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    Josef Saunders is the author of short stories, children's books, concept albums, societies, art shows, theological treatises, economic theories, manifestos, and liturgical movements. He has published nearly twenty-five full length albums under the monicker of Mödest (Some of My Music). 

    Josef has been enamored by the magical side of the world since his youth under the willow tree by the creek. He sees this magic as flowing through everything--happiness follows from realizing that it is in you, too. Josef is a Catholic who is always trying to make the world work with his faith, and vice versa. In this realm, he cites Valentin Tomberg, Teilhard de Chardin, G.K. Chesterton, and Neil Gaiman as his influences.

    Josef is an aesthetic type who is a sucker for gothic and early American art and architecture (stained glass windows!). He loves impressionism and post-impressionism, as well as the medieval manuscript tradition (check out Tomm Moore's Secret of Kells!) He mentions James Ensor, Paul Klee, Pissarro, and Degas--to name a few.

      Josef has a love of fiction, particularly the work of Trenton Lee Stewart, Lemony Snicket, and Colin Meloy. Kid power and the sublime moments in the spooky suburbs have given him vital inspiration throughout his life.

    As mentioned, Josef is a musician: 12 years in classical piano and 8 in the studio, recording his own compositions (often accompanied by his brother Charles). Josef is inspired by too many artists, but The Shins, Eisley, The Magnetic Fields, Sufjan Stevens, The Smiths, The Weepies, Blur, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Radiohead, Gregory and the Hawk, Stars, The Oh Hellos, and Wooden Dinosaur all come to mind. 

    You can find Josef in the woods by his house, talking with his friends and family, writing, or daydreaming about some scene in infinite blue. He asks for your prayers.

    Josef is a resident of Wisconsin, with his ghost wife and dog.



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