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Gabriel Tonka

Never whistle whilst you're pissing

About Me

I am The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

My Interests

Music:

Well just about anything really. At the moment I'm mostly listening to: Hot Club de Paris, CSS, Of Montreal, Deerhoof, Chk Chk Chk, Hot Chip, Maximo Park, Wolfmother, th'Arctic Monkeys, Louis XIV, Death From Above 1979, The Brakes, The Fiery Furnaces, The Little Flames, The Mystery Jets, Sigur Ros, Little Man Tate. But we can't forget Half Man Half Biscuit, Mike Watt, The Bonzo Dog Band, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Primus, The Violent Femmes, The Stranglers, Cud, AC/DC, NOMEANSNO, Faith No More, The Who, Mozart, Beefoven, The Smiths, The Velvet Underground, The Wedding Present, fIREHOSE, Minutemen, Sparks, Richard Thompson, John Martyn, Joanna Newsom.

Movies:

Ok actually they're called FILLUMS but I digress! 300, Bladerunner, Dune, Eraserhead, Brazil, Pi, Tron, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Dead Mans Shoes, Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, Requiem for a Dream, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Sean of the Dead, Apocalypse Now, Life of Brian, Me You and Everyone We Know, Hostel, The Garden State

Television:

Lost, Peep Show, The Mighty Boosh and University Challenge

Books:

The Illuminatus trilogy, The Book of Skulls, The Antipope, Neuromancer, Childhoods End, Cosmic Trigger, Book IV, Promethea, Trainspotting, Orbitsville, Schrodingers Cat, Count Zero, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, My Idea of Fun, The Suburban Book of the Dead, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Great Apes,Smax, PROMETHEA, V for Vendetta, The Watchmen

Heroes:

No more heroes anymore