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Site links OFFOFFOFF Home About OFFOFFOFF Contact us Get our newsletter:   Search the site:   About Offoffoff About Offoffoff Staff Site index Audio index Contact information Newsletter archive Press about Offoffoff.com Destroy our logo!  STAFF BIO: Joshua Tanzer • Editor and founder Joshua Tanzer is a journalist, filmmaker and web developer in New York. He is the producer of "KABOOM: A Brief History of Bombing," currently in production. Previously, he was a web developer at Business Week Online. And for 10 years he's been the guy who wrote the headlines in the New York Post, thinking up bad puns and juvenile sex jokes for your morning amusement. (e.g. "Martha Stewart stock falling like a bad souffl�," "Adults who were spanked often get tanked.") It's like being paid to spend the rest of your life in the third grade. He got his start in journalism as a music writer, where he eventually decided that music criticism served little purpose � except on the rare occasion when the writer could turn the readers on to some great new artist they hadn't heard of before. That, some years later, is the whole idea behind Offoffoff.com. Joshua is the creator, editor, designer, co-business manager and inevitably the most frequent writer at Offoffoff.com. He also designs and maintains Incorrectmusic.com, the companion web site to the torturously wonderful WFMU radio show "Incorrect Music." He used to be a fairly good guitarist but can hardly find the time anymore. He likes romantic dinners by candlelight and long walks on the beach. His turnoffs are regressive tax policy and mean people. Being of mixed French, German and Russian ancestry makes him feel like an honorary member of the Axis of Evil. If you think he wrote something stupid, especially about dance or art, he does not deny being a big ignoramus in those areas. His other web sites include: JudithMiller.org IncorrectMusic.com yoke.tv bombshellproductions.com jtanzer.com jessicatanzer.com BusinessWeek.com B-schools section You can e-mail him at jmt2@offoffoff.com. Articles by Joshua Tanzer Art: • Grace Markman • Unbroken: Photography Subjects Speak Out Dance: • Contain Yourself, Darling • Feast or Famine • First Weekends, Jan. 2000 • Four Fruits • Islander • St. Patrick Pageant • Sharon Mansur and Clare Byrne Film: • 2046 • 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days • 9 Songs • Adverse Possession • After the Day Before • All Night Bodega • All the Real Girls • American Beer • Asian Films Are Go! • Asian-American International Film Festival • Assassination Tango • NY/Avignon Film Festival • B-52 • The Back of the World • The Backyard • The Battle of Algiers • Bawandar • Before Sunset • The Best of Youth • The Blackout • Blind Shaft • Blue Car • Blue Wild Angel • Boom: The Sound of Eviction • Brideshead Revisited • Brooklyn International Film Festival • Brooklyn International Film Festival • The Brown Bunny • Bubble • Buffalo Soldiers • Bury the Evidence • Bus 174 • Buzz • Cairo Tales • Calle 54 • Calling Bobcat • Cape of Good Hope • Capturing the Friedmans • Carnage • The Carriers Are Waiting • Caterina in the Big City • A Certain Kind of Death • Checkpoint • El Chevrol� • Children of Love • The Chinatown Files • La CinemaFe • The Circle • City of God • Code 46 • The Collective • The Constant Gardener • Control Room • Cowards Bend the Knee • Coyote • Crawford • Criminals • Crying Out Love in the Center of the World • The Dancer Upstairs • Dark Days • The Decalogue • The Definition of Insanity • demonlover • La Destinazione • Dinner Rush • Divine Intervention • Dogville • Dolphins • Double Agent • Double Vision • Down to the Bone • Downfall • The Dreamers • Earth • Easy • The Education of Shelby Knox • Elephant • Encounters at the End of the World • Erotic Tales • Escape Artists • Evergreen • The Execution of Wanda Jean • Existo • Expired • Face • Fahrenheit 9/11 • Fallen Arches • Fast Food Fast Women • Feedback • Ferry Tales • The Five Senses • Fix • Flavors • The Fog of War • Ford Transit • Freeze Me • From a High Place • Frozen • Frozen River • Garden State • Gasoline Rainbows • La Gen�se • Getting to Know You • The Giraffe • The Gleaners and I • God, Sex and Apple Pie • Grande Ecole • Group • Gunnin' For That #1 Spot • H • Happy-Go-Lucky • He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not • Hell House • Henry Hill • Hero • The Hero • High Tension • The Holy Land • Holy Lola • Horns and Halos • Horrible Child • Hukkle • Human Rights Watch Film Festival • Human Rights Watch International Film Festival • Human Rights Watch International Film Festival • Hunger • The Ice Rink • In the Mood for Love • In Your Hands • Incorrect Music Video • interMission • Intervista • The Intruder • Irreversible • The Isle • Joint Security Area • Ju-on: The Grudge • Julien Donkey Boy • Jump Tomorrow • Junebug • Kadosh • Kagami • Kill Bill Vol. 1 • A Killing • Kin • The King Is Alive • Land of Plenty • Last Night • Last Resort • Letters from the Dead • L.I.E. • Life and Debt • Life Kills Me • Lightning in a Bottle • Long Night's Journey Into Day • Los Angeles Plays Itself • Love and Diane • Make Pretend • Malcolm McLaren — Not For Sale • Manic • Maria Full of Grace • Joshua Marston • Max and Grace • Memories of Murder • Mental Hygiene • Mifune • Million Dollar Baby • Mission • Mondovino • Mother's Crossing • Mr. Death • Mule Skinner Blues • My Life Without Me • Mystic River • New Directors / New Films   • New Directors New Films • New Directors New Films • New York Film Festival • New York Film Festival • New York in the '50s • New York Korean Film Festival • New York Video Festival • Nightingale in a Music Box • Nine Lives • Now or Never • Oasis • Off the Hook • Oldboy • Once We Were Strangers • One Bright Shining Moment • One Shot • Open Roads: New Italian Cinema • Open Water • Or (My Treasure) • Ordinary Sinner • Our Lady of the Assassins • Out • Particles of Truth • Passing Stones • Peppermint Candy • The Personals • Persons of Interest • Philadelphia Film Festival • Pig Farm • Ping Pong • The Pinochet Case • Pinochet's Children • Pistol Opera • The Plastic People of the Universe • Platform • Poor Liza • Pop • Port of Last Resort • Power Trip • Private • Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind • Promises • Raising Victor Vargas • Raja • Rana's Wedding • Read My Lips • The Real Dirt on Farmer John • Real Women Have Curves • Rendez-Vous with French Cinema • Rendezvous in Samarkand • Restaurant • The Return • Rites of Spring • The Road Home • Robot Stories • Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein • Rosetta • Runaway Pistol • S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine • Samia • San Francisco Independent Film Festival • Catalina Sandino Moreno • Saudade do Futuro • Schmelvis: Searching for the King's Jewish Roots • The Sea • The Seagull's Laughter • Seattle International Film Festival • September Tapes • Session 9 • She Hate Me • Shiri • Shower • Silent Waters • Silicon Alley Stories • Silver City • The Slaughter Rule • So Close • Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. • The Son • Spellbound • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring • Standard Operating Procedure • Standing By Yourself • Startup.com • The Statement • States of Control • Storytelling • The Strange Case of Se�or Computer • Strange Fits of Passion • Stranger With a Camera • Strong Shoulders • Sudor Amargo • Suzhou River • Swiss American Film Festival • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance • The Syrian Bride • Tarnation • Teddy Bears' Picnic • Tell Me Something • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing • The Three Marias • Through the Forest • Too Much Sleep • Top 10 films of 1999 • Top 10 films of 2000 • Top 10 films of 2001 • Top 10 films of 2002 • Top 10 films of 2003 • Top 10 films of 2004 • The Tracker • The Trials of Henry Kissinger • The Trilogy • Triple Agent • The Triplets of Belleville • Twentynine Palms • Twilight: Los Angeles • Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War • Under the Sun • Undertow • Until the Night • Valley of Tears • Venti • Vodka Lemon • W.I.S.O.R. • The Waiting Game • Walt Curtis, the Peckerneck Poet • War Inc. • The Watershed • Waydowntown • Well-Founded Fear • What the Bleep Do We Know? • When Korean Cinema Attacks! • When Will I Be Loved? • Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival • Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival • Winter Sleepers • Winter Solstice • Woman Is the Future of Man • The World • Yana's Friends • Yom Yom • The Young Girl and the Monsoon • Yugoslavia, the Avoidable War • Zhou Yu's Train Music: • Battershell • Black 47 • Blake Mattingly • Bossa Nova Beatniks • Don Byron and Existential Dred • Candymeat • Church of Betty • Dave's True Story • Dirty Mary • Electric Eel Shock • Eyelash • Fake Brain • Gelatine • The Lascivious Biddies • Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys • Mannix • Mo' Guajiro • Frank Morey • Nova Social • P.I.C • Pope Syndicate • The Raymond Scott Orchestrette • The Right Bastards • Curtis Salgado • Amy Speace • Speedball Baby • The VooDUDES • Yes Virginia • Yoke • Zipthunk! Opinion: • Eric Foner • George McGovern • Maurice Isserman • Thomas Keck • Bard O'Neill Radiotv: • Alrick Brown • Nanette Burstein and Jordan Roberts • First Person • Well-Founded Fear Theater: • 21 Dog Years   • 7 Blowjobs • The Abduction Project • Abundance • After the Storm • All in the Timing • Angry Jellow Bubbles • Angry Little People • Armitage Shanks • The Asthma Conspiracy • Audit • Autoeroticism in Detroit • Babes in America • Barman • Beaver • Beirut • Big Cactus • Big Kiss • The Bomb • Brilliant Traces • Broken Boughs • Broken Morning • Bush Are "Us" • Buying Time • Can't Get Started • Carl the Second • Cats Can See the Devil • Centralia • Charlie Victor Romeo • Clinton's View: A Hell's Kitchen Story • Compensation • The Conjure Man Dies • Cooking the Books • Corporate Rock • Daughter of a Pacifist Soldier • Demon Baby • Deviant • Doing Justice • The Drunk Monologues • The Earth's Sharp Edge • Edufa • Einstein's Dreams • Equal Protection • Erotic Adventures in Venice • Extraordinary Rendition • Extreme Girl • F-Stop • Fathers • Featuring Loretta • Fifty Minutes • Finally • Flight • The Florida Project • The Foul Stench of Death • The Foundation • Free Market • Fringe Festival 2008 • Fuck You or Dead Pee Holes • Funbox Times Square • Galaxy Video • Gemini • A Girl of Sixteen • G�ne de Tueur • God of Vengeance • The Gospel of Cyrus According to Cyrus • Great Men of Gospel • Greenland Y2K • Guide to Health and Strength • Har Har • Heard (But Not Scene) • Helsinor • L'Hiver Sous la Table • Holocaust Stories • Homosexual Acts • How His Bride Came to Abraham • Hyperreal America • Hysterical: A Short History of the Vibrator • I Found Her Tied to My Bed • I Love America • I Sing • I, Unseen • Icarus and Aria • If You Had Called Me • Impossible Safari • In On It • Jerusalem Syndrome • Jesus Hopped the "A" Train • Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious • Kerouac • King John • Kings • The Last Carburetor • The Last Supper • A Lie of the Mind • Living London • Loader #26 • Lone Drifter • The Longest Running Joke of the Twentieth Century • Lovebird with a Mirror • Mao on Line One • Meat Is Floating By • Midnight Brainwash Revival • Milton's Way • Misalliance • Mono • The Monument • Mourn the Living Hector • Naked Girls Drinking • Namesake Short Play Festival • Native Son • The Negative Energy Field • Never Swim Alone • New Work / New World • New York Fringe Festival • New York Fringe Festival 2000 • No. 11 (Blue and White) • Notice of Default and Opportunity to Cure • Out to Lunch • Outside the Comfort Zone • P.S. 69 • Painted Snake in a Painted Chair • Pale Idiot • A Place Like This • Poop — A True Story • Portia Coughlan • Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome • Prayer • Promised Land • Psalms of a Questionable Nature • Rain, River, Ice, Steam • Random Harvest • Redbird • Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk • Rise Perverts Rise • Room to Swing an Axe • Sajjil • The Savior of Fenway • The Scientists • Secret History • See Bob Run • The Sentence • Sex, Marriage and Roadkill • Shyness is nice • Sic • The Situation Room • Slaves of Starbucks • Slut • Snatches • A Soldier's Death • The Square • The Statue • Studio • Sure of This One • Tabletop • Take • Taxicab Chronicles • The Tender • Thankless Jobs of the Apocalypse • That Damn Dykstra (the boxed set) • This Is a Newspaper • Timsloft #25 • Travelogue • Triptych • Two • Underneath the Lintel • Verbatim • Voices from the Holy . . . and Not So Holy Land • A Waiter's Nightmare • Waitin' 2 End Hell • We Can't All Be Matt Lauer • Weights • Welcome to New Jersey • The Welcoming Committee • What It Is from What It Is Not • White Meat • Why We Don't Bomb the Amish • Woman in the Animal Kingdom • Woman Killer • Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen