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slide machine

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About Me


I'm loathe to try and describe myself. For one thing, the moment I say I'm one thing, I'm liable to become the other.
Make what you will of that.

Anything else you wanna know just ask, or take a look around here you'll get a pretty good idea.

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[background photograph by my amazing photographer friend "Goat," altered a bit by me]

My Interests

The fathomless depths of music, the things the righteous dudes wrote, the stuff that's on your mind. Sweeping stones off the road.

I'd like to meet:

Fun people who take themselves seriously enough, but not too seriously. "The Experienced" (not necessarily stoned but Beautiful). I'm not into organizations of too many kinds but I sometimes accept requests from them, depending on how my breakfast went down. I still have this thing set to not accept requests from bands, but somehow some of y'all slip thru anyhow. I'm on dialup, I can't tell if I like your music or not.
I'm not a "friend hoover." If I think I'm being hoovered I won't accept, send me a message if the connection might not be clear to me. Lately I'm a little "myspaced-out" so I don't know...
I especially like people who post their actual age. Doesn't matter if you act your age or not.

But also people who twig that: "There is a great insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore: that Nature is a minded entity; that Nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields; that Nature is not the empty, despiritualized lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind." -Terence McKenna

Music:

13th Floor Elevators, Golden Dawn, LoVe, Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground, Dylan, Grateful Dead, Stones, Beatles, Hendrix, Bevis Frond, Stooges, Meat Puppets, Hidden Hand, Monster Magnet, Charlie Patton, Lightnin' Hopkins, Scrapper Blackwell, Bad Livers, Funkadelic, Minutemen, it goes on almost forever. Nonetheless, like you, I'm a choosey mother.

Movies:

I'm mostly drawn to horror movies and psychological thrillers. All the old-school Universal films, Hammer Studios, all the Barbara Steele movies. All the movies Roky sang about. Some of the flashy newer stuff is cool too, as long as it ain't too depraved. I don't have patience for that tripe. Also stuff like Bergman, Kurosawa, Lynch, Tarantino, Jodorowsky, Cammell, Roeg. All the usual good stuff!

Television:

I think I used to watch it at one time. Reruns of the 60s Outer Limits, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, and the REALLY great stuff: Green Acres, and especially the Beverly Hillbillies!! Funniest show there ever was or ever will be.

Books:

Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Castaneda, Rob't. Anton Wilson, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, H. P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Anais Nin, William Blake, Clive Barker, James Joyce, Burroughs, Bucky Fuller, John Kennedy Toole, Vonnegut, Kerouac, Hawking, e.e. cummings, Emerson, Korzybski, Lao Tzu.

Heroes:

I don't have any heroes... as the saying goes, "If you have a hero, look again, you have diminished yourself in some way." I prefer 'icons.' Lot of em show up in my friends and other lists.

My Blog

Iggy with the Stooges live, yesterday

(delayed, written on 4-6-7) I just saw the Stooges last night in Washington D.C. And I'm bound to say in all seriousness: f*ck, dude. Iggy and the boys are really back, not f^#ing around, not whatsoev...
Posted by slide machine on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:27:00 PST

Not that that's not nothing.

Timetables keep sliding over and off. A dream-thing or something like it dispenses with them typically obscurely, while facts at hand remain. Drawn and thwarted, drummed and wired by weird planetary p...
Posted by slide machine on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:03:00 PST

Dancin' in the Streets

... But not inside too many establishments. What the hell is the matter with people!?  Read on:   Court backs NYC's ban on dancing in bars NEW YORK - Come and meet those d...
Posted by slide machine on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:26:00 PST

thunderhead

summer's thunderheads are already roaming and brooding even now fusing and musing on fathomless patterns of random surprises some surmise the angulature mounting in the eaves slip particulate hints d...
Posted by slide machine on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:34:00 PST

no offense intended

In case any of my friends click on my Truth or Dare blog, and find that it's viewable only to those on my "preferred" list, well... there is no such list. So I didn't leave anyone out. Or rather,...
Posted by slide machine on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:34:00 PST

shapes

shapes of things before my eyes just teach me to despise will time make man more wise here within my lonely frame my eyes just hurt my brain but will it seem the same come tomorrow... will I be olde...
Posted by slide machine on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:02:00 PST

My Grandpa's Rhyme (*warning*--extreme silliness factor)

About every month or so, when my little sibling and I were smaller creatures, we would spend a Saturday night at our grandparents' house a few miles away from our own. Sometimes while we sat...
Posted by slide machine on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:36:00 PST

Where did this idea come from?

For as long as I can remember, I've heard it said that people dream only in black-and-white. Every time I would hear someone say so, I'd stop and think to myself: "Mmm, no... I don't think s...
Posted by slide machine on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:05:00 PST

Soon (a Dramatization/Rant)

Soon, if a certain trend of attention keeps going like it is, it will be very quiet here in the United States. Not so much quiet like a library, but more like the repellent hush of a morgue. This will...
Posted by slide machine on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:18:00 PST

Big Fat Halloween Blog

3 poems I wrote on Halloween 2001... THEE ALL HALLOWS EVE SUITE (abridged version) 1. On Hallowe'en Pooled in a crucible formed by instinct this one Planetary point on the orbit ages old indulgi...
Posted by slide machine on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:32:00 PST