tangible expressions of novelty. thistles. alchemy. freedom and its multiplicity of opposites. technology. mutation. botanical curiosities. brewing. witchcraft. the art and science of the will. beauty. destruction and decay. felines. obscure and arcane techniques and machines. poetry. fermentation. finding life and sentience where others neglect to seek it. grey and black. dark blues and purples. madness. poverty. water. vegetables. fruit. sleep. dictionaries and other reference sources. diagrams of celestial, cartographical, geological, or physical representations of otherwise invisible phenomena. semiotics. sigils. signal.
mad scientists, librarians, archivists, the secret chiefs, avatars, replicants, the truly free, the equally damaged glinting a radiance through their rough facets, the red woman, the wretched of the earth, hedonists, openness incarnate, anti-authoritarians, androids, metaprogrammers, savants, the possessed and the dispossessed, binah, medicine people, alchemists, hunter-gatherers, old souls & audrey tatou
mum, mogwai, GY!BE, aphex twin, autechre, sunn o))), fantomas, matt elliot, blonde redhead, dabrye, velvet underground, isis, slowblow, yacht, city of caterpillar, black heart procession, yaphet kotto, the blow, wolf eyes, 666 gangstaz, cex, caliphone, massive attack, chris clark, calexico, the anticon posse, pelican, the books, dillinger escape plan, mira calix, dirty three, st. vincent, a silver mt. zion, tom waits, low, kid 606, boards of canada, portishead, kronos quartet, bjork, rasputina, nommo ogo, radiohead, orchid, neutral milk hotel, cocorosie, emiliana torrini, .......
12 monkeys, videodrome, spirited away, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, metropolis, naked lunch, dead man, city of lost children, the day after trinity, marat sade, a scanner darkly, dr. strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, bum's paradise, amelie, stalker, fear and loathing in las vegas, wax or the discovery of television among the bees, pi, being john malkovich, saint clara, life and debt, ghost dog way of the samurai, raising arizona, blade runner, whats eating gilbert grape, brazil, dancer in the dark, magnolia, jesus camp, one flew over a cuckoos nest, requiem for a dream, fight club, a clockwork orange, faust, delicatessan, el topo, the shawshank redemption, v for vendetta, julien donkey-boy, alice in wonderland, sneakers, science of sleep, lost highway, a beautiful mind, spider, i heart huckabees, uzumaki, the holy mountain, pom poko, the corporation, the idiots, nói albÃnói, tideland, children of men, 2046, pan's labyrinth...
::: does not exist. only now we engage in mass mutual mind manipulation.
pharmako/poeia. pharmako/dynamis. pharmako/gnosis. one hundred years of solitude. Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.), snow crash. midnight's children. one river. magick in theory and practice. dark alliance. temporary autonomous zone. immediatism. tech/gnosis. alice's adventures in wonderland. detroit i do mind dying. the rats of NIMH. neuromancer. the invisibles. transmetropolitan. memoirs of my nervous illness. the god of small things. a thousand plateaus. TIHKAL. Time and the Highland Maya. cryptonomicon. VALIS. the spirit catches me and I fall down. the phantom tollbooth. the book of ladders. the long haul. do androids dream of electric sheep. stalking detroit. kabuki: metamorphosis. the cosmic serpent. oryx and crake. noise.
though heroism is pathetic idealism and a concept steeped in creepy patriarchal cowardice and dependence....I must recognize certain influences.grandfather, Nikola Tesla, Emma Goldman, Myles Horton, banksy, Ramona Africa, Richard Evans Schultes, Angela Davis, Abbie Hoffman, mom, John Dillinger, Lee Bontecou. .