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Justin-Gabriel Isaac Bennett

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About Me

So... I like to read, think, and learn (finally got a grip on that italian language!)...
Outside of that, I've been a professional drummer for over 12 years now, as well as producing electronic and experimental music.
I currently work with Skinny Puppy , My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult , and Bahntier ...
My other projects are kETvECTOR (psychedelic electronica) with Stefano Rossello, The Implicate Order (experimental ambient) with Paris and el clon, and the soon to be completed American Memory Project with William Morrison. For more info on my drumming and production credentials, visit JustinBennett.net
Thanks for coming by!
HAGBARD CELINE'S "DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS":
FREE MARKET
That condition of society in which all economic transactions result from voluntary choice without coercion.

THE STATE
That institution which interferes with the Free Market through the direct exercise of coercion or the granting of privileges (backed by coercion).
TAX
That form of coercion or interference with the Free Market in which the State collects tribute (the tax), allowing it to hire armed forces to practice coercion in defense of privilege, and also to engage in such wars, adventures, experiments, "reforms," etc., as it pleases not at its own cost, but at the cost of "its" subjects.
PRIVILEGE
From the Latin privi, private, and lege, law. An advantage granted by the State and protected by its powers of coercion. A law for private benefit.
USURY
That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which one State-supported group monopolizes the coinage and thereby takes tribute (interest), direct or indirect, on all or most economic transactions.

LANDLORDISM
That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which one State-supported group "owns" the land and thereby takes tribute (rent) from those who live, work, or produce on the land.

TARIFF
That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which commodities produced outside the State are not allowed to compete equally with those produced inside the State.

POLITICAL CAPITALISM
That organization of society, incorporating elements of tax, usury, landlordism, and tariff, which thus denies the Free Market while pretending to exemplify it.

CONSERVATISM
That school of capitalist philosophy which claims allegiance to the Free Market while actually supporting usury, landlordism, tariff, and sometimes taxation.

LIBERALISM
That school of capitalist philosophy which attempts to correct the injustices of capitalism by adding new laws to existing laws. Each time conservatives pass a law creating privilege, liberals pass another law modifying privilege, leading conservatives to pass a more subtle law recreating privilege, etc., until "everything not forbidden is compulsory" and "everything not compulsory is forbidden."

SOCIALISM
The attempted abolition of all privilege by restoring power entirely to the coercive agent behind privilege, the State, thereby converting capitalist oligarchy into Statist monopoly. Whitewashing a wall by painting it black.


ANARCHISM
That organization of society in which the Free Market operates freely, without taxes, usury, landlordism, tariffs, or other forms of coercion or privilege.
RIGHT ANARCHISTS predict that in the Free Market people would voluntarily choose to compete more often than to cooperate.
LEFT ANARCHISTS predict that in the Free Market people would voluntarily choose to cooperate more often than to compete.

My Interests

Audio and visual arts, playing the drums, programming, futurism, psychology, philosophy, life and consciousness, alternative viewpoints, hedonism, model agnosticism, experimentalism, travelling the world, ancient civilizations (Egyptian, Mayan, Incan, Sumerian), quantum physics, Robert Anton Wilson, Terrence McKenna, Allan Watts...

I'd like to meet:

Freeman Hagbard Celine, Sigismundo Celine, Leonardo da Vinci

Music:

Experimental, noise, ambient, jazz, electronica, alternative, post-modern, etc... I'm a fan of good songwriting in any form... some favorites include The Beatles, Radiohead, Portished, Massive Attack, John Coltraine, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Bad Brains, David Bowie, The Cure, The Smiths, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Skinny Puppy, Download, Ohgr, TKK, Julee Cruise, King Crimson, The Cranes, The Pixies, Muse...

Movies:

David Lynch, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, David Fincher, etc... some favorites include Fire Walk With Me, Mulholland Drive, Fight Club, American Beauty, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Nightmare Before Christmas (of course), Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Matrix Trilogy, 2001: A Space Odyssey...

Television:

Twin Peaks, El Clon, The Simpsons, Invader Zim, Family Guy, Paso Adelante...

Books:

Cosmic Trigger I (Robert Anton Wilson), The Illuminatus Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea), Basically every book ever written by Robert Anton Wilson who I believe to be one of the greatest minds (and person) that's ever lived, Food of the Gods (Terence McKenna), The Invisible Landscape (Terence and Dennis McKenna)... Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, John Anthony West, Carlos Castaneda, William Cooper, Zecharia Sitchin...

My Blog

kETvECTOR!! My new project has a release date...

kETvECTOR"The Infinite Regress"Official release date February 16th, 2008 on Rusblade Records.Pre-orders are now available here or on the kETvECTOR myspace page.I'll be able to start shipping pre-orde...
Posted by Justin-Gabriel Isaac Bennett on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:09:00 PST