Joseph Aisenberg
- Gender: Male
- Occupation: Work as a cake packer in a local bakery and am a writer whose stories are yet to be published
About Me
I'm a guy who grew up in a small college town with its mixture of suburban provincialism and sophisticated worldly knowledge. What turned me into a writer was that one day in the first grade I had to go to the bathroom. The teacher excused me, and, after doing my business, I returned and sat in my little desk. After settling back into the classroom routine I began to feel rather strange, out of place. Everything was slightly wrong. I looked at the other kids around me and though they seemed right there was something alien about them. Then all at once I knew I had ducked into the wrong class and embarrassedly skittered away.
You know, life is such a strange and terrible thing, requiring so much violence, gnashing of teeth, feces and urine,just to exist, I can't help wondering how is it that the invisible forces of civilization flowing arounding us, permeating even our dreams, turn out to be so completely, concretely binding?
Favorite Movies
- Top ten not in numerical order: Carrie
- Persona
- Psycho
- Eraserhead
- Taxi Driver
- Holiday
- Gone With The Wind
- Dressed To Kill
- Rushmore
- Contempt. Also Europa
- Fellini
- Rear Window should be tied with Psycho
- Antonioni. There's also a lot of crap I loved such as Surviving Christmas and Harold and Kumar go to Gitmo that I found pretty darn amusing.
Favorite Music
- This is too wide a category. I need music to exist almost as much as books from Beethoven to the song "The Mating Game" I feel suffused in the stuff. The pop I listen to most often is probably Siouxsie and The Banshees and Weezer; the Classic is Probably Mahler and George Rochberg; plus tons of movie music
- Bernard Herrmann and Pino Donnagio gives a certain gliding glamour to the packing of cakes
Favorite Books
- Lolita
- (Nabokov's my favorite author)
- Proust
- Vanity Fair
- The essays and comic novels of Gore Vidal
- Ibsen's Hedda Gabbler and The Master Builder
- For Keeps by Pauline Kael
- Ghould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
- The Life and Death of Miguel De Cervantes by Stephen Marlowe
- Madame Bovary
- Mary Mccarthy
- Shirley Jackson
- The World According To Garp
- Ramsey Campbell
- especially The Parasite and Ancient Images
- the magisterial book A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
- and many others.
