Beyond the cultural interests previously mentioned, I search for meaning in The World (and the mercurial nature of "truth") through such systems as Voodou, Shamanism and dreamwork. I also yearn for the day I can say seemingly controversial things outside my living room and not be immediately (mis)judged according to the most current publicly imposed rules-of-communication. So much social static inhibits the deep exchange of ideas. I'd like to think I'm interested in almost everything, but we all have prevalent tastes based on personality and experience. I depend on making art and music (see WHITE LIGHT REVOLVER and ANCESTRAL VESSEL pages) to keep daily life interesting.
Grant Morrison, Philip K. Dick, Jaz Coleman (again and more personally), David Cronenberg, Genesis P-Orridge, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Mark E. Smith (warts-n-all!), Mike Keane, Henry Rollins, Ken Keasey, Cosey Fanni-Tutti, Thurston Moore (just shut the door on two rabid, seasoned music geeks in a meat locker for the weekend and leave us the basic 'Trainspotting' buckets and smokes... hell, we may never even get to the buckets, just piss inna corner sounding like dueling Miles Davis!), Joe Coleman and plenty more who aren't immediately coming to mind. I don't need to meet Roky Erickson; I'm just very happy to see him able to function again and enjoy himself. HA and a big F-bomb to those foolish and nasty enough to only like him as a tragic figure. He did more than his time for psychic exploration, human nature and slowly (with some help) having to find the rhythm of his own spirit's therapy to bring him back from a thornily weeding schizophrenia to happily being able to plug back into the mainframe and even start to gig and write new material (in his 60's) again. And Gawd, I utterly envy his Zen-like, childlike pleasure just talking to people, playing to any-size crowd, and enjoying a local ice cream shop flavor named after him!
White Light Revolver (aka Halogen), The Adolescents, Alien Sex Fiend, Amon Duul (both), Amp, Ancestral Vessel, Aphex Twin, Aphrodite's Child, AR Kane, AR & Machines, Art Brut, Attrition, Bark Psychosis, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, The Beta Band, Big Black, Big Stick, Black Flag, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Sabbath, Blood Red Thread, Bowery Electric, Bowie, Brainiac, Brainticket, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Broadcast, early Butthole Surfers, Cabaret Voltaire, Can, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Cassandra Complex, Catholic Discipline, Nick Cave/ Birthday Party, Christus Christus, Chrome, The Cramps, early Cypress Hill, Dalek, The Damned, Death in Vegas, Del the Funkee Homosapien, The Doors, Ear Trumpet, Echo & The Bunnymen, Eno, Enon, Eric B. & Rakim, Roky Erickson, Faust, The Fall, Fear, Flying Saucer Attack, Fugazi, G.B.H., Glissando, the Gnawa and Jajouka sects of Morrocco, Godflesh, Gravity Throttle/ Jonas Laster, Guided By Voices, Head of David, Robyn Hitchcock, The Horrors, Hula, Husker Du, Iggy & The Stooges, Interpol, Janes Addiction, The Jesus Lizard, Daniel Johnston, Josef K, Joy Division, Edward Ka-Spel, Killing Joke, The Kinks, Klaxons, DJ Krush, KUKL, Fela Kuti, Ladytron, Led Zepellin, Legendary Pink Dots, Live Skull, Loop, Love, Madlib, Main, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, early Meat Puppets, The Membranes, Mighty Sphincter, Minimal Man, Mooseheart Faith, Munly, My Bloody Valentine, Neu, New Kingdom, New York Dolls, Nico, The Ninja Tune crew, Peaches, Peanut Butter Wolf/ Stones Throw, Philip Boa and The Voodoo Club, Pink Floyd, Pink Industry, Pink Military, PJ Harvey, early PIL, Placebo, The Plasmatics, Polvo, Psychic TV, Queens of The Stone Age, The Residents, early Rolling Stones, early Roxy Music, Royal Family and The Poor, Screamers, early Scritti Politti, Sebadoh, Section 25, Seefeel, Severed Heads, Sex Gang Children, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Soft Boys, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, DJ Spooky, Stereolab, Sun City Girls, Sundial, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, Tabla Beat Ritual, Tall Dwarfs, The Telescopes, 10,000 Volt Ghost, Third Eye Foundation, Tones on Tail, Tool, Tricky, Ultramagnetic MC's, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, UNKLE, Unwound, The Velvet Underground, Luke Vibert, Virgin Prunes, The Warlocks, White Zombie, The Who, Wire, Witchman, The Wordsound Dub/ Hip-Hop Consortium (Spectre, Sensational, Dr. Israel... the lot), X, The Yardbirds, Rob Zombie, Zoviet France,... more to come,
Akira, Altered States, Alice (Jan Svankmejar), Alucardia, Anger (The Films of Kenneth Anger, vol.1), Apocalypse Now Redux, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon The Movie, Archangel, A Scanner Darkly, Avante Garde: Experimental Films of The 1920's and '30s, Baraka, Batman Begins, Blade Runner (Dir. cut), Blood Tea and Red String, A Boy and His Dog, Brain Damage, The Brood, Bubba Ho-Tep, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Careful, Carnival of Souls, Catch-22, Un Chien Andalou, City of Lost Children, Constantine, Dark City, Dead Man, Dead Ringers, The Dead Zone, Decasia, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Devil's Backbone, The Devil's Rejects, A Dirty Shame, Disinformation, Doctor Strange, Dogma, Donnie Darko (which version is up to discussion), Dracula (Guy Madden's), Dune (both editions & even the miniseries), Ed Wood, El Topo, Eraserhead, Escape From New York, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Fahrenheit 451, Fantastic Planet, Faust (Jan Svankmejar), Ghost in The Shell, Grosse Point Blank, Harold and Maude, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Hellboy (Dir. cut and following animated films), Bill Hicks documentary & shows, The Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy, The Holy Mountain, Howl's Moving Castle, I Heart Huckabees, Institute Benjamenta, Kids in The Hall: Brain Candy, Kill Bill vol.1 & 2, Koyaanisqatsi, The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou, Liquid Sky, Lost Highway, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, ...(section was accidentally deleted and being reconstructed)
The Daily Show, The Boondocks, South Park, Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t!, IFC's Greg The Bunny, The Venture Brothers, The Colbert Report, Metalocalypse, Attack of The Show!, Eureka, nature shows (particularly aquatic shows), various kinds of documentaries (particularly character studies of artistisc types who live in their own world and by their own cosmologies/ mythologies)... more to come
The Invisibles (Yes, it counts!), Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange, VALIS, The Book of The Law, Transmetropolitan, V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight Returns, A Scanner Darkly, Junkie, Naked Lunch, Exterminator...more to come
Ben Franklin, Maya Deren, Bill Hicks, Philip K. Dick, Jaz Coleman... more to come