Books and movies about alternative realities, Gnosticism, and altered states of consciousness. Progressive politics, para-politics, roots music of all kinds, strange road trips, artists with "funny," odd or disturbing insights from Dali, Blake, Pollock, and Magritte to Giger, Mark Ryden, Mack White, Myron Dyal and Robert Williams, folklore, forteana, Americana, Californiana, desert lore, The Salton Sea, lucid dreaming....
the other members of my freak team.
old school punk rock (The Germs, The Damned, The Weirdos, The Dead Boys, The Heartbreakers, The Clash, Sex Pistols), pre-punk and proto-punk (Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, The Stooges, MC5), Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, The Strokes, The Kinks, Gram Parsons, old school country (Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzelle, Bob Wills, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, Dolly Parton, George Jones, Merle Haggard), Babyland, Beck, David Bowie, Rage Against The Machine, Cocteau Twins, Sweet, T. Rex, Motorhead, Mott the Hoople, Interpol, Primus, Blue Cheer, Diamanda Galas, The Cramps, Nekromantix, Three Bad Jacks, Rob Zombie, Ramones, White Stripes, The Omlits, Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, Lightning Hopkins, Robert Johnson, John Coltrane, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Dale Watson, Lucinda Williams, Roky Erickson, Dave Alvin, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Stranglers, Dock Boggs, Dwight Yoakam, Supernova, The Muffs, Link Wray, The Doors, Bauhaus, Public Enemy, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, NWA, The Buzzcocks, Coil, Concrete Blonde, Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Yma Sumac, Bob Dylan, Shapeshifters, Wesley Willis, Mojo Nixon, Nirvana, Sun Ra, Los Duggans, Tom Russell, The Ike Reilly Assassination, Consolidated
A Scanner Darkly, 9/11 Mysteries, Fahrenheit 9/11, Donnie Darko, The Matrix, Carnival of Souls, Brazil, Bladerunner, Man Facing Southeast, Last Images of The Shipwreck, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, It's A Wonderful Life, Viet Nam: Long Time Coming, Unprecedented, Uncovered, Dead Man, Welcome To The Dollhouse, City Of Lost Children, Dark City, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, eXistenZ, Waking Life, Punch Drunk Love, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Forbidden Planet, Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea, White Zombie, Life of Brian, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill!, Napoleon Dynamite, Sir! No Sir!, Vanilla Sky, Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Sicko, Cannibal Holocaust, Jacob's Ladder, Holy Mountain, The Corporation, Strange Culture, Little Miss Sunshine, The Power of Nightmares
Gumby, Felix The Cat, Teletubbies, SpongeBob Squarepants, Conan O'Brien, South Park, The Simpsons, Bill Moyers, The Daily Show, Fireball XL-5, The Thunderbirds, Ver Para Creer, Al Rojo Vivo, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Land of the Lost, PeeWee's Playhouse, The Colbert Report
VALIS by Philip K. Dick, UBIK by Philip K. Dick, The New Inquisition by Robert Anton Wilson, Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast, Futureland by Walter Mosley, The Dreaming Universe by Fred Alan Wolf, The Outsider by Colin Wilson, Cruel and Unusual by Mark Crispin Miller, The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis by Paul Levy, The Bush Junta edited by Mack White, Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film by Eric G. Wilson, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill, Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) by Mark Crispin Miller, The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick, The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr. by Eric G. Wilson, The Burning Time by Robin Morgan, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick, Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick, Breaking Open The Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf, The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Anne Norton, The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege by Damon Linker
Rosa Parks, Emma Goldman, Jackie Robinson, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Woody Guthrie, Nelson Mandela, Emiliano Zapata, Greg Palast, Joe Hill, Harry Hoxsey, Lenny Bruce, Maria Sabina, Wilhelm Reich, Victor Jara, Ehren Watada