The art world is these days very much about careers and business. It’s more like a banking phenomenon. Art, for me, was always a sacred calling. Like a knight seeking the Holy Grail. It was a divine mission, and still is. Art should seek the impossible. Art should be our means of connection with the most profound and proud qualities of being alive and human. Art puts the E in Humane. A way to try and describe the indescribable. - Genesis P'Orridge
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Prince, George Clinton and the whole Parliament-Funkadelic thang, Larry Graham and GCS, Morris Day and The Time, James Brown, Maceo Parker, Drugs: The Misamericans, Plantlife, Gnarls Barkley, Rhonda Smith, David Bowie, Bootsy Collins, Freekbass, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, 2PAC, 50 Cent, Dr Dre, Young Buck, Rick Ross, Nas, MF DOOM and other Hip-Hop. ************************* My favourite albums of all time have to be 'Sign of the Times' and 'The Rainbow Children' by Prince. ************************* Also the Funk legacy of George Clinton is rich and deep and has influenced so many other styles and trends in music.
'Solaris', 'Vanilla Sky', 'Unbreakable', 'The Godfather', 'Pulp Fiction', 'The Matrix'(First film ONLY) 'What the Bleep do we Know?' 'Spider-Man 1 & 2'
'24', 'Soprano's', 'Nip/Tuck','Prison Break' ************************ 'The Soprano's' is probably my favourite television series ever.
POETRY: Duane Locke, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Britt, Sylvia Plath, Brion Gysin, Patience Agbabi, Benjamin Zephaniah, Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Pablo Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Rumi,John Donne, George Herbert, Cyndi Dawson, George Wallace, Alice Parris, plus numerous poets that participate in the online communities and Anthologies. ************************FICTION: Franz Kafka, William S. Burroughs, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Michel Houellebecq, Haruki Murakami,Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Paulo Coelho, Brett Easton Ellis, H.P. Lovecraft, Koji Suzuki, Robert Anton Wilson,JG Ballard, Christopher Moore ... ************************ CURRENT AFFAIRS: Thom Hartmann, Sam Harris, Bill Hicks ************************ ART: Edward Hopper and Paul Laffoley. ************************
My beautiful son, whom I consider the greatest achievement in my life.************************