Being more of what I hope to be & more of what I am. Holding open competition with recorded history. Hopefully impressing myself (if no one else). Removing the need. Escaping escape artists. Creating more NOW for THEN. Creating, period. Underground Music, Incredibly Strange Films, Exotic Foods, Astrology, Making weird sounds with my instruments, my cat
No one really. I'm terribly antisocial. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try, though. Best of luck! (*editors note... he's kidding folks: really friendly, this guy)
In no particular order: Nihilist Spasm Band, P.16 D.4, AMM, Ellen Fullman, Incapacitants, Borbetomagus, Merzbow, Hermann Nitsch, Metal Machine Music, LAFMS, Amon Düül II, Robert Ashley, Sonic Youth, To Live And Shave In L.A., Skullflower, Organum, Idea Fire Company, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Masonna, The Dead C, Brother Jt, Nurse With Wound, Blue Cheer, Christian Marclay, Syd Barrett, Lydia Lunch, Talk Talk, Klaus Schultze, F/i, Iannis Xenakis, S*core, Henry Cow, Cecil Taylor, Aube, Jandek, Boy Dirt Car, Can, Peter Brötzmann, Godz, Smegma, Alexander 'Skip' Spence, Deathprod, The Fugs, Arthur Doyle, Harry Partch, Mainliner, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Throbbing Gristle, Soft Machine, Coffee, Luc Ferrari, The Byrds, Wolf Eyes, Cul de Sac, Thomas Dimuzio, Acid Mothers Temple, Red Transistor, Ornette Coleman, Biota, Kraftwerk, Crime, Glenn Branca, Neu!, Rhys Chatham, Climax Golden Twins, Fifty Foot Hose, William S Burroughs, Omit, Dungen, Smog, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Sun City Girls, Tod Dockstader, Pita, Dadamah, MEV, Dredd Foole, Pink Fairies, Alice Coltrane, Pere Ubu, United States of America, Charalambides, Electric Eels, Birchville Cat Motel, Hijo Kaidan, Hawkwind, Zoviet France, Steve Reich, Die Tödliche Doris, The Stooges, Henry Flynt, Cluster, John Zorn, Alva Noto, Simon Finn, Discharge, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Fantômas, Eugene Chadbourne, Blowhole, Eno, Davis Redford Triad, Hafler Trio, MC5, Masayuki Takayanagi, Arnold Dreyblatt, Judee Sill, Blectum from Blechdom, Fushitsusha, Otis Redding, DNA, 13th Floor Elevators, Conrad Schnitzler, Clouddead, Pearls Before Swine, Excepter, Bill Fay, Oren Ambarchi, Kevin Drumm, Morton Feldman, Lol Coxhill, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Erase Errata, Animal Collective, Funkadelic, Cromagnon, The Bug, Hanatarash, El-P, Pork Queen, Betty Davis, Six Organs Of Admittance, Ash Ra Tempel, Einstürzende Neubauten, Richard Youngs, Gastr del Sol, Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band, Alog, Love, Pelt, Kaoru Abe, Music Improvisation Company, Boredoms, Damon, The Flesheaters, Major Stars, Les Georges Leningrad, Buzzcocks, Harry Pussy, John Cage, David Tudor, Holy Modal Rounders, Thomas Brinkmann, Bob Dylan, Ghost, Black Sabbath, Current 93, Fennesz, Nels Cline, Sonny Sharock, Coil, The Fall, Esg, Swans, Albert Ayler, Squirmbo, Human League, The Deviants, Sun Ra, Mars, Royal Trux, Supersilent, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Suicide, Alterations, Tony Conrad, Lightning Bolt, Aphex Twin, Cabaret Voltaire, Faust, Rudolph Grey, Bardo Pond, Autechre, Ennio Morricone, MX-80 Sound, Terry Riley, Derek Bailey, The Contortions, New Blockaders, Henri Chopin and countless others!
"The one that started and has not ended (but gets very interesting after the lights have been turned off). It's independent, of course. Have you seen the trailer?"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Devils, Female Trouble, The Holy Mountain, The Sadist, Videodrome, Hellhole, Switchblade Sisters, Venus In Furs, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen Or Glenda, The Dead Zone, Scanners, The Brood, They Live, Flesh, Trash, Heat, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Q, It's Alive, Daughters Of Darkness, Space Is The Place ...too many to mention!
I must admit, I've fallen prey; it's really no contest. I try to stop, but it keeps following me. At least sometimes I can tell it what to do.
"They look nice on a shelf and make people think you're smart as it's assumed you read them all but actually they're mostly decorative accessory (for shame). If they could open and read themselves to you, acting out the parts, you'd still wish they could get to the point. Then, out of neglect, they start to show up in weird places, forcing you to come to terms with their existence. It's not so bad after all, is it?"Gulcher by Richard Meltzer, The Heresiarch + Co. by Apollinaire, almost any Philip K Dick, Rudy Rucker's Infinity And The Mind & The Fourth Dimension, as well as his fiction works, Particularly Software. Artuad Watchfiends And Rack Screams. Lots of reference material as well. History is what's happening; it's always in the present.
Yes and no. My father. Those that continue and those that brought me here, whose shoulder I'm still standing upon. My friends everywhere, scattered throughout this world and the next.