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hello, i'm joseph and I'm 22.
In 22 years I've developed an expensive taste. I float from hobby to hobby, distraction to distraction and I get the best I can. Cigars are the latest distraction, but they'll last!
Currently living in south london, close to croydon.
I play guitars, learnt classical at the Guildhall school of music in London. Moved on to electric/acoustic and fumble around jazz clumsily.
I now play an 'R. Taylor' acoustic, a 60's Stella Harmony 12-string, melancon strat & contreras no. 2 classical.
Started teaching at 15 to earn money for sweets. Sweets have now become cigars and guitar strings.
I am "The Boy", half of Patti Plinko and her Boy. http://www.pattiplinkoandherboy.com
Soon we shall be signed! (cigars aint gonna buy themselves)
I also do live and studio session work, and trying to get gigs entertaining kings, queens, aristocrats and people with big humidors.
nothing is more fulfilling than gigging, i'm still a baby but it's the rest of my life. i wouldnt say it makes me happy so much as it fills me with energy. spend too long without gigs and things get stagnant.
Music is huge,
beethoven especially the late string quartets, mahler, shostakovich, arvo part, john tavener, tomas luis de victoria, puccini,
tom waits, radiohead, babyshambles/doherty, bjork, gogol bordello, white stripes, kings of leon, janis joplin, hendrix. everything eventually gets played. ill keep posting music im loving in robusto's music thread.
Besides music, I lust for:
good coffee (single estate yums)
good whisky (islay malts in particular)
good rum
sun
spanish and french women
a decent pair of headphones
salvador dali
georges bataille
I used to love reading philosophy and big novels. i grew up to schopenhauer(unhappily) and nietzsche (on fire) and also loved pirsig's books, bukowski's poems and shakespeare's jazz.
I now hugely adore georges bataille, his books 'inner experience' and 'erotism' blow me away again and again. I also love reading dali's books, the secret life of, maniac eyeball and 50 secrets of craftmanship.
I still can't put my finger on why I like cigars so much. It's for those times when a cigar is just perfection. When the smoke is especially cooling and direct on your tongue, and you catch just enough smoke of the burning cigar for your nose to explode with the aroma! The best cigar I've had yet was a siglo VI (one of whisky77's)
I am more of a solitary smoker, what a great way to meditate in the evening, or focus yourself in the morning!
I smoke rolling tobacco on and off, when out for drinks, at festivals in the sun or when I want to punish myself! the more i smoke cigars the more cigs taste vile. I've tried pipes and will no doubt return one day.
Favourites so far:
siglo VI, cohiba robusto, siglo IV, JL2, magnum 46, ERdM demi-tasse, punch d'oro, punch punch, hoyo 2
in september i'll hopefully have enough dosh to upgrade to a 300 ct, and buy a good few boxes to age.
In 22 years I've developed an expensive taste. I float from hobby to hobby, distraction to distraction and I get the best I can. Cigars are the latest distraction, but they'll last!
Currently living in south london, close to croydon.
I play guitars, learnt classical at the Guildhall school of music in London. Moved on to electric/acoustic and fumble around jazz clumsily.
I now play an 'R. Taylor' acoustic, a 60's Stella Harmony 12-string, melancon strat & contreras no. 2 classical.
Started teaching at 15 to earn money for sweets. Sweets have now become cigars and guitar strings.
I am "The Boy", half of Patti Plinko and her Boy. http://www.pattiplinkoandherboy.com
Soon we shall be signed! (cigars aint gonna buy themselves)
I also do live and studio session work, and trying to get gigs entertaining kings, queens, aristocrats and people with big humidors.
nothing is more fulfilling than gigging, i'm still a baby but it's the rest of my life. i wouldnt say it makes me happy so much as it fills me with energy. spend too long without gigs and things get stagnant.
Music is huge,
beethoven especially the late string quartets, mahler, shostakovich, arvo part, john tavener, tomas luis de victoria, puccini,
tom waits, radiohead, babyshambles/doherty, bjork, gogol bordello, white stripes, kings of leon, janis joplin, hendrix. everything eventually gets played. ill keep posting music im loving in robusto's music thread.
Besides music, I lust for:
good coffee (single estate yums)
good whisky (islay malts in particular)
good rum
sun
spanish and french women
a decent pair of headphones
salvador dali
georges bataille
I used to love reading philosophy and big novels. i grew up to schopenhauer(unhappily) and nietzsche (on fire) and also loved pirsig's books, bukowski's poems and shakespeare's jazz.
I now hugely adore georges bataille, his books 'inner experience' and 'erotism' blow me away again and again. I also love reading dali's books, the secret life of, maniac eyeball and 50 secrets of craftmanship.
I still can't put my finger on why I like cigars so much. It's for those times when a cigar is just perfection. When the smoke is especially cooling and direct on your tongue, and you catch just enough smoke of the burning cigar for your nose to explode with the aroma! The best cigar I've had yet was a siglo VI (one of whisky77's)
I am more of a solitary smoker, what a great way to meditate in the evening, or focus yourself in the morning!
I smoke rolling tobacco on and off, when out for drinks, at festivals in the sun or when I want to punish myself! the more i smoke cigars the more cigs taste vile. I've tried pipes and will no doubt return one day.
Favourites so far:
siglo VI, cohiba robusto, siglo IV, JL2, magnum 46, ERdM demi-tasse, punch d'oro, punch punch, hoyo 2
in september i'll hopefully have enough dosh to upgrade to a 300 ct, and buy a good few boxes to age.
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