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Mitch Maraude

Maraude is the Kerouac of horror.

About Me

anti-consumer - anti-state - anti-television - anti-corporate - modified - passionate - free - radical - uncompromising - political - nearly fearless - lost in thought - on the brink - anthropologist - writer - digital artist - historian - mc - martial artist - reader - impressed by intellectuals - not impressed by pretty faces

My Interests

+: Knowledge, Wisdom & Understanding, intellectuals, artists, free-thinkers, graffiti, martial arts, art/music*/film**/literature***, entheogens, theorists, horror, stimulating conversation, cyberpunk, anthropology, cannabis, hallucinogens, camaraderie, real friends, road trips, sneaker culture, theoretical physics, Taoist internal alchemy, Sufism, Supreme Mathematics.

-: drama, liars, scenesters, fakes, ignorance, arrogance, greed, government, pop music, idiots, guys who wear girls jeans.

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I'd like to meet:

sterling conversationalists/artists/streetcorner philosophers/intellectuals of all stripes.

Music:

* underground hip-hop, raggacore, drum n bass, jungle, ragga, dub, ska, reggae, dancehall, rocksteady

Movies:

** apocalypse now, pi, tetsuo the iron man, ichi the killer, versus, battle royale, ghost dog, true romance, fight club

Television:

will cause your brain to die, then become revitalized as an undead parasite that steers you towards mindless consumption.

Books:

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fiction: william s. burroughs, joseph conrad, neal stephenson, william gibson, charles bukowski, mark leyner, rudy rucker, jeremy robert johnson, chuck palahniuk

nonfiction: manly p. hall, william cooper, ward churchill, stephen hawking, frijtof capra, steven jay gould, joseph campbell, guy murchie, daniel pinchbeck

Heroes:

joseph campbell, alan watts, manly p. hall

My Blog

From a review of Bare Bone 9

"Never Let Go" by Mitch Maraude starts off as a sad, tragic, heartfelt tale that ends in a psychotic, macabre manner. Well, this is a horror antho. While readers will certainly sympathize with the mai...
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:02:00 PST

Career Opportunities...

I just sent this letter to summum.us, the world's only modern mummification temple:Dear Sir or Madam:I became aware of your mummification services some time ago while doing anthropological research on...
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:15:00 PST

thoughts on waiting for the path at wtc

there's something about waiting for trains in the cold - it reminds me of physics. reminds me of thinking about einstein thinking about a cop chasing someone on a train that moving at the speed of lig...
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:11:00 PST

Before we step into the cold morning, headed to our cubes...

The morning commute is a horrorshow.I believe that New Yorkers have a culturally dispersed coping mechanism whereby they deal with fear by displaying anger. Consider: - the NYC subway scene in the Bor...
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:31:00 PST

John Edward Lawson Reviews Are You For AD Sex? and Other Stories!

A Review of Are You for AD Sex? and Other Works by Mitch Maraude  by John Edward Lawson    Mitch Maraude has been described as "the Jack Kerouac of horror," and he surely does draw fro...
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:36:00 PST

Tragically American

For whatever reason, I can find no better phrase to describe the experience of a weeklong leisure cruise than tragically American. Its a bizarre microcosm  a floating mutant city  part Vegas, par...
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:16:00 PST

A Haiku

Cold, rotting corpses - stiffs on slabs - tons and tons of meat, still and silent.
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Available Online for the First Time Ever!

my short story are you for ad sex? is included in the present issue of dream people.  the magazine is available online at http://www.dreampeople.org.  let me know what you think!...
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

on drug use...

the recreational use of drugs is highly criticized in our society - drug users are demonized as addicts (while the doe eyed masses entranced by their "must see tv" are average americans), portrayed as...
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Time Magazine... SHAME!

From SBS: GEORGE W BUSH TIMES MAN OF 2004 "Managing editor Jim Kelly wrote that Time chose President Bush for sticking to his guns and for reshaping the rule of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat...
Posted by Mitch Maraude on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST