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Jason Sage

SYNESTHESIA(C) : TELESMA

About Me

i'm an asker of questions & seeker of truth / i write lyrics & sing & play keyboards & percussion & samplers, etc., in a band called Telesma / i've lived in the following places: New Orleans , San Francisco, Phoenix, Panama City (Fla.), NJ, NY, Texas, Oregon, etc. / i changed my name to Jupiter at the age of seven, but people still insist upon calling me Jason / i'm compiling & editing a magazine called Synesthesia, formerly known as Mangled Serendipity of the Sensual Pig (still accepting submissions) / i enjoy astral travel and travel by trains, planes & cars, etc. / i like cats & lemurs & dogs & snakes & lizards & most people .... my interests include: quantum physics / activism / freedom / comparative religion / healing with music & laughter / visionary art & architecture / herbal remedies / alchemy / aural & visual bliss / photography / burning man / costumes & masks / shamanism / .... etc. ...

My Interests

listening to and performing music, poetry ~ creating and viewing visual and visionary art / synesthesia / integrating visual art and music / transmutation ~ alchemy (shemanna, anunnaki star fire, lapis exilis, the phoenix and the fire-stone, etc.) / photography / herbalism ~ qi gong / tai chi / karate / dreams ~ astral projection ~ illumination / altered states of mind ~ trance and transcendence ~ dadaism ~ surrealism ~ taoism / discordia / analog instruments / fractals / tetris / sci-fi ~ DIY / cymatics ~ salad fingers / sushi / chocolate / whiskey ~ incense / fjords ~ lemurs, etc.

I'd like to meet:

music lovers, lovers of truth and beauty, your third grade teacher, levitating lemurs, etc. ...

Music:

Dead Can Dance, Pink Floyd, Tricky, Spiritualized, Telesma, Aphex Twin, Massive Attack, Prokofiev, Debussy, Amon Tobin, Mazzy Star, Jimi Hendrix, Bjork, King Crimson, Kraftwerk, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Tool, NIN, Psychic TV, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Crash Worship, Velvet Underground, Tangerine Dream, Portishead, Miles Davis, Brahms, Beethoven, Butthole Surfers, Radiohead, Outkast, Prince, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, David Bowie, Bobby Beausoleil, Clann An Drumma, Sun Ra Arkestra, Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe, Coltrane, Acid Mothers Temple, Lake Trout, Big In Japan, manDrum, Aligning Minds, Lucy Gallant, Ravi Shankar, the Beatles, the Doors, Cream, the Who, the Cure, Jane's Addiction, Primus, George Harrison, John Lennon, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, P.J. Harvey, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Bauhaus, John Cage, the Orb, Orbital, Philip Glass, Primal Scream, Shakti, Nina Simone, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Depeche Mode, Future Sound of London, Air, Moby, Parliament Funkadelic, N.W.A., Sigur Ros, Secret Machines, Skinny Puppy, Pigface, Ministry, Medeski Martin and Wood, John Frusciante, Tim Buckley, Paul Pena, Kermit Ruffins, Bob Marley, Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Leadbelly, D.J. Shadow, Acid Bath, Syd Barrett, Lords of Acid, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Meat Beat Manifesto, the Mars Volta, Mozart, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Drake, Perfect Circle, the Pixies, Mr. Bungle, Bad Brains, Bobby McFerrin, Lang Lang, the Creatures, Iggy Pop (and the Stooges), Delirium, KMFDM, Beck, Flaming Lips, The Talking Heads, Blue Man Group, Shpongle, Afro- Celt Sound System, Thievery Corporation, Legendary Pink Dots, Tv On The Radio, the Cytoplastik Collective, Black Sabbath, Lost at Last, Rasputina, Hilary Hahn, Gershwin, Hossam Ramzy, Steve Miller, the Police, the Misfits, Janis Joplin, Queen, Animals, Herbie Hancock, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Jefferson Airplane, Juno Reactor, the Grateful Dead, Bartok, Ravel, Chopin, Grieg, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bright Eyes, Lou Reed, Garbage, Goldie, Steve Roach, the Verve, the New Deal, Natacha Atlas, Devo, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Crystal Method, the Meters, Phish, Interpol, Government Mule, Bright Eyes, Blue Floyd, Oroboros, Ani DiFranco, Cowboy Junkies, Smashing Pumpkins, Luscious Music, Love and Rockets, gamelan, Tuvan throat singing, the music of the spheres, etc.

Movies:

Metropolis, Altered States, Blade Runner, Lost Highway, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Requiem for a Dream, Waking Life, Monolethea, Farenheit 9/11, Ben Hur (1925), Vanilla Sky, Dancer in the Dark, the Princess and the Warrior, Wings of Desire, Naked Lunch, Roma, Run Lola Run, A Scanner Darkly, Henry and June, Last Tango in Paris, Big Fish, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Baraka, the Abyss, Amelie, Lord of the Rings, the Wall, Tommy, Gimme Shelter, High Fidelity, Sex and Lucia, Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail (etc.), Harold and Maude, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, South Park the Movie, pi, 12 Monkeys, American Beauty, Brazil, Willy Wonka and the Chocalate Factory, Barbarella, Black Hawk Down, Dune, Clockwork Orange, Dark Crystal, Eyes Wide Shut, Evil Dead, Easy Rider, House of Flying Daggers, Satyricon, Solaris, Daisies, Dog Star, Shrek, Stargate, Star Wars, I Heart Huckabees, School of Rock, Reefer Madness, Kung Fu Hustle, Trainspotting, Matrix, Salome's Last Dance, Y Tu Mama Tambien, the Matrix, Fight Club, American History X, Apocalypse Now, City of God, Devdas, A Boy and his Dog, Fire in the Sky, Princess Bride, Sweet Movie, The Life Aquatic, Blue Velvet, etc.

Television:

none.

Books:

Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Robert Anton Wilson, Kahlil Gibran, Carlos Casteneda, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Herman Hesse, Joseph Campbell, William Burroughs, D.H. Lawrence, Gregory Corso, Aldous Huxley, Kierkegaard, Dostoeyevsky, William Blake, Richard Bach, the Bible, the Kabbalah, Dante, Ovid, Aleister Crowley, Salvador Dali (he's an ok visual artist also), Philip K. Dick, Nietzche, Carl Jung, Einstein, Gary Zukav, Li Yu, Lao-Tse, Alex Grey, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Rumi, e.e. cummings, Alan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Pablo Neruda, H.P. Lovecraft, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Sartre, Hakim Bey, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Hunter S. Thompson, Shakespeare, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ken Kesey, Alan Watts, Kafka, Goethe, Colin Wilson, Edgar Cayce, Erich Von Daniken, James Redfield, J.D. Salinger, Joseph Heller, Robert Heinlein, Michael Moore, B.F. Skinner, Mantak Chia, Cyril Scott, James Gleick, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Teilhard de Chardin, Laurence Gardner, Anne Sexton, Tom Robbins, etc. ...

Heroes:

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