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Kaecyy

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About Me

[note: My blog is at LiveJournal . I have more pictures on Flickr , and also at my Tribe.net and Friendster accounts, where I am also known as Kaecyy, but where I almost never go.]
on the day that i was born
Emperor Caracalla was assassinated.
Kofi Annan was born.
Pablo Picasso suffered a fatal heart attack.
Vivienne Westwood was born.
Kurt Cobain's body was discovered in his home.
Jacques Brel was born.
Martha Place became the first woman to be executed in an electric chair.
Alois Brunner was born.
Pope John Paul II was buried.
Siddhartha Gautama was born.
i am
I’m a boy who does girls like they’re boys who do boys like they’re girls.

I'm incorrigible, insatiable, ironic, and rarely indecisive. I'm good company, well-educated, versatile, ultra-hip, and occassionally even classy or tasteful.

I am addicted to learning-- to the process of gaining a better understanding and broader knowledge of human beings in particular and to the world in general-- but I am not immune to burnout. I find all simplistic explanations and viewpoints suspect. I distrust anyone who is ever lazy about thinking.
I despise all non-ironic manifestations of masculinity and many non-ironic manifestations of femininity. I detest gratuitous, earnest interpersonal drama.
At least one in 6.5 billion people (specifically, my brother's girlfriend) are of the opinion that I am the "meanest man in the world", which by logical extension probably means I just might be the most unkind person of male persuasion in the entire solar system. You be the judge.

sex
What happened in my Japanese hotel room when I pressed the wrong button on the toilet began as a shocking violation; the other button, hit in a panic, just squirted me in the nuts.

I'm polyamorous.

What this means for me is that I don't believe it's right for one relationship to mechanically dictate the limitations of all the other relationships in one's life, beyond the hard necessities of time and physical protection (I am a firm believer in safer sex). There is a spark of the divine in everyone. Many people I don't know are worth knowing, some of them intimately.
Some of my closest friends are also my lovers. While we may not actually see each other for long periods of time and our friendships aren't about sex, it is something that we feel we have a right to enjoy, like conversation. What we share isn't indicative of our satisfaction level within our primary relationships.
I am all the more appreciative of and in love with a partner knowing that I am trusted, implicitly. The right to intimacy is important to me. I won't let you down.
All this said, I'm very happy in primary relationships with one woman that are essentially not very different from what most monogamous people share. I fall in love with a special person with whom I connect particularly well as deeply and readily as anyone.
drugs
I strongly believe that different states of consciousness have an infinite array of worlds to show and myriad lessons to teach anyone who approaches them with respect and an awake, active mind.
That said, I also believe that people become acutely inhibited socially and mentally-- sometimes permanently-- by prolonged use of consciousness-altering substances without the reprieve of sobriety as their primary state of being. This is why I will never be a daily user of any mind-altering substance other than caffeine and sugar.
When indulging, one drink or toke to my Caucasian friends seems to be four or more to me, the former certainly because of a lack inherited from my Asian side of the mighty acetaldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme-- I'm game, but I'll have to hang back a bit from all you rockstars. On the other hand, I often keep my flask handy for a fortifying and almost instantly buzz-inducing single swig now and then, particularly when I am working on something. So it's really not such a bad thing!
Hard drugs I eschew entirely, though I am not quick to judge those who choose otherwise.
When it comes to intoxication, by far my preferred method is some form of (reasonably responsible) entheogenic psychedelic abandon.
To that end, I'm always interested in meeting brilliant new people who are keen on these kinds of simultaneously physical, mental, and spiritual odysseys and who are brilliant to spend time with in and out of these hallowed spaces. By which I mean that I'm always looking to recruit fellow space pirates for adventures both in the mothership and out on the planet surface. Space Commander Kaecyy wants YOU!
It takes a special breed. I don't think it's an experience for everyone, though I do believe that a lot of people who fear it would gain enormously in figuring out their lives by approaching it. It can be hard work, suddenly having such a vast resource of mental energy-- it's essential to give some thought ahead of time to where you want to direct this power. Inevitably at some point this enhanced intellect is directed inward, and I've never been subjected elsewhere to such intensive self-analysis. It's for precisely this reason that people lacking self-confidence or otherwise unhappy with themselves or their lives are often advised to avoid the experience. But if you are essentially pleased with who you are, you'll find that by the time you reach the other end of the tunnel you will have discovered a vast array of new "thinking outside of the box" ideas you can later examine soberly and apply to your life and works.
rock 'n roll
I'm writing a book that's like Aeon Flux having naked lunch on the fantastic planet during the war of the worlds.

Sometimes I get caught up in my projects and shut out the outside world. Sometimes I get caught up in my friends and shut out the muses. Among people, I'm a social animal. Alone, I am too often perversely compulsive. Finding a balance has often frustrated me, particularly when traveling or receiving guests for longer than a couple days.
I thrive best among hardworking, self-disciplined, self-motivated people-- people who have ambitions and projects that they work on effectively and seriously while I am doing the same. When the people I am with are lazy or selfish, I am lazy or selfish. When they excel, I excel. Thus I take care in who I choose to spend my time with.
I am compulsively organized and am most focused and at peace when all of the messiness and disorder I encounter is of my own making.

On the other hand I do my best to care little about my material environment-- ultimately a car and a house are merely things. People and art are all that matter in life.
But on the other hand again, because my parents have died, most of the fixtures and objects in my house-- even the seemingly trivial ones-- either belonged to them or were mine in times when they were alive, meaning that my memories of my parents are often innately tied into these objects.
I have found that I get offended when they are not treated with respect. I've had people not just visiting but actually living with me who never understood this-- I imagine because of their own complicated relationships with their own, still-living parents-- and it created tensions that I have no wish to repeat.
come into my parlour
As the automobile rolls, I live approximately 45 minutes northwest of Philadelphia PA, 1.5 hours south of Allentown/ Bethlehem PA, 2 hours northeast of Baltimore MD, 2.5 hours southwest of New York City, 3 hours northeast of Washington DC, 5 hours southwest of Northampton MA, and 6 hours southwest of Boston MA and Providence RI.

This means that visiting me generally entails two buses, a cargo boat, a highway hitch-hike in the back of a pickup truck, and then a lost and lonely collect call from a gas-station payphone overlooking miles of farmland as far as the eye can see.

Or if you're feeling less adventurous, you can cheat by making your way to Philadelphia via train or bus and taking the regional R5 train out of Philadelphia to the Malvern station, from which I can pick up yo bad theoretical visiting self in a jiff.

All visitors for more than a day or two should bring a solo project of some kind to work on for part of their stay, though collaborative projects are also strongly encouraged.invisible college service record
--neverland nocturne (1903-circa 3978, intermittently)

--surrealist flapper and magnet thereof, silent film dilettante, stalker of entities lovecraftian (1920-1929)

--decadent post-futurist spitfire pilot (1940-1945)

--bohemian layabout and interdimensional superspy (1963-1970)

--guerrilla sex-drug orgy slave of the cosmic octopi (circa 2012)

--genetically degenerate submarine captain (circa 3978)

--astray comparative literature student, pantheistic agnostic go-go dancing chaos shaman, polyamorous writer of omnisexual post-sf surrealism (2000-present)

My Interests

acrobats, Chinese and otherwise. all aspects of the arts. altered states of consciousness. ambiguity. Amsterdam, laissez-faire and resisting. analysis. androgyny. art deco. art salon. artistic ambition. audio plays. authority, female. avant garde. ballet, of the People's Liberation Army and otherwise. the BBC. Beijing, post-Mao and imperial. Berlin, contemporary and blitzing. bishonen. the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B. burlesque. Calvinball. cats (WHY can't they just stay kittens?!?). chasing geese and pigeons. chaos magic shamanism. clowns. comparative art. comparative literature. comparative religion. Copenhagen, baroque and Nordically futuristic. context. cosmic horror. critique. Dada. Dalekmania and Pac-Man Fever. dancing. Daoism. decadence. dirty deeds done dirt cheap. divinely superfluous beauty. dogfighters and kamikaze. Dover Books. dreams. ecological responsibility. empathy. Engrish. entheogens. entropy. entwining myself with porcelein flesh. erotica. ethical sluthood. femme fatales. festivals. film (black and white, classic, independent, foreign, noir, seeing it on the big screen, Criterion Collection, etcetera). the first and last few hours of the day. flappers. footnotes and not endnotes. futurism. gardens (botanical and sculpture). garter belts. gender ambiguity. gender roles and the subversion thereof. glances, stolen and otherwise. global warming and its cessation. goggles, aviator and otherwise. harmless mischief. hiking and backpacking. the hokey-pokey. hufu and the people who love it. humor, at almost any cost. hutongs. hypotheses. imperial excess. indians and cowboys. indie pop. invasion stripes. irony. kisses, stolen and otherwise. kites. Krampus the anti-Santa. legend. London, swinging and counterblitzing. love. making love to goddesses. masks (theatrical, tribal, gas, and otherwise). mime. Mister Yuck. modernism. monkeys and the gods thereof. museums. mushrooms, edible, ambulatory, and otherwise. mysticism. mythology. National Public Radio. New York City, art deco and with the teeth knocked out. nonce words. nuance. octopi, squid, cuttlefish, and other cephalopods. opera, Beijing and otherwise. origami. open mind. orgiastic rites. Paris, gay and liberated. PBS. Philadelpia, revolutionary and underground. photography. picnics (with or without cats). pirates (nautical, space, and otherwise). the Planet Earth (from Australia to Canada to China to France to Germany to Hong Kong to Japan to Malaysia to Singapore to Taiwan to the UK to the USA to the ends of the Earth to everywhere in between to ruling it ruling it ruling it). polyamory. polytheism (Buddhist, Celtic, chaos, Daoist, Egyptian, Germanic/ Scandinavian, Greco-Roman, Indian, postmodern, Shinto, etcetera). pop art. postmodernism. power, female. psychonauts. puppets. responsible hedonism. retro. robots and cybernetic organisms. sacred sex. safer sex. salon. samurai and ninjae. San Francisco, clean and voluptuous. sensory deprivation. sex magic. Singapore, sterile and totalitarian. small toys and the superballs that attack them. spelunking. spies, guerrillas, and saboteurs. spontaneity. subverting the spacetime continuum. Surrealisme. sympathy. synergy. Taipei, filthy and defiant. the trained eye. translation, finding the best. travel and working holidays. travel through space and time. the Twentieth Century (1914-1970). the Twenty-First Century (2070-2100). urban exploration. vegetarianism. vintage. voyeurism. walking aimlessly and exploratively (urban and otherwise). wiles, feminine and otherwise. women, older and otherwise. writing. yellow U-boats.

I'd like to meet:

Girls who do boys like they’re girls who do girls like they’re boys.

I want to meet secure and sexy people full of delicious wickedness and lust for life, with whom I share at least a few common pleasures and who can introduce me to exciting new interests.

I want to get together with brilliant and hip people for all manner of adventures, such as surrealist games, psychonaut space missions, backpacking expeditions, chaos magic rituals, regional Burning Man events, days and nights of urban and rural adventures, and certainly other activities I perhaps haven't even imagined yet.

I want to share critique and collaborative projects with excellent writers and other artists. If you're doing a film or other project involving a synergy of body and mind, I want to be in it. If you're a brilliant director who wants to work closely with a writer on a script, I'm interested.

If you want to visit me in Phoenixville, adventures such as forest hikes, picnics and walks with my kittens, profoundly non-competetive tennis, midnight skinny dipping and super soaker guerrilla warfare, chilling and open mic at the café, old town rambles, go-kart miniature golf madness, films at the local arthouse cinema, and trips to Longwood Gardens, Chanticleer Garden, and the Swiss Pines Zen Garden would be fab.

You must be intellectually ambitious and fundamentally conscientious. Those who want to play must also demonstrably respect my commitments to my artistic ambitions.

contact Kaecyy: a user's guide


The fastest method of contacting me is by phone. Period. My preferred method of communication is by doing something raucously, outrageously fun in person with another human being.
I often have breakdowns in my online communication, because I find that the internet is a multifariously seductive thing, irresistably overstimulating in its labyrinthine corridors of knowledge and faint contacts with people I love, admire, and almost never see. It is for this reason that I am more often than not compelled to avoid it. Even so little a thing as checking my email may give me cause to fear for my profound weakness before this vast temptation.
That said, after the phone the best ways to contact me-- online, and in rapidly descending order of preference-- are email at my real email address (available upon request), messages through LiveJournal, and finally worst of all messages through MySpace (the day I'm writing this is my first time on here in about a month). I almost never check Friendster or any other place, so don't bother there.

Music:

Air. Julian “Cannonball” Adderley. Marc Almond. Lale Anderson. Laurie Anderson. Louis Armstrong. Aphex Twin. the Arcade Fire. Edwin Astley and His Orchestra. the B-52s. Angelo Badalamenti. John Baker. Josephine Baker. Louis and Bebe Barron. John Barry. Shirley Bassey. the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. the Beach Boys. the Beatles. Beck. Ludwig van Beethoven. Harry Belafonte. Belle and Sebastian. Andrew Bird. Bjork. Art Blakey. Blonde Redhead. David Bowie. Bright Eyes. Dave Brubeck. the Buzzcocks. John Cale. Maria Callas. Captain Beefheart. Wendy Carlos. the Jim Carroll Band. Tristram Cary. Johnny Cash. Cat Power. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Chicago Underground Trio. Chicks on Speed. Cinnamon. City of Horns. the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Malcolm Clarke. Patsy Cline. Rosemary Clooney. Cocteau Twins. Leonard Cohen. Ornette Coleman. John Coletrane. the Coup. the Cramps. the Cranberries. the Cranes. Crass. the Creatures. Julee Cruise. Miles Davis. the Dead Milkmen. Blossom Dearie. Claude Debussy. Denali. Delia Derbyshire. Devotchka. Marlene Dietrich. Donovan. the Doors. the Dresden Dolls. Jacques Dutronc. Echobelly. Einsturzende Neubauten. Elastica. Eleven Shadows. Duke Ellington. Brian Eno. the Fiery Furnaces. DJ Flux. Franz Ferdinand. Frente! Future Bible Heroes. the Future Sound of London. Serge Gainsbourg. France Gall. George Gershwin. Ghost. Astrid Gilberto. Dizzy Gillespie. Phillip Glass. the Glove. Godspeed You Black Emperor! Goldfrapp. Jerry Goldsmith. the Gongs. Ron Grainer. Charlie Haden. PJ Harvey. Robyn Hitchcock. Brian Hodgson. Jolie Holland. Billie Holiday. Gustav Holst. Das Ich. the Insect God. Joan Jett. Glynis Jones. Joy Division. Yoko Kanno when she's not working with cheesy singers. Karate. Kahimi Karie. Edward Ka-Spel. the Kinks. Komeda. Kraftwerk. Kronos Quartet. Ladytron. the Legendary Pink Dots. the Levellers. the Liars. (the London) Suede. Lush. Magnetic Fields. Henry Mancini. Aimee Mann. Bob Marley. Massive Attack. Malcolm McLaren. Dick Mills. Charles Mingus. Minit. Misty's Big Adventure. the Modern Lovers. Momus. Thelonious Monk. Monotrona [and the Superbeings]. Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix. Morcheeba. Ennio Morricone. Morrissey. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. My Bloody Valentine. Drew Neumann. Joanna Newsom. Ken Nordine. Jaques Offenbach. One Ring Zero. Roy Orbison. the Orb. Orbital. Ourself Beside Me. Liz Phair. Phiiliip. Edith Piaf. the Pixies. Pizzicato Five. Poe. Portishead. Pram. Elvis Presley. the Psychedelic Furs. Pulp. Sun Ra. Rachel's. Radiohead. the Raincoats. the Ramones. Maurice Ravel. Lou Reed. Django Reinhardt. the Rolling Stones. Erik Satie. DJ Shadow. Shadow Circus (a gangsta Nightmare Before Christmas goth synthpop band manned entirely by psychedelic crackbaby muppets). Sheep on Drugs. Shonen Knife. Sigur Ros. Shel Silverstein. the Sine Fiction book soundtrack series. Sing-Sing. Siouxsie and the Banshees. the Sixths. Slowdive. the Smiths. Solex. Soul Coughing. Spectrum. Regina Spektor. Spiritualized. DJ Spooky. Squirrel Nut Zippers. Mazzy Star. the Start. Stereolab. Igor Stravinsky. Tanya Tagaq. Tarnation. Teargarden. the Threshold People. Toasted Heretic. Jill Tracy and the Malcontent Orchestra. T Rex. Tricky. the Vampire Rodents. Vangelis. the Velvet Underground. Guiseppe Verdi. the Violent Femmes. Richard Wagner. Tom Waits. the White Stripes. Dar Williams. X-Ray Spex. Mae West. Dar Williams. Hector Zazou.

Movies:

About Schmidt. Accattone. Adaptation. the Adventures of Baron Muchausen. the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. the African Queen. AI. Akira. Alice in Wonderland. Alien. All Quiet on the Western Front [Lewis Milestone]. Alphaville. Amadeus. Amelie. American Beauty. American Psycho. the American Soldier [Fassbinder]. American Splendor. Annie Hall. Apocalypse Now Redux. Arabian Nights [AKA Il Fiore delle mille e una notte]. Art School Confidential. As Good as it Gets. the Atomic Café. L'Auberge Espagnole. Au Revoirs les Enfants. Bad Santa. Baraka. the Barbarian Invasions. Barriera. Batman. Batman Begins. the Battle of Algiers. Battleground. the Baxter. Beijing Bicycle. Being John Malkovich. the Believer. Il Bell’Antonio. Beloved. Better Off Dead. Bill Hicks Live. the Black Hole. Blade Runner. the Blood of the Beasts [AKA Le Sang des bêtes]. Bloody Sunday. Blow Up. Blue Velvet. Bon Voyage. Das Boot. Bowling for Columbine. Brazil. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Breathless. the Bride with White Hair. the Bridge on the River Kwai. A Bridge Too Far. A Brief History of Time. Brokeback Mountain. Broken Flowers. Brothers Quay shorts. Bubba Ho-tep. A Bug's Life. the Burbs. the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. the Cable Guy. Candyman. Cannibal Holocaust. Canterbury Tales [AKA I Racconti di Canterbury]. Capote. Le Chagrin et la Pitie. Un Chien Andalou. Children of Paradise. Chinatown. A Chinese Ghost Story. City of God. the City of Lost Children. A Clockwork Orange. Closet Land. Come and See. Comizi d'amore. Conan the Barbarian. Il Conformista. the Constant Gardner. Contact. the Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover. Crash [David Cronenberg]. Croupier. Crybaby. the Crying Game. the Cuckoo. Dancer in the Dark. the Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. the Dark Backward. the Dark Crystal. Dark Water. the Day the Earth Stood Still. Days of Heaven. D-Day: the Sixth of June. Dead Alive. Il Decameron. Deconstructing Harry. Delicatessen. the Devil's Backbone. Dick. Dishonored. Doctor Caligari. Doctor No. Dogville. La Dolce Vita. Donnie Darko. Don't Let Me Die On a Sunday. Double Indemnity. Dreams (the good half). the Dreamlife of Angels. Dune. Ed Wood. 8 1/2. 8 Women. Empire of the Sun. the Empire Strikes Back. Enemy at the Gates. the English Patient. Europa Europa. the Exorcist. Fantastic Planet [AKA La Planète sauvage]. Farewell My Concubine. Farinelli. Faust [Jan Svankmejer]. Fight Club. the Filth and the Fury. the Final Programme AKA the Last Days of Man on Earth. Finding Nemo. the Fisher King. Fists in the Pocket [AKA I Pugni In Tasca]. Fog of War. Forbidden Planet. the Fountainhead. Frailty. Freaks. Freeway. Freeze, Die, Come to Life. Fresh. From Russia with Love. the Full Monty. Galaxy Quest. Gattaca. Ghost World. Ghostbusters. Gilda. Gimme Shelter. Ginger Snaps. the Girl with the Pearl Earring. Gojira AKA Godzilla. the Golden Earrings. the Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Goldfinger. the Good the Bad and the Ugly. Goodbye Lenin. A Good Man in Africa. Grave of the Fireflies. the Great Quentini: No Hurt Earthling Help Earthling. the Great Rock 'N Roll Swindle. Grizzly Man. Gummo. Happiness. A Hard Day's Night. Hawks and Sparrows [AKA Uccellacci e uccellini]. the Heart of Me. Heartbeeps. Heathers. Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Hellboy. Hellraiser. Henry Fool. He Who Gets Slapped. Hiroshima, Mon Amour. the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. the House of Flying Daggers. House of Yes. I Heart Huckabees. I Shot Andy Warhol. Ichi the Killer. I.K.U. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead. I'm Not Scared [AKA Io non ho paura]. In America. In the Name of the Father. An Inconvenient Truth. the Incredibles. Indochine. Inner Space. Intermission. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Italian for Beginners. the Iron Giant. Jabberwocky. Jacob's Ladder. Japanese Story. Jarhead. La Jetee. Joe Versus the Volcano. Jubilee. Judgement at Nuremberg. Ju-On. Kafka. Kandahar. Kes. Kiki's Delivery Service. King Kong. Kiss Me Deadly. Kwaidan. Labyrinth. Lady from Shanghai. Land and Freedom. the Last Dalek. the Last Emperor. Lawrence of Arabia. Leon: the Professional. the Leopard [AKA Il Gattopardo]. Let America Laugh (David Cross). the Letter (Bette Davis). the Libertine. A Life Less Ordinary. the Linguini Incident. Liquid Sky. Logan's Run. Lord of Illusions. Lord of the Flies [1960s version only]. the Lord of the Rings. Lord of War. the Loss of Sexual Innocence. Lost in Translation. Ma Vie en Rose. Magic Boy. Mamma Roma. Man on the Moon. the Man Who Wasn’t There. the Manchurian Candidate. Manufacturing Consent. Maria Full of Grace. Marlene. Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song. Marquis. the Mask in 3D. Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People. Max. May. Me and You and Everyone We Know. Meet the Feebles. Mein Krieg. Memoirs of a Geisha. Metropolis. Michael Collins. Microcosmos. A Mighty Wind. Mildred Pierce. the Minority Report. Momus: Man of Letters. Monsieur Ibraham. Monsoon Wedding. Monster's Ball. Monsters Inc. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life. the Motorcycle Diaries. Moulin Rouge. Mrs Henderson Presents. Mrs Miniver. Mullholland Drive. Murder, My Sweet. My Life As a Dog. My Neighbor Totoro. My Own Private Idaho. Naked Lunch. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Next Stop Wonderland. the Night Porter. Night of the Living Dead. Nights of Cabiria. the Nightmare Before Christmas. Nobody Knows [AKA Dare mo shiranai]. Nosferatu. O Brother Where Art Thou? Old Boy. Onibaba. Orlando. Out of the Past. Le Pacte du Silence. the People versus Larry Flynt. Performance. Personal Velocity. Peter Pan (silent). Pi. the Pianist. Pieces of April. Porcile. Princess Caraboo. Princess Mononoke. Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Prospero's Books. Punch-Drunk Love. the Quiet American. Quills. Radio Days. A Rage in Harlem. Raise the Red Lantern. Raising Arizona. Ran. Rashoman. Requiem for a Dream. Restoration. Return to Oz. Rhapsody in August. Riding Giants. Riff-Raff. Ringu. Ripley's Game. Rivers and Tides (Andy Goldsworthy doc). the Road to Wellville. the Road Warrior. Robot Monster. RoGoPaG. Rome, Open City [AKA Roma, città aperta]. Romeo is Bleeding. Rosemary's Baby. Rushmore. the Saddest Music in the World. the Safety of Objects. Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma. Götz Friedrich’s 1974 direction of Richard Strauss’ Salomé: conducted by Karl Böhm and starring Teresa Stratas in the title role. Salomé's Last Dance. the Samurai trilogy. Sante Sangre. the Searchers. the Secret Lives of Dentists. the Secret of Roan Inish. Secretary. Seven Samurai. Shadow of the Vampire. the Shining. Shaun of the Dead. Sideways. Sin City. Singin' in the Rain. Skeletor versus Beastman. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Slacker. Snow Falling on Cedars. Spellbound. Spider. Spies Like Us. Spirited Away. the Spook Who Sat by the Door. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring. the Squid and the Whale. the Statement. the Station Agent. the Straight Story. Strange Days. Sunset Boulevard. Supervixens. the Sweet and Lowdown. Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August. Swimming Pool. Sylvia. Syriana. the Talented Mister Ripley. Talk to Her. Tarzan and His Mate. Taxi Driver. Theorem [AKA Teorama]. the Thin Red Line. This is Spinal Tap. This Island Earth. Three Kings. Throne of Blood. Thumbsucker. Thunderball. the Tin Drum. Titus. To Be and To Have. Tokyo Story. Touch of Evil. Touching the Void. the Toy Story films. Trainspotting. Travellers and Magicians. the Triplets of Belleville. Tron. Trust. Twelve Monkeys. 28 Days Later. 24-Hour Party People. 21 Grams. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2010: the Year We Make Contact. V for Vendetta. Vampyr. Vanilla Sky. the Vanishing Point series. Velvet Goldmine. Vera Drake. A Very Long Engagement. Vixen. Waiting for Guffmann. Waking Life. the War Game. the Warriors. Whale Rider. What Dreams May Come. When the Cat's Away [AKA Chacun cherche son chat]. Whisper of the Heart. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself. Wild at Heart. the Wild Bunch. Winged Migration. Witness for the Prosecution. Y Tu Mama Tambien. Yellow Submarine. Les Yeux sans visage [AKA Eyes Without a Face]. Yojimbo. the Young Poisoner's Handbook. Your Job in Germany. Zardoz.

Directors:
Niki Caro. the Coen Brothers. David Cronenberg. Federico Fellini. Georges Franju. Terry Gilliam. Jean-Luc Godard. Mary Harron. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Spike Jonze. Stanley Kubrick. Akira Kurosawa. Sergio Leone. Ken Loach. David Lynch. Terrence Malick. Fernando Meirelles. Hayao Miyazaki. Pier Paolo Pasolini. Sally Potter. Alain Resnais. Roberto Rossellini. Todd Solondz. Lars von Trier. Orson Welles. Billy Wilder. Yimou Zhang.
Actors:
Tom Baker. Christian Bale. Elodie Bouchez. Jeremy Brett. Louise Brooks. Michael Caine. Paul Darrow. Hope Davis. Catherine Deneuve. Marlene Dietrich. Philip Seymour Hoffman. Catherine Keener. Jude Law. James Mason. Ewan McGregor. Marcello Mastroianni. Patrick McGoohan. Gary Oldman. Clive Owen. Jacqueline Pearce. Parker Posey. Amy Sedaris. Tilda Swinton. Audrey Tatou. Orson Welles.
Comedians:

Margaret Cho. David Cross. Bill Hicks. Eddie Izzard. Amy Sedaris. David Sedaris. Sarah Vowell.

Television:


the Addams Family. Aeon Flux. Alexander AKA Reign: the Conquerer. Angela Anaconda. Animaniacs. Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Arrested Development. Band of Brothers. Battlestar Galactica (the 21st Century version, not the 1970s one except for the awesome killer discodelic robots). the BBC World Service. BeetleJuice. Betty Boop. Bible Black. the Big Comfy Couch. Blackadder. Blake's Seven [when Jacqueline Pearce and Paul Darrow are ruling it]. Blue Planet. Bottom. the Mrs Bradley Mysteries starring Dame Diana Rigg. the Brini Maxwell Show. the Bugaloos. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Charlie Chaplin. Chappelle's Show. Chica-Go-Go. Children of Dune. Cleopatra 2525. Coupling. Cowboy Bebop. Curb Your Enthusiasm. the Daily Show. Danger Man AKA Secret Agent. Danger Mouse AKA Secret Rodent. Dark Shadows in black and white. Daria. the Day of the Triffids. Dead at 21. Digi Charat. Doctor Who (seasons 1963-1969; 1974-1979; 2005-). Estaban and the Seven Cities of Gold AKA Les mystérieuses cités d'or AKA Taiyô no ko Esteban. Farscape (after the first season only). Father Ted. Flash Gordon starring Buster Crabbe. Foyle's War. Fraggle Rock. Freaks and Geeks. Futurama. Get a Life. Ghosts of War starring the Crocodile Hunter. Globe Trekker. Gormenghast. the Gumby Show. Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. Hell in the Pacific. Home Movies. Horror in the East. H.R. Drugsnstuf. Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust. Invader Zim. Island at War. Jack of All Trades. Le Journal (international news en francais). Keen Eddie. the Kids in the Hall. Killing Hitler. the League of Gentlemen. the Little Rascals. Looney Toons. Malcolm in the Middle. Masterpiece Theatre. the Maxx. Mister Show. Monty Python's Flying Circus. Mystery!. Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Nature (1980s format). the Nazis: a Warning from History. the Office. Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Peter Pan and the Pirates starring Tim Curry. Piece of Cake. the Pirates of Dark Water. Popeye. the Prisoner. Red Dwarf. Robo Force. The Root of All Evil by Richard Dawkins: the God Delusion and the Virus of Faith. Rough Magik. Sealab 2021. Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett. Shogun. the Simpsons. the Smurfs. South Park (after the first season or two). Space: Above and Beyond. Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea AKA Les mondes engloutis. Spongebob Squarepants. the Star Wars Holiday Special. Star Wars: the Clone Wars. the State. Strange Luck. Strangers with Candy. Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness. the Three Stooges. Tiny Toon Adventures. Tranzor Z. the Twilight Zone. Twin Peaks. the Untouchables. X-Fire. the Young Ones. War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin. the World at War.
Audio Plays:
Len Deighton's Bomber. Dimension X. Jack Flanders the Shamanic Dick. the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. the Hobbit [BBC]. the Lord of the Rings [BBC]. Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe [Rebel from Utopia, Ruby 1, and Ruby 2 only]. Secret Agent. X Minus One.
Radio and Podcasts:
American Mavericks hosted by Suzanne Vega. American Routes. Cliqhop. the Connection. Documentary Archive (BBC). Drone Zone. Fresh Air with Terry Gross (future wife of my friend James). From Our Own Correspondent (BBC). In Our Time (BBC). Indie Pop Rocks. KQED’s Pacific Time. Let the Good Times Roll. the Next Big Thing. Off the Shelf (BBC fiction readings). the Prairie Home Companion. Harry Shearer's Le Show. Sound Print. Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett. Star's End. Studio 360. This American Life. the Treatment. the Unger Report. sacredwhore: whorecast. the World.

Books:


Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Aeschylus’s Oresteia, translated by Robert Fagles.
the Arabian Nights, translated by Husain Haddaway.
Robert B. Asprey's War in the Shadows: the Guerrilla in History.
Paolo Bacigalupi’s ”the Fluted Girl” and ”the People of Sand and Slag”.
Tom Baker's Who on Earth is Tom Baker?
J.G. Ballard's the Atrocity Exhibition, Empire of the Sun, the Drowned World, the Crystal World, Memories of the Space Age, Vermilion Sands, and A User's Guide to the Millenium.
Clive Barker's the Thief of Always.
J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy and the White Bird.
Jean Baudrillard's Amerique.
Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil.
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame.
Beowulf, translated with an introduction and commentary by Howell D. Chickering, Jr.
Hakim Bey's T.A.Z. (Temporary Autonomous Zone).
Algernon Blackwood's the Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood.
Francesca Lia Block's the Rose and the Beast, Weetzie Bat, and Nymph.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Andre Breton's Manifestes du surrealisme.
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology columns.
Alastair Brotchie and Mel Gooding's A Book of Surrealist Games.
Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything and A Walk in the Woods.
Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange.
Charles Burns’ Black Hole.
William S. Burroughs' Interzone and Naked Lunch.
Italo Calvino's Le citta invisibili and Cosmicomics.
Albert Camus' l'Etranger.
Josef and Karel Capek's R.U.R.
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Baldesar Castiglione's the Book of the Courtier, translated by George Bull.
Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.
Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "the Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan".
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Diole's Octopus and Squid: the Soft Intelligence, translated by J.F. Bernard.
Stewart Cowley's Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD.
Rene Daumal's A Fundamental Experiment.
Ilya Davidovich's bits of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 11th Edition.
Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
Phillip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Thomas M. Disch's the Genocides and the Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's the Sign of the Four.
Catherine Dunn's Geek Love.
Dossie Easton and Catherine Lizst's the Ethical Slut.
Mark Edmundson's Nightmare on Main Street.
Egil's Saga, translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards.
the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream".
Max Ernst’s Une semaine de bonté.
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die, Doctor No, and Moonraker
Alan Dean Foster's Sentenced to Prism.
Paul Fussell's Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War.
Neil Gaiman's the Sandman, American Gods, and the Comical Tragedy or the Tragical Comedy of Mister Punch.
Andre Gide's L'Immoraliste.
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and other poems.
Gisli's Saga, translated by George Johnston.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's the Sorrows of Young Werther.
William Golding's the Lord of the Flies.
Grettir's Saga, translated by Denton Fox and Hermann Palsson.
Mark Haddon's the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
H. Rider Haggard's She [Who Must Be Obeyed].
Joe Haldeman's the Forever War.
Edith Hamilton's Mythology.
Ernest Hemingway's the Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories.
Frank Herbert's Dune [except for the laziness of the writing in the concluding quarter or so-- after all the wonderful space acid mysticism I felt he didn't have the energy and patience to do a satisfying concluding reprise of the brilliant opening machinations; maybe deadlines were marching in on him].
George Herriman's Krazy Kat.
John Hersey's Hiroshima.
Richard Hillary's the Last Enemy.
James Hilton’s Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
Phil Hine's Condensed Chaos and Prime Chaos.
Isao Honda's the World of Origami.
Christopher Hope's Heaven Forbid.
Harry Houdini's "Imprisoned with the Pharoahs".
Huanchu Daoren AKA Hong Yingming's Back to Beginnings AKA Vegetable Root Talks, translated by Thomas Cleary.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Joris-Karl Huysmans’ A Rebours.
the I Ching translated by Brian Browne Walker.
Kazuo Ishiguro's the Remains of the Day.
Steve Jackson's Killer: the Game of Assassination.
James Joyce's Dubliners.
Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony".
Yasunari Kawabata's Meijin AKA the Master of Go, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.
Megan Kelso's Queen of the Black Black.
Heinz Knoke's I Flew for the Führer.
Gary Larson’s the Far Side.
the Comte de Lautreamont's Maldoror, translated by Alexis Lykiard.
David Lenson's On Drugs.
Thomas Ligotti's Noctuary.
Margarette Lincoln's the Pirate's Handbook: How to Become a Rogue of the High Seas.
the Logia of Yeshua AKA the Sayings of Jesus, translated by Guy Davenport and Benjamin Urrutia.
H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, "the Call of Cthulhu", "the Outsider", and other stories.
Paul Magrs' "In the Sixties" [http://www.iriswildthyme.thiswaydown.org/sixties.html].
Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.
Don Marquis’ the Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel.
Mark Mars and Eric Singer's Aeon Flux: the Herodotus File.
Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind [brilliant setting and initial phases but the ending fell apart profoundly for me].
Michael Moorcock's the Cornelius Quartet (compiling the Final Programme, A Cure for Cancer, the English Assassin, and the especially excellent the Condition of Muzak).
Alan Moore's Promethea and the Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels.
Grant Morrison's the Invisibles and Arkham Asylum.
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, tranlated by Walter Kaufmann.
William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson's Logan's Run.
Tim O'Brien's the Things They Carried.
Michael Ondaatje's the English Patient.
George Orwell's 1984.
Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor Was Divine.
Edgar Allen Poe's best stories.
Chaim Potok's the Chosen.
Brian Ralph’s Cave-In.
the Ramayana.
Roget’s International Thesaurus.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series from Azkaban to the Phoenix.
the Marquis de Sade's the 120 Days of Sodom and Juliette.
Saburo Sakai's Samurai!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Le petit prince.
Hideaki Sakata's Origami.
J.D. Salinger's "For Esme: With Love and Squalor" and the Catcher in the Rye.
David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day and Holidays On Ice.
William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Henry IV, Henry V, Romeo and Juliette, A Midsummer Night's Dream (except for the play within the play), and the Tempest (except for the end).
Shi Naian's the Water Margin AKA Outlaws of the Marsh.
Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic.
Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale.
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont.
Tales of Immortals, compiled by Yuan Yang.
James Tiptree Jr.'s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home, Meet Me at Infinity [non-fiction sections recommended], Warm Worlds and Otherwise, Tales from the Quintana Roo, and "the Milk of Paradise".
Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A.E. van Vogt's the War Against the Rull and the Voyage of the Space Beagle.
Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Patrick Waldberg's Surrealism.
the War, 1939-1945: A Documentary History, edited by Desmond Flowers and James Reeves.
Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes.
H.G. Wells' the Time Machine and the War of the Worlds.
Edith Wharton’s the House of Mirth.
David Whitaker's the Dalek Chronicles AKA the Daleks, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, and Doctor Who and the Crusaders.
Elie Wiesel's Night.
Oscar Wilde's Salome, the Picture of Dorian Gray, and the Importance of Being Earnest.
Jack Womack's Random Acts of Senseless Violence.
Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West AKA the Adventures of the Monkey God AKA Monkey, translated by Arthur Waley (partial) or Anthony C. Yu (complete).
You've Got to Read This, edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard.
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.
Mao Zedong's Yu Chi Chan or youji zhan AKA On Guerrilla Warfare translated by Samuel B. Griffith II

Heroes:

Marlene Dietrich. Martha Gellhorn. Alfred Kinsey. T.E. Lawrence [of Arabia]. David Lenson. Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen. Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America. Jason and Jean Robinson. Alice Bradley Sheldon AKA James Tiptree, Jr.

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Beijing, China: May 31 through July 1/ Tokyo, Japan: July 1/ NYC, USA: July 2 through August 13

Why am I insane? I found out a week ago that I could get a flight to visit my brother in Beijing, China for less than $1300 or even $4000 or other insane prices that I was quoted. So here I am...
Posted by Kaecyy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Dali confirmed-- May 18th at 10:00am

I am going to see the Dali thang at 10:00am on May 18th with my friend Heather. Get tickets NOW if you want to go-- it's sold out until May 16th, believe it or don't. For everyone's info [I'm remem...
Posted by Kaecyy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

4 awesome Kaecyy events upcoming-- Dali/ Camping/ Downfall/ Supersoaker War!!!!

1. Dali-- The Dali exhibit only runs until May 30th! So who wants to go? We should go when it opens, at 10am, on a weekeday to avoid the legendary crowds. And we should buy tix ahead of time. Who is w...
Posted by Kaecyy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

[UPDATE:] Birthday Party for Kaecyy-- Saturday, April 9

[Those who still want to get together April 8 or 10 let me know.] There is a COMPLETE change of plans, folks-- we weren't able to find a place where we could get a private karaoke room, except for ...
Posted by Kaecyy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Birthday Party for Kaecyy-- April 8, 9, and/or 10

So I was hanging with my friend Heather today and she was all like BIRTHDAY PARTY!! Hell's yeah! I like parties for me!! So next weekend-- April 8, 9, 10-- three days of possible party action! ...
Posted by Kaecyy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

This is my new favorite film.


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Kaecyy seeks Friends seeking Room/Housemate(s)

I love the country, but I really miss living in a city. I miss the noise and life and people and rush and the friends I can walk to see. I miss understanding and using public transport. San Francisco ...
Posted by Kaecyy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

winter intensive

Dear friends-- Im giving myself an F on being a writer. The project Im working on has been dragging me down for years now. The tension I feel over not having it done drains me when Im not workin...
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