Being.Letting go of my ego and its tantrums.Portishead - The Rip
..Taking photos of friends and things that interest me, like these of friend ekaterina_dashkova, bound by friend terro-chik.com (first photo currently found at:http://www.myspace.com/ekaterina_dashkova):Hi all.
A brief note reminding everyone that my most recent book, Something in the Way- a True Life Misadventure Tale of One Illicit Drug (Ab)User's Life On and Off Streets Around the World, is back on sale, revised, updated, expanded, with yet more photos and illustrations. To peruse and buy, please visit this link:http://www.lulu.com/content/428724See the following for more information and to see the front and back covers.
Thanks to everyone who has already bought a copy or more.
Help keep live art alive and buy this book!Description:
Legal and non-legal hard and soft drugs, blood, violence, occasional peace, prostitution, pain, incessently dodging the Law, an addict toils harder than most Nine to Fivers. Twenty-four hours a day, the need to stay well takes precedence. In this book you take the trip to its deepest, darkest, most graphic depths. Every word is true, every line lived completely. No punches are pulled in this tale, told exactly how it was for one person strung out on the streets for a number of years. So prepare for a wild, harrowing, biting and sometimes humourous no-holds-barred ride into and out of the depths of hell. This is the story of one young man who found himself living a life of misadventure, from Atlanta to London, Amsterdam to New York City, on the streets, in squats, in stately manor homes, seedy and not-so-seedy hotels, sofa surfing, all the while playing his guitar, selling real and fake drugs, and whatever else he could do to collect the money for every fix, every single day.Keywords:
treatment Ibogaine crime cocaine drugs Addiction heroinFront Cover:Back Cover:Printed: 289 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, cream interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior inkWriting, reading, playing music (guitar, sometimes piano, vocals), dj'ing, exploring places and spaces other than my home, drugs and drugs policies, politics, magick, ENDING EVIL, UBER-PROFITABLE PROHIBITION any day now, painting, body piercing and tattooing, chess, burlesque, freaks, anything (music, film, books, people, painting, etc) with a punk/goth attitude, the colors black and purple (and blood), smoking pot (I know, looks like more "drugs" but it ain't, so piss off if you're prohibitionist scum), thinking, questioning, confounding, being confounded, arguing, debating, coming to agreements, learning new things (if my short term memory allows me to retain the new), relearning new things if I DO have STM issues, promoting peace, discovering new bands and music, (No longer) sharing a home with my gorgeous ex- girlfriend (and best friend) V without lotsa fighting and arguing (and it IS possible believe it or not, at times) nor sharing a home with lotsa rescued street cats, (did I mention ENDING PROHIBITION already? Oh yeah, I did- darn STM), and many other things too many to even think of off the top of my head, much less list them here. -----------------
I'd like to meet:
The answer to it all.
But first, I'd like to see an end to this stinkin' War on Some Drugs and Users, and some of these facists recieving a taste of their own "medicine":http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-70895756
92716747795I'd like to meet too many heros and regular folk too to name here. But if I had to name a few, Perry Farrell would be on the list, as would Lestat (undead though he is), William Burroughs (dead though he and a few others listed here are), Kurt Vonnegut, Gary Webb, Alexander Shulgin, John C. Lilly, Timothy Leary, whatever god is, Robert Smith, Peter Murphy, Bill Hicks, creative people who DON'T create problems and bad vibes out of whole cloth and their insane delusions, people who don't cast stones while standing in extremely breakable glass houses, and a whole mess of other people and entities too.
Music:
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
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Bauhaus, The Cure, Jane's Addiction, O-Rang, Psychic TV, Alien Sex Fiend, Christian Death, Subhumans, Mindless Self Indulgence, Eliott Smith, Kill All DJs, DJ ZTrip, Jimi Hendrix, Kudu, Danko Jones, Black Sabbath, Dead Kennedys, Dead 60s, Joy Division, Simon and Garfunkle, Queens of the Stone Age, Kinks, Monster Magnet, Atomic Bitchwax, Primus, 9 Inch Nails, AC/DC, Green Day, Judas Priest, Beck, Iron Maiden, Perry Farrell, the Beatles, Banyon, Butthole Surfers, Clash, Nirvana, Jesus Lizard, David Bowie, Slunt, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Gnarls Barkley, Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, Sisters of Mercy, Ministry, Porno for Pyros, Nirvana, Lubricated Goat, Helios Creed, Kyuss, Blue Oyster Cult, Killing Joke, PIL, TSOL, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Creaming Jesus, Cramps, Styx, Deep Purple, Hawkwind, Led Zepplin, CCR, Dead Can Dance, Sisters of Mercy, Peaches, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Sonic Youth, Switchblade Symphony, Love and Rockets, Scorn, Of Cabbages and Kings, Pentagram, Marilyn Manson, Sheep on Drugs, Freelance Hellraiser, She Wants Revenge, Jesus and Mary Chain, Virgin Prunes, and oh so many more. Anything with a hard, dark edge probably will make my list at some point or other, but I don't (usually) like Cookie Monster imitations by so-called "singers" in the slightest. Psychic TV/PTV3, Galapagos, Brooklyn, Sept. 25, 2006 Me with Spacey-K and Robo-T of 8-Bit in Manhattan, Sept. 17, 2005. DJ Ness on bass Asbestos at CBGBs, April, 1998 (Me on guitar, DJ Ness on bass)
Movies:
Straw Dogs, The Addiction, Once Upon a Time in Mexico (and the rest of Robert Rodriguez's work), The Matrix, The Island, the original version of 12 Monkeys (a french film, but 12 Monkeys is also pretty good), Saving Grace, Kill Bill I and II (anything by Quenten T. really), A Clockwork Orange, Alien, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, JFK, The Manchurian Candidate (the original of course- the new one SUCKED), Boys From Brazil, The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization-the Heavy Metal Years (long live punk and rock n' roll), Heavy Metal, Harold and Maude, Constantine, Ghost Dog, and a bunch more.
Television:
C-Span's Washington Journal, Discovery Channel, Sci-Fi channel, National Geographic, anything but mainstream sit-com shite.
Books:
My own three books, Under the Influence- the Disinformation Guide to Drugs, and Underground- the Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History, (available through amazon.com and disinfo.com and many other booksellers on line and off), and "Something In the Way- a True-Life Misadventure Tale of One Drug (Ab)User's Life On and Off Streets Around the World" must top any list of my favorite books.
http://www.lulu.com/content/428724Then Dark Alliance, Drug War- Covert Money, Power and Policy, The Search for Oblivion- The Global History of Narcotics, anything by Kury Vonnegut and Hunter S. Thompson, You're Being Lied To and Everything You Know is Wrong, both edited by Russ Kick, anything by Graham Hancock and Robert Schoch, M.A.S.H., Catch-22, anything by Ian Banks (The Wasp Factory is one hell of a book and one of my all-time favorites, as are his Culture sci-fi books) and just as with most other subjects I've listed on my page, there are a LOT more books that could and should be on this list as reading was my very first addiction ever- and I've never tried kicking it. My second book, published Nov. 2005-http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle13861.html My first book, published Oct. 2004http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle6040.html
Heroes:
Genesis P-Orridge, Perry Farrell, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Paine, Julian Cope, Iggy Pop, Gary Webb, Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, and I'm sure there are a mess of others but I can't think of any more right now.
