Ceremonial Magick, Music, Live Music, Political Satire, Pissing off Neocons, Comedy, Wine, Gourmet Cooking, Hiking, EGC, Gnosticism, Taoism, Zen, Aleister Crowley, OTO, Philosophy, Jungian Psychology, Existenialism, Thelema, Enochian Magick, Gematria, Qabalah, Tarot, Koans, Ritual, Rites of Eleusis, I Ching, Buddhism, Mythology, Gnostic Catholic Church
I'd like to meet:
Like-minded, and open minded people from different backgrounds. Magicians, Gnostics, Esoterically-minded Freemasons, Scholars of comparitive religion, philosophy, history, literature or psychology. Artists, Musicians, and writers of all types.
Music:
My musical taste is varied. I grew up on classic rock and blues, like the Beatles,BB King, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix,Black Sabbath, Clapton (especially when he was with Cream), CSN&Y, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, The Greatful Dead and the Stones. When I hit my teens I started to get into Punk/Hardcore, Reggae, and Ska. Some of my favorite punk bands are Agnostic Front, Dead Kennedys, The Velvet Underground, Joy Division, Fear, Slapshot, Bauhaus, Iggy and the Stooges, Minor Threat, Murphy's Law, Butthole Surfers, Black Flag, 4 Skins, Bad Brains, DOA and Circle Jerks. Some of my favs from the Reggae and Ska arenas like Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, Laurel Atkien, The Skatalites and some 2 tone era Ska like Madness, The Specials, and The Selector. By the end of highschool I broadened my range again to include many from the rap/hiphop genre like Ice-T, Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, A Tribe Caled Quest, EPMD, Wu Tang Clan and The Roots. In college I developed an appreciation for the cream of the electronica crop. I discovered that there was more to 'techno' than just beeps and computers; moreover, I got turned on to Drum n'Bass. Some of favorites from the electronica genre are Orbital, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Roni Size, LTJ Bukem, Goldie, and Underworld. I also like jazz quite a bit, especially very chill days. My favorite Jazz artists are John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, and Louis Armstrong, Stan Getz, and Vince Guaraldi. I even like some old country like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Walon Jennings, Patsy Cline and Charlie Daniels Band. I also like some of the 'alternative' (I hate that word!) bands of the 90's like Tool, Rollins Band, Pixies, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Sublime, Rusted Root, Phish, and Ween
Movies:
I like many different movies, but here's my top 40 in no particular order:
(1) Apocalypse Now
(2) Good Fellas
(3) Blazing Saddles
(4) Star Wars (I'm talkin the whole saga here, but my fav of those is Empire)
(5) The Godfather trilogy(especially part II)
(6) 24 Hour Party People
(7) Full Metal Jacket
(8) High Fidelity
(9) Spies Like Us
(10) Clerks
(11) The Breakfast Club
(12) Animal House
(13) When Harry Met Sally
(14) Analyze This
(15) The Usual Suspects
(16) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
(17) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(18) The Indiana Jones trilogy (Raiders is still my fav)
(19) The Big Lewbowski
(20) Chasing Amy
(21) Snatch
(22) Mallrats
(23) The Motorcycle Diaries
(24) Stripes
(25) Ghostbusters
(26) 40 Year-Old Virgin
(27) American Beauty
(28) Blow
(29) Traffic
(30) The Ninth Gate
(31) Underworld
(32) Dogma
(33) Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
(34) The Crow
(35) Ed Wood
(36) National Treasure
(37) American Hardcore
(38) Reservior Dogs
(39) El Mariachi
(40) Il Postino
Television:
I don't watch much TV, but I do like to catch The Simpsons, Southpark, Iron Chef, and The Sopranos from time to time. I also enjoy watching seasons of old TV shows on DVD. Some of my favorite classics are M*A*S*H and All in the Family.
Books:
Anything by Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Crowley, Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, JRR Tolkien, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Israel Regardie, Dion Fortune, Lon Milo Duquette, William Burroughs, Hemmingway, Faulkner, Blake, Nicolas Pileggi, Friedrich Nieztsche, Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nick Hornby, Irvine Welsh and Howard Zinn.
Heroes:
Call them influences if you will:
Lou Reed, Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, Kieth Morris, Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain, members of the band Agnostic Front, Thomas Jefferson, Jean Paul Sartre, Goethe, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Deniro, Al Pacino, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, Adam Yauch, Bob Dylan, To Mega Therion, & Lao Tzu.
