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Poetry, digital art, visionary use of computers, scream queens, horror film imagery, surrealism, kitschy eroticism, lite porn, dark beer, the history of Lower Manhattan where I live, the overthrow of fascist governments.
I would like meet online and in the flesh folks interested in stretching the boundaries of the web as an artistic medium.
J. S. Bach, Iggy Pop, Bernard Herrmann, Brian Eno, Nine Inch Nails, Laurie Spiegel, Gyorgy Ligeti, David Allan Coe, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet, Hector Berlioz, Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Terry Riley, John Fahey, Gustav Mahler, ambient sound/noise.
Luis Buñuel's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie & Belle de Jour, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, Walt Disney's Fantasia & Dumbo, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, Joel M. Reed's Blood Sucking Freaks, Jean Cocteau's Blood of a Poet, Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box, Erich von Stroheim's Greed, F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, Carl Dreyer's Vampyr & Day of Wrath, Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel & Blonde Venus, Fritz Lang's Metropolis & M, Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls, Chuck Jones's One Froggy Evening & Duck Amuck, Tex Avery's Who Killed Who? & Red Hot Riding Hood, Ingmar Bergman's Persona, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg's Performance, Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita & Fellini Satyricon, Ken Russell's The Devils & The Lair of the White Worm, Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo & The Birds, Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat & Detour, Nagisa Oshima's In the Real of the Senses, David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Chris Marker's Le Jetée.
I'm partial to early/mid 60s stuff like The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits.
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost, Blake's illuminated texts, e.e. cummings' poetry (because it was so beautifully designed for the printed page), Jorge Luis Borges' wonderfully terse short fiction, haiku poetry from Basho to Shiki to the present day.
Truly visionary artists like William Blake , Hieronymus Bosch ,and, most of all, Matthias Grünewald .