Thinking, writing, proselytizing, plutonian sunbathing, Braille elevator rides, latex socks, the cold vacation of the imagination, reptiles, a better tomorrow, mating habits, instant water (just add!), listless moaning of republicans, Bush's assasin, New York in the Spring, San Francisco in the Summer, Christian dogma in the Fall, Discontent in the Winter.
Furry puppies. Babies with muzzles. S Dali. Antonio Gaudi. New Guitar Strings. All moments before waking. Passion. Poetry. Madness. James Joyce, Mystery. Seredipity. Coincidence. Long nights with Mozart's Requiem,The abolition of the Daily Planner. The IDEA of god. Creation Myths. The past remaining so. The rapture of being Alive. The promise that all of this could be but a dream...or a nightmare.
I'd like to meet:
with the ghost of Joseph Campbell over a goblet of absinthe and a button of peyote.
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You are the Hanged Man
Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.
With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of
loss from a situation, rather than gain.
The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.
The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
In 1989 I sang for the band 'DISTEMPER' and played at the Metroplex, the Dungeon and some crappy warehouses; Sham69 was horrible.
Music:
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness." - Lawrence Durrel
The Damned, Beethoven, The Clash, Chet Baker, Cobain, Ramones, Subhumans, Cramps, Pistols, Iggy and the Stooges, Bowie and Ronson, Hendrix, Cash, L7, Tom Waits, Dinah Washington, L. Cohen, AC/DC, Doors, Joan Jett, Plasmatics, MDC, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Love and Rockets, Joy Division, Television, B. Holliday, Jim Carroll Band, Bauhaus, early Pretenders, Siouxsie Sioux, young Metallica, Nina Simone, Mozart, Sonic Youth, Blondie, early Stones, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Chick Corea, Deftones, totenhosen, Rev.Horten Heat, Ghoultown, Hedwig, Lennnon, Radiohead, Minot Threat, Fugazi, Interpol, Black Flag, Rose Tattoo, Zappa, Phantom Chords, High on Fire, Nina Hagen, NIN, Elvis, Spinal Tap, Exodus, Pray for Rain, Tombstones, Mark Bolan, the stranglers, Alien Sex Fiend, Ministry, Sarah Vaughn, Patsy Cline, Mastodon, Patti Smith, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Mudhoney, Black Sabbath, 70's Alice Cooper, Dickies, GenerationX, early U2, Black Sabbath, Mad Parade---just the beginning (of the end).
Movies:
Repo Man, True Romance, Citizen Kane, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, anything Tod Browning, Memento, The Swindle, Casablanca, The Exorcist (childhood memories!), The Warriors, anything Fellini or Chaplin, The Devil's Rejects, the first three Freddies, Repo Man, Straight to Hell, Rude Boy, Wild One, Decline of Western Civilization, Suburbia, Heavy Metal, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Rear Window, Vertigo, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Bat, Rocky Horror Picture Show(110 times) Roman Holiday (say what you want, its just...lovely), Harold and Maude, Resevoir Dogs, Immortal Beloved, Rock and Roll High School, Galaxina, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Clockwork Orange, Wim Wenders , Repo Man, 12 Monkeys, Rocky Horror, Rebel without a Cause, Schizopolis, Aguirre: wrath of God, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Wild One, His Girl Friday---do I really need to keep going. If it is gutsy, dangerous, beautiful, scary, or just amazingly insulting then I might like it. Did I mention Repo Man.
Television:
are you serious?
Books:
the ones in my head, William Blakes 'Songs of innocence and experience', Kerouac's 'On the Road', Brave New World, Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' and 'Hunger Artist', Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist'..., Anything Poe, A Clockwork Orange, Milton's 'Paradise Lost', 'Areopagitica',' Comus' (about music as tempting and evil), Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking', W. Burroughs 'My Education', 'Junky' Joyce's 'Araby', Sandberg's Chicago Poems, Plath's 'Last Words', E. Dickinson's 'I heard a fly buzzing...', Crane's ' Blue Hotel', Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Marquez' '100 Years of Solitude', Shelley's Frankenstein, Joseph Campbell's Masks of God, All the world's creation myths. The Dictionary(where all the good ones come from)
Heroes:
It all began with Poe and Blake. The experimentation of Kafka. The romantic poets. The travel sensibility of Hemingway. Tim Burton's modern imagination. Tom Robbins humor.
The poetry for poetry's sake of Emily Dickinson. The brush of Francisco Goya.
Captain Sensible, Salvador Dali, Antonio Gaudi (hopefully the architect of the afterlife), John Lennon, Buddha, Death (never quits). All Poets, Artists, and Madmen.
