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About Me

Right, here's the plan. First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each. That way we'll miss out on Monday and come up smiling Tuesday morning. -Withnail


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My Interests

...most anything the mainstream doesn't notice;discards;glosses over;eschews as marginal;moralizes over too much; requires too much thought; comes from a foreign mind or cultural viewpoint...

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Music:

Psychedelia, psychedelia, and psychedelia......! Plasticland,( and their heirs-the Romulans!), Green Pajamas, Rain Parade, the Steppes, Sun Dial, Dukes of Stratosphear (and Nick Nicely for jumpstarting them), Floorian, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Pillbugs, Dora Flood, New Planet Trampoline, Roky & Syd, Kennelmus, Neu!, the Poets, Misunderstood, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, the Photon Band, Electric Effect, the Pretty Things, the Maharajas, Hypnomen, Damien Youth, Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade, the Cosmic Cult of Adam Strange, Dog Age, Kelley Stoltz, the Strange Machine, Sabalon Glitz, Bipolaroid, Mazarin, Golden Ball, Cheese, the Zombies,Paul Revere and the Raiders, Blues Magoos, We All Together,the Tables, Aerovons, the Jupiter Affect, the Three O' Clock, Oranger, the Idle Race, the Syn, the Move, Suns of Arqa,the Warlocks, B.R.M.C., the Persian Rugs, Singapore Sling, Bevis Frond, the Regular Fries, Lupine Howl, Alphastone, the Lucky Bishops,the Brotheregg, Dipsomaniacs (Norway) & Oyvind, McFadden's Parachute, the Dreadful Yawns, Murmurs of Irma, Baby Lemonade, Ant-Bee, the Slow Poisoner, Sugarplastic, the Flower Machine, the Reegs, Lilys, Rockfour, GripWeeds, Outrageous Cherry, Silver Sunshine, Cloud Eleven, Magazine, Television, early Talking Heads, Shimmer Kids Underpop Assoc. (R.I.P.), Hypatia Lake, the December Sound, the Zerfas (!), tremolo & reverb, Sitars....lots of 'em
...power pop, Beach Boys of Pet Sounds and post-same, bands who take their cue from the Pet Sounds era: High Llamas, Squires of the Subterrain, Mark Eric, Rick Bain, Mark Bacino, etc....80s Creation label, Ride (forever!), the House of Love, Love & Rockets, Madchester,..the Elephant 6 collective....the Rainbow Quartz manifesto.......and, for Gods sake BOMP!..the Ptolemaic Terrascope ...

Movies:

Blade Runner; Brazil; Pi; Henry Fool; City of Lost Children; Allegro Non Troppo; Help!; Head; El Topo; 12 Monkeys; the 13th Warrior; the Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover; (all of Peter Greenaway); Dead Man, Mystery Train, Down By Law, Night On Earth (and all of Jim Jarmusch!); A Clockwork Orange, Everything Is Illuminated, The Zero Effect.......for starters.....

Books:

Robert Anton Wilson,Borges(!),Terence McKenna, Umberto Eco, Tom Robbins, Colin Wilson, Joseph Campbell, Philip K. Dick, Tim Powers, Baigent & Leigh, Velikovsky, Hakim Bey, Italo Calvino, Rabelais, Voltaire, John Kennedy Toole, Davis Grubb, Danilo Kis, S. Lem...

Heroes:

Philip K. Dick, Sir Richard Burton, Dizzy Dean, John Lennon, and Robert Anton Wilson

My Blog

We Were So Turned On.....

"The Bewlay Brothers"And so the story goes they wore the clothesThey said the thingsto make it seem improbableThe whale of a lielike they hope it wasAnd the Goodmen of TomorrowHad their feet in the wa...
Posted by valis on Sat, 17 May 2008 06:15:00 PST

Trip Inside This House

My blog is now gathering some steam: Trip!
Posted by valis on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:25:00 PST