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thornswrath

This Broken Soul

About Me

Undead and Unwed. Graduated from High School as a Pink Floyd Casualty about a quarter century ago (1983). Back then I saw the movie version of The Wall 13 times in the theater; since then I got married, divorced, seen Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and faun fables several times, recently saw Winterthrall, Bonded by Blood, and Warbringer, and enjoyed RUSH 15 times, KORN 16 times, Jonathan Davis Once, TOOL 9 times, Pink Floyd 4 times, Roger Waters 4 times, dredg 7 times, incubus 6 times, Yes 4 times, the Mars Volta 3 times, King Crimson on 2 seperate occasions, laurie anderson twice, peter gabriel twice, guns and roses twice, aerosmith twice, and pearl jam and boy hits car once; the metal bands I've witnessed live in bleeding flesh include Celtic Frost, Crimson Moon, Kreator, Arsis, Opeth, Metallica, Suffocation, Behemoth, Vader, Krisiun, Decapitated, Cripple Bastards, Intestinal Strangulation, Phobia, Skinless, Slayer, Anal Blast, 88 metal bullets, Demon Sword, Gravecode Nebula, and I've seen The Obliterate Plague, Ibex Throne, Terra Noir, Yaotl Mictlan, Incendiant, Mindlock, Thunderfist, Die Monster Die, Desolate Realm, the Supersuckers, Hank III, the Melvins & The Pagan Dead too many times to count. I'm lovin' a motherlode of music from Ambient to Blackmetal. I dedicated my second book of poems ("On Mount Drone") to Brian Eno, and personally gave him a copy in the early 90s. Now I live nearby the evaporating inland sea in what used to be the northernmost portion of Aztec territory.First and foremost I am a poet expressively put here in order to help pinpoint that enigmatic region that exists between us and of which we are all more than merely parts. As far as I'm concerned, the closest clue to a creator is spelled D,N,A. We appear to be the co-creators of divinity as much as its destroyers. So long as a certain thriving diversity in this ecosystem is maintained and perpetuated, does it matter how much of it we strike down in our egotistical quests for dominance and superiority? I do not know (but it sure is getting tiresome watching the monkeys run things). Get prepared to duck 'n' cover, there's always another Shrapnelstorm developing...

My Interests

UNlearning, I Don't Wanna Grow Up, Reading, writing, swimming, sleeping, bicycling, hiking, drawing, music, listening to records or cassettes, avoiding TV, going to the movies, seeing concerts, watching DVDs, VHS, walking, talking, unplugging, avoiding routine, eliminating refined sugar from my diet, eating natural foods and fruits, drinking mainly water, honey, cold beer, bee pollen, yagermeister, tequila, royal jelly, wine, mead, listening to deathmetal, dark imaginings, fingerpaintings of the insane, losing my mind, finding yours, posting online, chocolate sometimes, opinionated nonjudgmentalism, poisons that are sweet, stars, galaxies, constellations, incineration, sublimation, evaporation, and neologisms.

I'd like to meet:

DEAD: Most of all I would like to meet Philip K. Dick. Also: John Lennon, William Butler Yeats, Isidore Ducasse, William Blake, Ambrose Bierce, James Joyce, Hart Crane, Mark Twain, Italo Calvino, Carl Sagan, Terence McKenna, Aldous Huxley, Robert Anton Wilson, Kurt Vonnegut, Gary Gygax, Albert Hoffman ...
ALIVE: Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Alan Moore, A.A. Attanasio, Ray Bradbury, Dax Riggs, Johnny Lydon, Samuel R. Delany, Stephen King, Rudy Rucker, Richard Linklater, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Stephen Hawking, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Pinchbeck, Bonnie Prince Billy*, Jon Davis, Munky, Fieldy, David, Brian, George A. Romero, John Skipp, a random bum, a serial killer, and an astronaut. I've already met John Shirley, Bob Dylan, John Doe, Will Oldham & Eddie Spaghetti, so I'm doin pretty good.

Music:

Always best live, but in the studio I like it to be: Acid Bath, Agents Of Oblivion, Deadboy & the Elephantmen, Dax Riggs, metal, death, black, doom, punk, rock, crossover, thrash, crust, grind, ambient, ritual, magick, darkwave, folk, blues, hard country, classical, post-rock, Eno, KORN, the Supersuckers, HANK III and The Devil Makes Three

Movies:

George A. Romero's Diary Of The Dead, Cloverfield, The Mist, BUG, HOT FUZZ, GRINDHOUSE, The Host, 300, Pan's Labyrinth, There Will Be Blood, Children Of Men, Rescue Dawn, THE FOUNTAIN, OLD JOY, Casino Royale, the Protector, HERO, A Scanner Darkly, SIN CITY, KILL BILL, Pi, Birdy, and the classics like, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, ERASERHEAD, SANTA SANGRE, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Amores Perros, The Wicker Man (original), Never Cry Wolf, Land Of The Dead, Shaun Of The Dead, Evil Dead, Day Of The Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, Night Of The Living Dead, Evil Dead II, Army Of Darkness, Bad Lieutenant, The Jungle Book, Ben-Hur, Big Trouble In Little China, James Bond Movies, The Sound Of Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Devils, Pink Floyd The Wall, Le Grand Bleu, (The Big Blue), Fame, Mishima, Midnight Express, Star Wars, Alien, Aliens, Alien III, Alien Resurrection, The City Of Lost Children, Amelie, Delicatessen, Blade Runner, Slacker, WAKING LIFE, Fight Club, Near Dark, Martin, Knightriders, Split, The Fly, Videodrome, eXistenZ, Spider, Naked Lunch, Re-animator, From Beyond, Dagon, Phantasm, Spiderman, X-men, Spirited Away, Being There, Blue Velvet, 12 Angry Men, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, The Shining, Talk Radio, Natural Born Killers, Salvador, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Jaws, LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, This Is Spinal Tap, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Holy Mountain, El Topo

Television:

I don't watch TV. I have INVADER ZIM on dvd.

Books:

The Stealer Of Souls, Mister B. Gone, The Hellbound Heart, Un Lun Dun, Cinema Sewer, The Other END, LIGHT, NOVA SWING, The Children Of Hurin, Impossible Stories, Weaveworld, A Splendid Chaos, Heart Shaped Box, Silicon Embrace, Operator B, WIZARD the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla Biography Of A Genius, The Beforelife, Walking To Martha's Vineyard, God's Silence, White Buildings, The Illustrated Man, T Zero, The Lice, The Book Of Nightmares, The View From Hell, Lord Of The Flies, The Road, Blood Meridian, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Baron In The Trees, 100 Years Of Solitude, T-Zero, Wyvern, Solis, The Dragon and The Unicorn, Twice Dead Things, The Shadow Of The Wind, The Shining, The Lord Of The Rings, The Silmarillion, Wetbones, Demons, Spider Moon, The Neverending Story, Momo, Salem's Lot, Perfume, The Pigeon, VALIS, A Scanner Darkly, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Camp Concentration, A Clockwork Orange, Ring, Dhalgren, Nova, Triton, The Stand, The Dark Tower Series, Stranger In A Strange Land, The Door Into Summer, Orphans Of The Sky, Ringworld, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Le Chants de Maldoror, Satanskin, The Voice Of The Fire, The Wind In The Willows, Where The Wild Things Are, Coven, The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and The Origins Of Knowledge, Breaking Open The Head, Everything Is Under Control . . .

Heroes:

Debbie, Tim, and Paul (My Mom, my Brother, my Dad) ..
adopt your own virtual pet! ..

My Blog

BOB DYLAN BLEW US ALL AWAY

@ Deer Valley Mountain Ski Resort, Park City UTAH Sunday, August 31, 2008. Here's the setlist: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 When I Paint My Masterpiece Stuck Inside A Mobile w/the Memphis Blues...
Posted by thornswrath on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:02:00 PST

File Under "Soon To Become Extinct"

You know what items I think are highest on the "soon to become a thing of the past" list ? ~Balls. We who enjoy a fine set of these things (guys-?) should really marvel over the fact that, well that w...
Posted by thornswrath on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:38:00 PST

Opeths WATERSHED A Watershed Moment In Music History

   Watershed -  Opeth's 9th studio release  + Out TODAY  + Their 2nd album on Roadrunner records  + Their 1st album without (the formerly integral) Peter Lindgren  *...
Posted by thornswrath on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:12:00 PST

Go, Go, Go Wachowskis!

I loved The Wachowski's virtually flawless adaptation of Speed Racer, and although my inner 8 year old is alive and kicking, it wasn't that which made the movie for me. No, not by a long shot. What ma...
Posted by thornswrath on Mon, 12 May 2008 11:09:00 PST

>H

  Four years later, the first transhuman in vivo Minksian-Kurzweill clone emerges from its neonatal intensive care unit, eyes unblinking. Max would quickly grow to establish the first CORE school...
Posted by thornswrath on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:26:00 PST

Diary Of The Dead: The Real Deal

I haven't written a proper review for George A. Romero's Diary Of The Dead because, well because I don't want to spoil it for you! How do you spoil a zombie movie, you say (haha, nice question)? ...
Posted by thornswrath on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:41:00 PST

Edens after party

The underground has swallowed me up.I find it curiously dark in here yet illumination comes in the most unexpected ways. By blue cellphone light.  From a warm orange bic flame cupped in a hand.&n...
Posted by thornswrath on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:54:00 PST

Momma Sed

"Momma Sed" - puscifer wake up son o' minemomma got somethin' to tell you  changes comelife will have its waywith your pride, sontake it like a man hang on son o' minea storm is blowin' up your h...
Posted by thornswrath on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:07:00 PST

Eastern Promises Delivers

  I have to say Eastern Promises is a solid motherfucker of a movie. It manages to make A History Of Violence look like the comic book story it actually was. With his latest foray into gan...
Posted by thornswrath on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:23:00 PST

~ 1st Impression/Review of koRns unTitled ~

  I had to brush the dirt off my ass after hearing untitled. Ok so I was sitting in a grove of trees on a bare patch of ground; still, it's because the listening experience rooted me to the sp...
Posted by thornswrath on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:45:00 PST