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Kali

shemsu_kali

About Me

into trippy music, the macabre, indian and asian food (of the vegan sort), unique furniture...

uh, what do the egyptians call it? 'hubbly bubbly'?...yeah, I'm into that for sure-

spinning records on KFJC

...music and backpacking mainly,
local mycology and edible vegetation

i don't make enough time to read (beyond periodicals)...total shame-
and i play music with folks i dig...that about covers it.

huge props to KFJC 89.7 fm radio WFMU , and VPRO for the long standing commitment to far out sounds...decades of thanks!

My Interests

Music
Mythos
Mycology
KFJC
...call for Philip Morris
Escaping the city
Hanging lamps
Resonance
Live Gristle
Tesla toys & toaster strudel

I'd like to meet:

Raymond Scott, Erkin Koray, Konnie Plank, Vaughan Bode, Gonzo, Bowie of course. John Muir, Nikola Tesla, my Grandfather...most of my lineage for that matter, Steven R. Smith, Neil Young, Crowley, Christ, Alan Watts, Sun Ra, Would liked to have lined one up with old Walt, Pretty red mushrooms with little white dots, ancient cultures, our founder, etc.

Music:

heavy doses of the psychedelic

Crash Worship
Gravitar
Swans
Neurot
White Heaven
Sweet 'n Honey
Walter Wegmuller
Phillip Cohran
Far Out
Entheogens (IO Pan!)
International Harvester
Skullflower's Xaman!
Krokodil
Loop
Dead Fucking Meadow!
Funkadelic (only the first few...)
Overhang Party
Acid Mothers
The Seventh Seal (la musica)
a direct out from Bob Moog's head
Psychic Paramount
The Birthday Party
Wire et al
Ya Ho Wah
Ghost
Pelt
Sandy Bull
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Espers
Jack Rose
Matt Valentine
Bardo Pond
Guru Guru
Magic Hour
Once Dreamt
The Occasion
La Monte Young
Eno
Kluster
Harmonia
Organization
Cosmic Jokers
Kongotroniks
the EX
Fela
Ravi
Alan Watts
Magikal Power Mako
Gila
Stockhausen
Tietchens
Lustmord
Jean Cohan Solal
Quad
Sub Space
Siouxsie
Soft Machine
Gong
Heart
Stars Misplaced
Crimson
Iugula Thor
Arcane Device
Cranioclast
Wolfgang Press
Ron Granier, Dick Mills and
all at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henry
Morton Subotnick
a Rhodes Piano
Rapoon/Zoviet France
Caspar Brotzmann Massacre
(and his pops to!)
Vallium Ageleine
Can
Steven R. Smith/Hala Strana/Mirza
Neil Young
Black Flag
Brainbombs
Liquorball!
Comets/Six Organs
Ralf & Florian
Neu!
Noothgrush
Faust
Floyd
Popol Vuh
KFJC 89.7fm
Sun City Bukake Kang
David Redford Triad!!!
Brighter Death Now
Voice of Eye
Stratum Terror
Raison D'etre
Brume
Nigel Peppercock
Cheeseburger
Any & All Persian folk/classical
Alice Coltrane
Miles Electric
Alan Silva c. ESP
Soul Jazz Record Bags
Sunn
Boris
Scorn
Terminal Cheesecake
Justin Flesh Fucking Broadrick
Fucking Intense
Tivol
Hawkwind
Tab 25
Lysol
Noothgrush(that's right, twice bitch!)
Neurosis
and of course SLEEP!..OM!..HOF!..ASBESTOS DEATH!...SOUTH BAY MOTHERFUCKER!
heaviest at the bottom right?

Movies:

Holy Mountain (really any Alejandro Jodorowsky films)
Wizards, Pompeii, The Charles & Ray Eames series,
Acid Tests, Thursday Afternoon, Space is the Place, Brothers Quay, Brothers Coen,
Documentaries in general, Alice, Blade Runner, Tetsuo, Apocalypse Now,
Good Leone, Kurosawa, Truffaut, Fellini, Bergman, Errol Morris, etc.
There's plenty of awful shit I watch to.

Television:

Gave it up to play music

Books:

Tibetan Book of the Dead
Shakey
Alice Bailey
Falcon Hiking Guides

Heroes:

Bob Moog (first and foremost)

Mucha,
Vaughan Bode
Rolly Crump,
Gilbert Giron,
Bill Moyers?
Bo Ander Parssons,
Billy Bru, Noto,
Mike Dakon
Owsley, Kesey, Cassidy,
and the lot of 'em
John Muir, Adams, Gaudy, Ghandi
Raymond Scott, Oscar Sala, Theramin