all the myriad glittering facets of Reality, the tune of the Celestial Song and the thunderous beat of Pure Science...and pokin' dead things with a stick
Robert Anton Wilson and/or James Joyce and/or Aliester Crowley (i think they might be the same guy!)...i require Intelligence and Passion to fuel the wicker robot living in my heartmind...a desire to continue exploring our latent Divinty and the flexible rules of the Kosmos...and a willingness to wear a squeaky clown nose to a stranger's funeral once in a while.Don't be a creepy lurker! Comment on my blogs, write me a poem, send me the news clipping from when you built a seven-story building from stale french fries, silly putty, and three-legged puppies as performance art...but give me Something to work with if'n ya wanna be my e-friend.
A Guy Called Gerald, Spacetime Continuum, Tool, Sun Ra, Dead Kennedys, Beastie Boys, Bach, Dead Can Dance, Fatback Band, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Pharcyde, Adamski's Thing, UNKLE, Presage, LTJ Bukem, Zeca Baliero, Peter Gabriel, Mozart, The Police, Chris Vrenna, Lamb, AfroCelt Soundsystem, Tricky, Juno Reactor, Sex Pistols, GusGus, Meat Beat Manifesto, Aphex Twin, Freaky Chakra, Ramones, Cosmic Baby, Lord Runningclam, Atari Teenage Riot, Beethoven, Circle Jerks, Mingus, Primus, Dubtribe, and so much more...
Brazil, Schizopolis, ANY Cohen Bros. flick, Zardoz, I [HEART] Huckabees, Airplane!, Old Guy, Delicatessan, the City of Lost Children, the Man With Two Brains, UHF, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Baraka, Dr. Strangelove, Trainspotting, Reservoir Dogs, Secretary, Crash, Boxing Helena, Lost in Translation, THX 1138, Clockwork Orange, Frailty, History of the World pt.1, Falling Down, Run Ronnie Run, the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, Strange Attractor, Jacob's Ladder, Pi, the Serpent and the Rainbow, Adaptaion, Altered States, Bad(der) Santa, CB4, the Dark Crystal, C.H.U.D., Quills, Taxi Driver, Crippled Masters, Strange Brew, Dark City, This is Spinal Tap, Romper Stomper, Gummo, Dead Ringers, the Prophecy, Serial Mom, Motel Hell, the Fifth Element, Naked Lunch, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, May, Willard, Willow, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Raising Cain, So I Married a Strange Person, the Seven Samurai, Wave Twisters, Pootie Tang, Versus, Series 7, Battle Royale, Ravenous, Rashomon...i'd better stop this list now.
The Simpsons, Daily Show/Colbert Report, Squidbillies, Upright Citizens Brigade, Critic, Mr. Show, Venture Brothers, MythBusters, Boondocks, Futurama, Man Bites Dog, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Iron Chef, Hell's Kitchen, Family Guy, FLCL, House, Home Movies, Mission Hill, Masterminds, anything about serial killers
if you haven't figured it out, i'm a media whore. for the sake of brevity, let's just go with authors: Robert Anton Wilson, Ken Wilber, Terence McKenna, Tom Robbins, H.P. Lovecraft, Douglas Hofstadter, Kafka, Ambrose Bierce, Khalil Gibran, Madeline L'Engle, William Gibson, Douglas Adams, Neal Stephenson, Rumi, James Joyce, Bukowski, Lewis Carroll, Kurt Vonnegut, Bob Frissell, Carlos Castaneda, Israel Regardie, William S. Burroughs, Umberto Eco, Hermann Hesse, Timothy Leary, Philip K. Dick, Robert Strassman, Gurdjieff, Albert Camus, Leon Lederman, Clive Barker, David Sedaris, Frank Herbert, Vladimir Nabokov, and so many others to whom i owe so very much...