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Jesus of Babylon

About Me

I am a Cancer with an Aries moon. I used to work construction, then later decided to focus on film. I'm a San Diego transplant currently running around Iraq with a camera or notebook in hand, doing wierd things and meeting wierd people and doing a good job pretending like I know what I'm doing. I am a devout Orthodox Nihilist, those closest to me would say a fanatical extremist...if you combine pasta with an equal amount of antipasta, do they cancel out? Is there a bang?.
Note: In case you’re wondering about my MySpace name, I’m actually not being a heretic. My name really is Jesus, pronounced with an ‘H’ as is customary for South and Central Latin American males named Jesus. Now I’m not saying that I’m not a heretic, I’m just saying that it just so happens that in this particular instance I’m not being a heretic. And as for the ‘of Babylon’ part, I’m not being arrogant by attaching some fancy attachment to my ‘title’. I actually currently live about an hour away from Hillah, the former capitol of the Babylonian empire. Now I’m not saying that I’m not arrogant, I’m just saying that it just so happens that in this particular instance I’m not being that arrogant...
...but yea, I’m an arrogant heretic.

My Interests

Film, Music, Photography, Spirituality, Pirates, Mysticism, Art, Sacred Geometry, Filmmaking, Yoni Massage, Propaganda Analysis and Technique, Herbalism, Alchemy, Global Politics, Eldrich Technologies, Fetish Photography, Existensional Laws and Bureaucratic Procedures, Aroma Therapy, The Magi, Imperialism, Tantra, Firearms, Climbing, Pirating, Lei Lines, Exotic Items, The Aether, Photoshop, The Knights Templar, Nihilism, Gardening, Military Strategy & Tactics, Cuddling, Marksmanship, Physics, Reverse Neoplatonic Geopolitics, Traveling, Conspiracies as a Competitive Sport (Active Participation and Planning), Non-Linear Editing, Quantum Physics, Being a Pirate, Spooning, Omnidirectional Postideological Warfare, Candlelight Dinners, Bullet Dodging, The Hashishim, The Three Mistresses: Irony, Paradox, and Contradiction, The Patron Saint of Entropy.

I'd like to meet:

Sociopaths, megalomaniacs, fellow imperialists, witches, pirate collegues, lady pirates, deranged poets, macabre artists, killer clowns, sensitive war criminals, people who are strange because they're on drugs, people who are strange because they're not on drugs, fascists, anarchists, neoanarchist fascists. If you don't have issues, go bother someone else.
Oh yea, and film and music industry people. You don't have to have issues if you're in the music or film industry to contact me, but if you say you don't then you probably do. And if you really don't, then your work better be good enough to make up for it.
The only people for me are the mad ones ... the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

- Jack Kerouac

WHO I DON'T WANT TO MEET:
Pirate Hunters and Ninjas (sorry, due to recent traumatic and unfortunate events, I no longer associate with Ninjas).

Music:

Nick Cave, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Anathema, Theatre of Tragedy, Ulver, Bathory, Tristania, System of a Down, Dimmu Borgir, John Lee Hooker, Tiamat, Pantera, Samael, Bela Bartok, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Amon Tobin, Amorphis, Gogol Bordello, Apocalyptica, Opeth, Fields of the Nephilim, NOFX, Dismal Euphony, In Flames, Hank III, Moonlight, Lacrimosa, Danzig, Dead Can Dance, Slayer, Diamanda Gallas, My Dying Bride, Operatica, The Faint, Arcturus, Cradle of Filth, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Dark Tranquility, Bond, Mushroomhead, The Misfits, Opera IX, Red Elvises, Secret Chiefs 3, Zbigniew Preisner, Portishead, Mr. Bungle, Sergei Prokofiev, Therion, Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ween, Denali, Santa Esmeralda, The Mars Volta, Faith No More, Dissection, Acid Bath, Bond, Morbid Angel, Old Man's Child, Giuseppe Verdi

Movies:

The Devil's Rejects, American Movie, Meet the Feebles, Lost Highway, The Day of the Beast, Titus, The Dark Backward, Dawn of the Dead, Way of the Gun, The Royal Tenenbaums, Ghost in the Shell, The Fifth Element, Bubba Ho-Tep, City of Lost Children, Ed Wood, Last Man Standing, Evil Dead, Amelie, Gozu, Man Bites Dog, Punch Drunk Love, Equilibrium, Scary Toilet Monster, City of God, Hardboiled, Legend of the Overfiend, Manufacturing Consent, Labyrinth, Akira, Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Six String Samurai, Battle Royale, The Machinist, Mulholland Drive, Akira, Vampire's Kiss, Nurse Betty, A Better Tomorrow II, Miller's Crossing, Dead Alive, Hapiness, Dead or Alive, Rashamon, Flash Gordon, Lone Wolf and Cub, Cemetary Man, Once Were Warriors, The Emperor and the Assassin, Videodrome, Ran, Masked and Anonymous, Monster Hunter, From Beyond, Poor Cecily, Dreams, Perdita Durango, Sin City

Television:

Don't have cable, so I don't get a chance to watch too much tv. For an inspiring producer of mass media and propaganda, this sucks. However, when I did have cable and actually had time to watch tv, I'd watch the History Channel, PBS, CNN, The Daily Show, FOX News, CSPAN, Public Access, Commercials, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Reno 911, SciFi Channel's Dune and Children of Dune, Carnivalle, The Prisoner.
While in Iraq, I mostly watch and analyze Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and European music videos via satellite tv.

Books:

The Red Tent, The Illuminatus Trillogy, Holy Blood Holy Grail, Shrodenger's Cat Trillogy, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, The Prince, The Giving Tree, Dune, Magi, The Gunslinger, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, White Noise, The Art of Shibari, The Templar and the Assassin, Secret Societies, The Illiad, The Maleus Maleficarum, The Sandman Chronicles, JTHM, The Universe in a Nutshell, Preacher, The Begatting of a President, 9 Parts of Desire, The Alchemist

Heroes:

Hannibal Hamilcar, Mary of Magdala, Edward Leedskalnin, Bernard de Clairvoux, Layla Zanna, Simon Zelotes Magus, Lilith, Zhuge Liang, Odysseus, Arundhati Roy, Ceaser Borgia, Hassan ib Sabbah, Amy Goodman, Zaroaster, Han Van Meegeren, Kong Qiu, Leni Riefenstahl, Comte de Saint-Germain, Robert Anton Wilson, Bill Hicks

My Blog

Musical Influences

List 10 musical artists you like (do this before reading the questions below).1. Nick Cave2. Tom Waits3. Danzig/Misfits/Samhain4. Jimi Hendrix5. Dark Tranquility6. Morbid Angel7. Metallica8. Dimmu Bor...
Posted by Jesus of Babylon on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 07:31:00 PST

Pirates vs. ninjas

Pirates vs. ninjas. This is a debate that has gone on for far too long, and I'm going to put it to an end right now before any more innocent bystanders get hurt. I have never heard of a Pirate be...
Posted by Jesus of Babylon on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:41:00 PST

My Take on Iraq... or... Getting Ready to Go Back

I just spent 7 months in Iraq living amongst Kurds, Arabs, Persians, Assyrians and Turkmen, and I'm getting ready to go back. I enjoyed my time there, and I'm looking forward to the next two or three ...
Posted by Jesus of Babylon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST