"The only thing that exists are atoms and empty space. Everything else is opinion"-Democritus. Here are things I have opinions on:
The periodic table of elements, a werewolf's tailor, horror films, quantum physics, lycanthrope, android epistomology, life, death, and all the in between, aesthetically pleasing people, places and things, people who use drugs as an artistic endeavor, finding the pieces to the puzzle and learning through a process of trial and error that sometimes they just don't fit, good music, cause and effect, Duality and oppositon, materialist reduction of the mind/body problem, determinism, the power that lies in three chords, freewill, Horror culture (not to be confused with horticulture), The chemical composition of David Lynch's brain, Murphy's Law (The scientific theory, NOT the band), Natural Selection, Blackholes, Existentialism, Law of Thermodynamics, adjectives, the layers of hell, manipulating the order in disorder, Lord Byron and his debauched drug parties, Styx (the river, NOT the band), The Interzone, Being and Nothingness (the concept, not Sartre's book), the infinite abyss..(don't stare too hard), Filling the void completely and thoroughly and not just distracting myself with tomfoolery
I'd like to meet:
Geocentric solipsists. *Also*Dead rockstars and/or philosophers. To ask them if it's better to burn out or to fade away. Plus, how cool would it be to hang out with not only Morrison and Plato, but ZOMBIE Morrison and Plato. I'd ask Plato if he constantly took notes when he was hanging around with Socrates. John Lennon. I'd tell him "Imagine" is the solution to the world's problems, and graciously thank him for articulating it so well.
Music:
VelvetUnderground
Andrew Bird/ ROXY MUSIC/ TheDoors/ JoyDivision/ TheMagneticFields/ EchoandtheBunnymen/ Black Heart Procession/ CocteauTwins/ TheRamones/ Schubert/ TheSmiths/ JolieHolland/ EttaJames/ AngeloBadalamenti/ TimBooth/ TomWaits/ WorjechKilar/ HankWilliams(Sr.andIII)/ PeggyLee/ Buddy Holly/ NancyandFrankSinatra/ PatsyCline/ TheSonics/ TheBlackKeys/ Nico/ KeithMoon/ CatPower/ Portishead/ NickCave, andtheBadseeds /TheWhiteStripes/ Goldfrapp/ LorettaLynn/ TheYeahYeahYeahs/ BillieHoliday/ Calexico/ NinaSimone/ IronandWine/ TheStones(old school)/ MassiveAttack/ GuidedByVoices/ FatsDomino/ She Wants Revenge/ JohnnyCash/ Air/ TheModernLovers/ Edith Piaf/ BrianJonestownMassacre/ NeutralMilkHotel/ TheArcadeFire/ Mozart/ Ave Maria is awe inspiring..and a whole mess of others...
Movies:
Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this."
~ ~ Alejandro JodorowskyIt's a Wonderful Life, Dead Man, Citizen Kane, Amadeus, Nadja, Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, The Last Mimzy. All Tarrantino and Burton (both cinematic wizards who use alchemy to spin celluloid into gold) Metropolis, Bride of Frankenstein, American Psycho, The Ninth Configuration, Little Miss Sunshine, My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Before Sunset/Sunrise, Gothic, Naked Lunch, The Lost Boys, Annie Hall, Paper Moon, Altered States, Fight Club, The Ninth Gate, Dracula (Coppola), All David Lynch, Crybaby, Spellbound, Natural Born Killers, I Heart Huckabees, Boxing Helena, Fright Night, The Goonies, Re-Animator, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Burbs, Wings of Desire, Pet Semetary, The Hunger, KRULL, Basically any horror, independent or foreign film worth a damn. The John Hughes collection (formulated my disposition on life)...TBC
Television:
Anything that won't attempt to steal your soul. Nova. Lost. Antiques Roadshow.
Books:
Hesse, Joseph Campbell, Camus, Sartre, Garth Ennis, Bukowski, Burroughs, Twain, Alan Moore, Cormac MacCarthy, E Dickenson, N Hawthorne, Poe, Palahniuk, Blake speaks telepathically to my soul. Nick Cave is my favorite living poet. William Blake my favorite deceased. Dostoevsky. Kerouac. Rice, Thoreau. Byron. Plath. Parker. Woolf. (Percy and Mary)Shelley, Damasio,I want to find the Unification Theory that Einstein started in the novel I'm writing.
I aspire to explain the mysteries of this vast sensorium in a nutshell way, complete with formulaic equations that serve as a map or guide to living; using the almighty laugh-out-loud metaphors in the vein of T Robbins and the wisdom of J Campbell.
Heroes:
The Rebels with a Cause; My all time favs are the Devil, Camus, Blake, Milton, Joseph Campbell, Jim Morrison and Carl Jung. *ALSO* Chaucer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lucas, Mozart, Tom Robbins, Jean Luc Godard, Queen Elizabeth I, Orson Welles, Spinoza, Socrates, Kant, Marx, Jesus H.C., Epicurius, Richard Dawkins, Bob Dylan, Dali, Percy and Mary Shelley, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bathory, Zeus, Old Testament G.O.D., Stephen Hawking, Nikola Tesla(all other mad scientists for that matter), David Lynch, Charles Darwin, Jim Jarmusch, Dionysus, Johnny Depp, Al Einstein, Odysseus and other ubermensch. Also, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton for keepin' the fairytale alive. Generally, the folk who sneer at the path of least resistance and think outside the confines of the proverbial box.
