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About Me

i am terraforming the planet of my soul.
i am self-sustaining, self-sufficent, self-modulating.
i am legion - for we are many.
i am always on duty.
i am a product of this decadent society.
i am mocking you with every breath i take.
i am deliberate.
i am a heuristic organism.
i am sure you cannot control your impulses.
i am picking up the pieces.
i am apolitical in the truest sense of the word.
i am practicing.
i am constantly re-evaluating everything.
i am collating facts and writing reports.
i am advising you to retain a lawyer.
i am busy in the lab right now.
i am protecting your best interests, whether you like it or not.
i am convinced.
i am entertaining new ideas.
i am yet another DJ.
i am part of the solution.
i am going to turn it up to 11.
i am listening to the wind.
i am right behind you, so don't turn around too quickly.
i am yet another f*cker with a wise-ass blog.
i am deeply disturbed by ventriloquist dummies, mannequins and masked cosplay.
i am looking through the window.
i am D. N. A. in action.
i am watching you.
i am decoding raw static.
i am always ready to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty.
i am moving at twice the speed of left.
i am looking under the floorboards for the treasure.
i am distrustful of all media.
i am opinionated, and unfortunately, i have the smarts to back it up.
i am always hungry for more.
i am under observation, and so are you.
i am taking aim with my mind.
i am reading the map carefully.
i am not through with you yet.
i am eagerly awaiting David Lynch's new movie.
i am in it for the long haul.
i am the darkness that comes before the dawn.
i am crawling through the wreckage.
i am doing my best to crash your browser with my profile.
i am deep in thought.
i am down with helping you get rid of the body.
i am utterly amazed.
i am open to suggestions.
i am looking for clues.
i am never like this when i'm not with you....

My Interests

Music, Muzak, Science Fiction, Science Fact, Pre-Code Horror Comics, Pulp Fiction, Genre Films (SF, Horror, Noir), recording devices, post-modernism, ad hoc-ism, industrial culture, surviellance technology, future mapping, making you think (c'mon, you know you can do it...)

I'd like to meet:

Smart-asses and people of conscience.....Zone Troopers from alternate time-lines....Crackpot inventors....Beauty Queens from Outer Space....Small Mysterious Men in Dark Overcoats with Black Gladstone Bags...Humanzees....People who really mean it....Chrysalids...Agents of the same Department......Ectomorphs.....Fellow lab-rats....The Fastest Man on Earth....Dracula's Daughter....Mr Fix-it....Joe, the Gadget Man....Humans be-ing... you....

Music:

Severed Heads (early), Cabaret Voltaire, Suicide, Velvet Underground, Kraftwerk, DAF, KMFDM, PIL, DEVO, TG, PTV, Chris & Cosey, Silicon Teens, The Normal, Fad Gadget, SPK, Negativland, Tuxedomoon, The Residents, Snakefinger, Makers of The Dead Travel Fast, Chrome, Iggy and the Stooges, Radio Birdman, The Saints, The Systematics, Mindless Delta Children, Meat Beat Manifesto, Revolting Cocks, Thrill Kill Kult, Front 242, Chickenlips, Chicks on Speed, Ladytron, Client, The Rapture, Bernard Hermann, Goblin, Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, Cover versions that are just plain WRONG, .... LOTS more, but you get the idea - plus whatever i'm working on..... TRACK NOW PLAYING - "hyperdelicious" (My expired music project from the early 90's....) - "Revenge" (aka "Liquibox").

Movies:

HEAD, Zardoz, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho (1960), Taxi Driver, Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, early Marx Bros., Se7en, Danger Diabolik!, 2001, THEY LIVE!, Peeping Tom, anything by David Lynch, George A. Romero, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Jess Franco, Takeshi Kitano, Tarkovsky, Ed Ulmer, Ed Wood or Mario Bava, Republic serials, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Ghost World, Another Heaven, Battle Royale, Fantastic Planet, 12 Monkeys, most Spaghetti westerns, lo-rent Zombie movies, gallo, krimi, Soviet SF movies (especially Planet of Storms), Stranger on the 13th Floor, D.O.A, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (all 3 versions have their merits)

Television:

Don't watch broadcast or cable hardly at all... stuff like THE PRISONER, Danger Man, Batman, ADDAMS FAMILY, Dark Shadows, MONKEES, Ninja Butai Gekko, Testsu-Jin 28 Go, Astroboy, Outer Limits, TZ, Capt. Scarlet, Thunderbirds or UFO are more my cup of tea....

Books:

I Ching, Marshall McLuhan, John Berger, Richard Matheson, HPL, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, JG Ballard, PKDick, William Gibson, Walter Gibson, Alan Moore, EC comics, Steve Ditko & Jack Kirby, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler

Heroes:

... if you say you're the new messiah..... i'll get the nails....

My Blog

Crazy for Radio!

Some people wonder why i am so into the old time radio shows of the 30's, 40's and 50's. Well i'll tell you.... some of them are totally crazy. Fair enough? Here's a cross section - 1 horror show, 1 S...
Posted by Hyper Dave on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:12:00 PST

Skywald Horror mags!

In PSYCHO 16 - "The Old Vampire Lady", "Monster, Monster" and more - This one's a good 'un! PSYCHO 16!NIGHTMARE 16 IS THE ALL ORIGINAL MONSTER SPECIAL...
Posted by Hyper Dave on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:32:00 PST

H. P. Lovecraft on Old Time Radio - "The Dunwich Horror"!

Poor old H. P. Lovecraft. Unlike Poe, he has not fared too well in translation. His stories, with a few exceptions, really just don't translate well into other media. Which is a pity. Don't get me wro...
Posted by Hyper Dave on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:19:00 PST

Lucky 13!

You know how it is.... you have good days and bad days. Well guess what, this is one of the bad ones. Actually, it's really bad. I know i'm gonna be talking kinda elliptical for a bit, but just bear w...
Posted by Hyper Dave on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 04:48:00 PST

Phillip K Dick radio adaptions and mucho more!

Starting up... here's 4 OTR SF episodes adapted from stories by Phil Dick dedicated to someone i know who's kinda M.I.A., but hopefully A.O.K. Everybody else in the room can just go "Huh?" and keep ...
Posted by Hyper Dave on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:18:00 PST

BLACK CAT vs FRANKENSTEIN!

Let's check out Harvey Comics Black Cat 44.... need OIL... must have.....OIL! Oh, and there's some other icky stuff in this ish too.... Great art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand and Joe Certa. Pr...
Posted by Hyper Dave on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:11:00 PST

I AM DEAD : I AM BURIED

If the only horror magazines you've ever seen are Creepy, Eerie or Vampirella - fasten your seatbelts! Skywald was the major competitor of Warren. Here's 2 issues as pdf files. Read 'em and you'll see...
Posted by Hyper Dave on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:27:00 PST

Basil Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper!

It should come as no surprise to anyone that i'm a big fan of Basil Wolverton, right? Right! Who's he? If you don't know the name, trust me... you've seen his stuff. If you havn't seen his stuff....
Posted by Hyper Dave on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:26:00 PST

Amazons of the Asteroids!

Oh boy.... here's a crazy pulp SF action thriller from Australia circa 1960 - Thrills Inc. 17 - Adventures in Space and the World of Tomorrow.......Y'know, i feel more than a little ripped off by t...
Posted by Hyper Dave on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:18:00 PST

JET DREAM & HER STUNT-GIRL COUNTER-SPIES!

This was the back-up feature in Gold Key Comics "Man From U.N.C.L.E" title, which was spun off into issue 1 (one and only). Art chores by Joe Certa, who also drew "Manhunter from Mars" at DC in the ...
Posted by Hyper Dave on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:09:00 PST