Zina profile picture

Zina

zinarcotics

About Me

..WATCH ZINA'S DIRECTOR'S REEL HERE!

My Interests

Aeons, Ancient Artifacts, Apocalypse Therapy, Badlands, Bizarre Fruit, Blood Infusions, Blue Lotus, Bottled Dreams, Calea Zacatechichi, Carnivorous Clouds, Chinese Herbalism, Cloudberries, Condemned Buildings, Daemonic Aesthetic, Dead Stars, Dream Entities, Elixirs, Epics, Ethnobotanicals, Exploration, Fireworks, Flying Ointment, Ginger Golds, Hagfish, Hyaenas, Impossible Distances, Interdimensional Travel, Lightning Resurrection, Liquid Mercury, Lost Items, Lucidity, Luck, Luminescent Jellyfish, Lunar Influences, Lupine Forms, Mandrake Root, Mugwort, Mushrooms, Mutant Abilities, Mythic Theft, Nebula, Obscure References, Occultism, Oneirozoology, Prophecy, Phosphorescence, Protoplasmic Liqueurs, Random Encounters, Rare Teas, Ratspeak, Reality Roulette, Reckless Summoning, Ring-tailed Lemurs, Shoggoths, Sigils, Skeleton Keys, Spontaneous Decapitation, Sulphur Burns, Synchronicity, The Shadowless Kick, The Wendigo, Things That Glow, Translucent Skin, Trapdoors, Undead, Underground Lairs, Vampire Squid, Vauge Plans, Vincent Black Shadows, Weird Skills, Wu Xia, Zymotic Brews

I'd like to meet:

Mutants, Visionaries, Dream-World Explorers. And any film people, actors/actresses, or designers looking to collaborate on future projects and force our visions on an unsuspecting world...



Music:

16 Horsepower, AC/DC, Amon Tobin, Arovane, Azam Ali, Bellmer Dolls, Bjork, Black Sabbath, Black Sun Empire, Bob Dylan, Boiled in Lead, The Bronx, Butthole Surfers, Carina Round, Celtic Frost, Cowboy Junkies, Coyote Oldman, Cranes, Daisy Chainsaw, Dead Can Dance, Dead Kennedys, Deadboy and the Elephantmen, Espers, Devendra Banhart, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Spooky, Download, The Duke Spirit, Ekova, The Fever, Ghost, Gillian Welch, Gogol Bordello, Gong, Guns n Roses, Howlin' Wolf, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Incredible String Band, Iron and Wine, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Karsh Kale, KatieJane Garside, Legendary Pink Dots, Lightnin' Hopkins, M.I.A., Mala Rodriquez, Massive Attack, Mastodon, Mazzy Star, Melechesh, Ministry, Morgenstern, Motorhead, Mr. Bungle, Mum, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Poison 13, Portishead, Piledriver, The Pouges, Reverend Horton Heat, Rolling Stones, Secret Chiefs 3, Shpongle, Swans, The Switch, Syd Barrett, Tom Waits, Vladislav Delay, Velvet Underground, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movies:

Aguirre Wrath of God, Amelie, Baraka, Blade Runner, Brotherhood of The Wolf, Brothers Quay, City of God, City of Lost Children, Dark Crystal, The Descent, Evil Dead 2, House of Flying Daggers, Iron Monkey, Lost In Translation, Lucifer Rising, Maya Deren, Memento, Metropolis, Mulholland Drive, Murnau's Faust, Musa The Warrior, Oldboy, Ong Bak: Thai Warrior, Prospero's Books, Road Warrior, Run Lola Run, Seven Samurai, Seventh Seal, Spirited Away, Time Bandits, Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, Vivre Sa Vie, Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain, and movies with Zombies...

Television:

Uh..., old Doctor Who, the Young Ones, Danger Mouse, TV rot brain as child, no more please...

Books:

Archaic Revival, Black Elk Speaks, Casteneda, Cosmic Trigger, Das Energi, Dreamgates, The Essential Rumi, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fingerprints of the Gods, The Goetia, Herbs and Their Occult Uses, His Dark Materials, Liber Aleph: The Book of Wisdom or Folly, LOTR, The Master and Margarita, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Neverwhere, Planetary, The Power of Myth, Promethea, Sorcerer's Apprentice, World War Z, anything by H.P. Lovecraft ...

Heroes:

Silver Surfer, The Man With No Name, John Dee

My Blog

New videos on the way!

Stayed tuned!  I've finished directing and producing two new music videos, one for the amazing NYC band The Switch and another for a singer/songwriter named Elizabeth Tryon.  They should bot...
Posted by Zina on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:52:00 PST

50 Questions...

50 Questions...1. So, what did you do all day?:Let's just say I have an intimate knowledge of fine restaurants in TriBeCa. Additionally, my thighs hurt.2. What is the most expensive thing you've boug...
Posted by Zina on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:05:00 PST

Uh... why are you covered in blood?

I was by myself, going to meet a friend in the west village at around 1 am or so. I turned a corner and started walking behind three teenage kids, a boy and two girls, probably not any older than 18 o...
Posted by Zina on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:35:00 PST

GK2 plays in London film festival

The Karsh Kale video i wrote/directed, GK2, was asked to be in a London festival. Looks like fun, too bad I can't make it out there...http://www.chilifilmfestival.com/
Posted by Zina on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:02:00 PST

Wind and stars..

..are all that can save me now.
Posted by Zina on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:12:00 PST

Check out the video I directed for Still Life Decay...

It's here:DETACH (Featuring Burton C. Bell from Fear Factory)
Posted by Zina on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:29:00 PST

Everything you never wanted to know about me

1. What does your MySpace name mean?Zoastroism Is NEVER Appropriate.2. Elaborate on your primary photo?I'm in it.3. Who introduced you to Myspace?You did, you thoughtless bastard.4. How many comments ...
Posted by Zina on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:09:00 PST

Video update

Stay tuned for the nearly-finished, face-melting music video for Still Life Decay, currently on nation-wide tour...Also in the works:  Plauge-ridden post-apocalyptic 3-D action, courtesy Ant-Zen ...
Posted by Zina on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:32:00 PST

Morgenstern Uber Alles!

So our super-extended music video(s) for the German Noise band Morgenstern was just screened at the Maschinenfest Festival in Germany!  We miraculously completed 50 minutes of video in just one m...
Posted by Zina on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:38:00 PST

Our Video accepted into the New York Vigilante Film Festival!

Rock. Just found out the video I directed is gonna be in another festival, the New York Vigilante Film Festival! It's not happening for a couple months, but should be a blast (they have a Mutant Bike ...
Posted by Zina on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST