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indeterminate earthbound terror

Militant Prophet of Godless Materialism

About Me

These are the last words you will ever read: According to some silly program on the internet, I am:
ERIC
Eis forElitist
Ris forRare
Iis forImportant
Cis forComplex What Does Your Name Mean? When I am not being elitist, rare, important, or complex I am breaking the 10th Commandment, thinking about my dissertation, and debating whether I want to be an academic or not. Is a career of writing ghost stories out of the question? North is my favorite direction.

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My Interests

Preparing for End Times by getting a Ph.D. in philosophy. Tea and coffee. Walking around and looking at stuff. Getting played by girls. Sublimating and desublimating. Sublating and ablating. Also: philosophy (hermeneutics, phenomenology, the Frankfurt School, marxism, and stuff like that), literature (mostly modern and postmodern, but also science fiction and the literature of the fantastic in general . . . among other stuff), art (Francis Bacon, Barnett Newman, Joan Miro, Joseph Cornell, Hieronymus Bosch, Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Klee, etcetera), music, film, comics, architecture, lists, maps and cartography, the arctic and other polar regions, astronomy, biology (especially marine biology and entymology), evolutionary theory, history (mostly western, and mostly ancient, medieval, and early modern), natural history, the history of natural history, the history of science and technology, pseudoscience, religion (Christianity mostly), apocalyptic visions, the occult and esotericism, alchemy, fairy/folk tales and mythology (especially Irish), bestiaries, ghosts, corpse candles and spooklights and other anomalous luminous phenomena, demonology, monsters, robots, aliens, astrobiology, artificial life, cryptozoology, Coast to Coast AM, hollow Earth theory, ufology, secret societies, conspiracy theories, crackpottery, anomalistics, Outside Context Problems, and the Codex Serephinianus.
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I'd like to meet:

The woman I will one day widow. Danny the Street. The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young. Dagon. The great horse in his subterranean kingdom. Also the Vast Active Living Intelligence System. The Empire never ended.

Music:

Acid Mothers Temple, Agalloch, The Angels of Light, Luciano Berio, Birchville Cat Motel, Bjork, Blut Aus Nord, Boredoms, Boris, David Bowie, Peter Brötzmann, Tim Buckley, John Cale, Captain Beefheart, The Carter Family, Neko Case, Nick Cave, David Allan Coe, Coil, Shirley Collins, Corrupted, John Coltrane, Current 93, Darkthrone, Miles Davis, Dead Raven Choir, Deathspell Omega, Dirty Three, Disco Inferno, Eric Dolphy, Bob Drake, Drudkh, Kevin Drumm, Earth, Einstürzende Neubauten, Electric Wizard, Esoteric, Morton Feldman, Fennesz, The Fire Show, The Flaming Lips, Fred Frith, Peter Gabriel, Genesis (Gabriel era), George, Gorguts, Peter Hammill, Lee Hazlewood, Tim Hecker, Heldon, Ignatz, Isis, Jandek, Waylon Jennings, Jesu, June of 44, Kayo Dot, King Crimson, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, Lambchop, Leviathan, Gyorgy Ligeti, Lurker of Chalice, Magma, Mastodon, Merzbow, MF Doom, The Microphones, Nas, Negura Bunget, Neurosis, The New Pornographers, Luigi Nono, Tujiko Noriko, Nurse With Wound, Will Oldham (Palace Music, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, etcetera), Olivia Tremor Control, Arvo Pärt, Pavement, Pulp, Keith Rowe, Slint, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Striborg, Sunn O))), Swans, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Stormy Six, Super Furry Animals, David Sylvian, Toshimaru Nakamura, Talking Heads, Talk Talk, This Heat, Tindersticks, TV on the Radio, Twilight, Univers Zero, Urfaust, Van der Graaf Generator, Scott Walker, M. Ward, Weakling, Wilco, Hank Williams, Wire, Wold, Woven Hand, Wu-Tang Clan, Robert Wyatt, Xasthur, Iannis Xenakis, XTC, Otomo Yoshihide, Neil Young, John Zorn

Movies:

8 1/2, 2001, A Walk Through H, Aguirre Wrath of God, Alien, American Movie, Au Hasard Balthazar, Brazil, Le Cercle Rouge, Diary of a Country Priest, Fanny and Alexander, Gates of Heaven, George Washington, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Haxan, Ikiru, In The Mood For Love, Kwaidan, L'Avventura, M, Persona, Project Grizzly, Prospero's Books, Ran, Rashomon, Le Samourai, Seven Samurai, The Seventh Seal, Shoah, Solaris, Spirited Away, Stalker, Taste of Cherry, Time Bandits, Troll 2, Ugetsu, Vernon Florida, Winter Light, Yojimbo

Television:

The Office (UK) and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Iron Chef and Battlestar Galactica (the new one). Random trash.

Books:

I'll just list authors: Theodor Adorno, Aeschylus, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Antonin Artaud, Gaston Bachelard, Nicholson Baker, J.G. Ballard, Ian Banks, Eric Basso, Georges Bataille, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Bernhard, Algernon Blackwood, William Blake, Maurice Blanchot, Ernst Bloch, Hans Blumenberg, Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Bourdieu, William Burroughs, Robert Burton, Judith Butler, Fernand Braudel, Sir Thomas Browne, Caroline Walker Bynum, Roger Caillois, Italo Calvino, Georges Canguilhem, Ernst Cassirer, Paul Celan, E. M. Cioran, Michael Cisco, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, John Crowley, Dante, Charles Darwin, Gilles Deleuze, Don DeLillo, Jacques Derrida, Rene Descartes, Philip K. Dick, Lord Dunsany, T.S. Eliot, Stanley Elkin, Warren Ellis, Steve Erickson, Brian Evenson, William Faulkner, Charles Fort, Michel Foucault, Hans-Georg Gadamer, William Gaddis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Gass, William Gibson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Witold Gombrowicz, Stephen Jay Gould, Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, John Hawkes, Seamus Heaney, G. W. F. Hegel (rhymes with bagel), Martin Heidegger, Frank Herbert, William Hope Hodgson. Friedrich Holderlin, Homer, Edmund Husserl, J.-K. Huysmans, M.R. James, Alfred Jarry, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Immanuel Kant, Evelyn Fox Keller, Soren Kierkegaard, Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour, Lautreamont, J.S. LeFanu, Stanislaw Lem, Primo Levi, Thomas Ligotti, H. P. Lovecraft, Georg Lukács, Arthur Machen, Ben Marcus, David Markson, Karl Marx, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, Mike Mignola, John Milton, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Nye, Elliott O'Donnell, Charles Olson, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Thomas Pynchon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Martin J.S. Rudwick, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Friedrich Schiller, William Shakespeare, Clark Ashton Smith, Olaf Stapledon, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Graham Swift, Michael Taussig, Jeff VanderMeer, Brian K. Vaughan, William Vollmann, Max Weber, William Carlos Williams, Gene Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, Louis ZukofskyThis is a link to my book collection

Heroes:

Stalin, Mark Summers, and David Jacobs.

My Blog

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Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:43:00 PST

Currently reading

Angela Carter- The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor HoffmanRichard Kieckhefer- Magic in the Middle AgesDialectic of Enlightenment by Horkheimer and Adorno...
Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:39:00 PST

Recent authors read and enjoyed

J. G. BallardNicholson BakerWilliam Burroughs...
Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:36:00 PST

Good things that have happened recently

Done with classes and starting to work on the dissertationLots of spare time to read cool stuffAnd some dude died and it made me sort of happy...
Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:10:00 PST

What I will be working on this summer

Reading Developmental Plasticity and EvolutionReading the writings of dead GermansReading STS stuff (including ANT) until my eyes bleed ...
Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:45:00 PST

Wintery mixes are more dangerous than they sound

My umbrella is crippledMy fingers were all tinglyJumping over piles of snow onto slippery slush in the street is a nice method for getting yourself hurt...
Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:20:00 PST

On my mind in March

Hidden GeographiesThe Zone of AlienationThings Underground...
Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:47:00 PST

1/29/07

40 pages of Carl Hempel's Philosophy of Natural Science40ish pages of Heidegger's Being and Time30some pages of Aristotle's Metaphysics...
Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:20:00 PST

Shitty authors who are also shitty people

Michael CrichtonOrson Scott CardL. Ron Hubbard...
Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:57:00 PST

Black Metal Tuesday

Wold- L.O.T.M.P.Spektr- Near Death ExperienceUrfaust- Verräterischer, Nichtswürdiger Geist...
Posted by indeterminate earthbound terror on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:51:00 PST