Thee creative process, photography, cinematography, the kangling, the funerary chic comfort of my home, Blue Otter Pops, bizarre eroticism in literature and the arts, NASA Amigas, 80's media technology, projected reality, unencumbered immersion, hallucination, Will, the innermost sanctum of paranoia, beautifully depressing schizophenia, dreams, talking typewriters, giant aquatic centipedes, cut-ups, visual effects, matte painting, performance art, compositing, travel, poetry, literature, avant-garde, surrealism, dadaism, llamas, legless lizards (Horatio in particular), archaeology, cultural and physical anthropology, ancient civilizations, ancient egypt, cognitive science, cosmology, fringe sciences, quantum weirdness, the sacred and the profane, blasphemy, altered states, isolation tanks, lucid dreaming, ancient astronauts, time travel, synaesthesia, bohemia, painting, drawing, beatniks, fine food, red wine, absinthe, conversation, interesting people, funeral coaches, critical thinking (Occam’s razor, folks, is a good place to start.)
Leaders, thinkers, poets, dreamers, blessed lunatics. Myself, in relation to these others. God, I've heard, is an experience junky.
My friends list is made up of incredible local artists as well as others geographically less parochial. Please check them out. To these visionaries I humbly point the way...
Violin, Cello, Piano, Kangling...! COIL + Attrition + Shriekback + Bauhaus + Daniel Johnston + Diamanda Galas + Throbbing Gristle + Psychic TV + Nina Hagen + Lene Lovich + Einsturzende Neubauten + Death in June + Current 93 + Sopor Aeternus + Klaus Nomi + NON + Edgard Varese + Louis and Bebe Barron + Karlheinz Stockhausen + Muslimgauze + John Cage + Killing Joke + Joy Division + XTC + Gang of Four + The Cure + Siouxsie & The Banshees + Thomas Dolby + Adam Ant + David Bowie + Kate Bush + Pink Floyd + King Crimson + Tyrannosaurus Rex / T.Rex / Marc Bolan + Nurse with Wound + Prince + Nina Simone + Oingo Boingo + Danny Elfman + The Residents + The Pixies + James Brown + The Damned + Dead Kennedys + Buzzcocks + Lydia Lunch + Iggy & The Stooges + Tackhead + Billie Holiday + Jimi Hendrix + Django Reinhardt + Cabaret Voltaire + Television + Sonic Youth + Patsy Cline + Peter Murphy + Z'EV + Can + Faith and the Muse + Unto Ashes + Dead Can Dance + Cocteau Twins + Syd Barrett + The Velvet Underground + Mozart + Dino Felipe + Strange + Childproof + Drowning the Virgin Silence + Ms. Ariana! van Gelder
Watching a good film is like dreaming while awake.
FORBIDDEN ZONE + Naked Lunch + Henry & June + Eraserhead + Fando & Lis + Mulholland Drive + PI + Liquid Sky + Reefer Madness (1936) + Reefer Madness (2005) + Nosferatu + Metropolis + Un Chien Andalou + Harold and Maude + Amadeus + The Hours + Sid and Nancy + Russian Ark + The Gods Must Be Crazy + Pan's Labyrinth + Fellini's Casanova, Satyricon, etc., everything David Lynch has ever done... + Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin“It's the movies that
have been really running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and how to feel about it...''
— Andy Warhol
A few exceptions to the overwhelming media-crity; The Prisoner + Cosmos + Connections + Jeremiah + Black Adder + The Young Ones + Doctor Who + Torchwood +Babylon 5... HD Discovery Theater, more often than not, with the sound off.
I read the 'Story of O' in fourth grade and nothing's been the same since...! Authors/Works (so many! where's the time?): Carl Sagan + William S. Burroughs + Livy + Aleister Crowley + Arthur C. Clarke + Anais Nin + 'Good Omens' by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett + George Orwell's '1984' (note to Busy/Cheney: This was NOT supposed to be a 'How-to' manual), 'Animal Farm'... + Harold Speed + Salvador Dali
Hypatia, of the Library of Alexandria, William S. Burroughs, Genesis P-Orridge, Myron Krueger, Marcel Duchamp, Brian Eno, Francis Bacon, Lev Sergeivitch Termen (Leon Theremin), Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dali, Caravaggio, Velazquez, Frida Kahlo, Federico Fellini, Mark Pauline, Carl Sagan, Tristan Tzara, Allen Ginsberg, Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, Francisco Goya, Charlie Chaplin, hard-working artists of the ever-emerging experimental music scene.