Member Since: 12/10/2005
Band Website: vii23.imeem.com
Band Members:
:: VII23 is Vid :: Vid Is :: The Avatara VII23 :: A Member Of Form B Music :: A Metakinetics.Com Artist :: A Member of the Platinum Design Crew :: Co Founder of V & V Productions :: Photonic Trancemission (VJ Company Owner/Operator) :: Co-Refounder of DesertFM.Com // DesertFMRadio.Com (A 24 Hour Electronic Music Internet Radio Station) :: Lord Kephra (DJ / Producer) :: Psychic GraFX (Graphic Design Firm Owner/Operator) :: Synchronistic Events LLC (Promotional / Event Production Company Owner/Operator) :: He is also :: Founding Member of The Guardians of the Underworld aka Cerberus Promotions :: New AEon Productions :: and :: A Member of Underground Productions Films ::
Influences:
I am influenced by books I read - here is a short list of some important tomes...
Promethius Rising, The Illuminati Paperz, Book 4, Liber Aleph, The Book of Lies, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Bio-Computer, Enochian Sex Magick, The Golden Dawn, Mantras - Sacred Words of Power, The Magickians Companion, Real Magick, Summoning Spirits, Teachers of Fulfillment, 777, Equinox of the Gods, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Zen Flesh - Zen Bones, Zen Mind - Beginners Mind, Practical Sigil Magick, Did I mention The Illuminati Papers? (Lexi, Lexi, Lexi - I told you it wasn't a two week read - heheh :) Cosmic Trigger 1 - 2 - 3, Exo-Psychology, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming, Liber Null, Chaos Magick, Goetia, The Book of the Law, Qabalistic Tarot, The Secret Temple, Eight Lectures on Yoga, Tao Te Ching, Tantra, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Magickal Record of the Beast 666, Liber Kaos, Psychonaut, Basic Magick, The Bhagavad Gita, Did I Mention Book 4? ;) Damn that's a good book. Man and His Symbols, Principia Discordia, The Reality of a Dreamer, and more, more, more....
A very - very significant influence in my work is the movies I watch - love - and know by heart - I sample them - and I put them in my visualz - and then I weave it together into a story that is all my own - thus - like when I was child - I am a weaver again...
Some movies I love would include:
Indiana Jones (all of them) - The Last Starfighter, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, I (Heart) Huckabees, Baraka, Chronos, Infinity's Child, The Mind's Eye, Beyond The Mind's Eye, The Princess Bride, Dune, Slacker, Ice Pirates, Space Hunter, Mad Max, Snatch, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Sin City, Pulp Fiction, Kundun, Back To The Future, Fight Club, The Neverending Story, Star Wars, StarGate, The Matrix, Brazil, Time Bandits, Gattaca, Four Rooms, The Goonies, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Legend, Sleeper, LA Story, Eraserhead, Contact, Lawnmowerman, The Lord of the Rings, Beavis and Butthead Do America, Un Chien Andolou, Exterminating Angel, The Golden Age, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Akira, The Animatrix, Bladerunner, The Road Warrior, Ghost In The Shell, Orgasmo, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Aliens, Alien, Lifeforce, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, GhostBusters, What the Bleep Do We Know, The Last Samurai, Poltergeist, Electric Dreams, Aeon Flux, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Mulholland Dr, The Meaning of Life, Reservoir Dogs, Scarface, Last Temptation of Christ, Point Break, Office Space, Sliding Doors, Edward Scissorhands, Ladyhawk, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Hobbit (Animated), The Return of the King (Animated), The Terminator, T2, Total Recall, Labyrinth, The Valley of the Wind, Wizards, A Brief History of Time, The Doors, Light Years, Natural Born Killers, A touch of Evil, and more - adding to list daily as I remember...
My interestes influence me - I am interested in Metaphysics, Neuropsychology, Anthropology, Ancient Religions, Comparative Religions, Paleobotany, Geology, Abnormal Psychology, High Magick, Tibet, Buddhism, Taoism, Zen, Cha-an, Quabala, Numerology, Gematria, Occult, Enochian Magick, Secret Languages, Chaos Magick, Semantics, Information Theory, Chaos Theory, Quantum Theory, Quantum Physics, Non-Euclidean Geometry, Sacred Geometry, Astrology, Genetic Memory, The Subconscious, Ancient Egypt, The Toltec, The Maya, Ancient Civilizations, Music, Dancing, Evolution, Genetics, Informatics, Technology, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Psychokinetic Phenomena, Paleontology, Origins of Language, Mathematics, English, Writing, Poetry, Sociology, Altered States of Consciousness, Space Migration, The Future, Movie Making, Music Making, Application Development, Invention, Innovation, Did I Mention Ancient Religions? ;) Mythology, Archetypes, Symbolism, Language, The Origins of Words, The Underground, The Unusual, Surrealist Art, Surrealist Film, Architecture, Sculpture, Digital Art, Sociology, Film Production, Photography, Dreams, Visions, Philosophy, VJing, DJing, Promoting, Producing, Networking, Teching, Dream Yoga, Meditation, Tarot, Runes, Oracles, Development of Psycic Ability, Synchronicity, Centropy, Reincarnation, Past Lives, Tolkien, Information Technology, The Internet, Thelema, The Golden Dawn, Summoning, Invocations, Banishings, Ancient and Modern Calendars, The Movement of the Stars, Time, Space, Faster Than Light Travel and Communication.
And the incarnations / reflections of my soul that I admire influence me - such as
Aleister Crowley, Isis, Horus, Osiris, Sekh-Met, Bastet, Thoth, Nepythys, Ptah, Ra, Hermes, Diana, Tara, Babaji, Robert Anton Wilson, Steven Spielberg, Israel Regardie, Buckminster Fuller, Bart Prince, Paolo Soleri, Santiago Calatrava, JRR Tolkien, Ghandi, The Dalai Lama, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Hadit, Nuit, The Beast, Tut Ankh Amon, Ra-Hoor Khuit, My Mother and Father, Steve @ The Firm, Silence, Kairo, MC Escher and there is more - but that is enuff for now.
Sounds Like: Hopefully - I sound like those groups / DJs and notable souls whom I listen to and admire.
Underground Muziq is my Life
But I also Enjoy A Lot of Classic Rock, And Wave Eighties.
Some of my favorite groups would include: The Doors, Pink Floyd, Atmosphere, Electric Skychurch, Rabbit In The Moon, Uberzone, Kairo, Silence, Boards of Canada, Bassnectar, Kraddy, Mystic Vision, Abstract, Maintain. Dr Vinyl, Meat Katie, The Orb, Orbital, Moby, Epsilon, Adem Joel, Genika, Dara, UNKLE, Esque, PMT, Higher Intelligence Agency, BT, Robert Oleysyck, John Creamer, Rennie Pilgrem, Simply Jeff, Donald Glaude, and more
Record Label: Unsigned
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