Theme parks, mass hysteria, religious cults, utopian communities, outsider art, erotic art, blues music, teratology, zombies, robotics, masks, unusual fetishes, memetics, sexual perversions & psychiatric disorders, cryptozoology, collective intelligence theories, ancient fertility rituals, propaganda & psychological warfare, the history of magic & science, subliminal learning, celebrity deaths, missing persons and marionette theater.
I'd like to meet:
Discordians, writers, artists, journalists, film-makers, musicians, photographers, fans of pop culture, models, people with interesting deformities, cognitive scientists, folklorists, midgets, albinos, amputees, animators, comic book illustrators, people with unusual psychological conditions, conspiracy theorists, sex goddesses and geeks.
Music:
Blind Willie McTell, Clara Smith, Little Walter, Doc Watson, Eric Satie, Gregorian chants, Charles Ives, The Doors, King Crimson, Sly & the Family Stone, George Clinton/Parliament-Funkadelic, The Meters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Little Bobby Parker, Al Green, Tower of Power, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Chuck E. Weiss, The Residents, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Tony Joe White, Talking Heads, The Dead Kennedys, Asleep at the Wheel, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Art Pepper, Chet Baker, Eric Dolphy, Michael Franti, Neil Young, Portishead, Sparklehorse, My Morning Jacket, The Eels, Electric President, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead, Fiery Furnaces, Tapes N Tapes, Dillinger Escape Plan, Takemitsu, Gavin Bryars, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Girl Loves Dead Boys, Robocoptik, Eminem, The Dresden Dolls, The Mountain Goats, Red Snowman, Alien Chatter, Artic Monkeys, Bjork, Cypress Hill, The Pixies, anything on Fat Possum or Mistress of Evil Records.
Movies:
Carnival of Souls, High Plains Drifter, The Passenger, Westworld, Zabriskie Point, Pretty Poison, Vertigo, Duel, Vanishing Point, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Whistle Down the Wind, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Fritz the Cat, Deep Throat, Eraserhead, Enter the Dragon, The Beguiled, The Wicker Man, Lolita, Sullivan's Travels, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Charley Varrick, The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Shadow of a Doubt, Gaslight, The Spiral Staircase, The Palm Beach Story, The Texas Chainsaw Masscre, Days of Heaven, My Favorite Year, The Monitors, Teenage Caveman, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Blade Runner, Lost Highway, Edward Scissorhands, The Warriors, 5 Million Years to Earth, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Kill Bill, Being John Malkovich, The Razor Eaters, You Are Alone, The Blind Dead, everything by David Cronenberg, Kurosawa, Russ Meyers, and all wild Asian & Blaxpoitation flicks.
Television:
The Twilight Zone, Stingray, The Outer Limits, Jonny Quest, The Wild, Wild West, The Time Tunnel, Ultraviolet, Dr. Who, Monkey, The Invaders, The Prisoner, Carnivale, Six Feet Under, South Park, Lost, CSI and Myth Busters.
Books:
Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Tristram Shandy, The 120 Days of Sodom, Moby-Dick, The Castle, Nausea, Impressions of Africa, Locus Solus, Noon Wine, An American Tragedy, The Sound and the Fury, Travels with My Aunt, A Door into Summer, The Divine Invasion, Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance, The Glass Bead Game, The Tin Drum, Naked Lunch, Cities of the Red Night, Slaughterhouse Five, The Gospel Singer, The Unlimited Dream Company, The Lathe of Heaven, The Moviegoer, Love in the Ruins, Man in the Holocene, Death of a Beekeeper, Neuromancer, The Girl in the Glass (& everything by Novalis, Flannery O'Connor, Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Witcover, Angela Carter, Jeff Noon and Katie Arnoldi).
Heroes:
Sir Walter Raleigh, Emperor Norton, Percival Fawcett, Ameila Earhart, William James, Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm Reich, Robert Johnson, Malcolm X, Buckminster Fuller, Henry Miller, Guy DeBord, John Lilly, Rupert Sheldrake, Philip K. Dick, Hunter S. Thompson, George Clinton, Bruce Lee, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Bob Marley, Simon Rodia, Ferdinand Cheval, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Robert Irwin, Robert Smithson, Franz Kafka, Harry Partch, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, Carl Jung, Lexington Steele, Annie Sprinkle, Breece D'J Pancake, John Kennedy Toole, Bill Hicks, the immortal Richard Pryor, Lyric Powers, Evil Steve, Phil Abrams and Katie Arnoldi.
