Everything Bad is Good for You; Ken Mogg: The Alfred Hitchcock Story; Camille Paglia: The Birds; Tania Modleski: The Women Who Knew Too Much - Hitchcock and Feminist Theory; Bill Krohn: Hitchcock at Work; Hitchcock and Truffaut: Hitchcock/Truffaut; Dan Auiler: Hitchcock's Notebooks, Vertigo--the Making of a Hitchcock Masterpiece; Peter Conrad: The Hitchcock Murders; Steven DeRosa: Writing with Hitchcock; Alfred Hitchcock: Hitchcock on Hitchcock on Hitchcock; Paul Condon: The Complete Hitchcock; Rohmer and Chabrol: Hitchcock; Some French Canadians: Hitchcock and Art; Robin Wood: Hitchcock's films Revisited; Donald Spoto: The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock -- The Dark Side of Genius; Patrick McGilligan: Alfred Hitchcock--A Life Spent in Darkness and Light; John Russell Taylor: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock; Robert W Service: Ballad of a Cheechako | | Heroes | Ricardo Montalban, Alfred Hitchcock, Gandhi, anyone who is willing to pursue truth at any cost, a New York-style meatball sandwich, the girl in the vintage sweater and creative eyeglasses sitting at the next table. |
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Joel's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Body type: | 5' 11" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Some college |
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About me:
There is a scar on the tip of my left ring finger that appeared when I was four years old and forever changed the course of my life. I like exotic sea salt. I haven't added anything significant to my coin collection since I was 17. When it comes to handling Saran Wrap, I am inept. I believe there are no coincidences, unless you're on the Internet. I believe that the world is already singing in perfect harmony -- the Middle East, the nations of Central Africa and my family of origin included -- so I won't be giving it any music lessons. I have found that intimacy is often a by-product of conflict. I make collages out of old magazines, bits of Japanese graphic novels, foreign coins and sugar. I am not sold separately, nor are more details about me found on specially marked boxes of Kellogg's cereal. I am, however, magically delicious. Want to know more? Try here:
My writing
This damn Hitchcock obsession
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Who I'd like to meet:
Bill Clinton, David Garibaldi, a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin, Jesus (the Christ, not the prep cook at Cup and Saucer), the Buddha, Meister Eckhart, my father, Arthur Schopenhauer, Alfred Hitchcock, Scarlett Johannssen, Sergei Eisenstein, the girl in the vintage sweater and creative eyeglasses sitting at the next table, my maker, the press, my public, that guy who does all the voice overs for movie trailers, someone with seed money for my business ideas and Mr. Spock.
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