Computers, programming (hardware... screw database programming and shit!), Linux, analog/DSP synths (my Roland SH-32, and I'm no musician!), electronics, ROBOTICS, PIC microcontrollers, spinning trance records, martial arts (Aikido, Judo, Kickboxing years ago), ancient cultures, spirituality, music, art, nature, psychedelics, shamanism, conspiracy theories, philosophy, anthropology, etc.
Cyberpunk and technoshamanism...
I'd like to meet:
A Jivaro Shaman...
Wisdom is what I seek... in myself and in others...
Music:
Progressive/Melodic/Dream/Psy-Trance, Dark D'n'B, Psychedelic Ambient, New Age, World Music, Black/Goth/Atmospheric Metal, Classical, New Wave, Dark Wave, etc. and of course, The Prodigy ;)
"What exactly are the great historical accomplishments of "your" race that make you proud to be white?
Capitalism? Slavery? Genocide? Sitcoms?
This is your fucking white-history, my "friend."
So why don't we start making a history worth being proud of and start fighting the real fucking enemy!"
Propagandhi - The Only Good Facist is a Dead Facist
The Gathering
Anneke Van Giersbergen
Movies:
EJC 2006 - Ministry of Manipulation
Brazil, Dark City, Bladerunner, THX 1138, City of Lost Children, The Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Eraser Head (Go Lynch go!), Mothman Prophecies, Pi, Go, Dagon (H.P. Lovecraft Rulez!) The Matrix, Fist of Legend (Jet Li kicks Jackie Chan's ass :P), Hellraiser V, They Live, Ninja Scroll, Spirited Away, Conspiracy Theory, American History X, AI, Animatrix, Run Lola Run, Conan the Barbarian, Dragonfly, Event Horizon, Trainspotting, The Acid House, City of God, Rose Red, The House on the Haunted Hill, From Hell, The Crying Game, Office Space, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The Abyss, Scarface, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Enemy of the State, The Seven Samurai, Ghost in the Shell, Old School, Boondock Saints, 13th Floor, Zatoichi, Blueberry, The I Inside, B-13, V for Vendetta, Metropolis (1927), Altered States, V for Vendetta, I-Robot, Princess Mononoke, Angela (Rie Rasmussen!), Slither, Hard Candy, The Constant Gardener, Ondskan, London, etc.
Television:
E lectro M echanically R efurbished A ssassination H umanoid
actually only The X-Files... if I ever sit in front of the idiot box...
Books:
The Illuminatus Trilogy, A Garden of Pomegranates, Psychedelics Encyclopedia, Food of the Gods (Terence McKenna lives!), Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Mastering UNIX, The Four Agreements, Robot Builders Bonanza, The Prophet, Rule By Secrecy, The Biggest Secret, Tutankhamun Prophecies, DMT; The Spirit Molecule, The Cosmic Code (Sitchin is the man), God is a Verb, Mastery of Love, The Microcontroller Idea Book; Circuits, Programs & Applications featuring the 8052-BASIC Single-chip Computer, The Da Vinci Code, The Human Zoo, The Temporary Autonomous Zone - Ontological Anarchy - Poetic Terrorism, Alamut, Where Eagles Fly, The Way of the Shaman, Psychedelic Shamanism, Hyperion, Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men, The Redemption of Althalus, Fahrenheit 451, Aliens, PIC Programming with PIC C, Breaking Open the Head (READ THIS BOOK!), etc.
Heroes:
Heroes are for the sheep... but I admire the ideas of the people below:
"This is the technology of man's conquest of nature, as if the external world were his enemy and not the very matrix in which he is brought forth and sustained. This is the technology of the dust bowls, of polluted air, poisoned streams, chemical chickens, pseudo-vegetables, foam-rubber bread, and the total Los Angelization of man. Yet how is this long-ingrained sense of insular identity to be overcome? How is twentieth-century man to gain a feeling of his existence consistent with twentieth-century knowledge? We need very urgently to know that we are not strangers and aliens in the physical universe. We were not dropped here by divine whim or mechanical fluke out of some other universe altogether. We did not arrive, like birds on barren branches; we grew out of this world, like leaves and fruit. Our universe "humans" just as a rosebush "flowers." We are living in a world where men all over the planet are linked by an immense network of communications, and where science has made us theoretically aware of our interdependence with the entire domain of organic and inorganic nature. But our ego-feeling, our style of personal identity, is more appropriate to men living in fortified castles."
Alan Watts
"Authorities", "disciples", and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies."
Thomas Huxley
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far. Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents."
HP Lovecraft
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
Albert Einstein
"Crime is the necessary condition of the very existence of the State."
Mikhail Bakunin
"The true scientist is one who attempts to discover with childlike curiosity. Too often we, all of us, only want to confirm what we already believe."
Marcel Vogel
"We have warned them from time to time to their inequities and blindness. We have addressed every available appeal to their withered sense of righteousness. We have tried to make them laugh. We have prophesied in detail the terror they are perpetuating. But they have been deaf to the weeping of the poor, the anguish of the colored, the rocking mockery of the young, the warnings of their poets. Worshipping only force and money, they listen only to force and money. But we shall no longer talk in these grim tongues.
We must therefore acquiesce to genetic necessity, detach ourselves from their uncaring madness and hold them henceforth as we hold the rest of God's creatures - in harmony, life brothers, in their excess, menaces to life."
Timothy Leary
"A psychedelic person is not willing to be a good citizen, or a good anything that is defined by somebody else. I mean, the shaman is a true anarchist."
Terence McKenna
"Every man and every woman is a star," that is, an aggregate of such experiences, constantly changing with each fresh event, which affects him or her either consciously or subconsciously.
Each one of us has thus a universe of his own, but it is the same universe for each one as soon as it includes all possible experience. This implies the extension of consciousness to include all other consciousness.
Aleister Crowley
"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."
Nikola Tesla
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like."
Will Rogers
"Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R. D. Laing
"We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it.—Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."
Bruce Lee
