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Jason

Turn Slowly For Maximum Vend

About Me

"I cannot think it unlikely that there is such a total book on some shelf in the universe. I pray to the unknown gods that some man-even a single man, tens of centuries ago-has persued and read that book. If the honor and wisdom and joy of such a reading are not to be my own, then let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification."-Jorge Louis Borges from "The Library of Babel"

My Interests

Music:

Secret Chiefs 3, Sun City Girls (in all their manifestations), Ennio Morricone, Eyvind Kang, Joe Meek, Rudolf Eb.er, Ananda Shankar, Brian Wilson, Ali Akbar Khan, Nino Rota, the Kinks, Six Organs of Admittance, Gregg Turkington, Harry Partch, Scott Walker, Googoosh, more Morricone, etc, etc.

Movies:

The works of Parajanov, Jodorowsky, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Herzog, Kiarostami, Antonioni, blah, blah, blah. Also have been digging the super sexy, technicolor,60's/70's Italian cinema these days....

Television:

The Prisoner

Books:

Artuad, Borges, Corbin, Dick, Vonnegut.

Heroes:

Not really a hero, but Harry Smith sure did get alot done.

My Blog

I really don't know what to say........

Some sad, sad news that I found out today. I honestly don't know what to say so I will let these two texts do the talking: With deep regret, we must announce that Charles Gocher passed away yesterda...
Posted by Jason on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:37:00 PST