About Josh
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I'm a UCLA MFA Student, Animator, Freelance Assassin...
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I'm an incurable insomniaddict, an insufferable iconoclast and a no-nonsense Nihilist. Looking back at that last sentence it appears I'm also addicted to alliteration. It also makes me sound like I'm no fun, but I'm actually a big goof-ball. I love to laugh and I love to make others laugh, but I don't consider myself a "comedian" (I prefer the term "Wiseass American"). That said, there are many things that I take very seriously. I'm extremely allergic to religions, political parties, and traditions. I was raised Christian Conservative but thanks to a little thing called an "education" I was able to expunge myself of all the beliefs I'd inherited from my parents and now I consider myself a dead-again Atheist and a recovering Republican (I voted for GW Bush in 2000 and I'm sorry everyone, so very very sorry. There, that at least takes care of Step 8 on my road to recovery...) |
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1. Ninjas Joshes are mammals.
2. Ninjas Joshes fight talk ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the Ninja Josh is to flip out and kill hug people
I speak pretty good German and a little Japanese (though both languages are slowly leaking from my brain since I never use either anymore). Contrary to popular belief, I'm not a ninja, though a friend of a friend of mine at UCLA started the popular ninja site realultimatepower.net. I'd make a lousy ninja if I tried, as I'm conspicuously tall (6'3"), I have horrible balance cuz my feet are unusually small for a guy of my height (size 8 men's), and I'm freakishly underweight (buck and a half) so I'd snap like a twig, although I've found great truth to the Fight Club adage that "skinny guys fight til they're burger." My raging metabolism not only keeps me lean, but it allows me an almost superhuman ability to consume alcohol. When I do get drunk though, I have a tendency to tell everyone within earshot about I how I've been robbed TWICE at gunpoint (no joke... if you want to hear the story, let's go drinking sometime). In fact, being held up at gunpoint in two separate armed robberies triggered my strong phobia of guns, which is ironic because so many of my animations feature firearms. Those life-threatening experiences also gave me a profound appreciation for living and so I have no intentions of actually performing the suicidal act depicted in my animated Self-Portrait. Seriously, my family and friends can all stop worrying... I really am happy :-)
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That's a really old picture that Kurt MacDonald took of me shaving my head, but I've started alternating between a shaved head and a mohawk.
Just for the record, I'm NOT a skinhead... I just have a love/hate relationship with my hair. In fact, I'm so paranoid about people thinking I'm a racist that I don't even separate the coloreds from the whites when I do my laundry. Can't we all just get along? |
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I really am the worst vegetarian ever, at least compared to all my full-blown vegan friends like Kurt and Greg.
I gave up beef, pork, poultry and other animals after reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, but I still eat seafood and I have a "leftover clause" that allows me to eat my girlfriend's meaty leftovers (I just can't stand to let food go to waste). |
And now let us read a passage from the Book of Morgan...
[u]Jenesis 1:1[/u] - In the beginning there was Josh. Orphaned at birth, because His conception was so immaculate that He had neither a mother nor a father, the infant Josh was sold into slavery and bought by a nomadic tribe of circus performers who would shoot Him out of a cannon in a stunt they called "Baby-go-BOOM". A talent scout saw the act and took Josh to Hollywood where He starred in numerous diaper commercials before His career was ruined by scandal (Josh swears that blasphemous little bitch told Him she was 11 months old, but nay, the jurors were non-believers). Ruined before His first birthday, Joshua then spent the next 20+ years in a drunken stupor until one day He had an absinthe-induced vision... a vision of world populated entirely by people named Josh. Behold, His vision is near fruition and the time shall come for the reign of our savior: Joshua J Morgan.
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In Josh's Stuff | 
on Sep 4, 2005
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by joshmorgan
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12 comments
Nice…Very Nice!!! Keep up the work on your awesome site!
i find you a fascinating person. if you feel like talking sometime send me a message. it’s good to see bill murray on your favorite comedian list.
how about raging against Earth, oxygen, mountains, the oceans (man, they are so full of it), vital organs, blinking, the moon, sidewalks, and earthworms. c’mon, expand your focus. and also, remane your site www.yawn.com. ahhh, the days when someone’s diary was in a book in a drawer, rather than in cyberspace…although, you’re music taste is commendable.
Thank you, your directed agression and narcissism are inspiring. You honesty about your thoughts makes me feel a little less isolated. Your animation is disturbing,and unbalanced; nice job.
Loved your pan of ‘What the Bleep’ so I looked through the rest o’ yer crap.
Man, we’ve got a lot in common! Fanatical Athiesm, The Onion, Bertrand Russell, almost all of your film choices, a seeming lefty-ism and so on.
If your ever up in Vancouver, seriously look me up. There’s not as many thinkers around as I’d like…
Jasper
ps: I like the sound of “Sense And Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism” and so, will read it.
…just finishing Cobra II - a good book, if yer so inclined.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Rarely can you find someone who has read this novel and not enjoyed it. In fact, a 1991 survey by the Book of the Month Club ranked it second among books “most often cited as making a difference” (in the lives of readers). Guess what book was first? That’s right, the Bible.
You’re not the same Josh Morgan who attended University High School in Orlando are you? That guy was just slightly on the verge of crazy but likeable. The similarities are uncanny!
Rose said:
You’re not the same Josh Morgan who attended University High School in Orlando are you? That guy was just slightly on the verge of crazy but likeable. The similarities are uncanny!
Hi Rose,
A Josh Morgan who is “slightly on the verge of crazy but likeable” you say? Yup, that sounds about right, but nope, I went to Buena High School in Ventura, CA and I’m pretty sure I’ve never been to Florida (though it’s possible that I really have been but I had such a good time that I can’t remember ever going), so it must be a different Josh Morgan.
Back in the heyday of Friendster, I started “Joshster” where I only befriended people named “Josh” and during that little experiment, I met about a dozen other guys named “Josh Morgan” and a couple of them were totally my doppelgängers, in namesake, appearance AND personality. Pretty creepy, uncanny and cool.
Thanks for checking out my blog!
Josh
i was going to skip on reading this but hey your south park guy reeled me in. yes to southpark.. jk i don’t even watch south park. it actually annoys me. but hey i actually read your own post about josh. i have to admit, it was pretty entertaining.. especially when i’m dying from boredum at work.
You are a very talented individual. I’m extremely impressed by your work. I was looking for hair styles and found you…. We’re bud’s now….Well 1/2 of us! Good luck to you!
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