I was born and raised in Quincy, Massachusetts, home of the Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. My hobbies include: music, writing, reading, learning, shopping, cartoons, eating and drinking. I plan on becoming an English teacher. I work for Photogenic Inc Boston, where I am a Supervisor that deals with tourism photography and customer service. It’s a very fun fast paced job. I write “Love, Joe” at the end of every post because I love everyone that visits my blog and reads the posts.

My Best Friends:

All Time- Fred Smith
2010- Amanda Sweeney
2011- Tina Wood

I’m on Tumblr!
I’m on Twitter!
I’m on Facebook!
I’m on Google+
I’m on Last.fm
You can ask me questions anonymously via: Tumblr (ask)

JOE’S MUSIC

(Music Updated February 7th, 2012)

I love music. I listen to various types of music, basically everything on the planet, but my go to music has always been blisteringly fast Black and Death Metal. I’ll drop it down a notch and chill to some heavy Drone, kick it back up with Prog Rock, confuse myself with Zeuhl and even get in touch with my inner thug with some rap.

I play bass in the band Alternative Riot!

I spend a lot of time out and around Boston checking out new bands and different shows. Definitely check out anything in the Shows Category to read about any shows I’ve been to recently.

Recently Bought Albums:
Planetoid- The Abraxas Tactics Box Set (Phase 1 – Phase 4)
Fleshgod Apocalypse- Oracles
Merzbow- Venerology
Boris- Heavy Rocks
Boris- Attention Please
Decapitated- Carnival Is Forever

Top 10 Artists Overall and my favorite album by them, powered by Last.fm
1. Cradle of Filth- Cruelty and the Beast
2. Sigh- Imaginary Sonicscape
3. Nattefrost- Blood & Vomit
4. Gorillaz- Gorillaz
5. Satyricon- Volcano
6. The Misfits- Collection 1
7. Dimmu Borgir- Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
8. Chthonic- Seediq Bale
9. Emperor- IX Equilibrium
10. Mercyful Fate- Melissa

JOE’S VIDEOS

These are featured Videos I’ve recently shot/uploaded. For all my videos, please visit my YouTube page.

Planetoid – “Electro Chemical Overload” Filmed Live 12-31-2011

Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken TOys- “Soldiers Came” (Porcelain Dalya’s Dance) Filmed live 12-09-2011

Boris- Riot Sugar (Filmed Live 10-25-2011)

Weird Al- Smells Like Nirvana (Filmed live 10-15-2011)

For videos shot more than a month ago, please visit my YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRenken

JOE’S WORK AND SCHEDULE

Photogenic INC is my full-time job. They call me Midas, because every venue I touch is gold.

I run on a Monday-Sunday schedule with Monday and Wednesdays being my designated days off for class. Currently, my schedule looks like this:

I try to update this every Friday, but I’m not very good at that.

Love,
Joe