MUSIC - especially psychedelic, improvised, free jazz, Finnish underground, Japanese freakout underground, sludge "new wierd america," drone, punk, '60s garage, '80s garage revival, positive underground hip-hop, sound!SPIRITUALITY - especially Unitarian Universalist, Buddhist, Gnostic, Kabbalah, Wicca and liberal religious teachings of all kinds. Heretics rule.OTHER - old school pro wrestling, herbal & homeopathic medicine, special education (particularly emotional/behavioral disorders, autism, schizophrenia, etc.), the nascent crossroads where science & spirituality meet, beer & wine
I'd like to meet:
Matthew Fox, The Flaming Lips, Patti Smith, the Dalai Lama, Unitarian Universalists, music freaks, improvisors, alien abduction survivors, NDE survivors, David Icke, Sun Ra , Robert Anton Wilson, Thich Nhat Hahn, Atlanta-area folks who grok my scene.
Music:
LABELS: Digitalis Industries, Foxglove, SST, SubPop, Ace of Hearts, Em, Jazzaway, MusicYourMindWillLoveYou, Time-Lag, Kranky, Rural Electrification Program, Heavy BLossom, Not Not Fun, American Grizzly, Mallard Lake, Into the Lunar Night, Family Vineyard, HP Cycle, Ogun, Slow Loris, Deserted Village, DeadSlackString, Rubric, Squealer, Stiff, CIMP, ESP Disk, Impulse!, Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian, 23 Productions, Lal Lal Lal, Okka, FMP, PSF, Holy Mountain, Battlecruiser, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Eclipse, United Fairy Moons, BYG/Actuel, Capt. Trip, Stax/Volt, Motown, Aether, Get Back, Arf Arf, Forced Exposure, Bomp! (RIP Greg Shaw), Woronzow, Midnight, 267 Latajjaa, Chocolate Monk, Ruralfaune, ECM, Outa, Incus, Leo, Sun Records, Woodsist, Ayler, Clean FeedARTISTS/BANDS: Keiji Haino, Hawkwind, the Monks, Flaming Lips, Albert Ayler, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Red Crayola, Electric Prunes, Meat Puppets, Swimming Pool Q's, Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker, 1/2 Japanese, Replacements, Adam Lane, Husker Du, Syd Barrett, Peter Brotzmann, Sun Ra, Avarus, Keijo, Acid Mothers Temple, Dictators, Lau Nau, Fursaxa, Ramones, Exploding Customer, Plan 9, Modern Lovers, Black Flag, Migrantes, Jedi Mind Tricks, Immortal Technique, Common, Paris, Dead Prez, Robedoor, Woods, Quilts, SHepherds, SLeeping Babies, Quintana Roo, Jo Jo Ef Steve, Aesop Rock, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, Sand Snowman, Natural Snow Buildings, Neko Case, Goslings (!!!), Kaoru Abe, Lime Spiders, Echo & the BUnnymen, Tom Petty, Neats, REM, Feedtime, Butthole Surfers, Zeros, Plasticland, Shoes, Masayuki Takayanagi, Afrika Korps, Pere Ubu, Chrome, Simply Saucer, Spacemen 3, Matt Valentine, Robert Horton, Sonics, Dramarama, Monkees, Paul Flaherty, Caroliner, Vibrators, Lambsbread, Zodiacs, Love, Minutemen, Zodiac Mountain, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Capt. Beefheart, Chris Corsano, Sunn o))), Who, Byrds, Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Pretty Things, Hasil Adkins, Clash, Cramps, Ming, MC5, Apples In Stereo, Minders, Nick Lowe, Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Stooges, Les Rallizes Denudes.. width="425" height="350" .., Kiila, Only Ones, Kulkija, Doors, Kemialliset Ystavat, Ghost, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Bruce Springsteen, High Rise, Queen, Islaja, Mudhoney, Tad, Screaming Trees, Cows, Leaving Trains, Sightings, Nikki Sudden, Television, L, Comets on Fire, 6 Organs of Admittance, Arthur Doyle, Elvis Costello, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Charles Gayle, Lyres, Rain Parade, Dream Syndicate, Fuzztones, 3 O'Clock, 13th Floor Elevators, Anthony Braxton, Bardo Pond, Mouthus, Birchville Cat Motel, Christina Carter, Robert Johnson, Reynols, Yahowha 13, Chocolate Watchband, Seeds, Television Personalities, Lucinda Williams, Blue Oyster Cult, Nico, Black Sabbath, Ianis Xenakis, Gyorgy Ligeti, Spires That In the Sunset Rise, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Borbetomagus, Mauricio Kagel, Boris, Can, Cat Stevens, Faust, Dead Raven Choir, the Jam, David S. Ware, William Parker, Double Leopards, Electric Wizard, Fall of the Grey Winged One, Funkadelic, Corrupted, Thuja, Sonics, SKullflower, Heavy Winged, This Maiden's Crimes, Hototogisu, Green On Red, Led Zeppelin, Vietnam Veterans, Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, Verlaines, Air Conditioning, Lucero, Dead Moon, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, (vxpxc), Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof!, Melvins, New Model Army, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Pulga, Amber Lions, Jesse Sykes, Clear Spots, Black to Comm, Brother Ah, Ex-cocaine, Angelic Process, Brainbombs, D'Gary, Fish & Sheep, La Otracina, Pink Reason, Dead Meadow, Solar Anus, Owl Xounds, Scott Fields, Zero Point, Tigersmilk, Violent Students, Milford Graves, Midnite Snake, Ian Hunter, Dead Reptile Shrine, Striborg, Motoharu Yoshizawa, the Ex, Dog Faced Hermans, Tatsuya Yoshida, Aidan Baker, Fela Kuti, Chainsaw Paws, the National, Ufomammut, Phil Cohran, Ronnie Boykins, Henry Grimes
Movies:
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (and all Pythons), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, A CLockwork Orange, Fearless Freaks, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Dogma, The Devil's Advocate, Best In Show, Tremors, This Is Spinal Tap, John Waters things, Ed Wood movies, Ed Wood (the movie), Psycho, Bubbahotep, The Wall, FOrbidden Planet, When Worlds Collide, Natural Born Killers, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Eraserhead, The Evil Dead, Trainspotting, Naked Lunch, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove, Clerks, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, High Fidelity, Blade Runner, Freaks, A Mighty Wind, Night of the Living Dead (orig.), South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (orig.), The Great Race, Don't Look Back, Monterrey Pop, Tommy, The African Queen, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Superfly, Citizen Ruth, WHat the Bleep Do We Know, cheap b-grade horror, Brazil, Time Bandits, Crumb, Urgh!: A Music War, Rude Boy, Un Chein Andelu, Reanimator, Rocky Horror, Monsters Inc., Wizards, Head, Fargo, Shrek, Sean of the Dead, Hellboy, Metropolis (orig.), Young Frankenstein, Slingblade, Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, Bad Santa, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Duel, Suspira, Ladies & Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, Harold & Maude, Chicken Little, Bowling For Columbine, Farenheit 9/11, The Truman Show, Kalifornia, Blade (all), LOTR Trilogy, Harry Potter, The Last Waltz, An Inconvenient Truth
Television:
Monty Python's Flying Circus, Red Greene Show, Link TV, Georgia Championship Wrestling, Current, Spongebob Squarepants, Austin City Limits, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Championship Wrestling From Florida, Earthworm Jim, The Tick, Invader Zim, Munsters, Monkees, Star Trek, Time Tunnel, Adams Family, Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, God the Devil and Bob, Old Grey Whistle Test, Animaniacs, Sundance Channel, Lost In Space, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Independent Film Channel, Dr. Phil, Red Dwarf, Banana Splits, Daily Show, 6 Feet Under, Ren & Stimpy, MST3K, Oz, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, My Name Is Earl, Democracy Now!. I despise American Idol, Top Chef, Fear Factor, What Not To Wear, "reality" TV in general, and Fox News. Does anybody else remember Midnight Special and In Concert?
Books:
WRITERS: Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Billy Childish, George Orwell, Phillip K. Dick, William Burroughs, Bede Griffiths, Antonin Artaud, Thich Nhat Hahn, Henry Rollins, Russ Kick, Charles Bukowski, Austin Osman Spare, Paul Tillich, Shel Silverstein, Patti Smith, Henry Rollins, Krishnamurti, Rabelais, Al Franken, Franz Kafka, Hubert Selby Jr., Georg Trakl, Michael Moore, Celine, Robert Anton Wilson, George Carlin, Rilke, David Icke, Bill Moyers, Jack Kerouac, Rumi, Wilhelm Reich, Matthew Fox, Anais Nin, Allen Ginsberg, Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, Brion Gysin, Kenneth Patchen, Lao Tze, Charles Fort, DeSade, George Bataille, John Cowper Powys, Lester Bangs, Walt Whitman, Sun Ra, John Zwed, Tom Sharpe, Gregory Corso, scripture from various religions and cultures, anything ecstatic and hallucinatory, erotica, books about music and musicians.PUBLISHERS: Grove, New Directions, Adventures Unlimited Press, 2.13.61, City Lights, Black Sparrow, Falcon Press, Llewellyn, Skinner House, Beacon Press, Re/Search, Semiotext(e), Feral House, Bear & Co.
Heroes:
Jimi Hendrix, Thomas Aquinas, Gautama Buddha, Sun Ra, Henry Miller, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Rondo Hatton, Patti Smith, Sister Theresa, Martin Luther King, Thomas Jefferson, Che Guevara, Joseph Campbell, Scott Ritter, The Rude Pundit, William Sloane Coffin, Pema Chodron, Keith Richards, Wilhelm Reich, Nikola Tesla, Kerry Thornley, Wonder Warthog, Fred Sonic Smith, Eddie Izzard, Bruiser Brodie, Abdullah the Butcher, Charlie Watts, Michael Servetus, Woody Guthrie, Arthur Rimbaud, Bulldog Brower, Antonin Artaud, Matthew Fox, Bob Dylan, William Blake, Vincent van Gogh, Carl Jung, Randi Rhodes, Dusty Rhodes, Cindy Sheehan, Frida Kahlo, Ghandi, Amy Goodman, Thomas Paine, Big Van Vader, Bill Moyers, Hildegard of Bingen, The Great Muta, Mitch Hedburg , J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Russ Kick, Bill HIcks, Bill Maher, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, David Fair, Richard Pryor, Steven Colbert, Lenny Kaye, Dennis Wolfberg , Steve (Little Steven) van Zandt, Olivier Bancoult, Benjamin Franklin, A. Powell Davies, Forrest Church, Emperor Norton, Harry Partch, Miguel Tomasin, Nicolas of Cusa, Temple Grandin, Anton Newcombe, Ric Flair, Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere, Teilhard de Chardin
