Joe Tower
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Graphic Designer |
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Introduction | Graphic designer, artist, aspiring anything especially if it involves getting lost. Let's go get lost. |
| Interests | Art, music, film, San-Com, local hip-hop ala Rhymesayers and Doomtree, running/exercising, friends/family, games/Game Night, good coffee, women with issues, pugs, buying books and not reading them, sleeping with my cat, sleeping in after a night of drinking, thinking about brains, Penguins, Orange Tic-Tacs, internet, Macintosh computers, jazz clubs, dressing animals up in unusual clothes just because it's supposedly unusual, laughing for no reason, being tired to the point of ridiculousness, the thought of smoking without doing so, alcoholic beverages are aces. "drink to drink and drunk is drunk. I drink to drunk a drink of crunk. bust it." |
| Favorite Movies | Most by Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarentino, & others. I am a Criterion whore. |
| Favorite Music | I like a wide variety of music. Most consistantly I enjoy local hip-hop, jazz and metal. Some favorites include: DOOMTREE (P.O.S., Sims, Beak, Dessa, Marshall Larada, Cecil Otter, Big Papes, Mictlan..etc), Rhymesayers(Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Ant, Grayskul), San-Com, Tom Waits, TV on The Radio, Ulver, Neko Case, Omaur Bliss, D'Angelo, Kayo Dot, Ninja Gator, Maudlin of The Well, C.A.S., Taake, Spikaboxxx, Common, Mos Def, Black Star, Cas One, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Brad Mehldau, Damien Rice, Enslaved, Jeff Buckley, Anna Ternheim, Opeth, Bjork, Nina Simone, The Gossip, Antony & The Johnsons, Anathema, Xasthur, Bilal, Katatonia, Ani DiFranco, Saul Williams, The Mars Volta, Aesop Rock/ Def Jux, Billie Holiday, Massive Attack, Portishead, Sleater-Kinney, Fiona Apple, Alias, Madeleine Peyroux, Jel, Outkast, Velvet Cacoon, Immortal, The Roots, Klimt 1918, Thelonious Monk...you get the picture. |
| Favorite Books | Saul Williams four books of poetry, 1984, assorted books by Charles Bukowski and Chuck Palahniuk. I read design books mostly. |