Friday, January 6th, 2006
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2:03 pm - have you been to your hometown lately?
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When I go home to Lexington, I always visit my teachers at the high school. I always walk through town, saying hello to people in the community. Every year, I check in with the town pharmacists, the librarians, the ministers, and the bank tellers. They all know I'm gay. Many of them held me when I was a baby. It's important to me that they watch me grow up, that they trace my development from child to teenager to young adult, and eventually, middle-age. If you can look someone in the eye and say, "I knew you when you were this big," it's hard to hate them. Gay men and women cannot just disappear from our hometowns. That's where we have the most influence.
-Kirk Read
How I Learned to Snap,
A small town coming-out and coming-of-age story
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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11:29 am - pieces of clay
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"Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them."
-- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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10:13 am - summer of love.
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has anyone seen "summer of love" out there? i would really like to do a serious debriefing about that movie.
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
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10:57 am - soul music in august
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Joya sings for Benefit Auction
Monday, August 15, 7:30pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
A Benefit Auction for Company One & the Coolidge Corner Theatre
Tickets available on-line at www.coolidge.org
or at the Coolidge Box Office
$15 advance tickets, $20 at the door
"Come on out and celebrate your local non-profit arts community by taking
advantage of our exciting evening including hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar and
more!" For more info go to:
http://www.benefitauction.cmarket.com
http://www.companyone.org
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
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10:50 am - my new project.
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i have decided to read every book in my apartment. i/we have so many books that i have never finished or never read. (why are old books never as exciting to read as new ones, fresh from the bookstore?) i will read them one by one and keep record in my journal, to keep myself going. this is my new project.
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
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11:17 am - poetry by another person with the same handwriting
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have you ever found a bad poem in a notebook, your notebook, buried among your books? the poem is clearly in your own handwriting, but for the life of you, you don't remember writing it? and then you read it and you blush at the existence of it, wondering how it survived years of spring cleaning. you try to remember where you were physically and mentally at the time of the accident/poem. the only clue you have to work with is the crusty dusty notebook that brings you back to a season you tried to forget. freaked out to know you wrote words that you do not recognize? i have. see below.
found poem. yellow legal pad. summer 2002.
have some coffee
if innocence is a virtue,
what is loss of innocence?
run 3 miles
call a friend
a small child makes me smile
the rest irritates
wipe off the puss he says
it won't change anything
waiting in line
to wait in line
to get to the place
where the system is down
i'm not amused
i'm blind
and see everything
god, please dull my senses
where is the train?
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
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9:51 am - check check check it out
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i now have a fotolog. http://fotolog.net/joyamusic
i have been going on there all the time to check out my friends photos and i finally broke down and started my owe. it is slightly trollish but fun. one new photo a day, baby.
happy summmmmer!!!!!!!!!! xoxo
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
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10:10 am - lbgt pride, baby.
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
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10:55 am - myspace.com/joyamusic
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i am now on myspace!!! www.myspace.com/joyamusic
i am always adding new photos so check check check it out.
thanks you, CJ, for setting it up. i don't have the web energy i used to.......
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
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9:51 am - how you like them apples
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Hi everyone!
Just wanted to say THANKS to everyone who came to see me and my band play at Tribe (Felt) on Thursday and at the Rack on Friday. The band and I had a great time and it was fun fun fun with all of you there shakin' it to my tunes.
Also, good news! One of the producers of Kiss 108's show "Matty in the Morning" was at Felt on Thursday and really liked what he heard! He chose
me for "Pick of the Week" on their Web site:
http://www.mattyinthemorning.com/picksoftheweek.html
For those of you Under-21 or Not-into-clubs Joya Fans, please stay tuned for future Joya shows. I havent forgotten about you!
xoxo,
Joya
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
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8:37 pm
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I am playing at Tribe (Felt) in two weeks! Rehearsing with the band tomorrow. This is gonna be a good one........
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Friday, August 27th, 2004
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9:47 am
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Last night was the second rehearsal for of my GB (General Business) band. So far we have:
My Romance
Fly Me to the Moon
Natural Woman
Moondance
I'm beginning to see the light
This is such a project to come up with 30-60 songs. Hoping we will be able to start gigging by October.
Always looking for song suggestions......
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