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Psychological Operations

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour. - Lenny Bruce

About Me


A BRIEF PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
If you know, you know.
This is my relatively personal profile so I only accept or submit 'friend' requests from people, bands, or movies that I'm really into.
Please direct generic "trying to drum up more memebers for our friends list" drives to the FEARWERX profile , which I moderate. I'll accept anybody on that profile. Unless the profile gets deleted or starts generating spam. Then I go in and do a surgical strike and delete their ass.
I'm not trying to get in any trouble over the internet.
Save your bullshit and drama for your free time.
If you have issues, I don't want a subscription.
I've got more than enough grief already.
I also have enough real-life friends already, but I like being introduced to ideas and things and meeting interesting people for the purpose of punching stupid people in the back of the head like the docile sheep they are.
Either you're a sheep or a wolf. Which are you?
Thankfully I don't really sleep.Because I don't want to miss a minute.The irons are hot.It's time to start striking them.I'm a published author.An award winning film-maker.A staff journalist for one of the world's most popular horror-themed websites.A great salesman.And a national horror convention merchandising manager.Who wants some?Or who wants in?I'm through with people that like to talk about doing stuff.People that have these great ideas but never seem to get anything done.Fuck you, punks, take a seat.I'm sure you'll finish the next great American novel or the next great American horror movie, or your band's really going to take off and get big someday.But until then you're just talk.I have nothing in common with talkers.I'm over here with the people that follow through with what they say and do things.I'm over here with the tough, smart, capable, ambitious sons of bitches that you're going to have to kill in their sleep to get out of your way.And you know I don't sleep.You're either with me, or you're in my fucking way.And if you don't like me, keep my fucking name out of your mouth.Just because I'm nice to you doesn't mean that I don't hear about the things that you say when I'm not around because you're trying to score points off of me and you think that there's no way that it will get back to me.Everybody talks.I wouldn't say shit if my mouth was full of it, because I always say what I mean and mean what I say.I gave up sarcasm in eleventh grade when I got back from basic training.But your average person loves to hear their own voice and they couldn't keep a secret if their life depended on it.I know things that no one else will ever know even after I'm dead.I probably know things about you or things that you told me that I haven't told anybody else because you asked me not to.I've let a dozen people tell me the same "secret" and acted surprised every time I heard it.Because I keep my friends close and my enemies where I can see them.I don't talk badly about people unless I'm trying to save other people from wasting time and effort on someone or something.And even then, I don't talk badly often because it's a waste of time.I'm perfectly happy to let people that are destined to fail just fail on their own.I don't need to kick anyone when they're down.I'm fucking awesome. I don't need to score points off anyone.So do what you're gonna do.But if you burn me, you're fucking dead to me.I don't believe anything matters on a long enough timeline. Everything will end up in the landfill after you die. And when the sun goes supernova in five billion years it will all be reduced to nothing more than space dust. So we might as well live for the moment.
I review horror and paranormal books for a couple places. I've been published by the following...
ICONS OF FRIGHT E-ZINE: http://www.iconsoffright.com/ or MySpace
SCARS MAGAZINE: www.scarsmagazine.com or MySpace
SCREAMS OF TERROR E-ZINE: http://www.screams-of-terror.com/ or MySpace
And my reviews have been used in whole or in part for the promotion of several of the books I have reviewed.
Like here... Ghosts of Long Island
And here... The Blood Rider
I finished a book I was contracted to write on haunted happenings in Long Island, "Spooky Creepy Long Island" by Schiffer Books .
You can order it here: SPOOKY CREEPY LONG ISLAND
I work for a horror-themed t-shirt and merchandise company.
FearWerx @ http://www.fearwerx.com/
I've been hired as International Convention Manager for 2008.
Which basically means that my job is to go out to horror conventions across North America and make sure that the Fearwerx booth runs smoothly and makes a profit.
Fearwerx will be at over 20 horror conventions next year, so if you notice that we're coming to your town, drop me a line. We're always looking for table help.
[Updated 2008 schedule of conventions will be posted when approved.]
At the very least, stop by and check out the table. It would be awesome to meet new people. If you buy something that would be even more awesome.
THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT SCOTT LEFEBVRE:
Scott Lefebvre counted to infinity - twice.
Scott Lefebvre does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Scott Lefebvre goes killing.
Scott Lefebvre does not sleep. He waits.
If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not Scott Lefebvre.
Scott Lefebvre's tears cure cancer. Too bad he never cried.
Every time Scott Lefebvre smiles it saves the life of a dying man.
Ironically, Scott Lefebvre only smiles after he kills someone.
The chief export of Scott Lefebvre is fear.
Someone once tried to tell Scott Lefebvre that he might be wrong about something. This has been recorded by historians as the worst mistake anyone has ever made.
Scott Lefebvre frequently donates blood to the Red Cross. Just never his own.
Scott Lefebvre once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell them there was a stripper in it.
Scott Lefebvre doesn't use pickup lines, he simply says, "Now."
Scott Lefebvre can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and winking.
Like a Russian Nesting Doll, if you were to break Scott Lefebvre open you would find another Scott Lefebvre inside, only smaller, tougher, and angrier.
Scott Lefebvre is like a dog, not only because he can smell fear, but because he can piss on whatever the fuck he wants, and anything he pisses on is marked as his for life.
Scott Lefebvre likes to knit sweaters in his free time. And by "knit", I mean "kill", and by "sweaters", I mean "stupid people".
It was once believed that Scott Lefebvre actually lost a fight to a clan of ninjas, but that is a lie, created by Scott Lefebvre to encourage clans of ninjas to attack him.
Ninjas never were very smart.
Achilles was supposedly the greatest warrior of all time, but he died because of his weak spot, the Achilles tendon. There is no Scott Lefebvre tendon.
There's no such thing as a tornado. Scott Lefebvre just hates trailer parks.
When Scott Lefebvre does push-ups, he does not push himself up. He pushes the Earth down.
The first lunar eclipse took place after Scott Lefebvre challenged the sun to a staring contest.
Scott Lefebvre always wins.
Newton's fourth law of physics: Don't fuck with Scott Lefebvre.
The scientific community recently added Scott Lefebvre to the Periodic Table of Elements. (SLeF). His atomic number is Infinity.
There were plans to develop a cologne named after Scott Lefebvre, but it was proven unnecessary when research showed that 95% of women already think about Scott Lefebvre during sex.
There is no such thing as global warming. Scott Lefebvre was cold, so he turned the sun up.
Scott Lefebvre actually built the stairway to heaven.
Scott Lefebvre doesn't play god. Playing is for children.
Scott Lefebvre cannot love, he can only not kill.
If you can see Scott Lefebvre, he can see you.
If you can't see Scott Lefebvre, you are seconds away from death.
Scott Lefebvre can judge a book by its cover.
Most people pray to God when they say their evening prayers.
God prays to Scott Lefebvre.
Scott Lefebvre doesn't pray because his will is law, and reality fucking knows better.
Scott Lefebvre uses a night light. Not because Scott Lefebvre is afraid of the dark, but because the dark is afraid of Scott Lefebvre.
When Bruce Banner gets mad, he turns into the Hulk.
When the Hulk gets mad, he turns into Scott Lefebvre.
In a battle-royale between Batman, Darth Vader, and Robocop, the winner would be Scott Lefebvre.
Scott Lefebvre doesn't wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.
Scott Lefebvre grinds his coffee with his teeth and boils the water with his own rage.
Think of a hot woman. Scott Lefebvre did her.
Scott Lefebvre sleeps with a pillow under his gun.
Some people get honorary degrees from universities.
Scott Lefebvre gets honorary black belts.
Scott Lefebvre doesn't daydream. He's too busy giving other people nightmares.
Scott Lefebvre is the exception that proves the rule.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the pen is held by Scott Lefebvre.
Scott Lefebvre once killed a salesman... over the phone.
Scott Lefebvre can sneeze with his eyes open.
Scott Lefebvre knows the last digit of pi.
Scott Lefebvre's cel phone number is "1".
THE BUKOWSKI QUOTE GALLERY:
From 'Factotum':
"How in the hell can a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"
"I wasn't very good. My idea was to wander about doing nothing, always avoiding the boss, and avoiding the stoolies who might report to the boss. I wasn't all that clever. It was more instinct than anything else. I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave me a relaxed manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power."
From 'Pulp':
"It was a time for a tabulation, a tabulation of myself. All in all, I had made some good moves. I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of themoment. And those needs kept altering. It was a grim set-up and if you found yourself sleeping in your own bed at night, that alone was a precious victory over the forces. I'd been lucky but some of the moves I'd made had not been entirely without thought. But all in all it was a fairly horrible world and I felt sad, often, for most of the people in it."

My Interests

Interests:
Horror movies, "haunted" places, urban eploration, Chopin's Noctournes, People-watching, sushi, night, intense thunder and lightning storms, visiting other people's pets so I have all of the fun and none of the work, reading books, pretending to be more bitter and jaded than I actually am, existentialism, phenomenology, the meaninglessness of life, the illusion of free will, the absence of an omnipotent/omniscient higher power, death and dying, amorality, immorality, terror, fear, despair, hopelessness, helplessness, scars, a handful of hair, making out, glasses, pallor, non-stereotypical tattoos, travel, hockey, idealism, The Weather Underground, continuing with the conscious decision not to marry or have any kids, the "seven year plan", and possibly you.

Disinterests:
Humans, People that complain about being bored because they are unable to amuse themselves, Anyone who takes religion or politics too seriously, Anyone that tries to force their personal agenda on you, Whiners, football, baseball, basketball, musical theater, fans of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and probably you.

I'd like to meet:

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Joe Coleman, Henry Rollins, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and possibly you.

Music:



NEARLY FLAWLESS CDs:
What follows are nearly flawless CDs...

Jawbreaker: 'Dear You'
The Breeders: 'Pod'
Liz Phair: 'Exile in Guyville'
drowningman: 'How They Light Cigarettes in Prison'
Leonard Cohen: 'The Essential...'
Mary Lou Lord: Self-titled or 'City Sounds' bootleg EP
Elliot Smith: Self-titled off of Cavity Search Records
Bob Mould: 'Live at McCabe's'

And spoken word...

Henry Rollins: 'Everything'
Chuck Palahniuk: 'Stranger than Fiction'
Charles Bukowski: 'At Terror Street and Agony Way'
George Carlin: 'You Are All Diseased'
David Cross: 'It's Not Funny'

Music I like:
Tom Waits, John Coltrane, Angelo Badalamenti, Goblin, Jawbreaker [Dear You], Liz Phair [Exile In Guyville], Mary Lou Lord, Elliot Smith, Massive Attack, Portishead, Bjork, Morphine, The Pixies, drowningman, Dillinger Escape Plan, Neurosis, Dethklok, Seven Seconds, Avail, Depeche Mode, Dead Can Dance, Frederic Chopin, Nick Cave, Black Flag, The Dead Kennedys, The Ramones, Surf Rock, Horror Rock, etc.

Bands I've seen:
The Pixies, NIN, The Ramones, The Queers, Neurosis, drowningman, Dillinger Escape Plan, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Danzig, Social Distortion, Seven Seconds, Mary Lou Lord & Elliott Smith, Morphine, Reverend Horton Heat, Rollins Band, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Rasputina, The Dresden Dolls, Avail, Melt Banana, Thrall, The Melvins, Dropdead, The Pist, Mankind?, Thee Hydrogen Terrors, Radio to Saturn, Combustible Edison, The Itchies, The Amazing Royal Crowns, Showcase Showdown, and many more...

Movies:


The Universal Monster movies: Dracula, Daughter of Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummmy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Revenge of the Creature, The Creature Walks Among Us, White Zombie, Nadja, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Blood and Black Lace, Planet of the Vampires, Suspiria, Opera, David Cronenberg's Crash, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, History of Violence, Delamorte Dellamore, Nekromantik, Der Todesking, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Fulci's 'Zombie', Tombs of the Blind Dead, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Hellraiser 2: Hellbound, Rosemary's Baby, Polanski's 'Repulsion', Battle Royale, Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q, Tale of Two Sisters, Dans Ma Peau / In My Skin, Irreversible, I Stand Alone, The Vanishing, Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Secretary, Seven, Fight Club, Bad Lieutenant, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Ghost Dog, Seven Samurai, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, The Samurai Trilogy, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Buffalo '66, Brown Bunny, Chinatown, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Night of the Hunter, The Big Lebowski, A Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Boiler Room, Top Gun, The "Sympathy" Trilogy, The Samurai Trilogy, Anything with "Beat" Takeshi in it.

Television:


Twin Peaks, MST3K, The Kids in the Hall, The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ray Bradbury Theater, Friday the 13th: The Series, Invader Zim, The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Star Blazers, Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Brothers, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Night Court, The Movie Loft, The Henry Rollins Show, Spaced [UK], Mythbusters, Ghost Hunters, Six Feet Under, etc.
I mostly like shows that were cancelled because they were ahead of their time and since they're cancelled nobody's going to fuck them up and make me embarassed for enjoying them in the first place.
Either that or documentaries about the paranormal, unexplained, or forensic pathology, or mindless shows about motorcycles or tattoos or how things are made or things exploding into big bright fiery balls of death accompanied by human misery and people dying.
P.S.:No. I don't like Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Hercules, Xena, and although I thought that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn was a brilliant movie and I won't dive for the remote if a Star Trek episode comes on, I am NOT a Trekkie.
I tried to get into X-Files, but I just couldn't and I don't get what the big deal is about The Sopranos. I'd rather just watch Good Fellas a dozen times.
There are no shows that I watch religiously when they are broadcast because there are about a thousand other things I would rather be doing than sitting around waiting for a television show to come on.

Books:


Or rather by author:
Charles Bukowski

Bret Easton Ellis
Chuck Palahniuk
Douglas Coupland
Raymond Chandler
Ernest Hemingway
Henry Miller
Barry Gifford
Edward Gorey
Howard Philips Lovecraft
Richard Matheson
Helen Hoke
T. S. Eliot
Joseph Conrad
Walt Whitman
Kurt Vonnegut
Richard Brautigan
Tom Robbins
Albert Camus
Jean Paul Sartre
Charles Baudelaire
(...but only in French. I've never seen a good translation into English.)

Heroes:



Howard Philips Lovecraft
Charles Bukowski
Henry Miller
Douglas Coupland
Chuck Palahniuk
George Romero
Tom Savini
Mario Bava
Dario Argento
Frank Miller
Akira Kurosawa
Masamune Shirow
Takashi Kitano
Takashi Miike
Bob Flanagan
Edward Gorey
Wilfred Dubois
Kevin Smith
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Henry Rollins
George Carlin
Denis Leary
Karate Werewolf

My Blog

Unsane from insomnia.

The problem with being insomniacal and housebound is that I lose track of what day it is. It's kind of cute. But it's awkward when I try to get ready like it's Monday and it's only Sunday. I called up...
Posted by Psychological Operations on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:57:00 PST

The persistent burden of already knowing everything you’ll ever need to know.

It's over. I'm intentionally embarking on a period of solitary refinement. I am without transportation and my acquaintances where I live are few. A perfect opportunity to get to know myself that much ...
Posted by Psychological Operations on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:46:00 PST

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."

Fuck death. Fuck it right in the mouth. Fuck it to death. Some people should really be around forever. Even if I'm not actively supporting their work. Johnny Cash.   Kurt Vonnegut. &nbs...
Posted by Psychological Operations on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:06:00 PST

I sneezed last night and I thought I was going to die.

I sneezed and my back locked up and I couldn't breathe. It was like my chest was locked into its shallowest breathing position. I moved very slowly and got down onto the floor and took shallow breaths...
Posted by Psychological Operations on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:06:00 PST

Am I the only one...

...that thinks that 'Christmas Time is Here' is one of the saddest songs ever?
Posted by Psychological Operations on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:01:00 PST

Car totalled. Nothing broken. Nothing bleeding. Just pissed.

The e-mail I sent my boss from the sidewalk: Seriously.Pulling out of the Old Country Road post office some senile old fuck nails my left front end and turns me 90 degrees.Their front end is cracked a...
Posted by Psychological Operations on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:43:00 PST

Complete clusterfuck

So irritated and irritable. But nonetheless excited. All three 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' movies have commentaries and I've been cycling through the commentaries. At work, the orders for our stu...
Posted by Psychological Operations on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:46:00 PST

BOOK REVIEW: ’Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades’ by John Edward Lawson

BOOK REVIEW: 'Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades' by John Edward Lawson' (2005 Afterbirth Books) Review by Scott Lefebvre [[email protected]] So I finally finished John Edward Lawson's 'Pocket...
Posted by Psychological Operations on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:31:00 PST

Been there.

I've been there. When you run out of things that could possibly go wrong. Anger is the cleanest burning fuel. But most people don't run on anger. They run on television and junk food. Thinking too muc...
Posted by Psychological Operations on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:27:00 PST

I just wanted to destroy something beautiful.

So tired. So tired I ache. My muscles are sore and my teeth feel wierd. My skin feels like it doesn't fit quite right. I've slept, like, three hours in the past two days. I'm not staying up intentiona...
Posted by Psychological Operations on Fri, 30 May 2008 09:35:00 PST