Joelhendricks.com is a collaboration of music, art, literature. The idea came about back in 1999 when I was hanging out with a couple of savy computer dudes: Ryan Rowcliffe & Jack Louis. I didn't know much about computers back then, but with the help of Jack & Ryan, I was well on my way to learning some things about some things. I had drawn, what I called a network, on a piece of graph paper in a notebook and asked lots of questions about how this could work. Little did I know that ten years later I would be making some of those ideas come to fruition. The basic format, with anything I do nowadays, is trying to stick with what I know: conduct interviews with various musicians, artists, and writers. And so it happened! A catalyst was molded, some interviews were conducted, and joelhendricks.com was born! I set out to create a place where the things I think are cool to me, may be cool to someone else. A place where your music, art, and words can be heard, seen, and felt. There are plenty of creative people in this world; individuals that wouldn't necessarily have a chance to get any exposure at all. Joelhendricks.com is a place where you can hear the unheard voices of our times, see unique, talented artists, and get to know musicians from a different perspective. In creating this vision of Music, Art, Literature, many other doors have opened along the way. Different aspects have taken shape at joelhendricks.com. The tour page, the shop page, the music page. The various elements within the site. Joelhendricks.com is growing on a daily basis. Gaining momentum... Evolving... Staying true to what is real! +++++ I'm accepting submissions for joelhendricks.com. The entire premise of joelhendricks.com is a collaborative collection of ideas, thoughts, art, music, lifestyle, literature, reviews, and shared interests. If you have a story you would like to submit, a poem, your art, or anything you feel has substance, send me an email of what it is you would like to share... +++++ JOEL HENDRICKS BIO: I was born in East LA on April 25th, 1967 at 8:08AM. My birth name is Joel Daniel Hendricks and I've been going by the name Joel Bowl since I was 12 years old. Scott Harris AKA: Scotty Ma, named me Joel Bowl because I used to get barrelled in the shore-pound on my Morey Boogie Board in Huntington Beach, California near the big power plant at the corner of Newland & PCH where we grew up. Specifically in Cabrillo Mobile Home Park at 21752 Pacific Coast Highway #16. We called the Barrel or Tube of a wave The Bowl and I would constantly get bowled while boogie boarding and so the name stuck. I changed it to "Bull" around 1985 when I found out that I'm a Taurus The Bull. I traveled around quite a bit when I was a kid living in Colorado, Nebraska, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, and many other parks and rest stops. It was like a circus. Especially after my dad re-married. There were nine kids, two dogs, and my parents. It was crazy! I finally settled down in Huntington Beach, California where my life took shape. In earlier times I got into punk music at its inception and that movement changed my life forever. I traveled around with a band called Don't No and went to lots of punk shows throughout the 1980's. When the 1990's came along I started my own punk band and we were very succesful on a local level. We recorded 5 albums, had a song on the "Punk Sucks" Compilation, played shows with: Sublime, 311, Korn (they opened for us in 1993), Offspring, Pennywise, Guttermouth, Face to Face, Strungout (they played their first show with us at the Anit-Club in LA), and a number of other bands. We recently released our entire discography on two CD's which you can purchase on the shop page. HFL broke up in 1995 because there was too much deception within the band. Heroin killed HFL and I couldn't take it anymore. I moved to Costa Mesa, California in 1995 and never looked back. I formed another band called "infuse" in 1999. We recorded a six song EP at Stall No. 2 and played various shows around Orange County. I will be releasing the infuse 6 song CD by the end 2009. I went to Orange Coast College for one semester thinking I would get some sort of degree in english but that was short-lived. I got a D- in Business English and told myself I would take the Henry Miller approach and learn life and literature on my own. I started reading books like my life depended on it and I wrote everyday in a journal with pencil filling up numerous volumes of stories, rants, poems, and stream of consciousness prose. It's been a long road... In 2005, after writing for 10 straight years, I decided to publish portions of my journals unedited. The title, "Everything About You Was Cute Until You Wouldn't Fuck Me Anymore". Heartbreak, bitterness, etc. The book is for sale on the shop page. My entire life has consisted of writing, making music, or being involved in music, and making shirts. I was screen-printing pro-light surfboard bags on the West Side of Costa Mesa for Dan Flecky when I was 17. Over the years this work has paid my bills and helped me to create a life for myself. In 2000 I landed a job working for Linkin Park as Director of Merchandise. I worked for LP for almost 3 years. That gig opened many doors for me. I resigned in 2003 and took various jobs before starting my own printing business and pursuing my writing career full-time. I've sinced lived in New York on and off for the past 5 years and currently reside in Costa Mesa, California. I work for The Reverend Horton Heat as Director of Merchandise on the road and when I'm not touring I write as much as I can. Life has purpose and meaning today and it's only because I'm sober. I've had my struggles, ups and downs, bouts with everything you can imagine, but I'm sober and free today and that is such a huge blessing and miracle!! Sincerely, Joel Bull Hendricks Contact Joel Hendricks // Email // Facebook +++++++ Click here and listen to infuse \\\\\LINKS\\\\\\\\\ ///MUSIC/////// ///ART//////// ///LITERATURE///// |
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