Focus On: Josh

From the dusty state of Texas, Josh can be found spreading his absurd and misinformed opinions in the daily rant, and spends the rest of his time maintaining this site, being beaten up by Russ and creating alternate universes.

Name: Josh Lawrence

Job Title: Associate Web Producer

Hometown: Houston, TX

Favorite website: Home of the Underdogs

First computer: Atari 400 (with deluxe cassette drive!)

College/University: English BA with creative writing emphasis from the University of Houston

Former Life: Musician, bookstore drone

Favorite piece of technology: Apple IIe (still have one and love it)

Favorite author and book: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, Milorad Pavic, Dictionary of the Khazars, James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks

Favorite movie or TV show: Movie -- Wings of Desire, TV show -- Monty Python's Flying Circus

Favorite quote: "Nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat" -- Tom (Gabriel Byrne) in Miller's Crossing

Motto: "Poh!"

Soul Searching

What is your most marked characteristic? Roman Catholic nose

What do you consider your greatest achievement? Music made with friends.

When and where were you happiest? A three frisbee free-for-all with about 16 family members on the Hayses' wet, slippery lawn at Lake Travis.

What is your greatest regret? Not talking to Yoshimi of the Boredoms after she smiled at me at Emo's in Houston.

What is your idea of perfect happiness? The time and space to do dumb, creative things, a full belly, and a good relationship.

What is your most treasured possession? "Master" CDs of music made with friends.

Where would you like to live? New Zealand

What is your greatest fear? An incomplete life

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Self-absorption

What is the trait you most deplore in others? Not realizing how important it is for me to be self-absorbed.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Abstaining from being silly.

What is your greatest extravagance? A copy of The Codex Seraphinianus

What is your favorite journey? The road to Big Bend National Park in Texas, at dusk, in a half-dream state caused by listening to Can.

What is it that you most dislike? Imploding

What is the quality you most like in a man? Humor, creativity, understanding.

What is the quality you most like in a woman? Humor, creativity, understanding.

What do you most value in your friends? All of the above, plus dependability.

If you were to come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? Phil Collins .

If you could choose to come back as something, what would it be? A French Surrealist or Dadaist in the early 1920s. Though I'm sure Breton would kick me out of the Movement.

How would you like to die? While sleeping and dreaming of having lunch in Tokyo with Jodie Foster.

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