Jo$eph!
Joseph Gervasi
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Fill your teapot up with tea, come and take a ride with me...Down the Oily Way!
Male
38 years old
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania
United States
Last Login: 11/16/2009
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Jo$eph!'s Interests
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| General | Art, horror and documentary films. The filth and the fury. Reading: big time! Hiking and exploring Fairmount Park (which is, essentially, my backyard). Running while avoiding ogres. My bike, my ass on it, my feet propelling me forward. Raw fish from the lips of death. Discipline and control make the man. Works sets me free. Traveling when I can, wherever I can. Crumhorns. Watching enemies suffer. Seasons that aren't summer. Insects! Elf stuff. Nests + eggs. Everything in its right place. That which leaves lipstick traces. Talking animals. Lives of the Saints. Classes at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. Steel-capped boots. Starting to write again. Laughing laughing laughing at the contrived angst, therapy, drugs and self-destructive behavior of those who came from privilege. NPR. Those wonderful mushrooms. London Social Degree. Fueled by tea. Superb vegetarian/vegan restaurants. Le chats. I've got more plots than a cemetery, more deals than a casino.
 | | Music | Psychedelia, '70s progressive rock, acid folk, hardcore/punk/grind, old ska and reggae, black metal, '80s thrash, a little doooooom, film scores, etc. And so: Yes, Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, Beatles, Conflict, Discharge, Avalanches, Black Flag, Ennio Morricone, T2, Espers, Caravan, Spektr, Orthodox, Bastard, Gentle Giant, Mellow Candle, Siege, Grateful Dead's "American Beauty", Bowie, Envy, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Sigur Ros, Kaleidoscope (UK), Atom and His Package, Damien Youth, Frank Zappa and the Mothers, King Crimson, Extreme Noise Terror, The Smiths, Voivod, Born Against, Chumbawamba, Boris, Siege, Bill Fay, Fairport Convention, Heresy, Broadcast, Dickies, Belle & Sebastian, July, Magma, Upright Citizens, David Axelrod, Espers, Donovan, Il Balletto di Bronzo, Goblin, Melt-Banana, Osanna, Gauze, Teenage Fanclub, Black Sabbath, Gorilla Biscuits, The Who, Warhead, Trojan/Stax/early Motown records, Delgados, Wat Tyler, early Bee Gees, His Hero is Gone/Tragedy, Super Furry Animals, early Brian Eno, Gong, Celtic Frost, The Ohio Express, Warhead, Mojave 3, Broadcast, Comus, The Dwarves, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, Operation Ivy, Gila, Pink Floyd, Crimpshrine, Led Zeppelin, Deep Wound, Ash Ra Tempel, Boris, Dungen, XTC, Van Der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill, Zounds, The Mob, Infest, Witchcraft, The Incredible String Band, No Comment, Scott Walker, The Zombies, The Byrds...."lest we forget"
I am. You are. We are. CRAZY! | | Movies | "The Wicker Man", Bela Tarr, "Dawn of the Dead", K. Kieslowski, "Battle of Algiers", Frederick Wiseman, Kurosawa, "Holy Mountain"/"El Topo", all Powell & Pressburger, Coffin Joe, Kazuo Hara's documentaries, old Dario Argento, Godard, Ozu, various Italian gialli and horror films, Hammer films, "Possession" and others from Zulawski, Henry Paris/Radley Metzger, P. P. Pasolini, Bergman (!!!), Fritz Lang, Italian Neorealist films, old Hollywood musicals, "Viva La Muerte", A. Tarkovsky, Peter Greenaway, "Sweet Movie" and Makavejev's other films, "Fantastic Planet", oodles of Czech cinema, Jan Svankmajer, Kim ki-Duk, select '70s adult cinema (especially French), "Spirit of the Beehive", silent cinema, F. Fellini, "Reflecting Skin", Sergio Leone, Kubrick, glorious three-strip Technicolor, Mayles bros., "A Hard Day's Night", "Yellow Submarine", Jacopetti & Prosperi's mondo films, "Ghost World", "Lone Wolf & Cub" series, Takashi Miike, K. Fukasaku, Godzilla & his pals, Russian fairy tale films, Shunji Iwai, anything with Annette Haven and Brigitte Lahaie, Peter Watkins, "Sunrise", Hitchcock, "Greed", Chris Marker, Alan Clarke, "Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" (!), etc.
 | | Television | Simpsons, The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Larry Sanders, Trailer Park Boys (Bubbles!), I'm Alan Partridge/Knowing Me Knowing You, Spaced, Jam, Planet Earth, Rome, Brass Eye, The Thick of It, Nathan Barley, Extras, Invasion, Deadwood, Arrested Development, Little Britain, Sopranos, Saxondale, Wonder Showzen, Six Feet Under, The Office (both), Freaks and Geeks, The Singing Detective/Pennies from Heaven, original Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, Lost in Space, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, The Shield, etc.
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 | | Books | Mervyn Peake, William T. Vollman, Peter Straub, Halldor Laxness' "Independent People", Alistair Horne, T.H. White, Philip Pullman, Shirley Jackson, Michael Faber, David Mitchell, Joan Didion, Jerzy Kosinski, George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" books, George Orwell, China Mieville, M. Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita", Robert R. McCammon, Borges, Flannery O'Connor, Harlan Ellison, Herman Hesse, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Eduardo Galeano, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Simmons, Emile Zola, dark short fiction of Joyce Carol Oates and Ian McEwan, Richard Yates and much more including a lot of history, film books and science books about insects. I read like a fiend!
  | | Heroes | I exchanged my heroes for ghosts, hot ashes for trees. |
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Jo$eph!'s Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Philadelphia | | Body type: | 5' 6" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | I don't want kids | | Education: | Some college | | Occupation: | Self-Employed (Film/Video) |
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Jo$eph!'s Schools
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Highland High
Blackwood, NEW JERSEY
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: English
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Jo$eph!'s Companies
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Diabolik DVD (www.DiabolikDVD.com)
Philadelphia, PA US
Co-owner
Horror, cult, art, sex, political, weird-ass films on DVD
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The past - The present
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Exhumed Films (www.ExhumedFilms.com)
Philadelphia/New Jersey, PA/NJ US
Co-presenter
Horror and cult films, squire!
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1997 - present
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The Orgasmic Toilet Band 
South Jersey!, NJ US
Singer, lyricist
Hardcore punk prog-rock joke band
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1989-1991
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Philly 'Zine then NO LONGER A FANzine
South Jersey then Philadelphia, NJ/PA - Philly fuckin' hardcore punk US
Co-editor of Philly 'Zine, editor of NLAFz
Punk, politics, satire, sex, death and starshine
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Late '80s - late '90s
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The Cabbage Collective (previously Orgasmic Productions)
Philadelphia, PA US
Co-founder
Hardcore punk/grind/emo done in the D.I.Y. style at the Harwan Theatre, S. Jersey/48th & Baltimore, W. Philly/First Unitarian Church, Center City Philly/Stalag 13, W. Philly
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Late '80s - 1997 or so
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Me....taking pictures (http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephagervasi/)
Philadelphia, PA US
MFIC
This is where you can see my photography. It isn't that great and I'm no professional. Still, there is much to see, some of it lovely, some of it revolting...just like your life and mine.
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About me:
I am 1/4 of Exhumed Films and 1/2 of Diabolik DVD. I am presently working on a series of "solo" programming/event gigs outside Exhumed Films. Many of these events will fuse live music with film. In 2006 I co-conceived The Valerie Project with Greg Weeks. The Valerie Project went on to be performed at the Meltdown Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London ("opening" for Jarvis Cocker), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Anthology Film Archive in NYC and other venues. In the olden days I used to co-edit Philly Zine with Sean Gustilo and edit NO LONGER A FANzine (NLAFz). Off and on from very late 1989 - 1991 I was in the HC punk/prog joke band The Orgasmic Toilet Band with Dion Paci, Marty DeSantis and a revolving cast of drummers (Winston Bird and Jeff Bradbury). I co-founded the Philly's (now-defunct) Cabbage Collective with my brother Bull and Chris Fry (then of the band Policy of 3).
If you'd like to hear an interview with me by Megan Curran that aired on NPR in October, 2004 it is here:
http://www.macmichael.org/ryan/sounds/whyy-exh.mp3
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Who I'd like to meet:
A seasoned witch to draw me from the depths of my disgrace, to re-arrange my liver to the solid mental grace. 
 
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