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Joe Pulver

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About Me

When time permits I write horror, dark fantasy, NOIR, poetry, and suR;R;;ealistic tExts . . . Free your mind and your ass will follow!

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My Interests

MUSIC! !!, the night sky, cactus, tea, voodoo, collecting buddhas, THE KING IN YELLOW, H P Lovecraft, Henri Michaux, Marvel Comics -- BRING ON THE BAD GUYS!, POETRY, film, suRRealism, Alice in Wonderland, lilies, MASKS!! !, kites, naps, POPCORN (and a film), keeping our GREEN planet GREEN, owls, Frank Frazetta!! !, MATI KLARWEIN! !!, Randy Bowen, PEACE, H R Giger, gardening with flowers and rOcks, dArk fantasy/horror, names, oracles, sirens, WESTERNS, collecting Morlock Soup recipes, the gingerbread haiku of pointed things, shortwave numbers stations, gargoyles, rocks, marine life, the Phantom of the Opera, Noir & the hardboiled, Books!, Dark Fantasy, The Blues, THE CTHULHU MYTHOS.

I'd like to meet:

those who are [still] climbing [tiger mountain], [still] rowing, and those [Challengers of the Unknown] who will be forever out there traveling the spaceways.

Music:

MC5, Fovea Hex, Sidsel Endresen, Pharaoh Overlord,
ENO
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Zappa, The Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, Deerhoof, DYLAN,
David Crosby

LOVE, Jacques BREL, the Grateful Dead, Deathprod, Susanne Abbuehl, Charalambides, CREAM, Diamanda Galas, WFMU, The Band! !!, Sonic Youth, Tom Waits, HAROLD BUDD, Current 93, SATIE, King Crimson, JARBOE, Buffalo Springfield,
Jack Bruce
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ECM Records!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Devendra Banhart, OM, CAN, Phew, the Necks, David Sylvian, ROBERT FRIPP, Mum, Jefferson Airplane,
Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
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Comus, Exuma, Jimmy Giuffre, Dr. John, Terry Kath, Miles Davis, Weather Report, the Residents, THE FUGS, Arve Henriksen, Afrirampo, VU, Lou Reed, Incredible String Band, JOAN JEANRENAUD, REVERB!! !, Legendary Pink Dots, Helen Merrill, the Stones, Donovan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Alice Cooper, Laurie Anderson, Hector Zazou, PHIL OCHS!! !, Hendrix, MORTON FELDMAN! !!, Eleni Karaindrou, Kronos Quartet, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, Linda Perhacs, Grouper, Michelle Shocked, the Sons of Otis, Earth, Gavin Bryars, Christina Carter, Happy Rhodes, Sara Ayers, Hawkwind, Norma Winstone, Tyrannosaurus Rex! !!, Johnny Rivers, KIM KASHKASHIAN !!!, Olivier Messiaen, Joan La Barbara, Insect Surfers, The Bambi Molesters, The Aqua Velvets, the Mach IV, the Metalunas, Philip Glass, Bowie, The G. T. O's, Steppenwolf, SPUNK, Traffic, NRPS, Phil Lesh & Friends, Sun Ra, LEVON HELM, Ratdog, Allman Bros., Syd Barrett, Michael Mantler, Carla Bley, Supersilent, Rothko, Yuka Honda, Tommy James and the Shondells, Marianne Faithful, Rune Grammofon, JOMF, Metallic Falcons, Stereolab, Roxy Music, Hot Tuna, Robyn Hitchcock, Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, CTA, Meredith Monk, Ravel, the Stooges, Alan Moore/David J/Tim Perkins, Music From the Knee Plays, Mott the Hoople, Annette Peacock, KRAUTROCK!, Kiss, Brazilian Girls, Bo Hansson, Diane Cluck, Heldon, 420 Train Wreck, Holy Modal Rounders, Cassandra Wilson, SURF! !!, Nico, Cluster, The Kinks, Humble Pie, Country Joe and The Fish, Rick Nelson, Seatrain, DEVLAR SURF SESSIONS, Neil Young, pre-dArk side Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, Jesse Sykes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Toru Takemitsu, Loreena McKennitt, Karen Mantler, Nik Bartsch's Ronin, Valet - Blood Is Clean, rOOt boy slim, the Cramps, Henry Cow, Funkadelic, Los Lobos, Michael Hurley, the Bee Gees, Nick Drake, Dino Saluzzi, John Zorn, Gil Scott-Heron, JOMF, Norma Winstone, Bob Marley, Annette Peacock, VAO, Joan La Barbara, Jeff Beck, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, NIK BARTSCH'S RONIN - HOLON [two bEastly paws way up! !!], Nik Bartsch's Ronin - REA, IDIOT BASTARD SON [20 covers of Zappa's composition], Tord Gustavsen Trio - Being There [ECM RECORDS 2017], Valet - Naked Acid [2 bEastly paws WAY UP for this stunner! !!], Dark Yoga, Miles Davis - The Complete On The Corner Sessions, NORMA WINSTONE - Distances, Cloudland Canyon - Silver Tongued Sisyphus, THE SUPREME GENIUS OF KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES, Grouper Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments

Movies:

A Man For All Seasons
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A Clockwork Orange, everything by The Brothers Quay I've seen to date, Fahrenheit 451, Hellboy, Kill Bill v1 & v2 , All About Eve, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Psycho, SE7EN, The Day the Earth Stood Still, King Kong, Peter Jackson's LotR films, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well And Living In Paris, Bell Book & Candle, Conagher, Pillow Talk, Annie Hall, Good Night And Good Luck, V For Vendetta, Scandal, Rear Window, Rope, Citizen Kane, Tombstone, Jackie Brown, 1984, Blood Tea & Red String, by Brakhage, Zoetrope, Institute Benjamenta, Dark City, Open Range, House of Games, Mulholland Dr., Krzysztof Kieslowski's THREE COLORS, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, The Last Waltz, Meet Joe Black, Guy Maddin' Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, Andrew Leman's The Call of Cthulhu, The Usual Suspects, House of 1000 Corpses, Last Year at Marienbad, Wolfen, Revenge, THE ABOMIMABLE DR. PHIBES, Dr. Phibes Rises Again!, Syberberg's Die Nacht, Forbidden Planet, Shadow of the Vampire, The Saddest Music in The World, Frida, Brick, STAY, INLAND EMPIRE, TIDELAND, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, BEGOTTEN, Eastern Promises, Fritz Lang's M, Blade Runner 4 disc collector's edition, Battlestar Galactica RAZOR, Gone Baby Gone, No Country For Old Men, IRON MAN, in The Valley of Elah

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, CNN, . . . the Avengers, the Prisoner, Monty Python, PBS, Wild Kingdom, the Munsters, the Twilight Zone, Night Gallery.

Books:

Flicker
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House Of Leaves, A Clockwork Orange, Bed Of Sphinxes,DaRKNeSS M O V E S,The Nightmare Factory, Steppenwolf, LoTR, Dune, everything by Philip Lamantia, EVERYTHING by Jack O'Connell! !!, The Book of Eibon, 1602, Surrealist Women, Geek Love, Fragments of Perseus, Fahrenheit 451, Malpertuis, Last Exit to Brooklyn, EvErything by Diane diPrima, FRITZ LEIBER's FAFHRD & THE GREAY MOUSER tales!, The Phantom of the Opera, Skin, the Cthulhu Mythos "CYCLE" books of Robert M Price, The Beat Book, just about everything Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman have penned, The King In Yellow tales of Robert W Chambers, HOWL, Dangerous Visions, the Dying Earth tales of Jack Vance, LIN CARTER, Brian Lumley!, The Throne of Bones, STAN SARGENT Ancient Exhumations [and Ancient Exhumations +2], The Worms Remember, Punktown, STAN SARGENT The Taint of Lovecraft, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror [every volume in the series], JOHN FOWLES, The Jade Cabinet, To Kill A Mockingbird, Frankenstein, The Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane, A Quest For Simbilis, SUSAN STEWART Columbarium, Alice Fulton Sensual Math, Jena Osman The Character, Amy Gerstler Crown of Weeds, Rikki Ducornet The Cult of Seizure, Deanne Lundin The Ginseng Hunter's Notebook, Larissa Szporluk Dark Sky Question, Heather Ramsdell Lost Wax, Kristin Prevallet Perturbation My Sister, Karen Volkman SPAR, Anne Waldman In the Room of Never Grieve, Psycho, Waiting For Godot, Ellen Datlow [one of the best editors there is], Zombie, The Divinity Student, Vachss' "Burke" novels, MICHAEL MOORCOCK, Leviathan 3, UNDER THE SKIN, Brian Eno His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound, The Skin Palace, KATHE KOJA, Observatory Mansions, Death Of A Rebel A Biography of Phil Ochs, There But For Fortune The Life Of Phil Ochs, The Letters of Mina Harker, Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, The Winter Soldier, DENISE LEVERTOV, Paul Auster Selected Poems, The Book of Skaith, Dave Sim's Cerebus, BRUNO SCHULZ, 1984, Bone Music, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Club Dumas, A Mammal's Notebook, Moving Borders, Diamanda Galas The Shit of God, Foucault's Pendulum, the Name of the Rose, THE DRESS LODGER, Zelazny's AMBER books, Seabury Quinn's Jule de Grandin tales, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Mother Hydra's Mythos Rhymes, Poems For The Millennium The University of California Book of Postmodern Poetry Volume 1 and 2, Paul Bowles, The Crimson Petal and the White, Invisible Cities, Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States, Lost Girls [here goes Moore raising the bar yet again!], Baby Beat Generation The 2nd San Francisco Renaissance, THE RAW SHARK TEXTS, Tokyo Year Zero, The Chicago Way, The Hastur Cucle, Shutter Island, LIGOTTI! !!, Patrick McGrath's Spider, Michael Cisco's SECRET HOURS, Clark Howard's The Arm, L. A. REX, Nameless Cults, Bukowski, The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, the Crime Trade, The Tenant, Pirandello's Tales of Suicide, The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams W. H. Pugmire, My Dreams Out On The Street, Ann K. Schwader's In Yaddith Time, Christa Faust MONEY SHOT, Cruel Poetry, Expletive Deleted, A Hell of a Woman, The Somnambulist, Kobo Abe, JACK O'CONNELL THE RESURRECTIONIST, Jon J. Muth's "M", avengers Disassembled, Kim Addonizio - My Dream Out On The Street, The whole of Brubaker and Epting's run on Captain America to date!, DOPE - Sara Gran

Heroes:

Frank Zappa,

Philip Lamantia,

Ben Grimm the Thing,

Henri Michaux,

Robert M Price,

The Fugs
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Harry Truman, Phil Ochs, Dr Strange, Anne Waldman, Edmond Dantes, Jean Valjean, Emma Peel, David Crosby, Jacques Brel, Rod Serling, Frodo & Sam, Captain America, Brian Eno, LIN CARTER . . .

My Blog

update to Blood Will Have Its Season

Thomas Seawall Brown, or Tom.B or CoffeeGhost, pick which handle you like best, will be doing the cover art for my collection. CG & I go back many a dark&stormy moon and I have long wished/des...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:57:00 PST

update to Blood Will Have Its Season

Thomas Seawall Brown, or Tom.B or CoffeeGhost, pick which handle you like best, will be doing the cover art for my collection. CG & I go back many a dark&stormy moon and I have long wished/des...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:56:00 PST

Blood Will Have Its Season

In the immortal words of Flo & Eddie, "Hi'ya, Friends."   I've made it back from my delightful trip to NYC and the Kalem gathering  a very good time was had by a certain bEast. Hippocampus P...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:01:00 PST

Nik Barthschs Ronin HOLON cd

For anyone who may have missed this, the NY Times said this about Nik Bartsch's Ronin new ECM cd, HOLON. "Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, the quintet that just released its second album, "Holon" (ECM), would be ...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:22:00 PST

Kalem in New York

Looks like Saturday, the 23rd, I'll be on a Red Streamliner [OK, it's just an train, nothin' fancy] to NYC for a New Kalem Club gathering with the likes of S. T. & Leslie Joshi, Derrick Husse...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:15:00 PST

a new pulver collection, OH MY . . .

     bEasties and ghouls and dEad bodies, oh my . . . dEad bodies and dEad bodies and BLOOD, OH MY!      A deal with Hippocampus Press to release a collection o...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:42:00 PST

Pics from Robert. W. Chambers Grave

During the World Fantasy Convention 2007 in Saratoga Springs, NY, last Fall, several fans of Robert W. Chambers took a side trip to Broadalbin to visit his grave. Among them were a bEastly b...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:23:00 PST

And MARS said >

In a very nice message, that o-so-talented Minstrel of the Pits said, "Absolutley dug your read at HPL, well done." Thanks, MARS! For an agent of dArkness, this is one hell of a nice bEastie! !!...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:20:00 PST

H P Lovecraft Film Festival pix by V

One of my -wondrously dElightful Coop Girls [all you rough beasts can dream, but keep yer tentacles to yer selves! !!], nic[E]ly ni[E]ce V, snapped a few pix at da fest and was kind enough to pass the...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:13:00 PST

So I can get Jarreds mention of SURF off my mind . ..

  BIG Fender fat REVERB guitar: MEDLEY: Grrrlz/Queen of Outer Space/Love Dice/Blue Sparkle Invasion At The Moto A Go Go/60 Seconds To Tsunami/50ft. El Frankenstein/Slow Slinky Creature/Love ...
Posted by Joe Pulver on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:32:00 PST