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Retrovertigo

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm a Scorpio to the nth degree who enjoys playing guitar, reading and/or studying lots of politics and consciousness expansion, stand-up comedy, and other things that are created with passion and feeling. ..

My Interests

Music, caffiene, Frank Booth, paranoia, Masons, expansion of consciousness, experience, and lots of other things I find interesting.

I'd like to meet:

Intelligent, decent human beings who share a predeliction for music, stand-up comedy, metaphysics, coffee, and booze.

Music:

Ballistico, Lamb of God, Estradasphere, Placebo, Jeff Buckley, Fantomas, Spinal Tap, Secret Chiefs 3, the Locust, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Sir Millard Mulch, Exhumed, System of a Down, Marilyn Manson, Das Ich, Tenacious D, Crass, Black Flag, Amen, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Ministry, Dick Dale, Meshuggah, Pink Floyd, Mr. Bungle, Slayer, Deftones, Dead Kennedys, Foxycock, Primus, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, Suffocation, Jimi Hendrix, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Poison the Well, Nirvana, Live, the Melvins, the Mars Volta, God of Shamisen, Sublime, Funker Vogt, Ella Fitzgerald, Throbbing Gristle, Death, Shadows Fall, Carcass, Avenged Sevenfold, Pinkly Smooth, Melt Banana, Combichrist, Hazerfan, Pantera, Wumpscut, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Faith No More, Bile, (hed) p. e., Tomahawk, Maldoror, Christian Death, Zao, Hatebreed, Slipknot, Kidneythieves, Skinny Puppy, Cephalic Carnage, Skunk Anansie, Soundgarden, Blondie, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Misfits, Samhain, Ideal Social Situation, Silverchair, Origin, KMFDM, Turmoil, Refused, TurboNegro, Ween, Nasum, Atari Teenage Riot, the Eagles, Queens of the Stone Age, the Ventures, Surfaris, Agent Orange, Today is the Day, Discharge, A Perfect Circle, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Cramps, Queen, Incubus, Children of Bodom, Superjoint Ritual, EyeHateGod, Arch Enemy, Down, In Flames, God Forbid, Cattle Decapitation, Megadeth, Anthrax, GG Allin, David Allen Coe, the Jesus Lizard, the Adverts, Iron Monkey, Bathory, the Tubes, X-Ray Specs, Vice Squad, Switchblade Symphony, Jack Off Jill, Assemblage 23, Suicide Commando, Rage Against the Machine, Tricky, Bad Religion, Soilent Green, TSOL, Flogging Molly, Ludacris, Weird Al, White Zombie, Michael Jackson, Sly and the Family Stone, Quakers on Acid, Snot, Eric Clapton, Van Halen, Aesop Rock, Lovage, Peeping Tom, Sinizen, Sidekick, DI, Nina Hagen, John Zorn, ZZ Top, Foreigner, Yes, Rush, X, Sonic Youth, the Minutemen, Bad Brains, Dying Fetus, New York Dolls, Aerosmith, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Venetian Snares, Johnny Cash, the Haunted, Burn the Priest, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, the Kinison, Jimmy Cliff, Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant, Despised Icon, Medeski Martin and Wood, Tholus, the Invincible Czars....

Movies:

Airplane, Blue Velvet, Bordello of Blood, Bram Stoker's Dracula, any Pee-Wee movie, Freaks!, Reefer Madness, Run Ronnie Run, Caddyshack, Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic, Cannibal the Musical, Hairspray, Spaceballs....

Television:

"TELEVISION IS LIKE TAKING BLACK SPRAYPAINT TO YOUR THIRD EYE! TAKE SOME PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS AND SQUEEGEE YOUR THIRD FUCKIN' EYE!"- BILL HICKS The Simpsons Mr. Ed Mr. Show with Bob and David Law and Order Reno 911 Discovery Channel That's about it. If you'd like, you can read a book now.

Books:

William Cooper's "Behold A Pale Horse", Noam Chomsky, Piers Anthony, Robert Anton Wilson, Stephen King, Howard Bloom (Lucifer Principle, Global Brain), Franz Kafka, Timothy Leary, Anton LaVey, Abdul Alhazared, Clive Barker, Charles Bukowski, and more....

Heroes:

My parents, Bill Hicks, Trey Spruance, Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, Bar McKinnon, Danny Heifetz, David Cross, Robert Anton Wilson, Noam Chomsky

My Blog

Mother

My mother was a woman of immeasurable beauty and compassion.  She was the physical manifestation of pure, unending love, and we are all truly fortunate to have experienced it.  Every person ...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:22:00 PST

Untitled

  I've met you before In silent punches at night Through dizzy visions Of actions never committed Swinging fists of imagination At memories that haunt   Only in the shadows Before my eyelid...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:56:00 PST

Miscellaneous Odditties and other Quackery, Part 9, Vol 1

("Asbestos"-Undated)Walls have been thrown aroundLeft haphazardly around the roomIsolatingHereAndThereNumbing my reactionTo injuries left unacknowledgedPush onwardOozing wound be damnedStruggling feve...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:27:00 PST

Miscellaneous Odditties and other Quackery, Part 8, Vol 1

("Optipessimistic"- No date)My cup runneth overI still see it half-emptyThing's will change when I get soberShattered in my fingertipsRibbon stains on my carpetFrom the cup's destructive eclipseMessy ...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:23:00 PST

Miscellaneous Odditties and other Quackery, Part 7, Vol 1

(12-18-04 No Title)Drugs are a waste of time; no amount of reasoning will ever change or challenge that fact.  However, MANY other activities, inclduing the most socially accepted and commonly oc...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:16:00 PST

Miscellaneous Odditties and other Quackery, Part 6, Vol 1

(Uneverything)A broken rosary offers little comfortChrist has abandoned his postThat's what happens when you put faith in anotherOr his fatherOr a ghostUsed to keep you docile, faithfulHappy and weakI...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:11:00 PST

Miscellaneous Odditties and other Quackery, Part 5, Vol 1

(Come on)If words create music rather thanThe gutteral nonsense we call languageI would be BeethovenOr BachSome kind of prodigyInstead dissapointment is the staff I write uponInability my scalesNotes ...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:06:00 PST

Miscellaneous Odditties and other Quackery, Part 4, Vol 1

(Untitled and.. you know the rest)When do you accept that you have becomeOne with your addiction?Consumed by itHaunted by hounding phantomsBiting at the heelsIncessantEnough to drive one madChoke on t...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:57:00 PST

Miscellaneous Odditties and other Quackery, Part 3, Vol 1

(Untiled and undated... you're surprised?)It's always "just one more with you"You greedy piece of shitJustify all you wantThe reasons just don't sitBelching broken remainders of thingsNot easily diges...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:54:00 PST

Miscellaneous Odditties and other Quackery, Part 2, Vol 1

(Untitled and undated.. deal with it)Dreams of clarity clung to myEyelidsI wipe them from my faceFrom my memoryLike so many grains of sandDesires unknownGoals never close to being fulfilledI scratch a...
Posted by Retrovertigo on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:48:00 PST