Horticulture, arborculture, environmental science, education, art, literature, theatre, mysticism, alchemy, shamanism, entheogens, household chemistry, throat singing, violin, rare books.
I'd like to meet:
I would like to meet other monkey things for fun and profit. Our relationships will no doubt be mildly to extremely predatory, leaving us both with a bitter taste in each other's mouths that we will call our names. Preferably you, a fellow bipedal monkey thing, will be able to put on as good a show as I that this is not the case. Pretend to be interested in literature and music. Learn how to resonate at my psychic frequency.
Forget that you are a divine, individuated, eternal spark of God. Fear death.
Music:
Pink Floyd, Tool, The Pixies, Hunn Hurr Tu, Vivaldi, Schumann, Shostakovich, Ween, Frank Zappa, Jhonny Cash, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, R.E.M., The Beatles, Lyndon Beckner, Radiohead, Walter Carlos, Jega, GYBE!, Diamanda Galas.
Movies:
The Atomic Cafe, Doctor Strangelove, The Life Of Brian, Rashomon, Evil Dead I, II, and III, Office Space, Frankenhooker, Clockwork Orange.
Television:
Ocassionally I will stop to spit at Fox News in the supermarket cafeteria.
Books:
I can recall, and will admit to having read and liked:
The Book of Changes, The Baghavad Gita, The Tao Te Ching, The Odyssey, Iliad, Oriestra, Eumenides, New Atlantis, The Crying of Lot 49 & Mason&Dixon, Ficciones, A Hundred Years of Solitude, Things Fall Apart, Hill Daughter, The Unquiet Earth, The Golden Apples, As I lay Dying & The Sound and The Fury, City of Glass, The Garden Party & other Havel plays, The Castle & Metamorphosis & most of Kafka's short fiction, Brave New World, 1984, Cat on a Hot tin Roof, Man and Superman, Of Human Bondage, Native Son, Candide, Crime and Punishement, Love Ain't Nothin' But Sex Mispelled, Pleasant Hell, Illuminatus!, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Satanic Verses, Nausea, The Plauge, Steppenwolf & Demian, enough Shakespeare.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Gödel Escher Bach: the Eternal Golden Braid, A Brief History of Time, In Praise of Idleness, Critique of Pure Reason, The Doors of Perception, The Invisible Landscape, The Way of Zen, The Emotional Life of Nations, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, The Gutenberg Galaxy, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature, The Secret Teaching of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy.
Solar Lottery & The Man in the High Castle, A Canticle For Leibowitz & Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, The Left Hand of Darkness, the Neuomancer trology & Idoru, The Ringworld trilogy, most of Saberhagen's Berserker series, Orson Scott Card's Ender series, Vanishing Point, everything by Bradbury, Asimov's Robot Trilogy & Galactic Empire & Foundation series, everything by Vonnegut and Bradbury.
I've never read anything by Rand. I swear it.
(buy me something from my wishlist and you'll have a friend for life.)
Heroes:
William Burroughs, Terrence McKenna, Galileo Galilei, Mark Purdey, Eugene Debs and Emma Goldman. Also Grigori Rasputin until John Dolan pointed out the plot holes in Felix Youssoupoff's memior. Also John Dolan.
